Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST Date: 17 Jan 04 - 08:14 AM his d*** major satisfies her v*** minora. get it..got..it..good god!!!. give me not good accord but good chords..luv to who knows..not to whose nose.end. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST,Egal Date: 19 May 03 - 07:57 PM You keep on going to (web) advertised venues only to find they have been discontinued and still retain hope! Land o' cakes Manchester tonight for one. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: denise:^) Date: 19 May 03 - 04:36 PM ...you are single and drive a minivan, so that you, your 3 autoharps, your 88-key digital piano, and your hammered dulcimer (not to mention various stands, seats, cords, bags 'o music, etc...) can all fit relatively comfortably... This one came up at a band rehearsal the other night: ...if you carry around a spare music stand in your car, "just in case." (two of us do!) Denise:^) |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Gloredhel Date: 19 May 03 - 12:42 AM You buy a car because it you can fit your harp in it. The harp, which was ten years old, cost as much as the car, which was new. You're singing hymns in church, and mentally doing the Roman-numeral analysis. Non-musicians don't want to date you because, even though you're nice and good-looking, they don't know what you're talking about most of the time. You consider buying a book of pieces for four-hand piano because sightreading them would be a fun date with your s.o. You lust after someone who's not good looking and is thirty years your senior, because he plays really well. You and your music friends don't even have to start singing when someone inadvertantly uses a phrase that reminds you of a song; you just look at each other and smile. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 18 May 03 - 08:12 PM ...you start singing along with recorded music and don't even know you're doing it for a while. (I do this.) |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Ely Date: 17 May 03 - 09:51 PM You buy a car based on whether or not it will accomodate a bass fiddle (I had a friend who did this). You can't tolerate people with trult awful taste. I'm about ready to strangle my Jimmy Buffett-obsessed boss--how many times can I listen to "Why Don't We Get Drunk and [Spoon]" (he has the bowdlerized radio version)? What saves me is that one of the other veterinarians is a guitarist so we hole up in surgery with Etta Baker, Norman Blake, and Doc Watson and ignore everyone else. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: *daylia* Date: 17 May 03 - 09:41 AM " other than that,i can say that pursuing music as a profession has brought me nothing but debt,poverty and the company of idiots." Dave, maybe try marketing yourself as a "Boy Toy". You know - teach your lips the pucker-pout, bat your eyelashes, wear a little spandex (as little as possible without risking arrest), bare your navel, stick out your chest enough to throw your vertebrae out of alignment, wave your butt enticingly, practice navigating your newly-transformed and *oh-so-sexy* self around the stage in 10-inch heels etc. Might help out with the money thing (just ask Madonna!), and as far as the company goes - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! ;) daylia |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST,Dave Date: 16 May 03 - 08:39 PM If you've got callouses on your fingers you're doing it all wrong. other than that,i can say that pursuing music as a profession has brought me nothing but debt,poverty and the company of idiots. still better than a 9-5 though. good luck! |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: katlaughing Date: 16 May 03 - 10:36 AM Adding to khandu's way up there at the top: when your friend and you figure out what key the cat sings in so you can pitch a song in its range, record it, and mix it in... you don't write letters to your dad, just send him lyric sheets and printed out Mudcat threads with scribbled "I love you's" on the margins.. You know your SO is finally becoming one, too, instead of just an appreciative listener when you hear him sing for the first time in your 24 years together and it's his own made up songs for the dog! all of your well-meaning family and friends, who don't really understand what music it is you're *into*, tell you about every possible concert, venue, gig, karaoke, etc. there is, expecting you to run right out tho them all... |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Mooh Date: 16 May 03 - 10:21 AM ...you repeatedly blow off your day job (if you're either lucky enough to have one, or unfortunate enough to need one) to take gigs, even unpaid ones. ...you attend the day job with discman on and mostly unaware of your surroundings. ...you forget to go to that day job on occassion. ...unlike the statistical norm, you surf the internet at work for music not porn. ...the only reason for a day job is to work the least number of hours and still qualify for the benefit plan. Holy Moly Molly...this thread hit close to home! Peace, Mooh. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Jim Dixon Date: 16 May 03 - 10:13 AM You start a thread about music and call it a "BS" thread because it's not seriously about music. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: *daylia* Date: 16 May 03 - 08:15 AM ... your obsession with marriage and other close relationships has stalled at least one musical career. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST Date: 16 May 03 - 08:05 AM ...your musical obsession has led to at least one wrecked marriage and more than a few wrecked relationships. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: denise:^) Date: 15 May 03 - 11:37 PM If your family suggests (or implies) to you that you might be able to get some friends, if you weren't always hanging around with those MUSICIANS, playing music!! (A friend of mine's family told him that. His response--"Huh?") Denise:^) |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Rapparee Date: 15 May 03 - 10:07 PM MY favorite chord is that lost one.... |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Cluin Date: 15 May 03 - 08:57 PM Just one, Tom. Be yourself. You cain't hardly fail then, sez I. