guitar nerds = the coolest kind of nerds

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  • kitfoo
    kitfoo Posts: 125
    Anyone who plays guitar is going to come out a better person than someone who plays video games. At least music is art, it challenges and expands your mind, and it's a skill that can be used. Video games just make you have sore thumbs and rot your brain.
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    Novawind wrote:
    You are a beast, greg. B)

    If you met my two year old you'd understand why I self-medicate. He's been tantruming for a solid hour now over his bath. But at least I'm medicating with projects instead of drink or something.
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    kitfoo wrote:
    Anyone who plays guitar is going to come out a better person than someone who plays video games. At least music is art, it challenges and expands your mind, and it's a skill that can be used. Video games just make you have sore thumbs and rot your brain.
    WRONG...video games are the greatest things ever. Haven't you heard? If you can beat "War Pigs" on expert with GuitarHero, you're going to be amazing at the real thing...DUH
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
    JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
    "Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy
  • Gardenparty
    Gardenparty Posts: 1,910
    WeaponX655321 wrote:
    Some Guitar nerds are alright, but some are downright annoying. I am talking about the ones that will talk your ear off about the saddle on Jeff Beck's customized Strat, or why Billy Gibbons Pearly Gates is one of the most sought after Les Pauls in the world. Then they will talk about their own gear and how they boil their guitar strings before using them or how they dipped the tubes from their amp in honey(or some shit like that) then they get ready to play, and it's the most god awful thing you've ever heard and then they're like, "When I get my saddle like Jeff Beck's, I'll be bitchin'!"

    Yeah, this. lol!

    Do people actually dip their tubes in honey? How bout the boiling strings thing. Weird

    Also, work at a guitar store for any period of time long enough to meet the return customers and you'll meet plenty of these clowns. They're always much better at yapping than tapping if you know what i mean.
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I spent the evening making a cheaparse pedalboard out of a briefcase. Had to hacksaw through the metal hinges so I could open the thing out wide. (The screws wouldn't budge.) The beautiful thing about it is that it looks just like a briefcase with some fookin' velcro and a surge protector thrown in. Oh, and a couple of pedals. But it gave me pleasure that going to the store and buying a proper board would never have done. Now that's a cool kind of nerd-dom. :D


    That provoked an image of John Cleese stalking onto a stage, with bowler hat, umbrella and briefcase, slappig his briefcase down, and snapping it open to display a pedal board.............

    "Right, where do I plug this bloody thing in ?"

    Silly walk entrance optional
    Music is not a competetion.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    lucylespian wrote:
    That provoked an image of John Cleese stalking onto a stage, with bowler hat, umbrella and briefcase, slappig his briefcase down, and snapping it open to display a pedal board.............

    "Right, where do I plug this bloody thing in ?"

    Silly walk entrance optional


    It may well be like that, at my gig on Sunday. The one thing I'm worried about is forgetting the combination of the locks. :D
  • OffHeGoes29
    OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    I'm a dork regardless, so the guitar helps my cause.
    BRING BACK THE WHALE
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    Gardenparty wrote:
    Yeah, this. lol!

    Do people actually dip their tubes in honey? How bout the boiling strings thing. Weird

    i've heard of people doing it with bass strings. but to clean them. not that it works really.
  • Novawind
    Novawind Posts: 836
    exhausted wrote:
    If you met my two year old you'd understand why I self-medicate. He's been tantruming for a solid hour now over his bath. But at least I'm medicating with projects instead of drink or something.

    Good call. Exactly why I'm in no hurry to have kids.
    If idle hands are the devil's workshop, he must not be very productive.

    7/9/06 LA 1
    7/10/06 LA 2
    10/21/06 Bridge 1
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    Novawind wrote:
    Good call. Exactly why I'm in no hurry to have kids.

    don't get me wrong. he's an awesome kid but sooooo sensitive that when he goes off the rails he goes big. it's exhausting (ha!) luckily it's not a regular occurence to have a wig to that extent.

    but yeah, kids put a big damper on the whole guitar/hobby/sleep thing.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    It may well be like that, at my gig on Sunday. The one thing I'm worried about is forgetting the combination of the locks. :D


    Ah see, if that happens, you can add that into the skit. You can go beserk and start smashing things with the briefcase to get it open, while swearing in Russian and complaining about the Germans or the Irish or someone. Attacking the drummer because he won't stop hitting things would be a good move !!

    as in..."if you hit that bloody china one more time mate, I'm going to shove it so far up your khyber you'll be able to trim your nose hairs with it"

    (I'm obviously displaying Monty Python nerd tendencies here)

    I agre with the OP, guitar nerdiness is way superior to gameboy nerdiness, thoguh I had a lot of fun wiht Quake and Baldur's Gate there for a few years.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • Novawind
    Novawind Posts: 836
    exhausted wrote:
    don't get me wrong. he's an awesome kid but sooooo sensitive that when he goes off the rails he goes big. it's exhausting (ha!) luckily it's not a regular occurence to have a wig to that extent.

    but yeah, kids put a big damper on the whole guitar/hobby/sleep thing.

    Sometimes you just need an outlet. I've heard it gets better after the terrible twos.
    If idle hands are the devil's workshop, he must not be very productive.

    7/9/06 LA 1
    7/10/06 LA 2
    10/21/06 Bridge 1
  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    Hey, I think you're either a guitar-player or you’re not - I didn't know that a "nerd factor" had to
    apply to this. If it does, then I guess anyone over-interested in any subject can be called a nerd.
    And since I play guitar for a living, I guess it means that I must be one of the biggest nerds here.
    I mean, I always thought I rock'd most of the time, but then I guess it's just my nerd disguise :p.
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Last night, at 3AM, the halo kids were above me screaming. That's the last straw I'm taking the advice here and taking the damn power supply away. This is ridiculous.
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
    JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
    "Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy

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