28th April 2012
|
#31 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
 |
.
Wut makez sum1 a musicn?
Yo, if sum1 makez mad phat stax, yo!
Evrythng els iz BooSheeeeeeee!!
Dolla bilzz, yo! 
.
__________________ Sqye (Sky)::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Gearslutz Song
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Music 4 Film+TV+Web:::::: Wired Planet::::::Buddha Studio Cat i7 + RME UFX + Linkwitz Orions + Tyler Acoustics Linbrooks + Buzz Audio ARC + GT-67 + Sonar + Komplete + Omnisphere-Trilian-Stylus + Symphobia + Mo-Tone Custom Tele | 
|  | |
29th April 2012
|
#32 | | Gear addict
Joined: Sep 2003 Location: Newburgh, IN
Posts: 472
|
ummm....where can I purchase one if these?
It's not for me......mother's day is coming up 
__________________
Bob Green
Area 51 Recording Studio
| |
| | |
29th April 2012
|
#33 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by area51recording  ummm....where can I purchase one if these?
It's not for me......mother's day is coming up | .
Ha! You just missed Easter, man!
.
| |
| | |
29th April 2012
|
#34 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jan 2008 Location: san francisco
Posts: 1,017
|
i've been playing drums for 20 years, can read (drum/percussion) music well, dabble a little bit in bass and keys. i don't compose songs, i write parts for songs that other people write, i help restructure songs when playing with or producing a band. does this make me not a musician because i don't play melodies or compose songs?
edit: i have both made a living from music and recieved blowjobs for it.
| |
| | |
29th April 2012
|
#35 | | Gear addict
Joined: Sep 2003 Location: Newburgh, IN
Posts: 472
| Quote:
Originally Posted by Sqye .
Ha! You just missed Easter, man!
. | I'm trying to make ammends for that....
| |
| | |
29th April 2012
|
#36 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jun 2009 Location: y>0
Posts: 1,682
| Quote:
Originally Posted by Fletcher If your main income is derived by being paid to play your instrument - then you are a professional musician.
If you have another form of income, but can use your playing of music to facilitate getting a blow job in the parking lot... then you're an amateur musician.
If you're not getting paid or blown... then you're an instrument owner/operator.
Peace | While funny, I must disagree with with this. To me what makes someone a musician opposed to just playing an instrument is musical identity.
| |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#37 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by unitymusic While funny, I must disagree with with this. To me what makes someone a musician opposed to just playing an instrument is musical identity. | .
You're talking about being a musician.
Fletcher's talking about being a professional musician.
Professionalism isn't about entity or indiviuality, but whether you can pay your bills doing it.
So Fletcher's not really addressing the OP here - which is not about being PROFESSIONAL.
.
| |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#38 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by area51recording I'm trying to make ammends for that.... | .  well played, sir!
.
| |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#39 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jun 2009 Location: y>0
Posts: 1,682
| Quote:
Originally Posted by Sqye .
You're talking about being a musician.
Fletcher's talking about being a professional musician.
Professionalism isn't about entity or indiviuality, but whether you can pay your bills doing it.
So Fletcher's not really addressing the OP here - which is not about being PROFESSIONAL.
. | That may be true to an extent, but Fletcher did make a distinction between various levels of musicians and "instrument owner/operator".
| |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#40 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
| Quote:
Originally Posted by unitymusic That may be true to an extent, but Fletcher did make a distinction between various levels of musicians and "instrument owner/operator". | .
trudat.
.
| |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#41 | | Gear Head
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 71
|
A musician is someone that sleeps on your couch for six months and never pays rent... | |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#42 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Feb 2004 | Quote:
Originally Posted by kennybro I remember a guy who could actually fart the melody to Dixie. Well, the first few lines anyway, until he ran out of gas. Now there's a musician! | I knew a guy in High School that had the ability to suck air up his ass silently, only to be 'released' on command, sometimes to a tune too.
He was quite a gas in the gym showers, if you didn't watch out, he would suck shower water up his ass, sneak up behind you, bend over and squirt away!
Everyone has a unique talent. You just need to 'develope' it.
| |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#43 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Feb 2004 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sqye .
Wut makez sum1 a musicn?
Yo, if sum1 makez mad phat stax, yo!
Evrythng els iz BooSheeeeeeee!!
Dolla bilzz, yo! | Can you translate that? I don't speak "ebonics" or "jive".
| |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#44 | | Gear addict
Joined: Jun 2011 Location: Lancaster, PA |
Anybody on here a phi mu alpha brother? That taught me a lot about what it means to be a musician and what music is even
__________________
all the world's a gain stage | |
| | |
30th April 2012
|
#45 | | Gear nut
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 129
|
Nobody has touched on the subject of hip hop producers or DJs. Some people might consider them musicians. I don't but some may.
I think musicians are people who play musical instruments to make music. Some might say Ornette Coleman wasn't a musician. Some may say Les Claypool is the greatest musician (Although to me it sounds like putting your hand in a jelly jar and pulling it out I rhythm -hah!)
Whatever you believe, I think it is important to make a distinction between someone who produces music and someone who creates music. It may seem like a semantical issue, but the analogy might be the difference between someone who can "produce" a platter of food for a party by opening sliced cheese packages and crackers, and someone who "creates" food by making it from scratch.
| |
| | |
2nd May 2012
|
#46 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scratchy Pots A musician is someone that sleeps on your couch for six months and never pays rent... | .
HA!  Truer words are not often spoken.
.
| |
| | |
2nd May 2012
|
#47 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Williams Can you translate that? I don't speak "ebonics" or "jive". | Yes, it's all about the Benjamins. 
.
| |
| | |
2nd May 2012
|
#48 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2011 Location: Hertfordshire, UK
Posts: 829
|
To me a musician is someone who, no matter what their day job, believes wholeheartedly in music and playing and looks on it as more than just a hobby or social thing.
__________________  | |
| | |
2nd May 2012
|
#49 | | Gear nut
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 115
| Quote:
Originally Posted by adrianww No fair - I'm a keyboard player. When the guitarist and singer are out in the car park each getting a BJ, me and the drummer are still in the building tearing down and packing away all our gear. (I don't know where the bass player goes.) | He goes to collect the dough.
| |
| | |
2nd May 2012
|
#50 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by adrianww No fair - I'm a keyboard player. When the guitarist and singer are out in the car park each getting a BJ, me and the drummer are still in the building tearing down and packing away all our gear. (I don't know where the bass player goes.)...[snip] | .
Well, everyone else here knows that after the gig your bass player dons his Spiderman underoos, and goes out crime fighting.
So, he's officially the only one in the entire music industry contributing anything useful to humanity.
Except maybe for Madonna, with her 8 million adopted African kids.
(But she wears Aquaman underoos, so she doesn't count).
.
| |
| | |
2nd May 2012
|
#51 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2011 Location: Durham, UK
Posts: 961
| Quote:
Originally Posted by MoneySound He goes to collect the dough. | Actually, in one of the bands that I play in, that is generally what does happen - it's usually the bass player that goes and picks up the cash at those gigs.
So there you go, many a true word spoken in jest, etc. etc.
| 
| | |
3rd May 2012
|
#52 | | Gear addict
Joined: Sep 2003 Location: Newburgh, IN
Posts: 472
| Quote:
Originally Posted by Sqye Yes, it's all about the Benjamins.
. | Dolla dolla billz, yo  | |
| | |
3rd May 2012
|
#53 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
Posts: 14,935
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by area51recording Dolla dolla billz, yo | .
.
| |
| | | |
New Reply 
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
