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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | High maintenance band members.
Constant buzzing in your signal chain.
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Location: Chicago | "Professionals" whose main instrument is their phallic EGO (kissing *** UP the ladder, crushing fingers BELOW).
"Professional" musicians who think it's a badge of honor NOT to have a real job ( and ... who despise you out if you do!) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Standingovation - 2012-11-18 10:09 AM 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 !!! The "BEST" times are when you are with others and they play things a little diferent and you learn and mix and play along as well! Now back to your scheduled ranting... |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | We played "Mercury Blues" the way David Lindley did it and some jerk walked up and said, "That ain't the way Alan Jackson done it!" Ya think! "Summertime Blues" with Eddie Cochran "feel" to it. That song came out in '58.
More pet peeves:
I miss real music on the radio. Not this rubber stamp junk.
People who let their necks bow badly and let the strings rust. Then ask you to come play that guitar.
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| mymartind35 - 2012-11-18 9:47 PM
We played "Mercury Blues" the way David Lindley did it and some jerk walked up and said, "That ain't the way Alan Jackson done it!" Ya think!
Not familiar with the tune, I know of Lindley, a bit more about Jackson . . . . but I am very familiar with idiots coming up to you with complaints like that. Hey, pal , get your own gig and you can play it like anyone you want. I can't stand those guys. |
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Location: Seacoast NH | Some great ones here! But I have to go with what dwg preacher said - the guy with tons of amazing guitars that can barely play. I went to a holiday party/jam last year, and this guy had brought a beautiful early 60's Les Paul and a really nice PRS, as well as a Marshall stack (which he of course needed seeing as how we were playing in my friends tiny 300 sq. ft. basement). This guy could barely play a 12-bar shuffle, and Barre chords were way out of his realm of expertise. I was told he has like $50k of other equipment at home too. Just absurd. Meanwhile I was able to hold my own with my cheap little Godin and little lunchbox amp -- total investment, less than $400 used. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Hmmmmm, some of this sounds more like sour grapes and jealousy than actual peeves..... Just sayin'
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Location: Seacoast NH | Guilty as charged fillhixx! Generally jealous of nice equipment and talent alike!  |
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Location: Orlando, FL | My personal peeve is that I don't find (or make) more time to play. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | mbedard1 - 2012-11-20 11:45 AM
Some great ones here! But I have to go with what dwg preacher said - the guy with tons of amazing guitars that can barely play. I went to a holiday party/jam last year, and this guy had brought a beautiful early 60's Les Paul and a really nice PRS, as well as a Marshall stack (which he of course needed seeing as how we were playing in my friends tiny 300 sq. ft. basement). This guy could barely play a 12-bar shuffle, and Barre chords were way out of his realm of expertise. I was told he has like $50k of other equipment at home too. Just absurd. Meanwhile I was able to hold my own with my cheap little Godin and little lunchbox amp -- total investment, less than $400 used.
So only those who can play well should be deserving of spending their money on expensive instruments ???
The person who works has butt off 9-5 and saves up a tidy some of money, or has the intelligence to make wise investments and become (oh my gosh) "Well Off" shouldn't be able to spend his riches on any damn thing he wants to including fancy guitars that will never get played ??? Come on now ...
Where I draw the line is when somebody goes deep into debt and buys "must have" fancy guitars and equipment while he's failing to provide for his family, failing to invest in his childrens education, failing to support his aging parents and failing to seed his own retirement. That's a case of frocked up priorities. But someones musical abilities shouldn't be part of the equation.
Btw, I went to the sporting good store to buy a nice pair of running shoes. They told me I wasn't fast enough to deserve them.
Sorry man, I'm not meaning to dump on you. But those who know me will recognize that this strikes a nerve - I can't play worth a shirt but I enjoy surrounding myself with nice gear. Some blow their money on golf, booze, woman, fast cars, etc. I blow mine on gear that I'm not capabile of playing. Doesn't make me a bad guy.
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Location: Denver, CO | Standingovation - 2012-11-21 7:36 AM
So only those who can play well should be deserving of spending their money on expensive instruments ???
The person who works has butt off 9-5 and saves up a tidy some of money, or has the intelligence to make wise investments and become (oh my gosh) "Well Off" shouldn't be able to spend his riches on any damn thing he wants to including fancy guitars that will never get played ??? Come on now ...
