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07-27-2006, 10:58 PM
| | | | What if you're trying a bass in a music store...
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you sit down and plug it in and start playin simple stuff to check out the sound of yer bass. Then a guitarist sits infront of you and starts shredding and giv u smirk.
What would you do?
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07-27-2006, 11:09 PM
|  | Hard rockin' stay-at-home dad | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The soggy state of Oregon | | | I sometimes laugh out loud at them -- a big, hearty, doubled-over belly laugh.
It's surprising how quickly their confidence is shattered, and they usually get all flustered and start pretending that there's something wrong with the guitar they're playing. |
07-27-2006, 11:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: South Africa | | | Rotate round and face the other way.
Continue playing what YOU want to play.
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07-27-2006, 11:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa | | | Honestly i wouldnt care. |
07-27-2006, 11:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Scottsboro/Huntsville, AL | | | Cut his strings, serves him right for playing six pieces of floss. |
07-27-2006, 11:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Upstate, new york | | | Yeah i wouldnt be bothered if they were actually trying it out. I admit i have gone in there and jammed to test new stuff out but i didnt just wank etc.
One time this kid just comes in while im testing a bass and cranks this crappy line 6 spider amp and starts shredding, couldnt hear a thing i was playing.. |
07-27-2006, 11:29 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | Do Anesthesia, most guitarists are amazed by it lawls. |
07-27-2006, 11:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Minocqua area, Wisconsin | | Turn up, proceed to bust out your best licks and then walk away.  |
07-27-2006, 11:37 PM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Fargo, ND | | | Ignore the dork.
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07-27-2006, 11:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Greenlawn, New York | | | As earlier stated, laugh at them. Nothing irritates me more than people who sit in guitar stores and wank endlessly. We get it, you're good, now stop showing off. |
07-27-2006, 11:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Ryan L. Ignore the dork. | +1 |
07-28-2006, 12:38 AM
|  | Yeah, I'm a guy! Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Marana, AZ, USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BartmanPDX I sometimes laugh out loud at them -- a big, hearty, doubled-over belly laugh.
It's surprising how quickly their confidence is shattered, and they usually get all flustered and start pretending that there's something wrong with the guitar they're playing. | That's what I do.
If they continue, I call my wife over then whisper in her ear. After that I point at him, and then we both start laughing. It just totally crushes their fragile little egos.
Yea, sometimes I can be really evil!  |
07-28-2006, 01:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Landisville, PA | | | well I personally would just take the headstock of the bass i had in my hands and shove it up his butt. then walk away and find a new bass and amp to try out and continue like nothing happened. freaking guitarists.
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07-28-2006, 05:48 AM
| | | Go up to him and see "Ready now? I'm gonna lay down some groove I want you to play what you just did IN TIME." Then proceed to watch him make a fool of himself as you play something jazzy thats hard to follow 
Or just turn up the volume and whip out the Aeroplane slap/pop line  |
07-28-2006, 05:51 AM
| | zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Scotland | | | Just stare directly at him with a vacant look on your face, and repeatedly hit the E string until he goes away. |
07-28-2006, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by dlloyd Just stare directly at him with a vacant look on your face, and repeatedly hit the E string until he goes away. | LoL, imma do just that incase anyone does that to me...
I wonder what billy sheehan or john myung would do if some guitarist wank infront of em |
07-28-2006, 05:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BrandonBass LoL, imma do just that incase anyone does that to me...
I wonder what billy sheehan or john myung would do if some guitarist wank infront of em |
either ignore them... or play along with them... |
07-28-2006, 06:05 AM
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07-28-2006, 07:05 AM
| | | I can't, but if you can, start playing Freedom Jazz Dance; that usually shuts anybody up |
07-28-2006, 07:13 AM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by DemoEtc I can't, but if you can, start playing Freedom Jazz Dance; that usually shuts anybody up | +1
that's a great song. im both a big brian auger fan and an eddie harris fan. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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