Members d03nut Posted March 15, 2006 Members Posted March 15, 2006 Ahem........ How I despise your high-fiving the front-counter clerk entry (who only does so -albeit embarrassingly- 'cause he happens to be your cousin). How I hate your pathetic attempts to chat it up with every salesman in sight in your best "rock star stance" while still not gettin' it. You're being ignored. How ridiculous you look when you're trying your juvenile by the "tab" book & instructional video riffing mimicry. How you crave attention, yet oddly enough, you probably suffer from ADD yourself. It's not a competition. How I hate your idiot girlfriend with the sheepish smile sitting next to you who'll dump you for the salesman in a minute 'cause he's got like longer hair and you don't know it. How you must have gotten past knowing how to count to 10 only 'cause luckily for you, you bought an amp that goes 1 beyond. Did I mention your hairdo? Every damn time, I find me a nice acoustic and some quiet you have to come in and ruin it for me. I know you're here. I've seen your "gosh gee-wheez what shall I buy, smiley faces-filled "contributions" to the HC. Turn down the volume when there are others in the store, you little piece of s*** mofo. p.s. one from the "pulled" thread archives (modified), which I just had to repost. It happened to me again.
Members Queequeg Posted March 15, 2006 Members Posted March 15, 2006 so bitter. so angry. so Spot On.
Members tiger roach Posted March 15, 2006 Members Posted March 15, 2006 Yeah, I know those guys.They provide a service you know. They help the rest of us hold on to our money by making store visits such a trial.
Members Queequeg Posted March 15, 2006 Members Posted March 15, 2006 that's why I won't shop @ Guitar Center any more. they seem to encourage this nonsense, and believe their acoustic rooms make it all OK. it doesn't.
Members DenverDave Posted March 15, 2006 Members Posted March 15, 2006 Thats why I like stopping in at GC in the middle of the week, around 11:30 AM. Almost no one around and I can actually hear myself playing stuff! I just don't get that time available very often. Weekends are plain torture....
Members JasmineTea Posted March 15, 2006 Members Posted March 15, 2006 A rich kid left his pearl colored strat-copy in the back of my pickup without a case. I did'nt realize it for a couple weeks. In those days getting a DUI was unheard of. I also drank a lot in those days, and sometimes would jump the truck over the RR tracks at 50 or so mph late at night.
Members miken Posted March 15, 2006 Members Posted March 15, 2006 And to make matters worse summer's coming. You won't even be able to make the 11:30am visit to GC or Sam Ask work for you. I understand how kids can be, but it seems like the stores actually cater to it.
Members d03nut Posted March 16, 2006 Author Members Posted March 16, 2006 And so.......I'm not alone. Let's get him...............
Members kwakatak Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 That's when I go to the amp right next to him, pick up a Les Paul or a fat Strat (no Ibanezes for me, I prefer the real deal) and I break into some Santana-esque playing. Not the new stuff mind you, I'm talking about Europa, Samba Pa Ti, etc. You know, stuff with an actual melody. Not this wanking {censored} that these kids do nowadays. If I'm feeling particularly testy, I'll attempt to play November Rain, solos and all - and even wail out the lyrics in my best Axl Rose, cat-in-a-blender affectation! After all, my only real joy in life is {censored}ing with people!
Members Hudman Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 Originally posted by kwakatak That's when I go to the amp right next to him, pick up a Les Paul or a fat Strat (no Ibanezes for me, I prefer the real deal) and I break into some Santana-esque playing. Not the new stuff mind you, I'm talking about Europa, Samba Pa Ti, etc. You know, stuff with an actual melody. Not this wanking {censored} that these kids do nowadays. If I'm feeling particularly testy, I'll attempt to play November Rain, solos and all - and even wail out the lyrics in my best Axl Rose, cat-in-a-blender affectation! After all, my only real joy in life is {censored}ing with people! I do pretty much the same thing. I grab a Strat and crank up a tube amp near him. Sometimes I will play some pop / easy listening stuff (John Mayer, Ani Difranco, Sheryl Crow, Hoobastank, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, etc) or country stuff (Brad Paisly, Keith Urban, Montgomery Gentry, Johnny Cash, Nickel Creek, etc) at high volume just to piss them off. Pop and country. They hate that {censored}. I force myself to learn a variety of different music. It comes in handy at Guitar Center.The Hendrix, SRV and Cream stuff I enjoy the most just invites them to ask a bunch of retarded questions. A couple bars of John Mayer's Daughters and they are gone in a hurry. Funny stuff.I'm evil too....
