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09-07-2008, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | | Everything relating to music has been stolen from me.
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Over the years so much of my music related property has just picked up and walked out on me. [I'm in my late 30's].
And I mean EVERYTHING: Walkmans, a Rockman, gaffers tape, records, CDs, VHS tapes, a bass, amps, effects, mics, cords, stereos, my 4 track, fake books, broken promises and outright lies that cost everything from time to money to sanity, .... .. ...I think you get it.
I was just reminiscing about this today and I can't help but laugh or I'll cry.
In other areas of my life I've only been ripped off a few times. What is it about music and what surrounds it makes for so much douchebaggery?
Music....it's a tough racket.
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Originally Posted by referring to the bassist from King Diamond He is 100 times the musician that Jerko was | |
09-07-2008, 03:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | You live in a shelter, barracks, or what? |
09-07-2008, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by fenderhutz You live in a shelter, barracks, or what? | Nah, but I used to gig regularly. 
And some of this I suppose wasn't outright thievery, as some of it was stuff lent out to people that were flaky.
Rock musicians in their 20's aren't the most reliable, solid and sane people. Chaos is [was] everywhere it seems.
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Originally Posted by referring to the bassist from King Diamond He is 100 times the musician that Jerko was | |
09-07-2008, 03:42 PM
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09-07-2008, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by funkybass4ever  Never trust any musician under 40! (i'm 44 today): | And never let your daughter marry one...... or a lawyer for that matter either.
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Originally Posted by referring to the bassist from King Diamond He is 100 times the musician that Jerko was | |
09-07-2008, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by funkybass4ever Never trust any musician under 40! (i'm 44 today): | Happy Birthday!
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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09-07-2008, 08:17 PM
| | | | man that sucks, gotta be more vigilant.
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09-08-2008, 04:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | Reminds me of an old Stage Hand's joke.
If you draw a chalk line on a stage floor, an actor will move it, a dancer will trip over it and a musician will steal it.
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09-08-2008, 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by BassChuck Reminds me of an old Stage Hand's joke.
If you draw a chalk line on a stage floor, an actor will move it, a dancer will trip over it and a musician will steal it. | Lol, that's a good one.
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Originally Posted by referring to the bassist from King Diamond He is 100 times the musician that Jerko was | |
09-08-2008, 11:06 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Experience is a good teacher. You obviously can learn from your past experiences. sorry to hear it, but sounds like positive change is within your control.
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09-08-2008, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim Experience is a good teacher. You obviously can learn from your past experiences. sorry to hear it, but sounds like positive change is within your control. | It hasn't happened in years and years, because I'm not surrounded by and performing for lunatics and flakes anymore.
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09-09-2008, 10:47 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | The last thing I had stolen was back in the late '70s when we were playing at the Gene Autry Hotel in Palm Springs for the Sigma Chi Ball. This was in the days before electronic tuners, so I kept a pitch pipe to get to A440 plus or minus. One of those frat boys kyped it from me.
I keep a very close eye on my gear when I gig, and assume that someone is constantly scheming to rip me off. When we play two nights in a row at bars, I run high-strength security cables through the handles of all the PA speakers and rigs and lock them together. It could still be stolen, but not as easily.
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09-10-2008, 06:21 AM
|  | - that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Moderator | | | | | I've had an attempted theft, but nothing other than a few cables have actually gone missing.
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09-10-2008, 09:42 PM
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