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10-10-2007, 01:06 PM
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I know this sounds racial, but I just stumbled upon this website somehow: http://coloredfolkguitars.com/index.html
They stock some pretty crazy guitars and basses.    |
10-10-2007, 01:07 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Jeez. What the hell? A part of me wants that eagle wing thing though.
EDIT: Could you describe their tone in words though?  |
10-10-2007, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by xgabriele  | I think white folk be buyin dem geetarrs, not coloreds  |
10-10-2007, 01:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | Gotta love the picture on the home page...I guess there is a bit of racial slur going on there...  |
10-10-2007, 04:51 PM
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10-10-2007, 04:56 PM
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10-10-2007, 05:02 PM
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and not specifically about this thread or xgabriele, but what is it with some folks and their racially charged threads in OT lately? seems a smackdown might be in order if this crap continues. jeezuz people, this is not the place. 
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10-10-2007, 05:04 PM
| | You don't want to do that. Trust me. Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: atlanta ga | | | oh, and since these are musical instruments this thread should be in misc.
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10-10-2007, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by john turner i don't want to know how you came across that site.
and not specifically about this thread or xgabriele, but what is it with some folks and their racially charged threads in OT lately? seems a smackdown might be in order if this crap continues. jeezuz people, this is not the place. | There was no racial motivation in posting this thread. I saw the link for it on craigslist, and clicked it. I thought it offered a lot of weird guitars, and thought it would make for a humorous thread. The whole website's concept is kind of rediculous, yet humorous. Yes, maybe "misc" might have been a better forum for it, but it is certainly "off topic" as well.
However, I would like to publicly apologize to any member that may have found this offensive. That was never my intention, and if it is against the forum rules in any way, please delete it and issue me an infraction. |
10-10-2007, 06:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sydney | | | I think you would have to be pretty thin skinned to take the OP's post as being derogatory to any particular group of people based on their perceived "race" or colour of skin. No doubt the ambiguity is there but I believe if anything that is the responsibility of the company, and the OP did make an obvious disclaimer at the beginning of his post.
Anyway....
The scenario.... I am holding an audition and some guy turns up with one of those.
Me: "hahahaahahahaha...ect.......hahahahahah.... and so on... now, where is your real guitar?"
Person with stupid guitar: "This is it"
Me: "Next"
Person with stupid guitar:"But I can play like Alan Holdsworth"
Me: "I don't care, at least Alan Holdsworth doesn't have a stupid looking guitar"
Well you might beg to differ on Alan Holdsworth not having a stupid looking guitar. But there is no way I am going to play with someone that walks about on stage with a machine gun for example....get the picture?
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10-10-2007, 06:18 PM
| | | [quote=xgabriele;4775508]I know this sounds racial, but I just stumbled upon this website somehow: http://coloredfolkguitars.com/index.html
They stock some pretty crazy guitars and basses.
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10-10-2007, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by mutedeity I think you would have to be pretty thin skinned to take the OP's post as being derogatory to any particular group of people based on their perceived "race" or colour of skin. No doubt the ambiguity is there but I believe if anything that is the responsibility of the company, and the OP did make an obvious disclaimer at the beginning of his post.
Anyway....
The scenario.... I am holding an audition and some guy turns up with one of those.
Me: "hahahaahahahaha...ect.......hahahahahah....an d so on... now, where is your real guitar?"
Person with stupid guitar: "This is it"
Me: "Next"
Person with stupid guitar:"But I can play like Alan Holdsworth"
Me: "I don't care, at least Alan Holdsworth doesn't have a stupid looking guitar"
Well you might be to differ on Alan Holdsworth not having a stupid looking guitar. But there is no way I am going to play with someone that walks about on stage with a machine gun for example....get the picture? | Dude, live a little! It will make you a better, and more popular band if you're guitarist is controversial. Who wants boring, average, common, and predictible?
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10-10-2007, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sydney | | | Or it might make me look like I associate with boneheads. I prefer to "live a little" by not looking like I play with numbskulls in the process. If that's your thing, then who am I to stop you, dude?
By the way, if the only way for me to avoid being boring average and predictable is to be open to someone with obviously no sense of aesthetic that I can relate to playing what I consider to be a stupid looking guitar that probably sounds terrible anyway, then my music is worthless anyway.
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10-10-2007, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mutedeity
..... there is no way I am going to play with someone that walks about on stage with a machine gun for example....
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I agree with you 100%. Unless I'm in some novelty band (which I wouldn't be) I refuse to be onstage with some bonehead playing a guitar shaped like an AK-47 (or eagle, lobster, bottle opener, map of the USA, Betty Boop etc..) and make myself part of a laughingstock. Having fun is one thing, being made fun of is another.
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10-10-2007, 07:56 PM
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10-10-2007, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat I agree with you 100%. Unless I'm in some novelty band (which I wouldn't be) I refuse to be onstage with some bonehead playing a guitar shaped like an AK-47 (or eagle, lobster, bottle opener, map of the USA, Betty Boop etc..) and make myself part of a laughingstock. Having fun is one thing, being made fun of is another. | Maybe if the money was right and I didn't have to reveal my identity. Still the money would have to be pretty damn good. |
10-11-2007, 12:01 PM
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10-11-2007, 01:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis | | | Man I thought this thread was going to be about something completely different. I was thinking it was folk guitars, like acoustic guitars that were painted. ooppsss |
10-11-2007, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by xgabriele I know this sounds racial, but I just stumbled upon this website somehow: http://coloredfolkguitars.com/index.html
They stock some pretty crazy guitars and basses.
Does this one scratch your balls too! | It really depends on how far....I guess |
10-11-2007, 08:02 PM
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