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AdamasW597
Posted 2012-11-16 10:49 PM (#461931)
Subject: What are your musical pet peeves?



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It drives me nuts to see someone beat a guitar.
Poking my fingertip to the bone when changing strings.
Someone that plays my guitar without asking.
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BanjoJ
Posted 2012-11-17 12:32 AM (#461932 - in reply to #461931)
Subject: RE: What are your musical pet peeves?



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mymartind35 - 2012-11-17 2:49 PM

It drives me nuts to see someone beat a guitar.


John Hiatt said it well in his song 'Perfectly Good Guitar'

Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
I don't know who they think they are
Smashing a perfectly good guitar

I couldn't agree more.

 

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muzza
Posted 2012-11-17 6:18 AM (#461943 - in reply to #461931)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?



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What cheeses me off is that I've been playing guitar for 40 years and still suck!
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Slipkid
Posted 2012-11-17 7:02 AM (#461945 - in reply to #461943)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?



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Axel Rose
Rap
B-flat
and AlanM
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I'm going to see The Who a week from tonight.
Now-a-days it is a very rare event but I can only hope that a Strat does not make it out alive.

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AlanM
Posted 2012-11-17 8:23 AM (#461947 - in reply to #461931)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?


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Uhhhhh...what the...? How the heck did *I* get in there?!?

Edited by AlanM 2012-11-17 8:28 AM
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DaveKell
Posted 2012-11-17 8:45 AM (#461948 - in reply to #461931)
Subject: RE: What are your musical pet peeves?


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My biggest peeve is the guy at every jam who thinks it's a competition. He jumps in on every song, pounds away and always looks up to acknowledge the astonishment at his guitar prowess. The one guy I'm thinking of now is also a sports jock, so I'm sure a lot of that attitude comes into play when he has a guitar in his hands. He always has to one up other players by repeating what they just played at twice the volume and speed... and the thing is, his playing sucks. He's the only one who doesn't know it.
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Todd G.
Posted 2012-11-17 8:51 AM (#461950 - in reply to #461943)
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muzza - 2012-11-17 5:18 AM What cheeses me off is that I've been playing guitar for 40 years and still suck!

Same here...but for me it's 35 years of strumming the same three chords and I still can't get them right.

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dwg preacher
Posted 2012-11-17 9:16 AM (#461953 - in reply to #461931)
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I feel you. All of you. But my biggest peeve is that all I really want to do is play, and that's the thing that always gets set aside while I am forced to attend to that crap people refer to as "responsibilities."

2nd is: those guys who have like, 93 guitars. Especially when at least a dozen of them are worth the value of my entire collection. Not naming any names...
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2012-11-17 11:11 AM (#461962 - in reply to #461931)
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Most of what I see in the "Musicians" section of Craigslist. I initially checked it out in an attempt to find someone to jam with, but realized that few real musicians ever post there. I thought I hated rap, but I learned there are people who think that screamo and growling and other noises are somehow "musical". I can't believe there are people who actually pay to listen to that crap, when there are decent musicians (not me) looking for a place to play.
A second pet peeve is the volume at concerts. Sorry to all you old rockers out there, but there is absolutely no reason to crank the volume so high that it becomes inaudible except with earplugs. That has pissed me off since I first saw the Beatles having to do it to be heard above all the screaming girls. Screaming girls is not a good reason. Go to a concert to listen to the music. If you just want to watch an act, turn on a video and turn the sound off. None of those girls scream when their listening to the cds at home. No one goes to a play or dance performance and screams the whole time. This idea of screaming the whole concert is just stupid.

Edited by Mark in Boise 2012-11-17 11:12 AM
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Damon67
Posted 2012-11-17 11:40 AM (#461965 - in reply to #461931)
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Drummers who can't keep a steady meter
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Geostorm98
Posted 2012-11-17 12:01 PM (#461966 - in reply to #461931)
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Soundmen/musicians who noodle with the PA endlessly. Long soundchecks that drive away customers at the bar who are just trying to have a drink and relax are beyond annoying, they're unprofessional.

Just set everything to the middle and go from there!
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AdamasW597
Posted 2012-11-17 1:19 PM (#461968 - in reply to #461931)
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People who pose with their guitar.
People who suck but think they're great.
People who are great and let everybody else know it.
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71Jasper
Posted 2012-11-17 1:39 PM (#461971 - in reply to #461968)
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mymartind35 - 2012-11-17 1:19 PM

People who are great and let everybody else know it.



