Do Gutiarists Just Pretend To Set Up?

[petrus61]

I find that the problems increase exponentially when a second guitarist is added to the equation. It's not that they're lousy players or lack a sense of good tone, but that they very often have trouble making it work against other guitars/amps.

Not true for all of course.

 

[Unprofessional]

...I also have a guitarist who frequently forgets cords, and on occasion even a pick. I've taken to telling him I don't have any even when I do have spares in my gigbag. The same guitarist always wants to 'tune by ear' on stage rather than use a frickin' tuner. In practice last week I said "Take 10 bucks and go buy a clip on at GC, there's no excuse to not have a tuner." to which he said "oh. I do have one. It's at home". HE'S NEVER EVER BROUGHT IT OUT. Completely bush league.

That is so very accurate it's scary and inducing flashbacks.
I'll add one more item: guitarist who owns 6 or 7 guitars and NO AMPS. He's constantly begging combos off of the lead guitarist or others. Message to guitarists: Please stop enabling this kind of childish crap behavior.

 

[Terracite]

Do guitarists just pretend to setup?

Two guits in my band. One plays a tele direct to a combo, the other is an acoustic direct to the board. They are always last to be ready.

 

[Woofer]

Unfortunately, I know way too many guitarists that aren't pretending to set up. If they put as much thought into their timing as they did staring at their pedal boards, tweaking their PRS's and tube rolling, the world would be a much better place.


Don't even get me started on "sonic space"

Your guitarist wouldn't be named 'Tim', would he? Matches the description of my old guitard to a 'T'.