guitar pet peeves
- MechaBulletBill
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Re: guitar pet peeves
I don't care if this has been in the thread already, people that really commit to calling their guitar by female pronouns. And it's always people at either end of the gear spectrum - "I looked across a sea of redheads and blondes [CAR and Oly white] but my eye was caught by a striking brunette [burst] and I had to take her home with me. Her name's Roberta cuz she plays like 'BERTA' [butter]" - this guitar is either an MiM standard or a CS relic, nothing in between.
- BoringPostcards
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Re: guitar pet peeves
People always going straight for the cheesy blues double stops in demos.
Double stops are pretty cringe inducing.
Double stops are pretty cringe inducing.
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- s_mcsleazy
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so here is one i had recently. i wanted to try out one of the newish fender mustangs. obviously i went for the pink one. i felt mainly like playing surf/garage rock since i was listening to the trashwomen in the car. i had this old blooze geezer come up to me and say "ha, your too good to be playing a student guitar like that" pulled a £2000 les paul off the wall without asking the staff and said "here, play a real guitar" then started telling me the benefits of the les paul. keep in mind, im an anxious fellow on the autism spectrum and if strangers that bold start talking to me i get really anxious and my fight or flight kicks in. i start hinting at the guy "im just here to try the mustang for my friend who likes mustangs and see if it would be a good alt to his mustang" but he still keeps talking to me bold as hell. so im getting more and more anxious and i just blurt out "tell me, do you use a lot of brasso? i can understand if you do since it must take a lot to polish those massive brass balls you have to bother someone who'se just wanting to try out a guitar for fun" then walked to the counter, gave em back the mustang and walked out.
so my pet peeve is judgmental strangers in guitar shops
so my pet peeve is judgmental strangers in guitar shops
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- Squirrel
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Oh, these fucking guys. Every time I enter any music shop some 60 year old guy always immediately teleports an inch away from my face and goes into a classic rock monologue of indefinite duration, with a comprehensive list of every concert he's ever been to. It's thanks to these guys that I've truly perfected my derisive snort.s_mcsleazy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:00 amso here is one i had recently. i wanted to try out one of the newish fender mustangs. obviously i went for the pink one. i felt mainly like playing surf/garage rock since i was listening to the trashwomen in the car. i had this old blooze geezer come up to me and say "ha, your too good to be playing a student guitar like that" pulled a £2000 les paul off the wall without asking the staff and said "here, play a real guitar" then started telling me the benefits of the les paul. keep in mind, im an anxious fellow on the autism spectrum and if strangers that bold start talking to me i get really anxious and my fight or flight kicks in. i start hinting at the guy "im just here to try the mustang for my friend who likes mustangs and see if it would be a good alt to his mustang" but he still keeps talking to me bold as hell. so im getting more and more anxious and i just blurt out "tell me, do you use a lot of brasso? i can understand if you do since it must take a lot to polish those massive brass balls you have to bother someone who'se just wanting to try out a guitar for fun" then walked to the counter, gave em back the mustang and walked out.
so my pet peeve is judgmental strangers in guitar shops
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i like to think they are shape shifting aliens and when you sit down, it triggers them to transform from the stools in the corner of the room into a entirely different kind of stool.Squirrel wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:28 amOh, these fucking guys. Every time I enter any music shop some 60 year old guy always immediately teleports an inch away from my face and goes into a classic rock monologue of indefinite duration, with a comprehensive list of every concert he's ever been to. It's thanks to these guys that I've truly perfected my derisive snort.s_mcsleazy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:00 amso here is one i had recently. i wanted to try out one of the newish fender mustangs. obviously i went for the pink one. i felt mainly like playing surf/garage rock since i was listening to the trashwomen in the car. i had this old blooze geezer come up to me and say "ha, your too good to be playing a student guitar like that" pulled a £2000 les paul off the wall without asking the staff and said "here, play a real guitar" then started telling me the benefits of the les paul. keep in mind, im an anxious fellow on the autism spectrum and if strangers that bold start talking to me i get really anxious and my fight or flight kicks in. i start hinting at the guy "im just here to try the mustang for my friend who likes mustangs and see if it would be a good alt to his mustang" but he still keeps talking to me bold as hell. so im getting more and more anxious and i just blurt out "tell me, do you use a lot of brasso? i can understand if you do since it must take a lot to polish those massive brass balls you have to bother someone who'se just wanting to try out a guitar for fun" then walked to the counter, gave em back the mustang and walked out.
so my pet peeve is judgmental strangers in guitar shops
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Love garage, hench my name. Trashwomen are (or were?) so great! Estrus had / has a lot of great bands on their label. Seen Tina in the crowd at a Mummies show. Would of loved to seen T.W. at last years Boogaloo fest.s_mcsleazy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:00 ami felt mainly like playing surf/garage rock since i was listening to the trashwomen in the car.
