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03-05-2008, 11:21 PM
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03-05-2008, 11:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Central Neb. | | | The "turn and talk to the drummer" haha that's my favorite move! |
03-06-2008, 12:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chugiak, AK | | | The "please can we play a song I wrote" never works. Those damn guitarists always go 'dude, it's just not our style' when there's more than 5 notes in the bass line.
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03-06-2008, 06:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Kentucky | | Anybody else notice he's using a 6-string in those pics? I know there are 6 string basses, but it seems like it would be more appropriate to use a 4 in the joke... anyway, it is funny  |
03-06-2008, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Monroe NY/ Geneseo NY | | | I actually posted on their website about the 6 string...the image their illustrator used had a 6 string in it...so they knew what they were doing...other than that its a funny article |
03-07-2008, 12:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Rocky Mount, NC | | | the "wait outside the motel 6 room"....hahaa
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03-30-2008, 05:28 PM
| | | | the whoa did you see me change registers!i do that every time in my solo on steal my kisses with my jam band and after they saw this article, they laugh every time.
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03-30-2008, 08:47 PM
| | | | Oh wow.... I do all of these except for get food.... I make the drummer get us food. |
03-30-2008, 08:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cooranbong, NSW | | | Hahaha sigh.
That hurts just a little.
Janice Dream will never really get out. Except on bass solo albums, and only we will listen to that. Sigh. |
03-31-2008, 10:49 AM
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No taking part in a band discussion and having comments completely ignored by the rest of tha band? |
03-31-2008, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northampton, England | | | The 'Whoa, Did You Just See Me Slide Up the Fretboard?
That one made me LOL!
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03-31-2008, 04:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | My best move is to the bar for pint of Fat Tire.
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03-31-2008, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim  My best move is to the bar for pint of Fat tire. | +1!
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Please, stop playing for free.
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03-31-2008, 06:19 PM
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Affiliated with Genelec, Avalon Design. | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Newcastle, UK/Currently London | | | I do all of those bar get food, and I no longer wait outside for the drummer, cause he stupidly brings his girlfriend on tour, so no action for him.....
And I really do talk about side projects with him onstage!!
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03-31-2008, 06:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: York, UK | | | When I talk to the drummer it's usually to arrange to drop into the most screwed-up version we can conjure of whatever it is we're supposed to be playing, to mess up whoever's soloing. |
04-01-2008, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mothmonsterman What?
No taking part in a band discussion and having comments completely ignored by the rest of tha band? | +1000!!! LOL |
04-01-2008, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Inflin ...and I no longer wait outside for the drummer, cause he stupidly brings his girlfriend on tour, so no action for him..... | Dude...RULE #1...no girlfriends on tour...  |
04-01-2008, 02:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Los Angeles | | | can anyone paste the actual article please? School network listed it as "adult" =/
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04-01-2008, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Memphis Tn | | When I lean back and talk to the drummer, we talk about all kinds of things...World Politics, Car stuff, Philosophy......and the Big Ones
jumping around in the front row.... 
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Where's that confounded bridge?
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04-02-2008, 04:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MurvintheWalrus the whoa did you see me change registers!i do that every time in my solo on steal my kisses with my jam band and after they saw this article, they laugh every time. | I do this every couple of songs. I'm going to need to show this to my band, lol.
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