Playing shows with no drummer?

Go with a drum software, like toontrack's stuff or bfd'... I am not sure if this suits your music or not but mixing programmed acoustic drums with lots of electronic drums and fills pushes the sound a bit to the electronic side. This gives a better feeling about the lack of drummer on the stage as there is lots of other rhytmical elements supporting your music.

Hhhmm ok, I was just about to ask you if you had lots of odd timesigs and the works, or else I´d highly recommend using a sequencer. Makes the guitar and bass seem all the more prominent and otherworldly, and personally I think it is used far too seldomly these days, but it sounds pretty unrealistic seeing what you just wrote.
The best sort of sampled drums out there - I find to be of a more percussive nature, but again it all boils down to what kind of feel you want to add to the music.

4 posts in a row, eeek

Atoms wrote: The only logical solution here is to copy yourself and make your copy the new drummer.

haha yeah that could work lol

Vompatti wrote: There's nothing wrong with programmed drums as long as you don't try to make them sound like real drums.

Hmm I think you're on to something there. If the drums sound too crazy and busy than it might be a little weird. I'll try to tone it down a notch.

Vompatti wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Vompatti wrote: Snow Dog wrote: There's nothing wrong with programmed drums sounding like real drums. But it does result in an inevitable and unwanted estrangement effect. For you maybe. Do you find it completely normal to hear drums being played when there are none to be seen?

Vompatti wrote: Snow Dog wrote: There's nothing wrong with programmed drums sounding like real drums. But it does result in an inevitable and unwanted estrangement effect.

The only logical solution here is to copy yourself and make your copy the new drummer.

There's nothing wrong with programmed drums sounding like real drums.

irrelevant wrote: Go "unplugged" so to speak.