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Originally Posted by JPG
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07-26-2020 08:58 AM
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- Gear snobs. A 5th Avenue was what I could afford. Plus it fits my hands really well. I tried a vintage L5... sounded good but didn’t fit me well enough to plunk down an extra six grand, even if I had it.
- People who can’t use their own equipment, or house equipment where they regularly sing/play. This is mostly at church, where the same four or five people who are otherwise pretty talented refuse to stop singing with the dynamic mic 2 feet away from their mouth, off-axis. Practice with the mic and sing off-axis close up or on-axis a little further back, whichever suits you. Same for a musician who doesn’t take the time to get there early and be part of the sound check, and then cannot mesh with the rest of the people playing.
- People who don’t take practice/sound check seriously.
sorry I sound cranky, but I guess my issues are all people related rather than gear related.
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
A chart should be like a good part drawing: easy to read. Similarly, many production drawings are technically correct, but a nightmare to read. Well laid out drawings result in fewer mistakes...same with a clear band chart. Think of the poor schmuck who has to read it. If it's clear, then the player can focus on making music rather than hanging on until the tune is over.
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The bass player ( now deceased ) in the big band I'm in was a great player and a great guy, bit he liked to play acoustically. The sax section would complain they couldn't hear him, he would respond then your playing too loud.
What ticked me off was the leader at the time asked, if they got a pickup for the bass could he plug in to my LoudBox Mini. I said no, the leader got upset and couldn't understand why. After all it was an amplifier.
I liked the bass player he was in his late 80's and was not going to buy an amplifier after playing for 70 years.
I bought a cheap stick on pickup for his bass and brought along my Sidekick 65 bass amp for the gigs. He left the band a couple years later because he just couldn't do it anymore. I have good memories of Don and was happy to help.
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Players/Owners who present guitars for tech-luthio work caked with a zoological mix of dead and (worse yet) living crud.
I mean on some you could chisel out the years of gray/brown who-knows-what on each side of each fret. Then scrape down the more recent layer of ooze everywhere else.
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Originally Posted by bohemian46
Audiences who clap without timing or rhythm drive me nuts, too, but remember: Many times audiences don't have a lot of musicians. They're not clapping in tempo because they don't know better (and crowds tend to rush tempo due to human nature anyway, humans can't help themselves). If they're clapping, they're enjoying your music, embrace it. I don't think it's a sign of disrespect, it's the opposite.
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Guitarists who when comping for me play extensions on the B and E strings.
NO
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Originally Posted by BBGuitar
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Two more:
1) Musicians (usually other guitarists) who don't tune up before the gig begins causing everyone to "wait a moment" before the first set starts.
2) Musicians (often other guitarists) who noodle around on their instrument while sitting on stage in between sets or before the first set starts.
Neither should be tolerated (and I don't), but I shouldn't have to be the one to tell them. This is pretty basic stuff that working musicians should already know.
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Originally Posted by bohemian46
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Originally Posted by benrosow
EDIT: I would say the preference on the Tele forum is for three-saddle bridges, however.
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Originally Posted by Gitterbug
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Originally Posted by benrosow
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Originally Posted by Gitterbug
But they all work shows, and that's a classic one for making everyone play loud apparently.
Drum technology changed... louder heads (synthetic) for instance - but then that's no excuse not to play with dynamics. We can have a little amplified lift on the guitar and bass to compensate (and it's fine not to hear the bass and guitar so much in the loud bits), but it gets silly.
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
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Originally Posted by Stringswinger
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Originally Posted by Jabberwocky
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Here's another.
I start twisting the time a little bit in my solo. Hemiolas, displacing sequences, something.
Bass player decides that's the signal for him to start a new career playing trombone lines in outer space.
Quiet space in my solo? By all means, everybody, fill it in with your own noodling.
And, if everybody is taking three choruses and I get quiet at the end of my first chorus and I don't look up, it may not be your turn to solo yet.
Another one:
Drum solo. Drummer twists the time. When he's absolutely certain nobody knows where One is anymore, the solo is a success.Last edited by rpjazzguitar; 07-28-2020 at 07:14 PM.
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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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Drum solos.
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Originally Posted by BBGuitar
I work in a really nice 18 piece big band. Most of the time I'm playing four to the bar. I would absolutely love to play in a big band that used "authentic" instrumentation for want of a better term. Drums that aren't super loud, amplified piano, bass and guitar. The dynamic range of the band would be so much greater. I end up having to play with an amp... which as many on the forum would know completely changes the feel for playing authentic big band rhythm guitar.
Most of the horn players in the band blast away and don't put nearly enough focus on dynamics. The fact the rhythm section is over-amplified doesn't help.
Even if I had something like a 19" Stromberg there's no way I'd have a hope of being heard with how loud the drums, piano and bass are.
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I've seen several junior big band videos where the guitarist plays a Strat. Blasphemy!
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Originally Posted by Gitterbug
Can anyone date this? goodwill epiphone
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