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Location: NJ | Bet he doesn't even know 'bout StringTubes . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Let me clarify, Mr. Beck is a very good technician and very opinionated. There is nothing wrong with that. Hell I do it here on this board all the time. If he doesn't like the color red, and you walk in with a red strat, he's likely to say "that's one ugly f*cking guitar". Take it for what it's worth. Dave |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's OK to be very opinionated, so long as he has the right opinion. |
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| Originally posted by cliff:
Sounds pretty Sphincterene t'me . . . LOL |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | It is OK to have an opinion. But when someone is in business, it isn't very wise to exercise it so blantantly as to offend your customers. Personally, if I walked into a shop and the guy badmouthed my guitar like that, I'd turn around and walk out. Nobody is so good that they can afford to insult people. The same goes with the lack of professionalism displayed when he uses profanity like that. There's a guy who works in a local guitar shop here who had a problem with his mouth like that. Everyone in town referred to him as "potty-mouth". They get very little business now, and I doubt if they'll stay in business as long as he works there.. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by bvince:
Everyone in town referred to him as "potty-mouth". Well tisk, tisk, tisk ... I guess you put HIM in his place, didn't you ???
... Sorry man, I couldn't resist that one!
Dave |
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Location: NJ | Years ago, I worked in a sign shop in SouthJersey, and on more than one occasion I saw the boss turn away work (for a LOTTA money, too) because he felt that the end product wouldn't be up to his particular standards.
I always gave him a lot of credit for that . . .
(btw: There are "potty mouths", and there are those that utilize the sheer linguistical artistry of vulgarity when the need arises to prove a particular point . . . I for one, am a card-carrying Vulgarian). |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I prefer to think of myself as a vulgarist. |
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Location: NJ | Different Union. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I can see your duet album now; "Songs Of The Vulgar Boatmen." |
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| Originally posted by cliff:
(btw: There are "potty mouths", and there are those that utilize the sheer linguistical artistry of vulgarity when the need arises to prove a particular point . . . I for one, am a card-carrying Vulgarian). Believe me, Beck isn't capable of utilizing "linguistical artistry." He's just a boor. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | After spending 21 years in the Marine Corps I could easily vulgarize with the best of the vulgates, but I now like to hold myself to a higher standard than that. It's kinda like dropping ebonics, now that I don't live in a getto. |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | What bvince said. I agree. It takes a lot more effort to put together a thought or express an opinion with our language than simply dropping the f bomb or bomb of the moment. There is no artistry in vulgarity.
As far as the guitar tech in question; folks who behave like that no matter what they do to earn money will get the work and rewards they deserve. Let him go his way and pick only the fights he can win. Guys like that keep the rest of us in business. Can't speak for anyone else, but my whole professional life has been about serving and pleasing as many customers as possible in as professional manner as possible. You can't please 'em all, but you can please most of 'em or at the very least, try. After all, they are paying you for a good or service. No problem being kind to everybody; you never have to feel bad (about being mean to someone) if you treated them well.
Oh, and by the way, what does it matter what kind of guitar bears the strings that Glen Campbell plays? It's great that he is still playing no matter what guitar he plays. Go Glen. Keep playin'. I can't wait to hear and see him in Vegas later on this year. And it absolutely won't matter what kind of guitar he uses. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Vulgarian.
Vulgarican.
Vulgarican or Vulgarcrat?
Potty Pugalist
Phooey... |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | "Vulgarity is nothing more than a crutch for a conversational cripple".
That's why y'all don't hear much from me... just too f*ckin' hard getting around!!! |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Of course it matters to everyone on this board what kind of guitar Glen Campbell plays. As I recall, the stories most members have told about why they first purchased an Ovation include a reference to the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | With all due respect to our intergalactic friends with the pointy ears, "Vulgans."
--Karen
G-1111-4, CE868LX-4, Viper 1271 Natural, Tornado, American Strat, Steinberger Spirit 5-string bass, Galiano mandolin, Vega 5-string banjo, fiddle of uncertain antecedents |
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Location: USA | These pics must have been right before he fell off the wagon... jk
we'll give Glen a pass...
http://www.myspace.com/styllheartandsoul |
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Location: SoCal | Brianslag made a good comment in that Glen probably has people throwing guitars at him.
If I won the lottery, there'd be a whole lot more than Ovations in my collection... Santa Cruz, Olson, Collings, etc. I suspect tho' that there probably wouldn't be any Taylors. Maybe one or two Martins..... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I can see your duet album now; "Songs Of The Vulgar Boatmen." I LUV the Vulgar Boatmen!
I can't believe someone else has heard of them. Where are they now?
...and for the record, I'm a "Vulgario" |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I was punning on 'SOng of the Volga Boatmen' never heard of The Vulgar Boatmen...but now I'm intrigued! Do tell. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I was punning on 'SOng of the Volga Boatmen' never heard of The Vulgar Boatmen...but now I'm intrigued! Do tell. See here for a little more on the Boatmen. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | They'd be the ones...
Cool stuff.
. . . . and might I add, a relatively rare, helpful post from our own (  ) Weaser P. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Don't get used to that, k? I have a rep to hold down. |
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