Members Cldplytkmn Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 here in knoxville i run into that stuff in the acoustic room at GC... it bothers me even more than the wankers in the main room... some kid takes his girlfriend in there cause he just learned how to tune a guitar to DADADD and crank out some dashboard confessional... i'm usually sitting there playing some ryan adams or something... my tactic is that as soon as they start, i just put the guitar up and leave, maybe they'll put 1 and 1 together.
Members kwakatak Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 Originally posted by Cldplytkmn here in knoxville i run into that stuff in the acoustic room at GC... it bothers me even more than the wankers in the main room... some kid takes his girlfriend in there cause he just learned how to tune a guitar to DADADD and crank out some dashboard confessional... i'm usually sitting there playing some ryan adams or something... my tactic is that as soon as they start, i just put the guitar up and leave, maybe they'll put 1 and 1 together. +1 But in my case a couple of 13 y.o. skateboarders came into the "high end" room and proceeded to wank on a Martin and a banjo a little too hard just to be funny. Judging by all the broken strings that were dangling of some other guitars in that room I could tell that it hadn't been the first time that this kind of {censored} was allowed to happen. As if lack of proper humidification and lots of dead strings wasn't bad enough!
Members JasmineTea Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 Originally posted by d03nut And so.......I'm not alone. Let's get him............... What should we do? Do we start a gang of acoustic guitar thugs? We'll ride our mopeds into the parking lot, walk in the door and take over the acoustic room. Don't EVEN f*ck with us...
Members Cldplytkmn Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 my favorite story from GC is when i was in the high end acoustic room, and this guy walks in with his girlfriend... i spotted them a mile away and knew that something bad would happen... the guy walks in, grabs a 60's hummingbird off the wall (probably cause his girlfriend thought it was cute) and turns around and DING- i think we all know the noise of an acoustic guitar hitting something- he swings it right into a nice martin, i forget if it was a 35 or 42 or what... he checks the damage, puts the bird back up and walks out. i figured that nothing had happened, but the dude put a pretty serious dent in the binding of the bird and the top of the martin... and knowing GC they'll still get sold as brand new and if the buyer doesn't notice the damage they won't get told about it. children.
Members knockwood Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 What I do, I usually visit git stores with a friend and we pretend not to know each other. When one of these dildos starts the routine, the friend picks up the nearest git and mimics this exact behavior. That's when I take out a .45 and blast the friend in the face. The dildo usually takes the hint and the acoustic room clears out pretty fast. In NYC you can hear the sirens from quite a ways off. I can usually get in about five minutes of decent uninterrupted playing before I have to haul ass. I used to do this more often, but I don't have as many friends as I once did.
Members hempomatic Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 Originally posted by Queequeg that's why I won't shop @ Guitar Center any more. they seem to encourage this nonsense, and believe their acoustic rooms make it all OK. it doesn't. I was in GC last week and some guy walked into the acoustic room and plugged in his electric. He said it was "too noisy out there". He started wailin on the Les Paul that he had plugged into an acoustic amp. So much for trying to tune up!
Members Hudman Posted March 16, 2006 Members Posted March 16, 2006 Originally posted by knockwood What I do, I usually visit git stores with a friend and we pretend not to know each other. When one of these dildos starts the routine, the friend picks up the nearest git and mimics this exact behavior. That's when I take out a .45 and blast the friend in the face. The dildo usually takes the hint and the acoustic room clears out pretty fast. In NYC you can hear the sirens from quite a ways off. I can usually get in about five minutes of decent uninterrupted playing before I have to haul ass. I used to do this more often, but I don't have as many friends as I once did. Move to Detroit. Lot's of new friends to chose from and the cops never show up.
