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12-20-2010, 11:55 AM
|  | Best Upright Guitarrón (UG) player in my house. | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Idyllwild, California | | | Back-handed compliments?
I don't play gigs so I don't get any back-handed compliments myself, but for a non-musician I hear a lot of live music and hang with musicians quite a bit. I've personally heard and heard of some back-handed compliments that musicians have received--mostly from non-musicians--and I'd like to hear about those you guys have encountered. I'll start it off with a few I heard:
"I love what you were trying to do there."
"That was great. I never would have guessed you wrote it."
"I liked all your tempos in that one."
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12-20-2010, 12:06 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rochester, NY | | | (For cover bands) "That almost sounded like the real song." |
12-20-2010, 01:39 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | | "That sounded really hard". |
12-20-2010, 01:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: California | | | "I liked the ending on that one" |
12-20-2010, 03:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Washington DC | | | Backhanded compliment
A while back, a guy at a straight ahead jam session told me that he really liked playing with me, because there was NEVER any doubt as to where I was in the tune...That's great, right? 
I thought that was a very nice compliment for a long time, until I learned that playing root position arpeggios for every chord change might be...uh...not exactly...uh...what's the word... "hip"?!  
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12-20-2010, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago | | | You have really big hands |
12-20-2010, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wheeling WV / Pittsburgh PA | | | DC Bass
All the substitutions have been done to death 50 years ago, the hippest thing is walking a straight line. |
12-20-2010, 04:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | You guys sound pretty good... |
12-20-2010, 08:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | |  Ouchness!
Man what you did up there...unblievable!
I can really dig where you think your coming from.
My favorite from a well known studio session guitarist, "Well it's not like you sh!!T the bed".
Good try! 
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12-21-2010, 03:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Washington DC | | | Another "good" one!
There was a local "hot shot" musician who was a very good player, but also insufferably egotistical. I ran into him somewhere and said hello to him...to which he answered, "Do I know you?"
I said that we had played together on several occasions at a few local jams and gigs.
He asked what instrument I played, I told him (bass) and still he didn't remember me.
He then said, "Well, you must be an average player...because I'd remember you if you were good...or if you really sucked!" 
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12-22-2010, 02:31 PM
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12-22-2010, 02:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: County of Kings, NY | | "I really liked that last piece."
I suppose it's meant as compliment, but I'm never sure if it's that, or they hated everything else we played, or maybe showed up just in time to catch the last tune only. I actually wrote a tune called "That Last Piece" just to be safe.  |
12-22-2010, 03:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Denver-CO-USA | | | when I was younger I got the opportunity to play with a famous jazz pianist. I did a good job and all, we even recorded, but I was in my mid twenties playing with a few well known jazz musicians and I was very naive and I would get nervous playing with these guys.
Anyway, this one cat was asking about me, and I told him about my gigs, I owned my own car and even my own house, etc.
The cat turns to me and says: "yeap Bijoux! in the land of the blind the one with one eye is King!" LMAO!!!
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12-22-2010, 03:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Alexandria Virginia | | | "You've never sounded better"
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12-22-2010, 05:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | Nice trying to play with you...
Nice trying to play with some of you guys... |
12-22-2010, 06:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | I asked someone I respect who I had spent a good bit of time with that week for some feedback and one of the things he said was "your time is really good, when you're playing time".
I think I know what he meant and I think he's right, but wow, what a turn of phrase!
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12-22-2010, 06:40 PM
| | Best Upright Guitarrón (UG) player in my house. | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Idyllwild, California | | | This is a bit off my own thread, but last night I was watching a music program on TV and they introduced an a capella group that was going to sing House of the Rising Sun "by the Animals." I almost choked on my cheese dip.
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12-22-2010, 06:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Seattle,Wa. | | | You always cease to amaze me.
Loved your last solo, every idea was better than the next.
I've never heard anybody execute that tune like you did.
All seriousness aside, you sounded great.
It was great to see you play.
I could tell it was you after the first note. |
12-22-2010, 07:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Of all the people I've played with... you're one of them.
I think someone famous said that.
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12-22-2010, 07:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nathan Parker  Of all the people I've played with... you're one of them.
I think someone famous said that. | Probably Yogi Berra.
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