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 Not sure how sarcastic you are being here, but my initial post was a little tongue-in-cheek, mostly intended to state how jealous I am of those with greater means than I... however, I can completely understand; it's the guy who parades his cool stuff around for everyone to drool over, who thinks that having the cool stuff by itself makes him a superior person/player/whatever, then proceeds to show everyone what a hack he is. I'm a hack too, but I also never walk into a room and whip out my axe and try to blow everyone off the stage. And there are a lot of incendiary players out there whose only instrument is a 1986 Yamaha that has seen 3 wars... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I don't care how well or how poorly a person with great guitars plays. But when they BEAT on them, refuse to humidify them, leave them in the trunk on hot summer days or cold winter ones, THEN I get mad. I have cut my own throat here at the shop a few times by refusing to sell a great guitar to someone who thinks picks are made for the express purpose of digging a hole in the wood. I have actually, a couple of times, taken a guitar out of someone's hand, hung it on the wall, and told them to leave. And one time, I took a very expensive guitar out of the hands of a guy who "always wanted one of these (brands)", but couldn't even tell he was playing the D on the third and fourth frets instead of where it belongs, and once again, he was VERY heavy handed with the pick. That guitar deserved to be in the hands of someone who would cherish it, not someone who couldn't play and just wanted it for a status symbol. So I encouraged the guy to take some time and think about it. If he had come back the next day I would have told him someone put it on lay-away.
And the woman who wound up buying it a couple of weeks later turned out to be one of the best players I have ever heard. That guitar is HAPPY now.
My guitars are like pets - and they go to good homes only. |
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Location: Flahdaw | CORDS!!! Wires, plugs, and cords! I HATE 'em.
I hate tripping over them.
I hate them getting all tangled in everything.
I hate needing a certain one and not being able to find it.
I hate having 4 devices, and 38 cords going to and from them.
I hate when they hum, buzz, or make other unwanted noises.
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Location: Denver, CO | darkbarguitar - 2012-11-21 2:21 PM
I hate when they hum, buzz, or make other unwanted noises.
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That's the same thing i hate about my kids! |
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Location: New Bern, NC | I hate bridge pins! I'm so glad I have an Ovation!! I teach guitar and all my beginner students have guitars with bridge pins. I change their strings for them and I curse those &#^% bridge pins every time. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Well said Dave.......I'm with you!!
G'day Cliff
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Location: Nashville TN. | arthurseery - 2012-11-17 3:23 PM
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"
Here in Hartford Busking doesn't work so well......4 bucks and hour and street people ask you for money. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just thought of another one--the kid in the car next to you with his windows rolled down, forcing everyone around to listen. Usually, it's in a POS car that isn't worth what was spent on the stereo. I realize that most humans have an urge to be noticed, by why be noticed for being stupid?
I don't begrudge Dave or AJ their collections and agree totally with what Dave said, except he's really not that bad. Damon made an astute observation when I wished I could play as well as he did. If I spent as many hours practicing as I did going to school and working, I might be a lot better guitar player. The expert guitar players have their 10,000 plus hours in developing their expertise. Until the rest of us get there, the best we can hope for may be to make enough to put the kids through school, pay off the mortgage and have something left to buy nice guitars. |
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Location: NH | Mark in Boise - 2012-11-26 6:44 PM
Damon made an astute observation when I wished I could play as well as he did. If I spent as many hours practicing as I did going to school and working, I might be a lot better guitar player. The expert guitar players have their 10,000 plus hours in developing their expertise. Until the rest of us get there, the best we can hope for may be to make enough to put the kids through school, pay off the mortgage and have something left to buy nice guitars.
Thanks for sharing this insight Mark. It makes me feel a little better about my level of experience. |
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| Artists who treat the FOH/Monitor engineer like ****.
"I'm miking your amp. Why do you insist on have having your Post Gain up all the way?!?"
"That's my tone, bro dog man dude. I know what I'm doing."
"Actually, your post gain is mostly just volume. You'll get a nicer sound through the PA if the mic doesn't have to amplify a 120db sound source. But you know better than me, I suppose. I just have years of experience and a degree that says I know what I'm talking about, but we'll do it your way."
Jesus, I'm turning into a curmudgeon very quickly. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I hate when I get called "bro dog man dude"! |
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| That wasn't even an exaggeration, Bob. I'm not incredibly older than a lot of these kids I have to engineer but we might as well have been born on different planets with some of the nonsense that comes out of their mouths. I guess I'm turning in to that stereotypical cynical self hating sound guy. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | I hate grabbing a guitar off the wall and finding that someone (my son or one of his friends) broke a string. I have 4 guitars with broken strings hanging up. |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | But I kinda like going in the acoustic room at GC and just listening cause sometimes there are some amazing pickers and singers to be found there. Free inspiration! |
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