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04-27-2010, 01:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Mesa, Arizona | | | Man, there are some weirdos out there
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Can someone give me a list of excuses to get out of a jam session with folks who turn out to be total weirdos?
I mean, I've been in some blind/Internet dates that were worse than that, but at least we can go see a movie and pretend to be alone during the movie.
But the last one was awkward. I managed to escape after 20 minutes. And yeah, we chatted for a while before I headed his way.
Man, I thought I was going to be tied up and raped.
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04-27-2010, 01:33 AM
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Brownchicken Browncow | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | | just tell them your schedule changed and won't be able to make it.
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04-27-2010, 01:39 AM
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04-27-2010, 03:09 AM
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04-27-2010, 03:13 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | You guys are too good for me - your concepts are too advanced - you are way beyond my level! 
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04-27-2010, 03:34 AM
| | | You simply don't feel like it.
Why not tell them how it is instead of all that BS.
This way feels a lot better than the other I think .  |
04-27-2010, 03:38 AM
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04-27-2010, 04:13 AM
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04-27-2010, 04:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: UK | | | I once told some guys I'd left the country to avoid jamming with them. Then I ran into them a couple of days later in the street...
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04-27-2010, 04:25 AM
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Endorsing artist: Musicman basses, Hipshot products | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: New York City | | | I believe he means once you're already in the room jamming with them. tough one. I've been in that situation. One time a guy took out some sheet music he wrote of something he wanted us to play and literally started playing it 1 note at a time like a kid who just got back from his first lesson. no timing, looking at a note, his neck, positioning his fingers... I don't remember what I did though, it was a while back. I only remember getting out. I think I might have just been honest and said this isn't going to work for me. |
04-27-2010, 04:52 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield  You guys are too good for me - your concepts are too advanced - you are way beyond my level! | Quote:
Originally Posted by cnltb You simply don't feel like it.
Why not tell them how it is instead of all that BS.
This way feels a lot better than the other I think . | Well - your way, you feel bad about criticising them and you might get some "comeback" like "what's wrong with us?" which could be even more embarassing and they might even start to get violent if you are really honest!! Everybody loses! 
Tell them they are too good and they feel OK and you feel OK for getting out easily - win/win!!
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04-27-2010, 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Nerve I think I might have just been honest and said this isn't going to work for me. | I think honesty is OK if you are 100% sure you can beat them all in a fight!!
Which I have no doubt you could... 
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04-27-2010, 05:48 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Cincinnati, OH | | | It can be hard sometimes, but there's nothing wrong overly harsh about saying "it's just not my thing." |
04-27-2010, 05:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: St. Louis | | | What's hard about telling them you're not interested? I would just say " You guys are weirdos and I don't want anything to do with you."
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04-27-2010, 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by NickInMesa Can someone give me a list of excuses to get out of a jam session with folks who turn out to be total weirdos? | Easy, do what I do - leave your phone on silent for a couple weeks and ignore any calls coming in. Call back all the people you want to with a good - "yeah my phone is on the fritz again" excuse. Also ht eold pretending your e-mail account 'was hacked and you had to change it but lost their number so couldn't tell them' works too if you have been so foolish to give both e-mail and phone details! Ok, you end up being a complete A$$, and you may have to move to a new town, but it's proabably worth it... |
04-27-2010, 05:59 AM
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Artist: Genz Benz/ AccuGroove/MLP Basses | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The O-X baby! (Oxford Mi.) | | | "Dude, man, I didn't want to totally ditch on you, but I only have like 15 min. I at least wanted to show up and not look like a complete dirt bag"
Then take 10 min to set up your gear.
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04-27-2010, 06:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Belgium (Antwerp) | | | Start shooting up heroïne during the jam session?
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04-27-2010, 06:07 AM
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04-27-2010, 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by perogato02 Start shooting up heroïne during the jam session? | this one gets my vote
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04-27-2010, 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by perogato02 Start shooting up heroïne during the jam session? | A hero (hera or heroine in female) (Ancient Greek: ἥρως, hḗrōs), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.[1] Later, hero (male) and heroine (female) came to refer to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice – that is, heroism – for some greater good, originally of martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.
--Anyone else see the movie, The Commitments where they hang a banner that says "heroine kills" or something like that?
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