IS this a guitar forum anymore? 15.5k off topic discussions

Bridgehouse

Well, I have a fretboarder over this weekend. Like in real life and everything..

Iamnobody

I think OT is one of this forum's strengths. Like someone else said it's like a pub  - I'd add to that one for middle aged blokes who don't get out very often!

I include myself in that - although I'm just under forty so maybe not quite middle aged yet?

I was a member on the old intermusic forum but didn't post that often and used it probably more for the classifieds and guitar section. However, the back end of music radar and this place coincided with fatherhood for me. 

That's a massive moment for some people as your previous life goes on the back burner a bit. Nights out get less frequent, and when you do go out you can't role in at 3am and sleep it off the next day - because there's a kid jumping on your bed at 5am!

But with iPhone in hand you can come here still have a laugh, read about gear and although I'm not in a band anymore - I genuinely enjoy reading about others that are. The music forum has some decent links to new music, speakers corner allows us to be a bit silly and probably say the things we can't at home and work etc.

The classifieds are great but I'm imposing my own ban on buying and I've never had great success selling here. The U.K. builders section is brilliant - I've spent loads of time just reading threads and have ended up with a few items myself.


The beauty of OT for me is I can post a non guitar related discussion - perhaps a question about something. Now I could go to a gardening forum/motor forum etc and do the same. However, I value the opinions of a lot of people on here and their real world experience. In a lot of circumstances I'd be happier getting information and knowledge from here than elsewhere.

So for me, no - it's not a guitar forum. It's my forum of choice where I enjoy spending my time and value (on the whole) the membership.

jaytmon

I thought it was a motorbike forum.....

57Deluxe

is cos there are only so many: "Help Me Choose an Amp/Guitar/FX" or "Which Reverb" or "how do I post pictures?" threads you can take in the course of a lifetime...

breakstuff

Guitar is ONE subject.OT covers thousands.(very possibly a loop  )

Stands to reason it is so huge really.

scrumhalf

Bridgehouse said:

Well, I have a fretboarder over this weekend. Like in real life and everything..

So the chloroform worked?

digitalscream

To be fair, it seems more like a forum forum to me...

TheBlueWolf

I'd rather not talk to guitarists anyway. Bunch of reprobates

Bridgehouse

scrumhalf said:

Bridgehouse said:

Well, I have a fretboarder over this weekend. Like in real life and everything..

So the chloroform worked?

It's wearing off now...

octatonic

Drew_TNBD said:

For frame of reference, the people I consider to be my besties don't even post here anymore (I miss @randomhandclaps, @Deijavoo, and @frankus) and I have to keep my secret relationship with @digitalscream under wraps lest he experiences discrimination for dating a Drew - they don't like that sort of thing round here.

I dunno... not feeling very connected right now.

mike_l

octatonic said:

mike_l said:

A Fretwhore is one who sells his ass to obtain fret points. Not unlike @octatonic ;
Or
One who posts threads/posts in threads to blatantly get LOL's/Wisdoms/Wow's. Not unlike @octatonic ;

Meanie.

Again, not unlike @octatonic ;


Octatonic has a better beard though.

Rocker

Drew_TNBD said:

Agree with OP.

Remind me, when was the last time you posted anything about guitars.....

Funkfingers

Stop complaining. You could be on one of the American pickup forums, where most of the threads seem to be Off-Topic ones about cars, guns and scantily clad young females.

John_P

blacknblack said:

I really rate this forum and have had some excellent input from some enthusiastic and wonderfully knowledgable guitarist musicians.  But I do wonder where it's going ?

16.3k topics about guitars
15.5k off-topic posts

You can put up a genuine post about something relevant only for it to disappear forever under the volume of posts - never to be seen.

No critisicm of the forum organisers intended whatsoever.  But exactly how long will it be before Theresa May, motorbikes and <insert pointless topic of your choice> out rank posts about guitars?

Why are you only comparing guitar chat with off topic? 
Talking about gear and playing had 38k posts and selling gear has 39k posts.      Off topic at 15.5k seems like a reasonable proportion when it is meant to be a community as well as a nerdfest.  

Drew_TNBD

Rocker said:

Drew_TNBD said:

Agree with OP.

Remind me, when was the last time you posted anything about guitars.....

This morning I started a thread about an amp. The day before I was heavily into the boss ms3 fx thread. I contributed to the low tuning thread started by professor Ben. I put my bollocks on the line by exposing my vocal journey through a dedicated singing thread and many others where I post bits and bobs for feedback.

I'm pretty sure if you did the metrics my guitar, amps, effects, performance, and songwriting threads would vastly outweigh my off topic and speakers corner posts.

Now what have you done apart from endlessly ignore people when they correct you on scientific principles and audio compression?

Rocker

Ah c'mon my friend @Drew_TNBD, ; lighten up and smell the roses......

Drew_TNBD

Rocker said:

Ah c'mon my friend @Drew_TNBD, ; lighten up and smell the roses......

No. You've been atagonistic towards me for far too long. I don't accept your friendship, or your roses. Go to hell.

Drew_TNBD

blacknblack said:

Well that sounds promising.  How do I become old and wise?

When you become old and wise you'll know it. Because you'll look back on your life with regret and wonderment, thinking to yourself that you'd just love to cup that girls ass you see in the gym - even if she's half your age. You'll just leer at her though, thinking you're being subtle but of course you're being very obvious. You'll hate your job, and you'll regret that time when they offered redundancy but you didn't take it.

You'll dick about with the odd bit of guitar gear here and there. But the wife doesn't like it, and you'll kowtow to her demands and only sneak the cheapo Squier out of it's case every few weeks. You'll keep it all though, all that kit. No sense in selling everything and admitting to yourself the great failures of life.

So then you jump on a forum, so you can at least feel somewhat connected to music. You'll get sucked into the chatty areas though, and you'll start endless threads about peachy butts, quotes of the day, football and F1 racing, favourite animals, bad TV that you can't seem to ignore, and a whole cornocopia of lifeless and dull pursuits that go hand in hand with your thorough rejection of your true self.

Until one day regret pours over you like the scorn you have to live with. Only then will you be old and wise. Only then.

Legionreturns

That read like a checklist...

monquixote

I would have thought excessive regret indicates a lack of wisdom rather than the other way around.