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| Gear nut Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Western Ohio
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Thread Starter | Arguing With Idiots Once at a “battle of the bands” show, I was finishing up tearing down my keyboard rig while the guitar player for the next band was setting up in my old location. I overheard him mumbling to himself and swearing at his rig about how it always sounded like crap. As it was a nice Marshall head and 4-way cabinet, I figured something must be fundamentally wrong. I took a look at the back and saw he had the output plugged into the speaker cabinet with a cheap, thin, Radio Shack guitar cord. I said, “Dude, you need a speaker cord, not a guitar cord.” “Huh?” “Yeah, you know, a speaker cord. Get yourself some cord from a lamp or something and wire up the plugs with heavy, unshielded wire.” He said, “What do you take me for, an idiot?” Hmmm. Well I didn’t before, but… I turned on my heel and walked off. He deserved the sound he was getting. |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2009
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| I once did a triple sow cow before walking off with my nose high in the air.
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Tampa, FL
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| The scary part is: What was HE thinking when you walked away?! Ain't no helping the helpless, brother.
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| Gear addict Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: a little south of Nashville
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| "Trying to save someone from their own stupidity is like trying to teach a pig to dance- it's a waste of your time, and it annoys the pig"
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Philly/New York
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| But honestly, if you ever seen a dancing pig - you know it's totally worth it.
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Mukilteo, WA. USA
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cayucos California
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| You can't argue with idiots. They believe in crimes of the professional against society and creativity and the artist's role as saviour and underdog. Here's their manifesto: 1. The true artist, by nature, is always an amateur and never a professional. 2. In a world populated by experts the artist must be a forever moving target. 3. The professional's violence against creativity and his rewards for his cowardice must be exposed and finally ridiculed. 4. The professional is weak because of his need to be respected, honoured and adored. The true artist, on the other hand, must have the courage to remain unimpressive, shallow and obvious. 5. The lie of originality, the ignorance of its champions and the intrinsic honesty of plagiarism. 6 The inherent provincialism of professionals and the intrinsic cosmopolitanism of the amateur. 7. It is the professional's obsession with good taste that obliterates all creativity. It is actually this fear of life itself that forces the professional to become a neurotic expert and crush the intrepid amateur.
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: San Diego
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| I was at a show 2 years ago and one of my artists was using my bass rig. The foh engineer (I use this term loosely) wants to run an XLR direct off the bass head. I tell him to make sure he uses the DI and not the speaker out. "What do you think I am, an idiot" is the reply I got. So he walks over and plugs in the XLR and POOOOF, the mix board goes crazy and dies! This bass head has 1/4 AND XLR out for speakers ans XLR for DI. "Yes" I tell him. You are a F*&kin' idiot. Let me repeat myself. NOT THE SPEAKER OUT! The rest of the night was canceled. |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2009
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Sadly, this guy will probably get more, better paying gigs than any of us, because the world is in love with fukking asshole morons who treat everyone like shit. | |
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Mukilteo, WA. USA
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2005
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| Years ago, (many years ago) when we were in a local battle of the bands, we overheard the judges complimenting another group for their cool original song, which rated them extra points in the judging. Their cool original song was not an original song at all, it was the latest Alabama single that the judges had never heard before, because, even though they were judging a C&W battle of the bands, they didn't actually listen to C&W music.
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Detroit, Mi
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| Never argue with an idiot...people watching won't be able to tell which one is the idiot and which one's not. ![]() |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SF Bay Area
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| can't fix stupid ...just move on and be thankful you aren't ![]() |
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| Gear interested Join Date: Feb 2010
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| ...Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2009
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wellington NZ
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| Better to keep quiet and be suspected a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. |
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| Gear Head Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Australia
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Maryland
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| It is ... on ice skates. And if you haven't seen it before, it's wonderful.
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| Gear Guru | My policy is to fight stupidity with stupidity. One must become one's enemy to truely defeat him.
__________________ Dean Roddey Chairman/CTO Charmed Quark Systems, Ltd www.charmedquark.com Be a control freak! |
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