Compliments you don't like!

[lousybassplayer]

maybe just apet peeve of mine, but when I get one of those "used to..." compliments I get pissed. "Nice amp, I used to have one like it" or "Thats how my old bassist used to play that..."

The unanswered question is always, why doesn't this condition exist any more?

 

[scsm]

For my own originals I write it irritates me when people say

"Wow that sounds just like [insert your favorite band]!!!"

To me that just means I'm not creative and just successfully rip my favorite bands off.

 

[Vagabond]

"You play guitar really well!"
"Um, this is a bass..."
"Whatever!"

 

[MKoby]

Does stupid irritating stuff count?

"Dude!!You were like, ughhh,...........almost in tune!!"
(perhaps your ear is flat??)

 

[zulujack]

"Your bass sounds very nice... what rig are you using?" Makes me think that my playing sucks but at least I have a good tone dialed in.

 

[vegas532]

If one more person in my lifetime says "you play really well for a handicapped/crippled guy", I'll be looking for a location to bury a body. Exactly what kind of a compliment does the aforementioned idiot think this is going to be before it leaves his lips?

And yes, it's happened many times!

 

[caeman]

"You looked good up there."

Um, well, I was hoping for "You sounded great!"

 

[Robster22]

With the greatest respect to the Nashville Guys, but being told "you're a good country player", wasn't something I was longing to hear.

I confess, for many years I too was guilty of a somewhat derogatory mindset towards three note country bass players...that was, until the day I heard Mickey Gilleys bass man on an Austin City Limits show...

I learned to play that same hard driving style and (like Mickeys bass man) have tried to change a few opinions along the way.
Unfortunately there's a good deal of musical snobbery out there...there are also some smoking country bassplayers with rock backgrounds who can play the socks off many of todays root pounders, and hold their own with anyone.

 

[Munjibunga]

"That was really great."

 

[Chuck King]

Left-handed compliments.... It's almost funny sometimes to watch friends who just don't get it try to come up with something that is both (a) honest and (b) compimentary. A couple favorites:

"You looked like you were having a good time up there." (Not a bad thing, but it was the "this is all I can come up with" feeling with which it was said.)

"Wow, you were a lot less loud than last time."

 

[BBBruno]

That's an easy one: WOW! You're really good- FOR A LEFTY!

 

[Jerry Ziarko]

Someone once turned to me while using the restroom in a club and said, "Dude, you rock on the drums". Idiot!

 

[Quadruple Jay]

When large, gruff men tell me I "got some perdy lookin' jeans on there".

 

[cassanova]

"That was really great."

Yeah, I hate that one the most when I hear it too.

 

[Steveaux]

"WOW ... for a bunch of old guys, you really rock !!"

Ouch.

 

[Joe Black]

I've had people tell me things like "this is much more valid artistically than that crunkcore nonsense" and "this could develop into something incredibly avant-garde". That not only hurts, it also makes me wonder if I'm making some horrible mistake I'm not aware of. At least with my originals band I can brush it off with "I don't care, I just work here", but when people say this stuff about my redneck crunkcore project or my past redneck black metal band?

What I MUST know is what could possibly be more artistically valid and avant garde than redneck crunkcore and redneck black metal?

 

[pklima]

"You were great dancing with the bass!" is one I got last week that would probably piss a lot of people off. I don't mind, though, I know I move more on stage than everyone else in this band put together...

What I MUST know is what could possibly be more artistically valid and avant garde than redneck crunkcore and redneck black metal?

Wigger slam, perhaps? I think someone needs to invent wigger crabcore!