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School of rock?

#9
School Of Rock! Haha! Great movie. Off topic but the drummer from the movie lives around my area I live right now. A couple years back my buddy played in one of those drum offs at guitar center. Right before the contest started all my buds and I were jammin' in the keyboard section. That drummer from the movie came in to the keyboard section and started "jammin'" with us. He did not fit in at all. In fact it just sounded horrible. We all looked at each other,laughed, then walked away. Sorry to ramble but this thread just brought that memory up. Oh, for those who care his try at the contest was not good at all. He was the only one to use a cowbell with a foot pedal. Good time had by all. Sorry if you had time to waste to read this.
 
#10
MattAT said:
School Of Rock! Haha! Great movie. Off topic but the drummer from the movie lives around my area I live right now. A couple years back my buddy played in one of those drum offs at guitar center. Right before the contest started all my buds and I were jammin' in the keyboard section. That drummer from the movie came in to the keyboard section and started "jammin'" with us. He did not fit in at all. In fact it just sounded horrible. We all looked at each other,laughed, then walked away. Sorry to ramble but this thread just brought that memory up. Oh, for those who care his try at the contest was not good at all. He was the only one to use a cowbell with a foot pedal. Good time had by all. Sorry if you had time to waste to read this.
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Ummm....how old is that kid? I think that has to be factored in a little bit. My guess is that as long as he doesn't quite he will be amazingly good by the time he's as old as me.

But if you feel better ragging on him I guess no one here should make you stop. Proceed....
 
#15
I still dont understand why they needed to use such... odd.. basses for the movie. All of the guitars were pretty average, why not a P bass or something?

But it is one of my all time favorite movies, so its all good.
 
#16
J. Crawford said:
I still dont understand why they needed to use such... odd.. basses for the movie. All of the guitars were pretty average, why not a P bass or something?

But it is one of my all time favorite movies, so its all good.
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This puzzled me too. Given that Gibson had a tie-in to the movie, they wouldn't have put a Fender in the kids hands (although there were at least 2 p-basses and one telecaster that you could see in other bands in the movie). I don't blame them for not using a Gibson bass - (a heavy Les Paul wouldn't have made sense). But why not an Epiphone or two - even the EB-O which would have echoes Jack Balck's SG
 
#17
Just watched this movie for the tenth (or whatever) time last night. The movie is nearly flawless. But...

They should've given that poor girl a bass solo at the end! Or at least a solo fill. :hmm:
 
#18
smperry said:
Just watched this movie for the tenth (or whatever) time last night. The movie is nearly flawless. But...

They should've given that poor girl a bass solo at the end! Or at least a solo fill. :hmm:
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I agree that Katie deserved a nice fill or two but that is one of the things that makes the movie feel so nearly flawless - the bass player gets taken for granted :hmm:. I once had a guitarist say to me "Just sit on the E," just like in Katie's introduction to the bass.
 

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