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I tend to avoid Guitar shops when other folk are in them and do my shopping in the ten minute window after opening but I regularly encounter guitar shop arsehole's cousin; 'car arsehole'. Car arsehole likes to share his (always male) opinions on the folly of Italian cars, make comments about some cars having the engine at the wrong end, tell me this or that car is unreliable, tell me Maserati is the poor man's Ferrari (like that's a bad thing anyway), tell me R107 SL's are effeminate, my W111 Coupe is a bit of a 'gin palace', tell me my old cars are over restored or maybe even tell me my Land Rover is too shiny and somehow a disgrace.Squirrel wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:28 amOh, these fucking guys. Every time I enter any music shop some 60 year old guy always immediately teleports an inch away from my face and goes into a classic rock monologue of indefinite duration, with a comprehensive list of every concert he's ever been to. It's thanks to these guys that I've truly perfected my derisive snort.s_mcsleazy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:00 amso here is one i had recently. i wanted to try out one of the newish fender mustangs. obviously i went for the pink one. i felt mainly like playing surf/garage rock since i was listening to the trashwomen in the car. i had this old blooze geezer come up to me and say "ha, your too good to be playing a student guitar like that" pulled a £2000 les paul off the wall without asking the staff and said "here, play a real guitar" then started telling me the benefits of the les paul. keep in mind, im an anxious fellow on the autism spectrum and if strangers that bold start talking to me i get really anxious and my fight or flight kicks in. i start hinting at the guy "im just here to try the mustang for my friend who likes mustangs and see if it would be a good alt to his mustang" but he still keeps talking to me bold as hell. so im getting more and more anxious and i just blurt out "tell me, do you use a lot of brasso? i can understand if you do since it must take a lot to polish those massive brass balls you have to bother someone who'se just wanting to try out a guitar for fun" then walked to the counter, gave em back the mustang and walked out.
so my pet peeve is judgmental strangers in guitar shops
The funny thing about car arsehole is that all his opinions are secondhand, he's never owned any of these cars and he usually walking back to his fucking Vauxhall Astra which is unbeknownst to him signwritten with 'CLUELESS' in paint only the non clueless can read.
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That, along with:BoringPostcards wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 12:23 amPeople always going straight for the cheesy blues double stops in demos.
Double stops are pretty cringe inducing.
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Re: guitar pet peeves
Sold an amp last night. I accepted an offer to knock 5 bucks off the price. Fine no problem.
"Does a cable come with it?" (amp equivalent of whammy bar and case)
"No cable included."
"Do you have one you can sell me?"
Oh, so you have money now.
When I got there the guy literally didn't know how to use his volume knob. He said he didn't know which way to turn it.
"Does a cable come with it?" (amp equivalent of whammy bar and case)
"No cable included."
"Do you have one you can sell me?"
Oh, so you have money now.
When I got there the guy literally didn't know how to use his volume knob. He said he didn't know which way to turn it.
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People who describe a guitar as having "natural relicing". It's just f*cking play wear and finish damage. Calling it the natural version of something fake that was meant to simulate the ACTUAL THING this guitar has is like saying "Did you go somewhere warm? You look naturally spray-tanned."
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yes. for fuck sake i had this when i was trying to sell my valve jr.secondhand wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:47 amSold an amp last night. I accepted an offer to knock 5 bucks off the price. Fine no problem.
"Does a cable come with it?" (amp equivalent of whammy bar and case)
"No cable included."
"Do you have one you can sell me?"
Oh, so you have money now.
When I got there the guy literally didn't know how to use his volume knob. He said he didn't know which way to turn it.
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I know what you mean, but double stops can be great.BoringPostcards wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 12:23 amPeople always going straight for the cheesy blues double stops in demos.
Double stops are pretty cringe inducing.
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Quine and Ribot's double stops are things of magnificent fury.marqueemoon wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:12 amI know what you mean, but double stops can be great.BoringPostcards wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 12:23 amPeople always going straight for the cheesy blues double stops in demos.
Double stops are pretty cringe inducing.
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Truth. Double stops aren't inherently bad. I'm specifically referring to every demo guy going straight for the improvised attempt to show they can cop a Jimi Hendrix feel.Maggieo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:49 amQuine and Ribot's double stops are things of magnificent fury.marqueemoon wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:12 amI know what you mean, but double stops can be great.BoringPostcards wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2017 12:23 amPeople always going straight for the cheesy blues double stops in demos.
Double stops are pretty cringe inducing.
Just that particular style of double stop usage. Its' overdone to the extreme.
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Oh god, the BLOOZE double stop is a pox upon the ears.
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