The guitar rant thread

Lev

People (other band members and their girlfriends) posting really bad videos of you live on YT.

BintyTwanger77

rico said:

Vibetronic said:

people who, in band practices, insist on noodling away in between songs when you're trying to talk about stuff.

That is spot on.

That's our keyboard player.

Strat54

People that pay £4k for a Patrick Eggle Guitar....I fear for your sanity, future resale value and marriage. How did they ever get that expensive? Doesn't everyone remember last time? Seemingly not because World Guitars have sold 28 of them. Who has bought one here? 

jeztone2

Funkfingers said:

jamesoliver1234 said:

i hate when you do a gig and someone comes up looks at your amp guitar pedals shakes his head and walks away!

That's probably me. 

Seriously, though, does that happen before or after you perform? A lot of people do seem to listen with their eyes. They subscribe to a notion that there should be a correlation between music genre and equipment. (e.g. Explorers and Vees are unacceptable for lounge Jazz.)

I attend live music in the hope of being entertained and, possibly, pleasantly surprised by innovative playing or sonics. If it were me eyeballing the stage equipment, it would be in an attempt to understand why you sound the way that you do. 

I get the opposite. People always check my Rig out. I actually had someone in another band try to nick my main Distortion at one gig. 

mburekenge

Lev said:

People (other band members and their girlfriends) posting really bad videos of you live on YT.

nice. Especially when they are shaking the phone about so you get a lovely Doppler effect making your (my) playing sound (even more)out of tune!

Dopesick

thecolourbox said:

And for something playing related, in "heavier" music for want of a better word, it always seems like it's only a matter of seconds during any rhythm playing that the guitarist will do that awful muted low string percussive note thing and think that it sounds big or bad ass or "heavy man"

This must be the most curmudgeonly archaic paragraph I've ever read on this site.

'You kids and your pesky palm muting!'

celentium

"Awful muted low string percussive note thing" is pure genius. I'd love to hear his description of a pinch harmonic.

guitarfishbay

Strat54 said:

People that pay £4k for a Patrick Eggle Guitar....I fear for your sanity, future resale value and marriage. How did they ever get that expensive? Doesn't everyone remember last time? Seemingly not because World Guitars have sold 28 of them. Who has bought one here? 

This mentality

Guitarists are obsessed with resale value and it contributes to keeping the market pretty conservative.

richardhomer

Strats from the 70s, that weigh as much as my car and have paint thicker that a copy of Guitarist, being advertised for sale at the same (or higher) prices than a used Custom Shop guitar....

Strat54

guitarfishbay said:

Strat54 said:

People that pay £4k for a Patrick Eggle Guitar....I fear for your sanity, future resale value and marriage. How did they ever get that expensive? Doesn't everyone remember last time? Seemingly not because World Guitars have sold 28 of them. Who has bought one here? 

This mentality

Guitarists are obsessed with resale value and it contributes to keeping the market pretty conservative.

Sorry, 30 plus years in the retail motor trade made me resale obsessed!    

Sassafras

celentium said:

"Awful muted low string percussive note thing" is pure genius. I'd love to hear his description of a pinch harmonic.

That fucking annoying squealy shit.

Bucket

Strat54 said:

People that pay £4k for a Patrick Eggle Guitar....I fear for your sanity, future resale value and marriage. How did they ever get that expensive? Doesn't everyone remember last time? Seemingly not because World Guitars have sold 28 of them. Who has bought one here? 

You ever played one?

They're good.

thecolourbox

celentium said:

"Awful muted low string percussive note thing" is pure genius. I'd love to hear his description of a pinch harmonic.

Cheesy high pitched squealy noise that didn't even sound acceptable in the 80s

I stand by the awful low note rhythmic muted noise though, so dull

ellwood

midlifecrisis said:

i hate the fact i can spend ages reading this nonsense (entertaining) and then complain i dont have enough time to practise  and improve my guitar skills

Ah. Very succinctly put. Guilty..

PolarityMan

thecolourbox said:

celentium said:

"Awful muted low string percussive note thing" is pure genius. I'd love to hear his description of a pinch harmonic.

Cheesy high pitched squealy noise that didn't even sound acceptable in the 80s

I stand by the awful low note rhythmic muted noise though, so dull

I hate everything *except* palm muting and pinch harmonics

dindude

Wanted ads. They don't work. You get exactly one response only and they rise up with "I have one, not really looking to sell, but I'll let it go for £2.60 less than a new one?".

Erm, no.

Voxman

I hate it when the p/up height screws are too short or don't hold - you adjust them then they pop out of the p/up adjustment hole and the p/up then 'drops' and you've got to muck about sorting it out and finding longer screws. It happened on my 69 Strat (screws now replaced) and now my PRS Cu24...its a darned nuisance!

Bridgehouse

Voxman said:

I hate it when the p/up height screws are too short or don't hold - you adjust them then they pop out of the p/up adjustment hole and the p/up then 'drops' and you've got to muck about sorting it out and finding longer screws. It happened on my 69 Strat (screws now replaced) and now my PRS Cu24...its a darned nuisance!

You replaced the original screws on your 69 strat to make it playable??

Heathen. You should have lived with it. Embrace the inadequacy..

WezV

Strat54 said:

'Boutique' guitar 'builders' who buy in every last part but make out that they have sprinkled some magic over the guitar and created something much better than anyone else can...then ask £3000+ for a Strat! Worse still are those who then RELIC the thing like a dogs chewed it. 
(There are some great builders like Joseph Kaye and Marc Rutters who literally build the guitar from the ground up). 

Or when you tell someone you build guitars and they ask where you buy the bodies and necks from.

I do like a nice easy assembly job from parts.... but it's not what I am talking about when I say I build guitars.

chris45

Referring to Gibsons as "Gibbos" or "Gibbies"