Guitar Center + Craigslist = Win

[::Saint::]

I just saw the updated Best-of-Craigslist and found this in there -- I thought you'd all appreciate it!

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best...119217946.html

[xgator4u]

Date: 2009-04-12, 6:46PM EDT


This is a special thanks to all of the guys that put on a free concert at guitar center everyday, we appreciate everything you do for our community. Like when I go in to actually purchase something, you come sit right next to me and play your "top shelf" ibanez through any solid state monster in the store, and show me how fast you can tap. Or like when I am asking someone a question and you stepped up to the plate and instead tell us all how incredible your band is. Another reason I am so impressed by you guys, is how you find time to come to guitar center every day when you're always out on the road touring. It's already pretty hard to sift through the wealth of knowledge available behind the counter, but when you add your countless years of experience in to the equation, there is no end.

Another way that you guys have changed my life is through my use of equipment. Over the years I've always thought that boutique pedals and custom tube configurations really contributed to my overall tone, yet you proved me wrong. Just from watching you play both measures you know from Free Bird, I learned that all I really need is a digitech floor board or a line 6 product to get the job done. Just hearing you guys really shred on your speed metal makes me wonder why people still listen to bands like The Beatles, Coldplay or U2.

Thanks again for all you've done for me personally, you've really taught me that everything I thought I knew must be wrong, I am forever in debt to you. Because of this, I am now looking for a new drummer. Currently my drummer plays with a metronome and is way to solid and tasteful, consider him gone! If you are one of those guys in the drum dept. that knows that fast double bass is so much more important than keeping time, you're the one for me. So what if you don't own a drum set and therefore never practice, who needs practice when you're a prodigy? Who care's if you came in 7th place at last years drum off, the judges were conspiring against you.

Last but not least, I am also holding auditions for a bass player. Currently my bass player plays through this stupid little ampeg 8x10 cab & head with a few vintage fender basses, and all he knows how to do is stay with the kick drum. Who cares that he's never made a mistake, or that he could write a book on music theory, what matters is that he can't slap. If there's one thing that can make any passionately slow song sound even better, that would be slap bass. So what if these pocket bass players like Adam Clayton are living in mansions and you're working at the mall, you know that slap bass is what's gonna bring in the big bucks. don't worry, you'll get your chance, the world won't know what hit'em.

thanks again!



Here, made it easy. That is excellent. This guy echoed my sentiments precisely.

[FallenAbom]

Priceless!

[Greyvagabond]

Ba-zing!

[alapantera]

you may have already seen this here:

You might have already seen this... (CL Content)

[Vic Winters]

Coldplay sucks.

[gt96g]

for the most part thats dead on, but he is really generalizing at the end about slap bass, there are many bassist who use slap in an appropriate and tastful way when its called for of course

[Stickk]

Slap makes a passionatley slow song better? I don't think so (however, slapping on a fretless with classical vibrato and a slow song I could understand).

[MHensleyJr]

Originally Posted by Vic Winters

Coldplay sucks.

Agreed, but not as much as U2 does...

[MadMan118]

Originally Posted by MHensleyJr

Agreed, but not as much as U2 does...

Ugh, don't even get me started on them...

[iridiumrocks]

There is one law that seems to be common to Guitar Center: The talent of the person playing is inversely proportional to the volume that they play. The people who are really good players are trying out the gear at a normal volume to see if they like it and don't care about playing a show. On the other hand, the crappy players who have never played a real show want to crank it up and show everyone in the store their so-called "talent". If you suck, turn it down :-(

[deecher99]

What's in the water in CA? U2 is not a bad band, I guess they're not cool because people have heard of them. Freakin' hipsters.

[Hutch1]

Speaking of U2, look at the video for "Street Mission." Priceless.

I once went to a GC to check out a bass. My goal was to see how it felt and played, not to find out how it sounded through one of several amps and cabinets that I don't own. So I didn't plug into anything. The staff came around five times or so in the half hour I was there, encouraging me to plug into something. They must never see someone come in and not immediately plug in to show off the latest two measures they've learned. Anyway, the staff were soon vindicated, as two young kids came in, grabbed a couple basses, plugged them in, and turned up really loud so everybody could hear their slap virtuosity.

[wildhorse]

Hey count me in on that bass job. I can lay the bass flat and slap the beat on the strings without a metronome. Oh wait never mind I do own a drum set. 3 of them.

[naturalkinds]

I don't shop at Guitar Center, but, seriously, let's be fair. Even fancy stores have lame employees, or employees who talk too much about themselves, or employees with terrible taste in music, or employees who will guide you against purchasing high price items for more functional alternatives.