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Old 08-15-2008, 07:22 AM
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Riding down the road with our lead guitar player, I either made-up this joke or I heard it before and it leaked out of my memory bank.

Q. How many lead guitar players does it take to change a lightbulb?

A. None. Puh-lease...lead guitar players don't change lightbulbs. They leave all that basic stuff to the bass player.

I play bass in our band, Creole Stomp. This got a good chuckle from Robert, our lead guitarist.

Probably heard this one before. If you've never heard it before, tell 'em you stole it from me.

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Old 08-15-2008, 07:28 AM
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It takes 8 Lead Guitarists to change a lightbulb

One to actually do it, and 7 sitting around discussing how Steve Vai would have done it.
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Old 08-15-2008, 09:37 AM
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It takes just one.

He just holds the bulb up in the air, and the whole world revolves around him.
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Old 08-15-2008, 10:55 AM
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one to do it
one to pull the ladder out from under the 1st
a 4 more to say they could do it better
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Old 08-15-2008, 11:05 AM
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Let me be the first before someone else gets in here with these old chestnuts:

How many bass players to change a lightbulb?

ans: 1...5...1...5...1...5



An up and coming band was doing the showcase of their career. Peeking out through the curtain they saw several record execs sitting in the audience.

Screw the setlist they decided, and launched right into the hit. before the first chorus the RCA dude gets up and approaches their manager contract in hand. Then the Sony rep. By the time the first guitar solos happens, Clive Davis's cronies jump into the fray and it's a sharkfest.

The guitar player is watching all this unfold and thinks to himself "new boutique amp, new pedalboard"

The keyboard player is already designing his home studio in his head.

The drummer is grinning from ear to ear and can smell the new set of DW's




The bass player is thinking: A....A...D....D....C#....A

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Old 08-15-2008, 11:06 AM
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It takes just one.

He just holds the bulb up in the air, and the whole world revolves around him.
Greatest punchline ever!!!!
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How many sound engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

One-two, two, one-two
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Old 08-15-2008, 11:48 AM
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How many sound engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

One-two, two, one-two
None, they do sound, not light...



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Old 08-15-2008, 11:49 AM
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It takes just one.

He just holds the bulb up in the air, and the whole world revolves around him.
HEHEHEHEHE!

Good one!!

Actually it does just takes one, but he just sit there and then he have all the teenagers that adore his scale masturbations change the bulb instead for him ...



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Old 08-15-2008, 11:51 AM
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It takes 8 Lead Guitarists to change a lightbulb

One to actually do it, and 7 sitting around discussing how John Petrucci would have done it.
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It takes just one.

He just holds the bulb up in the air, and the whole world revolves around him.
Actually that's a vocalist.

It takes ten lead guitar players. One to do it, and nine to stand there and say "I could do that better."
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Q: How many guitar players does it take to play "Pride and Joy" ?

A: Apparently all of 'em.


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Old 08-15-2008, 04:35 PM
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Good one. This would have fit perfectly during a visit I made to Austin, TX a few years back. Going around town, it seemed like every guitar slinger wanted to be SRV. Some of 'em even dressed like Stevie Ray. The bumper-stickers say "Keep South Austin Weird"...well, that was pretty weird, yeah.

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Old 08-15-2008, 05:00 PM
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The lead git would not change the lightbulb.
He'd just start another solo and steal someone elses (lime)light!


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Old 08-15-2008, 07:37 PM
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How many bass players does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
40.
1 to screw it in.
39 to fight off all the singers and guitarists that try steal the spotlight.
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how many lead guitarist does it take to screw in a light bulb? at least 2 but they will screw anywhere really
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Only one but it takes him 3 weeks and costs him $300 because he has to find a real vintage bulb to ensure he gets "his light".
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I thought that it only took two but it needs to be a pretty large lightbulb.
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Old 08-19-2008, 11:00 AM
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Let me be the first before someone else gets in here with these old chestnuts:

How many bass players to change a lightbulb?

ans: 1...5...1...5...1...5



An up and coming band was doing the showcase of their career. Peeking out through the curtain they saw several record execs sitting in the audience.

Screw the setlist they decided, and launched right into the hit. before the first chorus the RCA dude gets up and approaches their manager contract in hand. Then the Sony rep. By the time the first guitar solos happens, Clive Davis's cronies jump into the fray and it's a sharkfest.

The guitar player is watching all this unfold and thinks to himself "new boutique amp, new pedalboard"

The keyboard player is already designing his home studio in his head.

The drummer is grinning from ear to ear and can smell the new set of DW's




The bass player is thinking: A....A...D....D....C#....A

That's the best ever. So true too.....bass man is the base, man.
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Only one but it takes him 3 weeks and costs him $300 because he has to find a real vintage bulb to ensure he gets "his light".
or,
One, but he has to use his own light bulb, or he'll complain the whole time about the inferior light quality.
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