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In a few words, how does this make you feel?? Warning: Disturbing Content.
- Thread starter DChalo
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Smashing up anything for fun or laughs is pointless and idiotic. Is it funny if the same little turd burger keys someones car? Or kicks your letter box in? Or a million other pointless acts of vandalism just for laughs? If it was an adult busting up his own stuff, i would think he was a total d***, but hey, his property. He's a kid. He has no business treating any property as though it was rubbish. Doesnt matter if its a $2 item or a $2000 item. Same thing. Someone paid for it, so you damn well look after it and treat it with respect.
Old woman rant over.
Old woman rant over.
It's kind of funny. My high school had an old Univox ES335 copy that was donated to the music department. Sadly, the Arts Department faculty thought the guitar was too valuable to let the students play unless under STRICT supervision. I didn't take lessons at school but was always playing with bands and friends in the designated practice spaces. Regardless of how much interest I showed I was never allowed to play the thing. So, I don't always buy the 'donate' argument.
Interesting. My high school had a Korean Cort P bass copy and we beat that thing like a bad mule.
Mind you when I say "beat," we used it heavily, we didn't abuse it. It made an appearance at every jazz band rehearsal until the other bassist retired and it was just me, and it went on two tours- one to Tokyo and one to San Francisco.
When I think about my high school I was lucky. The school had a music program and the resources to at least buy a $150 instrument. The reason the "donate" option appeals to me is that many schools who have the music program but not the resources to buy gear could really put it to work the way we did the old white Cort P.
But then again, this is the Gigs and Humor forum so what I am really trying to say is that these whipper snappers should have doused those basses in BBQ starter fluid and ignited them if they wanted to impress me.
;-)
spoiled suburban brats. products of postmodern society. respect nothing. Can't stand the lot of them.
If my dad ever caught me doing anything like that First, I'd have to fix it, then, he'd break it during the whooping he'd give me with it. But I swear, I'd feel so bad about it myself I'd probably go to confession.
If my dad ever caught me doing anything like that First, I'd have to fix it, then, he'd break it during the whooping he'd give me with it. But I swear, I'd feel so bad about it myself I'd probably go to confession.
This thread proves that you can be old and still be as immature as any 12 year old.
wasteful
their is a kid out there who cant afford but want a bass..donate it don't destroy it
their is a kid out there who cant afford but want a bass..donate it don't destroy it
The First one
ok abit of mindless destruction but this is were you would make cheap stage props to destroy not your gear
Second
No idea
ok abit of mindless destruction but this is were you would make cheap stage props to destroy not your gear
Second
No idea
Hmm. It turns out that we've been talking about videos that are at least 7 and 5 years old, respectively. That's just based on the dates posted, and the videos may be older than that.
These boys are adults now, and may be doing just fine. If there was a price to pay, they've long since paid it.
These boys are adults now, and may be doing just fine. If there was a price to pay, they've long since paid it.
To be honest, the kid looks pretty damn sad - as if He messed up really bad or someone in the audience was teasing him throughout the entire song.
No, I don't say that it's a reason to smash a perfectly fine bass - that is NEVER ok imho - but still... The ways of the youth has been looked upon with dismay and
horror since the days of Socrates ("The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.")
During a performance I'll hold judgement-what is the artist trying to say? The kid in the first vid looked sheepish & hesitated before he took a swing, & looked like he regretted it. Weak.
Now, I can relate to some - maybe not all - of the reasons Mingus broke his basses, & the Clash's album cover is worth the damage done to the instrument.
Kinda dumb to destroy any instrument that's still functional; if you're not happy with it sell it or donate it to a charity/school program. Call me what you will but I couldn't help but feel that when Jimi Hendrix and The Who would trash their gear that it was pointless and moronic.
And yet people still talk about it many years after the fact. Maybe not so pointless.
My guess, since I wasn't around back when it happened, is that it was novel and new to audiences to see musicians destroy equipment onstage. Still doesn't make it any less wasteful and pointless to me, and thankfully destroying gear onstage isn't primarily what they are known for.
If it's not a thing already we should start a free instrument program to take donations and buy instruments to spread across the globe.
I know there have been various initiatives to do such a thing, though I'm not sure how successful any of them are/were. Any time I know someone who is going to Cuba (a popular destination for Montrealers) I ask if the person would mind taking some strings (or straps or cables) to donate to musicians there. I know that Janek Gwizdala had a used string program going for a while but that seems to have disappeared.
If it's a $150 POS Ibby, who cares? If it's a $2000 custom model, who cares? It's not your bass, he may have a summer job or a lemonade stand, and his dream was to purchase a bass with his money and smash it . That's his choice. Music in itself is silly and pointless in a bare-bones practical sense. His dad may want to live out his rock and roll fantasy through the kid and asked him to smash the bass for him. So, we don't know what the kid was up to, how he got the bass... It sure sounds like it's none of our business. If the show sucked and you were there, then that's the business you might have. Otherwise, who knows and who cares?
Kid in first video was awkward and pretentious. Meh. The second video reminds me of a time I was walking to work while in grad school and a bunch of frat guys were offering passerbys an opportunity to smash up a piano on the sidewalk with a sledge hammer for five bucks. I think it was some sort of fund raiser. The whole situation was a black hole for IQ points, but it wasn't the end of the world.
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