Hilarious Bassist Wanted Ad

[fourstringdrums]

Originally Posted by seanm

Oh man, now I'll never be able to eat fruit roll ups again......

I just won't be able to eat the strawberry ones.

[ERIC31]

You'll NEVER see me on stage (or anywhere else) wearing a tight shirt and bell bottoms......F*CK THAT!!!

[Thegiantgnome]

Its just sad that if you want to make it any where in the music industry now-a-days you have to look at the asthetic aspect seriously. I just think talent is looked upon as a plus rather than a necessity and that just pisses me off. It just seems so hard if your trying to get something new out there and you don't fit into a genre or have a look. But I guess bands have always had to market themselves to make it places

[Daniel Baskin]

Originally Posted by pklima

This is a very good ad in a way. If you are not the right person for this band odds are you'll know it immediately and won't waste their time or yours.

+1

The more I look at the requirements, the more I begin to realize that these people are not pure musicians, but rather, the all-too-common-these-days "sociomusician," or the musician that values sociality over musicality. I begin writing them a polite (seriously) e-mail about how I disagreed with them, but then I stopped because I realized that they first of all, wouldn't care what I said, and second of all, that what I was doing was basically reducing the band to nothing more than over-grown teenagers looking to find their identity--even though I wasn't consciencously thinking that dimly of them.

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by Thegiantgnome

I just think talent is looked upon as a plus rather than a necessity and that just pisses me off.

It's never been any other way, man. It's call the music industry for a reason. It's a job, just like any other; only difference between dressing like them and making power pop and dressing in a 3 piece suit and selling managment solutions is the product.

Dress the part, have the product, know the target consumer, sell product. Music and talent have always played second fiddle, in the sceme of things. Yeah, jazz and other "pure music"s don't require it, but they appeal to a different consumer base than say, these guys will. Music is more about being in the right place, during the right time, appealing to the right people, and knowing the right people. Rock, and most music on a greater-than-local scale have never been anything but.

Nature of the beast; why get pissed off that bears like pickinic bas-kets?

[astronauts_suck]

Originally Posted by Intrepid

Just looking at that guy's hair and clothes makes me mad somehow.

That reminds me of a generic anime chick-gone-acid head....And there are VERY few people that can wear bell-bottoms on stage and get away with it, most notably Robert Plant..Oh, and Prince.

[che990]

Since when was a modern rockstar a complete washed up make up girl pants? low slung bass, looks cool, good rock look. looks under 28 and he can't have a good ego what are they on hipacrites.