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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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Corey Y said:
Good morning all, hope everyone had a good weekend.

The drummer I was supposed to jam with on Saturday emailed me at 10:50pm Friday night to cancel (and inform me he really doesn't even want to play drums anymore). Oh well, SOP at this point. I have a couple other guys and a couple guitarists who have emailed me since, so the search goes on.
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Then why did he even respond? I play drums too, but I'd rather not drum in a band right now - so I DON'T go around responding to drummer wanted ads. It's not that difficult to figure out.
 
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Lazarus.Bird said:
This would be pretty good for a practice PA system yeah?

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Seems like a really good deal, if everything works.


The_Janitor said:
Then why did he even respond? I play drums too, but I'd rather not drum in a band right now - so I DON'T go around responding to drummer wanted ads. It's not that difficult to figure out.
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I don't even know what the hell is going on anymore. It's gotten so crazy with people getting all enthused up front with me and flaking at the last second, I feel like I'm getting pranked. A couple people have posited theories to me about what they think is going on in the minds of these people, but I'm not speculating and I don't really get it. I've never done anything like this once in the last 17 years or so of playing in bands.
 
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You'd be shocked by how many people have zero clue how to move heavy things without injuring themselves. I routinely deliver large doors off the back of a flatbed truck with an A-frame type rack and I pretty much never lift anything. I just balance and pivot, construction guys routinely ignore my advice and get 4+ guys to move huge doors flat, struggling and hurting themselves. Every once in a while we get people who are willing to listen and are surprised by how easy it is to move things when you use your brain, instead of your back. I've got the same thing about cabs forever too. People running up to me asking if I need help moving an 810 or something. Nope, don't need help, because I'm not going kill myself trying to lift it. I just lean it onto the tailgate of my truck and tip it up.

It's not specialize knowledge, most people just don't stop and think before they do things. I've had people yell at me for standing around wasting time, while looking at something big that needed to be moved and thinking about easiest way to do it. Some people just think getting hurt is a sign of hard work, I guess. I want to be able to go into work the next day without being doped to the gills on pain killers, so I don't get it.
 
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Corey Y said:
You'd be shocked by how many people have zero clue how to move heavy things without injuring themselves. I routinely deliver large doors off the back of a flatbed truck with an A-frame type rack and I pretty much never lift anything. I just balance and pivot, construction guys routinely ignore my advice and get 4+ guys to move huge doors flat, struggling and hurting themselves. Every once in a while we get people who are willing to listen and are surprised by how easy it is to move things when you use your brain, instead of your back. I've got the same thing about cabs forever too. People running up to me asking if I need help moving an 810 or something. Nope, don't need help, because I'm not going kill myself trying to lift it. I just lean it onto the tailgate of my truck and tip it up.

It's not specialize knowledge, most people just don't stop and think before they do things. I've had people yell at me for standing around wasting time, while looking at something big that needed to be moved and thinking about easiest way to do it. Some people just think getting hurt is a sign of hard work, I guess. I want to be able to go into work the next day without being doped to the gills on pain killers, so I don't get it.
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Hell, I don't get THIS. Please explain how it would be better to do ANYTHING not doped up to the gills on painkillers.
 
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Lazarus.Bird said:
'oly cah, what was wrong with it that it needed $500 worth of work? Glad I didn't buy it, cause I wouldn't have been able to get the nice repair discount.
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nothing major but a lot of little things. Frets were really uneven, one of the truss rods needed a lot of work, bridge saddles needed filling down so did the nut since I am using a heavier gauge for a lower tuning. Plus I swapped the pickup and added all 500K pots.
 
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So some country pop turd named Luke Bryan played Pittsburgh this weekend and 50,000 attended. Lots of ridiculous drunken debauchery and trash and litter EVERYWHERE. Not as bad as Kenny Chesney last year but still a complete embarrassment. At least the new progress and proactive mayor said enough is enough and he's going to start holding the promoters and artists responsible for this crap.

So in honor of real country music, I'm listening to Hank 3 all day. I really do enjoy his country stuff, but his Sleep stuff is pretty fun too:
 
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Corey Y said:
A bit non sequitur, but that reminds me of a line from the chapter I was reading last night out of American Gods. Something like "in this world, where opiates have become the religion of the masses".

No moral to the story, I just liked the word play.
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Nice word play on the orignal quote by Marx (I believe) who said "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
 

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