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Location: Flahdaw | For years I sat alone in a room and quietly played guitar by myself...and was happy as a clam (I thought). Then I joined this forum, and decided I needed to reinvent my music playing, so I started buying stuff (crap) to help me play better. Now I have processors and gizmos and amps and mics and pedals and all this bulls**t that needs CORDS!!!! I have cords all over the damn place. God, I hate them! When is this world gonna go cordless? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Proper cord management . . . the first item appearing on a roadie's job description. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by darkbarguitar:
When is this world gonna go cordless? When belly buttons are passe... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I bet you only had one guitar as well! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | "...so I started buying stuff (crap) to help me play better..."
Actually the cords may be your SECOND problem... |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Weaser P:
Actually the cords may be your SECOND problem... I've got a cord here that would fit perfectly around your neck. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Is it a black plastic covered one or is it the more cooler, vintage cloth covered ones?
I hate the coily ones. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by darkbarguitar:
I've got a cord here that would fit perfectly around your neck. Does that mean no FedEx 'shrimp n' grits' for Bill? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Does that mean no FedEx 'shrimp n' grits' for Bill? [/QB]
No, Bill gets the grimps and shits FedEx'd to him. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | All of a sudden I'm just not feelin' the love... |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | "so I started buying stuff (crap) to help me play better."
Well, did any of this (crap) help ya??? |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | No. |
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| I like the cloth wrapped ones - very retro. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Weaser P:
No. I can speak for myself, thank you!
......uh, no |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Yah, I hate that "fr-roop, fr-roop" sound they make when I walk!
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by MWoody:
Yah, I hate that "fr-roop, fr-roop" sound they make when I walk! Nothing a little a little Gas-X won't take care of. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Mounted on a board and pre-connected .. to a receiver , which sees a transmitter , hooked to a strap and connected to a git. , it costs , yet , is way " better " .. |
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Location: SoCal | Yeah, I hate chords. I have a tough time learning them.
No, wait, you said cords. Never mind...... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Don't be hatin', Paul. What've cords ever done to you? I mean besides the obvious confusion issue? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Curtain cords are good .. and laces , fer shoes ..laces fer corsets .. yap .. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I bought a whole bunch of stuff (crap) too... I don't think that it helped me play better.
But it is Nice to have a bunch of stuff (crap) to Play With! :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Ditto. I haven't really used any of the electric stuff I bought. SWMBO is down in the mancave vacuuming right now. I had all the cords plugged into the amps and coiled. I hate untangling them. She'll probably put them all in a box and they'll be a tangled mess next time I try to use one. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | .. the Man - Cave .. Mmmm.. Interesting Concept .. I can Relate t` that .. a place fer us Grunts .. Opening Hrs. ?? .. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | ...and he gets SWMBO to vacuum it for him, you da man Mark! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Originally posted by MWoody:
...and he gets SWMBO to vacuum it for him, you da man Mark! What else would ya expect from a guy who`s tryìn t` invent fire , using a billion matches .. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So, if I understand your frustration...
This is good...
This is bad...
any questions? |
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Location: Flahdaw | +5 :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | "What are all these cables for?"
"Those are guitar strings, dear." (Old ones for Jeff W. before he disappeared, so they got tossed.)
Oh, no, then she went into the shop. "What's these pieces of wood doing here?"
"Waiting for me to build something out of them. Just leave them alone and get out of my shop."
Threw out 2 AC adapters that she long ago separated from whatever they were supposed to go to, all the instruction manuals are now in a nice neat pile, instead of with the equipment they should be with, but otherwise no damage. |
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Location: Flahdaw | What kind of mancave do you got there in Boise, Mark? You got females vacuuming, moving stuff around, throwing important stuff away... Do you have doilies on the furniture too? That room needs a testosterone injection, quick. And take down those weenie Bronco's banners. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Females do not generally enter the mancave. I usually vacuum it every few months, but apparently that wasn't satisfactory for SWMBO. I suspect she went down to use the weight machine recently and had the urge to clean the room. (She takes the pin out so there aren't any weights on the machine and leaves it on the floor.)
I have no Bronco Banners. Only Ovation stuff, amps and Roland digital piano, a TV, worn out recliner, and the exercise equipment.
The cat is the only other male in the house, but he's not allowed down there since he peed in my cord box. (See how I brought that back around to the original topic.) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Only Ovation stuff... and the exercise equipment."
So how many cords and cases can you stow on the exercise equipment?
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There are 3 or 4 extra seats for you guys to sit on whenever you guys come over to play. So the exercise equipment gets used only slightly more than my invitations for an Ovation gathering in Idaho have been accepted. Turns out those invitations received the same response as my offer to meet in Portland over Thanksgiving. I'm beginning to see a pattern here. Suppose if I had a "Bronco Bowl" the guys from Florida would come?
Oh, the cases are all stored in a storeroom next to the guitars. I've tried to keep SWMBO out of there, but she keeps trying to store non-guitar stuff in there, like her 15 boxes of Christmas decorations. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Sounds more like a she-mancave. Can a room be a transexual? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Ouch! I suppose you don't think I should park her Porsche in my garage, either. She cleaned that the other day, too. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Probably smells like jasmine, and you have to put on little footies before you get in it. :p |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | True. But mine smells like beer farts and I just put the snow tires on.
Back to guitars, she complained about the smell of the mancave, too. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by darkbarguitar:
Sounds more like a she-mancave. Can a room be a transexual? I think you meant Bi-sexual. goes both ways. ;) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast |  ... and awaaay we go! |
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Location: Miami | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
... and awaaay we go!
So, back on topic: As OMA says, use your gizmos as toys. But if you want less cords, consider working towards the minimalist approach that I have totally embraced at my gigs: NO effects, NO extra boxes. Just me, the git, a mic, and a (good) PA (the Bose L1). I can't remember the last time I used effects. But I can tell you they tend to sound better to us than to the audience. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Effects were given to us for a reason.
Some of you are more gifted than others of us. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Less is more. |
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Anyone else HATE cords?