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03-26-2008, 10:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | | even rockstars play the same stupid riffs when at the music store.
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i went to the locally owned music store today. and i look over and Noah Henson from the band pillar is there trying out pedals and playing smoke on the water and sweet child of mine  
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03-26-2008, 10:10 PM
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03-26-2008, 10:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC | | | aren't they kinda like creed? |
03-26-2008, 10:12 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | | that's the only truly objective way to test out guitar equipment in a music store, you know.
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03-26-2008, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by theoldmiami  aren't they kinda like creed? | a bit harder and not total douchebags 
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03-26-2008, 10:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Georgetown, IN (Louisville KY) | | Maybe he was trying to find a pedal to give him the tone of those songs.  |
03-26-2008, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by The BurgerMeister that's the only truly objective way to test out guitar equipment in a music store, you know. | with the same tired power chords and melody line? 
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03-26-2008, 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by metallicafan18 Maybe he was trying to find a pedal to give him the tone of those songs. | nah his pedal broke and he was having the store send it back.
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03-26-2008, 10:17 PM
| | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5 with the same tired power chords and melody line? | of course! walk through a music store, you hear those two riffs (and AC/DC's back in black, of course) constantly! you know when they sound good, and you know when they sound bad in the music store. you won't really know if the gear sounds good or bad until you hear it in a mix, but solo'd up in a music store? ya... it's a sound you are familiar and intimate with.
for bassists, it's that pulling teeth thing.
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03-27-2008, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by metallicafan18 Maybe he was trying to find a pedal to give him the tone of those songs. | Is there a pedal that makes your guitar sound like a B3 with an overdriven lesley ? 
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03-27-2008, 11:13 AM
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Mark my words...
the next group to be identified as 'going postal' will be music store clerks. Can you imagine listening to kids play metal riffs for 3-4 hours at a time?
Pretty soon taking the law into your own hands will be called 'going Guitar-Center'. 
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03-27-2008, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by The BurgerMeister
for bassists, it's that pulling teeth thing.
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03-27-2008, 11:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | That's a generational thing.
When I'm in the store, the riffs I play on bass to evaluate gear include:
Pretty Woman
Sunshine of Your Love
Pipeline
Peter Gunn
Basically, you won't hear me trying riffs from anything written after about 1980...and most of it is before 1970. The kids in there are going "slappity-poppity wank wank wank" and I'm just noodling through oldies. Funny thing though, when I'm playing the bass line to Pipeline, I sometimes hear the music store employees walking past me start to hum the melody!
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03-27-2008, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by ThunderLizard Mark my words...
the next group to be identified as 'going postal' will be music store clerks. Can you imagine listening to kids play metal riffs for 3-4 hours at a time?
Pretty soon taking the law into your own hands will be called 'going Guitar-Center'. |  |
03-27-2008, 01:19 PM
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*shakes head slowly*
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03-27-2008, 02:13 PM
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The guys at my GC applaud the piece as I leave the store.
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03-27-2008, 03:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wichita, KS | | I ALWAYS test gear with the songs Barbie Girl by Aqua and If You Wanna Be My Lover by The Spice Girls, and I ALWAYS sing along the entire time...cus hey, I need to know how it sounds with vocals. |
03-27-2008, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ThunderLizard Mark my words...
the next group to be identified as 'going postal' will be music store clerks. Can you imagine listening to kids play metal riffs for 3-4 hours at a time?
Pretty soon taking the law into your own hands will be called 'going Guitar-Center'. | Amen! I'm suprised it hasn't happened already.
I could never work in that enviroment...I would snap. 
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03-27-2008, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by mjolnir I like to play twinkle twinkle little star closely followed by mary had a little lamb and finish it off with an original composition I've entitled Toodle Muffin. It's an exploration of root and thirds in both major and minor for 17 hours straight.
The guys at my GC applaud the piece as I leave the store. | No, they're applauding BECAUSE you're leaving the store.  |
03-27-2008, 06:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Maine | | | I usually find that when I'm testing equipment in a store I forget literally every song I've ever known. That usually happens when I'm testing guitars. So I just idly strum a couple of chords trying to think of what the hell I should be playing. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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