Oh. Sorry.
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Darkbar
Posted 2012-11-17 1:50 PM (#461972 - in reply to #461931)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?



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I find the "MSRP" on any instrument to be very annoying.
The guy that plugs in at GC, then plays the intro to Stairway to Heaven poorly and loudly...over and over.
Anyone who has the audacity to be in the acoustic room at GC when I choose to go in there annoys me.
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Mr. Ovation
Posted 2012-11-17 2:15 PM (#461973 - in reply to #461931)
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While much of what has been mentioned can be annoying at times, I find my biggest pet peeve is with venues that treat artists like crap or expect artists to play for free or haven't realized it's 2012 not 1975 when it comes to what they pay.
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DaveKell
Posted 2012-11-17 2:24 PM (#461974 - in reply to #461972)
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darkbarguitar - 2012-11-17 1:50 PM
The guy that plugs in at GC, then plays the intro to Stairway to Heaven poorly and loudly...over and over.
Anyone who has the audacity to be in the acoustic room at GC when I choose to go in there annoys me.


Or the guy (except it was a girl last time) who does a lame version of Blackbird with every guitar they pick up. I too hate it when there is more than one other person in there besides me.
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Old Man Arthur
Posted 2012-11-17 3:23 PM (#461975 - in reply to #461973)
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mileskb - 2012-11-17 12:15 PM

While much of what has been mentioned can be annoying at times, I find my biggest pet peeve is with venues that treat artists like crap or expect artists to play for free or haven't realized it's 2012 not 1975 when it comes to what they pay.

I was just talking to a street musician who sez that he will make more money busking than at a bar gig.

"Once you divide-up the money and pay the expenses, each person makes $22 for eight hours labor...
I can do that out here on the street corner and not have to deal with dozens of drunk people"
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Darkbar
Posted 2012-11-17 3:47 PM (#461976 - in reply to #461931)
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Who plays a bar gig for 8 hours???
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Old Man Arthur
Posted 2012-11-17 3:56 PM (#461978 - in reply to #461976)
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darkbarguitar - 2012-11-17 1:47 PM

Who plays a bar gig for 8 hours???
Go get rental van.
Go get your stuff, put in van.
Go to drummer's house, wake him up, put in van.
Get everyone to bar.
Set-up.
Sound check.
Go eat cuz the gig doesn't start til nine.
Play two 90 minute sets.
Pack stuff back in van.
Drop everybody's stuff off.
Put gas in van, return van.
Ride bicycle home = eight hours
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71Jasper
Posted 2012-11-17 4:20 PM (#461981 - in reply to #461931)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?


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OMA is right. With load in, set up etc, and the reverse at the other end, it's a full shift.
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Darkbar
Posted 2012-11-17 4:39 PM (#461982 - in reply to #461981)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?



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Ok...yeah...I can see that.
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Gemm
Posted 2012-11-18 3:14 AM (#461990 - in reply to #461978)
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arthurseery - 2012-11-16 9:56 PM

Go get rental van.
Go get your stuff, put in van.
Go to drummer's house, wake him up, put in van.
Get everyone to bar.
Set-up.
Sound check.
Go eat cuz the gig doesn't start til nine.
Play two 90 minute sets.
Pack stuff back in van.
Drop everybody's stuff off.
Finds out the drummer's not there.
Go back to the bar.
Find it lying on the floor.
Drive back.
Chuck it outside its front door.

Put gas in van, return van.
Ride bicycle home = eight hours


EFA....
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AdamasW597
Posted 2012-11-18 8:31 AM (#461995 - in reply to #461973)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?



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mileskb - 2012-11-17 2:15 PM

While much of what has been mentioned can be annoying at times, I find my biggest pet peeve is with venues that treat artists like crap or expect artists to play for free or haven't realized it's 2012 not 1975 when it comes to what they pay.


They're paying exactly the same as they did in the 80's around here. Who do you know who gets paid the same at his job as in the 80's?
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MWoody
Posted 2012-11-18 10:21 AM (#462001 - in reply to #461931)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?



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anytime there's an Fb...
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Standingovation
Posted 2012-11-18 12:09 PM (#462004 - in reply to #461931)
Subject: Re: What are your musical pet peeves?



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My pet peeve is playing with people that will only play a cover "exactly" like the original version.

"It has to be in the key of G and it has to be a straight 4/4 at 95 bpm"

NO, ASH WIPE - I'm playing in A, 80 bpm light swing. Play along or fruck off !!!
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