Your musician pet peeves

I sincerely apoligise, I just get these urges.

Jim, I think you misread. Either that, or I did. Bowie is influenced by Kanye, according to Kanye. Not the other way around where it is acceptable and validates your point about Gaga.

Oh. The Kanye quote I read Monday was the opposite.

nah, I get it.... Bowie influenced everybody, even if its just in the sense that an artist says, "ugh, I hate Fame and I am never going to turn my back on rock fordisco masquerading as white funk!!!" LOL

Look at Lady Gaga. She's super Bowie influenced in presentation with some Madonna thrown in too...

First time I saw Lady Gaga I said, "Who is this Marilyn Manson rip-off?". I always saw more of him than the others. She even stole his makeup.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1295255/thumbs/o-LADY-GAGA-570.jpg?6

wut

I am unable to find it now, but the first shots of her I saw she stole these looks from Manson... to the T.

http://i.imgur.com/Y6nyPXn.png

and one like this below but with a redband across the face and blonde hair, like Blade Runner'esq

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Once again, it's not like I'm saying fancy guitar are matter. But why aren't buy at least a decent stuff? A guitar I talked here isn't a squier, it even worse, a guitar that built not even with a tonewood, with bad electronic, a bad fretboard, and produce not even a decent sound. Squier are a fine guitar. And when I said $50 guitars, they're really $50 guitars. And what I'm complained is about a people who call themselves a musician but can't tell the difference from a bad instrument to an at least decent instrument. And they're actually had the money to bought a decent guitar. Sorry, once again it's not like I'm saying the instrument is the only important thing, hope you get my point

Anyone who knows absolutely nothing of how a guitar functions will give me this crap. Hell, my dad who loves classic rock and metal and worked at a Roland factory AND did sound tests and such doesn't understand the difference. However, he knows now.

I know man, sometimes it piss me off

As for Kanye, his ego may be disgustingly large, but no one can deny hos talent. It's pretty much a Bieber Effect. Pretty good at making music, but an ass when he's not on stage.

I just, don't like him and his music

Kanye West claimed David Bowie was influence on him. I laughed so hard I nearly chucked milk on the TV

LOL

BUMP

we have lots of new members, lets hear some more complaining!

Christ, it's a been a whole year since this thread was born?! Wow.

Any situation where you're giving advice simple advice and the other looks like he's swallowing cyanide. I'm not one to dish out tips. Usually it's been crap like mantaining your guitar, but I feel myself internally combust when I hear the words "I just get my strigs changed at the shop".

For the record, there are close to zero situations in which a beginner guitarist with a good entry-level guitarist and a pack of fresh strings and plenty of colleagues who are experienced in the skill (for lack of a better word) of changing strings must find it necessary to have a luthier change his strings out of pure laziness.

I've seen this happen. They NEVER ask the luthier how they do it. Eventually, they turn to a friend to change strings, or thatfriend teaches them and that sickly cycle ends.

Also, modern country. I don't get it why, but any country on the radio. Thanks to my sister, the stereotype of country music beig about beer and cars and women lives on gloriously.

hey, I kinda like Brad Paisley! Guilty pleasure... and what's wrong with songs about beer, cars and women? I like all 3 of those things. Alright alright, they don't make great song topics though...

but give Brad another listen, he is a great player and some of his songs are pretty catchy to boot. Also, we are ac30 brothers, both owning a '62 as our 'secret Tele weapon'

I hate it when I meet a new person and I get all excited and intrigued when they say they are a musician. You go on to ask them what all they play and they say, "I make my own beats in fruity loops. I'm thinking about starting a band".

Anger rising.

For the record, there are close to zero situations in which a beginner guitarist with a good entry-level guitarist and a pack of fresh strings and plenty of colleagues who are experienced in the skill

no one taught me to change electric strings, I got it down thru trial and error... the strtching and wrapping process took me a long time to work out well, but by the time anyone told me the right way I had already arrived at it myself just by wanting my guitars to stay the fuck in tune when I played blues licks.

the standard of musicianship required to call yourself a musician is so low now it beggars description.... trying to play decent music (or event talk about it) with people who know only the pentatonics and the absolute rudiments of harmonic theory is almost as frustrating as dealing with so-called 'producers'

here's another of my peeves, musicians who say 'jazz chords' to describe any harmonic relationship that is more complicated than a dominant 7th

and if one more tool bag looks at me blankly when I refer to a repetitive metric concept in their music as a cadence I will scream

The C G Am F (I V VI IV) chord progression, so overused its painful.

Modern pop in general, though that's a bit of a cliché answer.

To be honest the worst is being prejudiced against, because of age. I was talking to a guy at my church a few weeks back: I was checking out his board, and he replied "Hey who're you, etc?", so I told him, politely, and formally who, and how old I was with a good level of maturity, if that's worth noting. He replied in a patronising manor: "These are called pedals, this green, and yellow one is an overdrive, it makes your guitar sound angry. It cost me £30, and I know to a 13 year old that might sound a lot, but for a...". And he continued. Eventually I politely pulled out.

That's just one event.

pachabel's cannon, or 4 bars of it

I can live, with or without it .. even when I play under the bridge downtown, when I come around... I just wanna hear the other 4 bars, it makes me a BASKETCASE!

bwahahaha

to be fair, when I was 13, while I knew a lot about MUSIC I was pretty naïve to electronics.... I mighta needed the dude to identify each pedal's use.... we oldsters only remember the completely LACK of info when we were kids! I ahd to disassemble a lot of stuff to find out what made it tick, but you folks are lucky and can just google search a schematics.... when I started there was barely an internet let a lone a google

you could have politely told him that thanks to the internet you are more knowledgeable than a lot of adults, just less experienced and that you could talk at his level, but instead you pussied out and took offense... don't be a teenager!

or maybe he woulda continued to condescend you anyway and the problem is that you're going to church.... I am not going to say it outright, but lets face it, certain communities of people have a high dickhead ratio and they congregate weekly

Exactly!! Learning an instrument in part means gettibg to learn thigs on your own. There's so much fun in discovering this stuff without help, that it really dissapoints me that my colleagues and oters miss these little fun oppurtunities.

Wait, Duke, what pedal in the UK costs 30 pounds? That's like the cost of a used metal zone or something or super overdrive.

Wait, Duke, what pedal in the UK costs 30 pounds? That's like the cost of a used metal zone or something or super overdrive.

I think you have it! green and yellow, ts-mini, ts5.... yellow sd1

Normally it's the musicians, and it's a hit or miss, all depending on who leads them. Our leader, as an example, usually cuts us down any moment we try to act anywhere near self-rightous or better than orhers etc. Other leaders are lax, and other produce guitarists who condescend others. Kinda like me with that guitarist who sits. Jim corrected me, I learned.

Or, this guy really thought you had no idea what that stuff did. In that case, you probably should have spoke up.

I follow a 'put your money where your mouth is" policy. If you can outplay Joey Sitdown then show me hatcha got and talk up a storm.