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11-12-2009, 01:41 PM
|  | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | |
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maybe just apet peeve of mine, but when I get one of those "used to..." compliments I get pissed. "Nice amp, I used to have one like it" or "Thats how my old bassist used to play that..."
The unanswered question is always, why doesn't this condition exist any more?
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11-12-2009, 09:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Manhattan, KS | | | For my own originals I write it irritates me when people say
"Wow that sounds just like [insert your favorite band]!!!"
To me that just means I'm not creative and just successfully rip my favorite bands off.
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11-12-2009, 09:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New York City | | | "You play guitar really well!"
"Um, this is a bass..."
"Whatever!" |
11-12-2009, 10:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MD/Metro DC | | | Does stupid irritating stuff count?
"Dude!!You were like, ughhh,...........almost in tune!!"
(perhaps your ear is flat??)
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My bass is worth more than my CAR! (official club) #28, I.D.I.O.T. #51, U.S. Peavey Club Member #216, Mediocre Bassist Club #397, Fretless Club #513
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11-12-2009, 11:07 PM
| | | | "Your bass sounds very nice... what rig are you using?" Makes me think that my playing sucks but at least I have a good tone dialed in. |
11-13-2009, 08:30 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | If one more person in my lifetime says "you play really well for a handicapped/crippled guy", I'll be looking for a location to bury a body. Exactly what kind of a compliment does the aforementioned idiot think this is going to be before it leaves his lips?
And yes, it's happened many times! 
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11-13-2009, 08:42 AM
|  | Sonic Experimentation Gone Mad!
Endorsing Artist: Cave Passive Pedals | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ohio | | | "You looked good up there."
Um, well, I was hoping for "You sounded great!"
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Chad Wilson
Making music noises since 1981
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11-15-2009, 08:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: BC Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PJSShearer With the greatest respect to the Nashville Guys, but being told "you're a good country player", wasn't something I was longing to hear. | I confess, for many years I too was guilty of a somewhat derogatory mindset towards three note country bass players...that was, until the day I heard Mickey Gilleys bass man on an Austin City Limits show...
I learned to play that same hard driving style and (like Mickeys bass man) have tried to change a few opinions along the way.
Unfortunately there's a good deal of musical snobbery out there...there are also some smoking country bassplayers with rock backgrounds who can play the socks off many of todays root pounders, and hold their own with anyone. 
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11-15-2009, 10:00 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | "That was really great."
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11-17-2009, 10:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chicago | | | Left-handed compliments.... It's almost funny sometimes to watch friends who just don't get it try to come up with something that is both (a) honest and (b) compimentary. A couple favorites:
"You looked like you were having a good time up there." (Not a bad thing, but it was the "this is all I can come up with" feeling with which it was said.)
"Wow, you were a lot less loud than last time."
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11-17-2009, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Milford, CT | | | That's an easy one: WOW! You're really good- FOR A LEFTY! |
11-17-2009, 06:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rochester, NY | | Someone once turned to me while using the restroom in a club and said, "Dude, you rock on the drums".  Idiot!
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11-17-2009, 07:03 PM
|  | Some carrots are humiliated publicly | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Syracuse, NY | | | When large, gruff men tell me I "got some perdy lookin' jeans on there".
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11-17-2009, 07:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Munjibunga "That was really great." | Yeah, I hate that one the most when I hear it too. 
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11-17-2009, 07:27 PM
|  | Endorsing Artist: Wild Turkey Bourbon | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: The Wilds of NW Pa. | | | "WOW ... for a bunch of old guys, you really rock !!"
Ouch.
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11-17-2009, 07:33 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Basson | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New York City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by pklima I've had people tell me things like "this is much more valid artistically than that crunkcore nonsense" and "this could develop into something incredibly avant-garde". That not only hurts, it also makes me wonder if I'm making some horrible mistake I'm not aware of. At least with my originals band I can brush it off with "I don't care, I just work here", but when people say this stuff about my redneck crunkcore project or my past redneck black metal band? | What I MUST know is what could possibly be more artistically valid and avant garde than redneck crunkcore and redneck black metal? |
11-18-2009, 02:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | "You were great dancing with the bass!" is one I got last week that would probably piss a lot of people off. I don't mind, though, I know I move more on stage than everyone else in this band put together... Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Black What I MUST know is what could possibly be more artistically valid and avant garde than redneck crunkcore and redneck black metal? | Wigger slam, perhaps? I think someone needs to invent wigger crabcore!
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