Ollie Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 what in the christing name of god is up with the aberdeen scene..it seem to be seperated by 'pretentious' art crap that couldnt be art if it tried where daddy's bank balance means that you have the right to act above anyone. Fair play nice instruments but dear lord learn to use them. Then theres the skint bands who actually get noticed outside of the skankhole, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Money is a bugger regarding bands. Your right, if you have the equipment, learn to use it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie Posted March 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Money is a bugger regarding bands. Your right' date=' if you have the equipment, learn to use it![/quote']or simply leave music for the folk that appreciate it. ... posers, pah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicoAUBL Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 um... ok...before this turns into the same argument that people have been having on these boards for the last 4 years maybe you could expand a little bit on your point... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NARC Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 You must be directing this "rant" at a group or people in particluar? Care to share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 what a completely pointless post directed at all and nothing. oh well.class divide in aberdeens music scene? crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
get lost Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 I know where he's coming from, however, the discussion should be about the two kinds of music which is peddled in Aberdeen, "good and bad". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 this thread made me laugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 what in the christing name of god is up with the aberdeen scene..it seem to be seperated by 'pretentious' art crap that couldnt be art if it tried where daddy's bank balance means that you have the right to act above anyone. Fair play nice instruments but dear lord learn to use them. Then theres the skint bands who actually get noticed outside of the skankhole' date=' thanks.[/quote']what bands are there in aberdeen that could be called pretentious art crap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest valley69 Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 I know where he's coming from' date=' however, the discussion should be about the two kinds of music which is peddled in Aberdeen, "good and bad".[/quote']yeh youve got a point their jeff. Money cant get a shite band famous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 yeh youve got a point their jeff. Money cant get a shite band famous.Hanson, anyone?Their dad was a very rich Texan oil billionaire, it was kinda obvious they bought their way to success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Have to agree with poster...I don't really let it bother me anymore though (it used to, believe me, seeing a band who have been around 10 minutes playing on stage with stacks of quality gear then getting a lift home in daddy's range rover while we're waiting at the bus stop with our cheap shite in the pissing rain after 5 years of working really hard as a band is a bit of a kick in the teeth!)Then I remember why I'm into this....cos I love making music! People with money, if they're not interested, will soon get bored and lap up something else. Let the babies have their bottle and get on with it! Those gigs are usually the ones infested with school friends who don't even like music.....the audience participation is so prententious its laughable. Fuck 'em!To quote..."Life is very short and theres no time for fussing and fighting my friend" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DustyDeviada Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 what in the christing name of god is up with the aberdeen scene..it seem to be seperated by 'pretentious' art crap that couldnt be art if it tried where daddy's bank balance means that you have the right to act above anyone. Fair play nice instruments but dear lord learn to use them. Then theres the skint bands who actually get noticed outside of the skankhole' date=' thanks.[/quote']Name and shame, you know you want to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Yeah I heard if you were well-off your band was obviously going to be shitAnd while we're at it, isn't it true that all poor people eat things out of bins and wear potato sacks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Yeah I heard if you were well-off your band was obviously going to be shitAnd while we're at it' date=' isn't it true that all poor people eat things out of bins and wear potato sacks?[/quote']Thats not the point being made here and you know it.Ever been in R&B and seen some 10 year old spotty gimp who can't even play smoke on the water have his dad rara with the boss and whip out johnny CC for a US strat and Marshall stack...I waited 10 years before I could buy such things, and sort of fucked up the rest of my life for it as I couldn't afford it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betamax Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 shitest thread so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DustyDeviada Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Ever been in R&B and seen some 10 year old spotty gimp who can't even play smoke on the water have his dad rara with the boss and whip out johnny CC for a US strat and Marshall stack...I waited 10 years before I could buy such things' date=' and sort of fucked up the rest of my life for it as I couldn't afford it...[/size']I know what you mean... I had to perevere with Epiphones and Squiers for years. I managed to scrape together 350 for a secondhand US tele while I was uni, but I was 23, had graduated and was working two jobs by the time I could afford to buy my first Les Paul. I sold that guitar a couple of years a go to a woman who was buying it for her son's 13th birthday for 700!I sort of had reservations about it, as I knew there was no way that a 13 year old kid would look after a guitar like that properly, but it was a good price so I sold it. I wonder what kind of state it's in now...I've got a collection of very nice guitars now, but the fact that I've had to play crap for years, work two jobs for the last five years and wheel and deal to get them kind of makes me appreciate them more.But do I know how to use them? That's a different argument entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Have to agree with poster...I don't really let it bother me anymore though (it used to' date=' believe me, seeing a band who have been around 10 minutes playing on stage with stacks of quality gear then getting a lift home in daddy's range rover while we're waiting at the bus stop with our cheap shite in the pissing rain after 5 years of working really hard as a band is a bit of a kick in the teeth!)Then I remember why I'm into this....cos I love making music! People with money, if they're not interested, will soon get bored and lap up something else. Let the babies have their bottle and get on with it! Those gigs are usually the ones infested with school friends who don't even like music.....the audience participation is so prententious its laughable. Fuck 'em!To quote..."Life is very short and theres no time for fussing and fighting my friend" [/quote']/\ Spot on that man, if anything, the 'kidz' will sell their expensive gear on second hand at a reduced priced when it's time to go to Uni, or something else comes along; bargain city!There are a lot of pretentious art-punks though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulscoconutass Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Care if someone's got better equipment or than you. I love watching a new band with full-stacks, pricey ibanez guitars, 3 boss pedals and gold-plated plectrums play three-chord, pishey standard grade music 'compositions'.Laugh it off and focus on your own band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest valley69 Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 i play with squiers , i get by until i can afford a jazzmaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NARC Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Nowt wrong with getting the best gear if you've got the money - although you've gotta be able to use it in interesting and productive ways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 80.....ebay! Money is not the be all and end all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 isn't a bit like getting on at someone who owns expensive trainers, but doesn't do a lot of running, or can't run well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeornothing Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 I know what you mean... I had to perevere with Epiphones and Squiers for years. I managed to scrape together 350 for a secondhand US tele while I was uni' date=' but I was 23, had graduated and was working two jobs by the time I could afford to buy my first Les Paul. I sold that guitar a couple of years a go to a woman who was buying it for her son's 13th birthday for 700!I sort of had reservations about it, as I knew there was no way that a 13 year old kid would look after a guitar like that properly, but it was a good price so I sold it. I wonder what kind of state it's in now...I've got a collection of very nice guitars now, but the fact that I've had to play crap for years, work two jobs for the last five years and wheel and deal to get them kind of makes me appreciate them more.But do I know how to use them? That's a different argument entirely. [/quote']haha...I took the easy way out and went for credit. Then lost my job pretty much the week after... Bugger! One of the best guitars I've owned was an Arai ProII which I got from Ingrams for 60 notes, seen me alright for many a gig, and I could get any sound out of it...(It's not what you're playing, its HOW you play it!) If i was gonna blow money on my kids I'd much rather spend as little as possible to see if somethings ever gonna come of it...while it is nice, very nice, really fucking nice to play a very expensive guitar...it won't help you play any better or worse whilst learning!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NARC Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Bald man AND green guitar for 80? I would normally say bargain....but not in this case... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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