Recently a wild on-stage brawl erupted between Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro. Is the root cause of their problem happening in your organization?

“Perry’s frustration had been mounting, night after night, he felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band.”

In this case, he couldn’t physically hear himself sing. As a singer, I can tell you that sucks. It makes the show hard work instead of in-the-moment joy and connection to the band and audience.

Our voices get drowned out daily in ways that have nothing to do with simply someone talking over us. It’s killing your business from the inside out and negatively impacting your most important strategic goals.

I write often of the importance of our voices being heard. There is an opportunity to ensure that our voices “fit” in the mix in a way that feels good to us. The “trick” is to amplify everyone’s voices without getting LOUDER.

Yes, you heard that right. It can be done. Like a sound engineer understands frequencies you have to be able to understand voice dynamics that are powered by personality, motivation, perception, and change. It’s complex and knowing you are an ENTJ isn’t going to solve your problem.

We have passionately studied this problem for 15 years at Banding People Together. Behavioral science, neuroscience, data, and “scarred but smarter wisdom that can only come from the world of rock & roll is how we create our sound.

What are you doing to keep your band from imploding on stage in a way that shows up as poor execution, lack of engagement, retention issues, and misalignment?

If you believe that “something is better than nothing” you might want to have a Plan B for your Jane’s Addiction moment.

Rock on!
-Alan