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Originally Posted by Eyesee7  Back in my college days I was in a band with two guitarists, and I use the term "guitarist" very lightly.
Both of them played what I called the "folk group strum", i.e. they were both in the folk group at our Catholic church, where all the songs are played on acoustic guitar with cowboy chords and this annoying double strum.
Now imagine the two of them in a band, playing every rock song of the 70's like that on electric guitar. Instead of playing the actual guitar rhythm lines, they're playing this maddening strum with cowboy chords they got from a fake book. No counterpoint guitar, no harmonies, just two guitars LOUDLY strumming.
We were playing a dance at a firehouse hall and these two clowns were loud and getting on my nerves. They were so locked into their world (they were also the singers) and there was no visual communication with me or the drummer.
We launch into a lonnnnggg version of "Takin' Care of Business", and of course they're not playing the actual guitar licks from the record, they're doing their infernal double strums.
At one point I had enough and unplugged my bass.
But, I still continued to "mime" playing as I moved around the stage, occasionally moving up to the guitarists to "get down" like we were all jamming.
None of them, drummer included, ever realized I wasn't plugged in for half the song.
I guess I made my point. Bass players are invisible...  |
I was in an all-girl band whose leader played that way. Drove us all NUTS!!! We had three, yes, three guitarists. The other two would learn the correct guitar lines, and this "leader" would just do the folkie double-strum. The other girls sat her down and showed her, repeatedly, how to strum correctly, but she refused to learn. And she roundly ignored both myself and our drummer. Hubby played for us for a while, and he refuses to play *anything* with the woman. She just ignores rhythm sections altogether.
GRRRRRR!!! She gave me the stinkeye one night and started complaining, and I just said, "Hey, why am I even here? Why don't the drummer and I just leave, and you can have a folk-fest?"
That shut her up. And then the band broke up.
Cherie
