What the hell is "WANKING"?

de la mocha · #1 10-18-2005, 05:34 AM

I hear this a lot when people talk about guitar players. What does that mean? "I'm not a fan of wanking"

I don't get it.

Aaron Saunders · #2 10-18-2005, 05:36 AM

You know how guitar players will noodle between songs, playing meaningless riffs, often at ridiuclous speeds?

Wanking is doing that while everyone else is playing music.

Pantsman · #3 10-18-2005, 05:37 AM

grab your bass, now move your hand up and down the neck, feel familiar? thats wanking

Mon Rominee · #4 10-18-2005, 05:38 AM

It's the art of "meedly meedly meedly"

westland · #5 10-18-2005, 05:39 AM

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Blush *

Bruce Lindfield · #6 10-18-2005, 05:45 AM

It is English slang that is generally considered offensive - and is literally : Masturbating !

Not recommended to be used in polite company!!

That doesn't count for Australians of course ......

de la mocha · #7 10-18-2005, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Aaron Saunders

You know how guitar players will noodle between songs, playing meaningless riffs, often at ridiuclous speeds?

Wanking is doing that while everyone else is playing music.

Okay, I get it now! And LOL @ the rest of the answers in this thread!

Pantsman · #8 10-18-2005, 05:53 AM

Bruce, if you were here in Australia there is no doubt i would call you a wanker, in good humour of course :P but yeah, I never thought of it that way, the word wanker here isn't offensive in the slight, then again 99% of profanity isn't offensive here

wulf · #9 10-18-2005, 06:11 AM

Granted, I've not yet been to Australia but are you quite sure about that 99% figure? However, as Bruce says, it's definitely something to be careful about saying in the UK!

Wulf

remo · #10 10-18-2005, 06:13 AM

common Australian slang term for masturbating..

uses: "you're a wanker mate", "he's such a wanker", "after seeing that I need to go have a wank"... etc etc.. ok maybe not the last one

Bruce Lindfield · #11 10-18-2005, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by wulf

Granted, I've not yet been to Australia but are you quite sure about that 99% figure? However, as Bruce says, it's definitely something to be careful about saying in the UK!

Unless you're talking about football referees..... when it's obligatory!!

buzzbass · #12 10-18-2005, 07:12 AM

While I was at GC the other day there was a kid in the bass room playing Master of Puppets........Slap Style. I think that certainly qualifies as wanking. Poor Cliff was probably spinning in his grave

**baba** · #13 10-18-2005, 07:20 AM

To me wanking is not playing for the song or with the band. It's "look at me, aren't I exciting" activity instead of playing appropriately in the context of the music. A bit of grey area of course, but I think everyone knows when they see it or hear it.

Mitchell Royce · #14 10-18-2005, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by buzzbass

While I was at GC the other day there was a kid in the bass room playing Master of Puppets........Slap Style. I think that certainly qualifies as wanking. Poor Cliff was probably spinning in his grave

You can thank Claypool for that one.

JazzBassvb · #15 10-18-2005, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by baba

To me wanking is not playing for the song or with the band. It's "look at me, aren't I exciting" activity instead of playing appropriately in the context of the music. A bit of grey area of course, but I think everyone knows when they see it or hear it.

Yeah, I agree.

My question is this, how do you not do it when trying out basses at the music store?

It seems as if anyone who slaps a tune or something is considered showing off, when in actuality, may just be interested in how the bass feels.

I can't help but slap on a Marcus Miller Fender and seeing how it feels when doing double thumbing and such. I never have it turned up loud, just enough to hear myself.

It's just that I've read many a thread where someone goes into a music store and sees someone playing some fast stuff (in some threads, no mention of volume, others very loud) and it seems that they are automatically labled as a show off.

Help me recognize one from the other.

Thanks,
JB

Bruce Lindfield · #16 10-18-2005, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by de la mocha

Okay, I get it now! And LOL @ the rest of the answers in this thread!

I was serious - here's the entry from the UK Dictionary of slang :

wank

Verb. To masturbate. Also phrased as wank off. E.g."If our young men devoted as much time to their school work as they did to wanking then we'd have a nation of geniuses."
Noun. 1. An act of masturbation. E.g."You can guarantee that if he sees a pair of naked breasts he'll go and have a wank straight away."
2. Rubbish, useless, nonsense. E.g."I wish I hadn't brought that new CD, it's wank."
Exclam. Exclamation of annoyance or expressing disbelief.

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/w.htm

stretchcat · #17 10-18-2005, 09:27 AM

I actually used to work with a guy named "Wayne King". His parents must have hated him.

JimK · #18 10-18-2005, 12:27 PM

I would rather 'shag' than 'wank'...I think.

Phil Mastro · #19 10-18-2005, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JazzBassvb

I can't help but slap on a Marcus Miller Fender and seeing how it feels when doing double thumbing and such. I never have it turned up loud, just enough to hear myself.

Hence, you were not wanking.

froggsoldier · #20 10-18-2005, 01:59 PM

Wanking- something women can't do

Drats!