Hahahaha, I saw this video on youtube and I had to share.

Luckily these boards and the surf scene in general aren't filled with these types of guitar players. In fact, for the most part, our community strives to be as supportive as possible. We can get jerky with our approved gear, though.

Enjoy!

Discuss?

I confess that I have played "competitively" in the past when I was a young buck and felt an immature need to dominate a fellow guitarist rather than collaborate, because he seemed to me to be "wussy" and unable to"bring it".

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Oh Johnny Mosrite,
You did exactly what the guy said not to do, you took it seriously.

Hey guys, it's ok, he's from New York............

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Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?

So much of this is spot on. I am laughing uncomfortably. Most of these, to my experience, seem way more common among non-working hobbyists and/or cover artists(cough...Bruce Duncan..cough...cough...).

My experience, which is admitedly clouded by spending so many years in the unusual community that is the surf community, is that I don't see nearly as much of this as friends that play metal and such do. This isn't really much of a competative genre. But I have seen one too many comments on here at times concentrating on the quality of someones gear or commenting on technical skill while ignoring songwriting ability.

To this day, if I had one complaint about the fantastic all surf events we have the priviledge to play, it would be those in the front that soend more time watching my hands or stearing at my gear than they do actually listening to the music, which is where our pride is centered.

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eddiekatcher wrote:

Years back when I was in the Army stationed in Arlington, VA, I had the "pleasure" of visiting a music store up there that kept most of the amps in a glass enclosed, semi-sound proof "demonstration room." At that time, I hated it. You had to request entrance, have an employee unlock the room and chaperone you. Now I am wondering if maybe, just maybe, those guys figured it out early.

Boy those were the days...most small music stores by me are completely gone, and you are left with Guitar Center. Of those, only one I know of in the entire 50-60 mile radius has a very small room where you can try an amp in private. All the rest of them...complete free for all of musical chaos. Now that doesn't mean all the people there are jerk players, but once the egos start raising the volumes of the amps...well, you know what happens next

I remember once trying a Fender amp at a Sam Ash store. Whenever I try something out, I always try to play as quietly as possible so I don't bother people. There was some dude about 20' away from me trying a small tube amp, possible a Blues Jr, who was definitely not trying to be as quiet as possible. Well, all I had to do was strum my guitar once or twice and this guy started getting more frantic and louder in his one note bend he kept doing....wah...wahhh....wahhhhhh!!!! I actually found it kind of funny and was trying not to laugh, but he was trying to tell me in a not so subtle way that my mere strumming was apparently stealing the thunder from his one-note bend!

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And tip number 11: Always criticise the sound guy at gigs. Bonus points for doing it over the mic and blaming him for making you sound bad.

Seen this done a few times and it never fails to impress.

I like the 'always criticise, never compliment' tip. I'm reminded of a saying: "Blowing out the other candle does not make yours shine brighter"

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da-ron wrote:

And tip number 11: Always criticise the sound guy at gigs. Bonus points for doing it over the mic and blaming him for making you sound bad.

Seen this done a few times and it never fails to impress.

Speaking as a sound guy, I would definitely recommend that you do this. After all, it's not like I can respond by totally wrecking you gig or anything, is it?

To be fair, in my experience, most musicians are very appreciative of my efforts on their behalf, especially if I make it possible for them to actually hear what they need to hear.

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da-ron wrote:

Support band nobbled by the main band's sound guy - does that still happen..?!

Depends on the sound guy, I guess. At big gigs the support often seem to get less good sound, but that may be as much to do with having less soundcheck time, I imagine.

Many years ago, in my jangly indie days, my band played a fairly prestigious (by our standards, at least, gig) and took our own engineer along. The headliners' engineer definitely told our guy to not mix us "too loud" (ie they had to sound more impressive than us). And this band were friends of ours. In the event, both bands sounded pretty damn good, so no worries really.

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