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06-16-2009, 10:30 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | THIS IS THE GIG! (CL content)
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http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv...221108533.html Quote: |
Recent departure forces us to look for bassist. Power Pop, melodic rock, a smidgeon of Americana, Neil Young flavored. No Disney Channel/KROQ pop punk types. No metal, be it '60's, 70's, '80's 90's or 00's metal. Zzzzz. No West L.A. metrosexual trendoids with carefully crafted image looking like everyone else. Hipsters, begone. No shaved heads. No grey beards unless you're Brad Pitt. No fat guts making you play your bass with arms outstretched. Tats and piercing are so freaking last century. Dying to make it in show biz? So die already. No, we will not pay you. You're a bass player, you don't have that many strings to memorize. Now, that takes are of pretty much everyone who've answered my past ads. If you're proficient, don't look too bad or too good, like an array of styles of music (the aformentioned not included), kinda know your rock and roll history (that should make you more discerning and tasteful) and seriously enjoy songs and playing such, we might let you play with us. You can be 50 if you still have a good image, as we are not an old fart band. You can be in your 20's if your cool. Wait, impossible. You can be in your 30's if your cool. 40's cool, as long as you don't like the band Rush. We have day jobs that pay well, so we have good gear. Probably better than yours. I have five or six expensive basses, and I'm the guitarist. If you can manage a passable backing vocal, you'll go to the front of the line. I realize that being a bassist, you're thinking you're God's gift and all you have to do is exist in a band to be revered, but no. You have to contribute, and one thing that sets us apart is harmonies. You will send me your myspace or webpage or whatever first, because I cannot bear to have hacks even look at or listen to our stuff. If you are accepted, we will act like decent, drug and alcohol free human beings to you, perhaps even befriend you. Until then, you're just another freaking bassist in L.A. How sad. First gig in August.
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06-16-2009, 10:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Montville, NJ | | | Very entertaining. I'm sure bassists are lining up to answer this guy's ad (not). |
06-16-2009, 10:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: :noitacoL | | | What a tool.
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06-16-2009, 10:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Santiago de Chile | | | I'd check their music out, lol |
06-16-2009, 10:38 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | I've decided to renounce my career as the manager at Roscoe Guitars, move 3000 miles, and take this gig....despite being 45, 40 lbs overweight, and a huge Rush fan playing 6 string fretted and fretless bass, I'm certain I will be successful with these guys. 
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06-16-2009, 10:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | | Not that many bassists that don't like Rush... |
06-16-2009, 10:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Spearfish, SD | | | This guy's a d**k
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06-16-2009, 10:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Vancouver, B.C. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard I've decided to renounce my career as the manager at Roscoe Guitars, move 3000 miles, and take this gig....despite being 45, 40 lbs overweight, and a huge Rush fan playing 6 string fretted and fretless bass, I'm certain I will be successful with these guys. | Sir, I believe you are thinking more clearly than anyone, EVER! 
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06-16-2009, 10:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mission Viejo, CA | | | -=WARNING=- Ego concentration reaching toxic levels! -=WARNING=-
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06-16-2009, 10:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: South Suburbs Chicago, IL | | | ROLFMAO!!! That just made my morning.
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06-16-2009, 10:55 AM
|  | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | | I have to go ahead and pull the BS card on "First gig in August" considering they will not have a bassist by then or likely ever. And if I were in LA I'd probably take a little time to ensure they didn't have a lead guitarist either, come to think of it.
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06-16-2009, 12:24 PM
| | | Oh crap! I'm nearly 53 and need to lose weight; like Rush as a band, and this gig opportunity of a lifetime comes and I can't qualify! I'll no doubt have to see a shrink to deal with the deep dark depression I now feel.  Life just isn't fair!  |
06-16-2009, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Moscow, Russia | | What? No Disney Channel?! Man, if I'm anything, I AM Disney Channel.  |
06-16-2009, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Bel Air, MD 21014 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DerHoggz Not that many bassists that don't like Rush... | There are plenty of us  |
06-16-2009, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Socorro, NM | | | How do people get away with posting this crap? Do they actually expect to get anyone? It almost makes me think it's a joke.
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06-16-2009, 03:18 PM
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Who's That Guy?
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06-16-2009, 03:19 PM
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Endorsing artist: Musicman basses, Hipshot products | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: New York City | | Hmmm... I liked the ad. For real. Sounds like they have a sense of humor and know what they they're looking for. Not sure whats got you all going here.
I know, the drug and alcohol free thing spooked and pissed most of you off.  |
06-16-2009, 03:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: College Station texas | | i happily replied to his email 
haha but not very well
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06-16-2009, 03:24 PM
|  | Bass lines like a big, funky giant | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Southern MN | | | I bet you a cup of coffee their first "gig" is in someone's back yard, or at best a charity event of some type. I can't believe anyone would pay these guys, and I don't think they have the proper attitude to have worked their way up from non-paid opening / open mike / open stage appearances. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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