Are there any musicians on this forum?

Drew_TNBD

Just curious like! I'll settle for a chiropractor who plays sonata's on a pair of rib-cages!

guitarfishbay

Given the rep of musicians round here, I don't think they can afford the internet connection charges.

holnrew

Not me.

Gassage

I can play cowboy chords.

stickyfiddle

Depends what level of musician you mean, or whether it's a euphemism for something I'm not aware of!

I play sax and piano, though not anywhere near as well as I did when I was 18.

guitarfishbay

I thought this was a parody thread of the recruitment thread?  Is it for reals?

Drew_TNBD

guitarfishbay said:

I thought this was a parody thread of the recruitment thread?  Is it for reals?

Hootsmon

no musicians just metalheads

Hootsmon

jd0272

FFS put a different photo up. Them white laces make ye look like you need some sort of intervention.

According to some forums, I'm a semi pro. So yeah. Although I don't see how turning up at places that serves The Booze and twatting out some chords makes me a Semi Anything really.

breakstuff

I own several guitars but to call me a musician would be one hell of a stretch of the imagination.

I'm more of a noise polluter.

Fretwired

Define what you mean by musician.

I'd have thought there were loads on this forum ... bang out a tune or two on a guitar and you're a musician.

d8m

I'm Jimmy Page. You rumbled me!

capo4th

All the gear no idea

guitarfishbay

Drew_fx said:

guitarfishbay said:

I thought this was a parody thread of the recruitment thread?  Is it for reals?

Stop putting illegal parody bullshit in the serious forums.  It is just not cool.

guitarfishbay

>:D<

guitarfishbay

So apparently you can put links in smileys.  

Sambostar

Used to be for all of seven years until I was 22 or so and realised that the game was about entertainment and absolutely nothing to do with music or musicianship, then kind of lost my way with it.   Since then, after a ten year break I have just been seeking the perfect tone.  It mostly comes down to holding one note for three hours with my ears against the cabinet when I finally hit a sweet spot, weather, temperature and humidity, ears and mood dependant. Have all the chops and can shred alright to playing Texas Blues, to me it 's more a way to unwind and if creativity comes through tone then fine, but I do it for myself not others and get pissed off when people tell me I should perform as I'm really good, because there are a gazzilion others who are more consistent and better and who actually want to perform for starters. 

Is still lots of fun to play with others, but not really into performing and creative element of it so much as it's so time consuming and money wasting.  Although I like excuses to crank the amp. I just like losing myself playing whatever.  Most usually on my own.

Do have much respect for fellas such as yourself who still have the motivation and enthusiastic energy to change or think they cabn change the world, to create new spaces and new dimensions and do it though.  But you see, since I acknowledged to myself when I was just a lad that the sun already started to implode millions of years ago, before I was born even, so we were all doomed as a species anyway, I thus found it incredibly difficult to see the point or the urgency in it.

The way I look at it is like this, it's the difference between being born able to draw and paint and actually working at it and being creative and creating new spaces and things.  That is the difference from being able to play, even very well and being a musician.

Besides I found a creative outlet in my job, so I don't need that outlet so much.  If I worked in an office all day, I'd probably be performing and creating for sure, mostly I just enjoy the tone of the thing though.  No seriously, if I worked in an office all day I would have done myself in years ago, I couldn't take that.

Waaaaah, just give me the money, I can't even be fooked to be creative in my job anymore, there is more money in landscape maintenance.  Truth is that I'm too old and too lazy and too shit.

richardhomer

Absolutely not - I just own a few guitars and related paraphernalia to give the impression to visitors that I'm a muso. I can't play a note....

Sambostar

Well I do at least play all my guitars or masturbate with them and each is highly selectively put together from scratch or modified to be a specific tone machine with specific tonal qualities that I require of it. 

I can't understand buying tools, because that is what they are, and not using them, although in fairness I guess there are a lot on here who have state of the art lawnmowers and just polish them, whilst I use a self propelled 56cm and get through maybe 10 acres a week of lawns between other things.  Makes me feel better about myself that.  Still nice things aren't bad at least of you can afford them and aspire to play them, so long as you do, aspire that is.

Who I am, the pompous fool, to judge anyway, the sun is gonna implode in 10,000 years and no one will remember or care about us even in a hundred so what the hell.  Although understanding sarcasm never was my strong point. 

Anyway, the semi-pro musicians on here probably look at me, lower down the food chain and think twat anyway so it's all good.

scrumhalf

In the kingdom of non-musicians, the bedroom guitarist is king.