Members tim8287 Posted March 18, 2006 Members Posted March 18, 2006 Originally posted by Hudman Move to Detroit. Lot's of new friends to chose from and the cops never show up. Now thats funny right there. I don't care who you are, thats funny!! --Tim
Members brothertupelo Posted March 18, 2006 Members Posted March 18, 2006 man, everywhere i go, some douchebag has something to say. just because i am within earshot, doesn't mean i give a {censored} what you have to say. doesn't matter what i'm doing, there's someone there who's smarter than me and has to tell me exactly what i'm about to do, or how i'm doing it. who the {censored} are you, what business of yours is it, and why are you such a tool? luckily, i'm losing my hearing from years of playing too loudly in guitar centers across the country.
Members JasmineTea Posted March 18, 2006 Members Posted March 18, 2006 Originally posted by brothertupelo man, everywhere i go, some douchebag has something to say. just because i am within earshot, doesn't mean i give a {censored} what you have to say. doesn't matter what i'm doing, there's someone there who's smarter than me and has to tell me exactly what i'm about to do, or how i'm doing it. who the {censored} are you, what business of yours is it, and why are you such a tool? luckily, i'm losing my hearing from years of playing too loudly in guitar centers across the country. Life sucks, get it over with man.
Members Treborklow Posted March 18, 2006 Members Posted March 18, 2006 Wow... I thought it was just me. I used to tell my wife that I must look like a talent scout or record producer because every time I'm in GC people audition for me. They go out of their way to grab a guitar and quicky dash out some nonsence before I can leave the room. They don't even take the time to tune. Hurry hear my fumbled version of Blackbird before you leave! It's bad enough hearing the free instumental concerts at GC but I really hate it when two friends camp out in the acoustic room and -do their show- and actually SING along with their playing. It's very embarrassing to witness as they are never any good, and you can tell they think they are hot snit. It's funny and embarrassing actually. Again, why bother me with your no talent, I don't carry any contracts with me and if I wanted to hear you I'd go see you at your high school talent show. Heck even your girlfriends look bored.
Members MaxHills Posted March 18, 2006 Members Posted March 18, 2006 as much as i hate it... i have learned to deal with the loud players.. because its so funny to laugh at them.. they ALLL suck... all of them.. so i sit back and laugh as they play their really horrid version the newest metallica song.... but what is bad... is when you play something at a nice quiet volume.. in the vox amp section.. usually farthest from the Crates or line 6 or whatever has the most effects possible built in... because havent you heard? thats what everyone plays now... and some guy comes and says hey bro how do you play that? or walks by and says hey mannn sounds good i just wanna say.. yea well i didnt come here to get your opinion so get lost... but in much more obscene words.. that i am too scared to write on a forum
Members Stophe88 Posted March 18, 2006 Members Posted March 18, 2006 i was in gc once w/ a friend, and a friend of that friend walked in... and this guy is pretty good so some jackass(with his gf!) cranks it up and starts playing the national anthem then my friend's friend starts to mimic his playing, then completely shreds... all with less volume than the other jackass, who at that moment happened to be silenced
Members JasmineTea Posted March 18, 2006 Members Posted March 18, 2006 Of Musicians and Meat-heads. (I thought about making a thread of this, maybe I should) Suddenly, our world has need for the Walmart type chain-music-store. Every other kid on the block wants some humbuckers and a pointy headstock. Maybe I'm exagerating? How did "music" come to this? IMO, metal/death/shred/etc does'nt even qualify as music. Sure it requires dextarity to "play" the {censored}, but so does typing. Maybe they should all be office receptionists. How fast can you type War And Peace? Or they should have their own shops with tattoo parlors and video game arcades.
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