stupid things non musicians say

[C2james]

hope this thread hasnt been done before but i thought it would be cool if we had one.

im just watching U2 at glastonbury:

mum: thats a strange guitar, why has it only got four strings?
me: its a bass
mum: oh

any good ones from you guys?

[Mr Gearchange]

How about a "Incredibly condescending things musos say?"

[C2james]

Mr Gearchange said:

How about a "Incredibly condescending things musos say?"

i have been playing guitar for 11 years and she has been to loads of gigs and has had me talking about guitars and showing her pictures for absoulutely years though.

[hesnotthemessiah]

Why do they have three people on the guitar?

[Asterix]

hesnotthemessiah said:

Why do they have three people on the guitar?

They should have seen the early Skynyrd shows then.

[Mastodon2]

"Why have more than one guitar? How can you need more than one?" - How many things are wrong with this statement?

"They are just screaming into the microphone" - ok, go back to sleep.

"Fast playing has no emotion" - because slow blues playing with lots of bent and held notes has more "soul" right? Because "emotion" can be quantified, and has a correlation with the speed of the music too

[davepoth]

Mr Gearchange said:

How about a "Incredibly condescending things musos say?"

"It's just Like Spinal Tap"

[Asterix]

davepoth said:

Mr Gearchange said:

How about a "Incredibly condescending things musos say?"

"It's just Like Spinal Tap"

Have you been on the road in/with a band?

[davepoth]

Asterix said:

Have you been on the road in/with a band?

Yes; long enough to realise that the fact that being on the road with a band is so much like Spinal Tap that there isn't really any point mentioning it, since everyone is already thinking exactly the same thing.

We once had a drummer who hadn't seen it. He got fired.

[Asterix]

Good stuff

Just wanted to make sure.

[davepoth]

davepoth said:

We once had a drummer who hadn't seen it. He got fired.

And I just realised I accidentally did an awesome pun.

[Ali2202]

C2james said:

hope this thread hasnt been done before but i thought it would be cool if we had one.

im just watching U2 at glastonbury:

mum: thats a strange guitar, why has it only got four strings?
me: its a bass
mum: oh

any good ones from you guys?

Jaysus, Just how ROCK are your Family?

[Asterix]

davepoth said:

davepoth said:

We once had a drummer who hadn't seen it. He got fired.

And I just realised I accidentally did an awesome pun.

Stumpy had a good smell though.

[tank slapper]

It annoys me when people say something builds to a crescendo. No you fool, a crescendo is the actual building not where it ends up.

[GetCarter]

davepoth said:

We once had a drummer who hadn't seen it. He got fired.

I once did a gig in a theatre in London, and I kid you not, we got lost trying to find the stage.. and yes we could hear the audience above. To make matters worse, the drummer was Marc Parnell, brother of Ric (one of the Spinal Tap drummers - the druggie one - and yes it runs in the family). When Marc tapped his sticks up against the wall and shouted "Rock 'n Roll" It was too much to bear. I started that gig with tears of laughter rolling down my face.

ETA as for "incredibly condescending things musos say"... Did you hear about the string quartet that went to play a gig in Washington D.C. and came straight back again? (Nout wrong with a bit of elitist humour)

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 25th June 06:49