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 15 May 03 - 06:24 PM You take a lot of crap from people who 'subtly' imply whenever possible, that you are semi worthless, and can't be helped because your practicing takes up so much of your time... then saying that you ought to spend more energy trying to "make it" or be a "one hit wonder". How many ways are there to be sucessful? ttr |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: denise:^) Date: 15 May 03 - 04:18 PM You try to 'sneak' an instrument "upgrade" into the house when no one's home, hoping that the family won't notice it's not the same one you've had all along... Denise:^) |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Cool Beans Date: 15 May 03 - 12:40 PM You have a favorite chord. Mine's B7 (on the guitar). |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Blues=Life Date: 15 May 03 - 12:36 PM ...if you have a guitar worth more than your car. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST Date: 15 May 03 - 10:48 AM when you write a new song and it kills you when no one else is around to listen to it... |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST Date: 15 May 03 - 10:45 AM Your car is held together with baling wire, your house should've been condemned in the previous millenium, but your instruments are in pristine condition and occupy the only temperature controlled room in the house. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 14 May 03 - 05:52 PM ... your simultanious orgasms are in harmony. ttr |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Hollowfox Date: 14 May 03 - 09:52 AM Blackcatter, that's a great site! I'm going to recommend it to my library's reference center. Yep, we get questions on this. Thanks! |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Rapparee Date: 14 May 03 - 09:13 AM After searching for years for the words to complete the memory of a song, you post your request to the 'Cat and are discover either that no one else knows or that it's in the DT. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST,Sarah Date: 14 May 03 - 08:33 AM You reward musically-accomplished buskers - but get insanely annoyed with the shaggy whistlers who have never learned a whole tune but string phrases of several together! AAAArgh. Sarah |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Blues=Life Date: 14 May 03 - 08:22 AM JennyO, good for you. I keep a Telecaster in an open case under my desk. Half of my workday, it's in my lap. You can't hear it (unplugged) when I'm on the phone. I know a call is running long when I find myself reaching under the desk... Blues |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: s&r Date: 14 May 03 - 06:36 AM your defence to a speeding charge is that you can't have been speeding since at 30mph your gearbox was humming concert pitch A and you would have noticed a change since you have perfect pitch (John Dankworth I think) |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Blackcatter Date: 13 May 03 - 06:29 PM If you turn a BS thread into a serious discussion of music inspired by bird calls. yall are wunnerful! |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: MMario Date: 13 May 03 - 04:50 PM grumble,grumble,grumble theyareallslantingtheiranswers*INSTRUMENTALISTS!phooey! |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Kim C Date: 13 May 03 - 04:47 PM You can't just have music on in the background, because you have to stop what you're doing, pick up your instrument, and find out what key it's in... |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Cluin Date: 13 May 03 - 01:46 PM The crow outside my window every morning keeps asking, "Is it safe?... Is it safe?..." I think I'm a nutter. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST,kingbrilliant Date: 13 May 03 - 11:03 AM The pidgeons at my mum's house are,allegedly, more literary than lyrical. One cries "Where's Heathcliffe" - and the other replies "Gone away, poor Kathy" I think my mum's a nutter. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: DMcG Date: 13 May 03 - 10:59 AM Mine phone plays 'Sir John Fenwick's the Flower o' them all' for most callers, and 'Childgrove' for family. Sad, isn't it? |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: JennyO Date: 13 May 03 - 10:54 AM Very pretty, Bsondahl. Daylia, just happens I have a piano beside me at the computer, and I had to try out the birdsong you described. I wonder what kind of bird it is? We have the currawongs whose cries even seem to vary from one area to another. At my place, and very close by, they seem to say "Get real!" They sort of start on high c for "get", down to d for the beginning of "real", then slide up to about a : "get reeeeaaalll". I only have to swivel my chair around to play the piano. Would only a musician have the computer next to the piano? One of the reasons I chose the mobile phone I did, was that I can program tunes of my own choice into it. I put in four of the songs my choir sings. Now when it rings, I know it's mine. I'm probably the only person in the world with a phone that plays "Grandola Vila Morena" - drove them crazy on the tour! ;-) Jenny |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: *daylia* Date: 13 May 03 - 10:22 AM Bsondahl, that's just lovely! Thank you! It's the changes in the underlying chords that make those same two notes bearable after the first dozen repetitions, for me anyway. Now, if the chickadees could only sing in harmony ... or maybe I could drag my weary bones out of bed and accompany them on the guitar! ;) I heard a very pretty bird-melody the other day - couldn't see the little vocalist but I bet the song is species-specific. It went up a minor 6th, down a major third, and ended with a series of staccato notes and an upwards glissando. If you play the note E for one beat, then up to C and hold for 2, down to Ab for one beat followed by 6 quick staccato notes and then an upwards slide, it's a pretty fair simulation. The little creature kept perfect time too, and never went off-key. Very impressive! Anyway, if you're not a musician you'd have to be pretty obsessive-compulsive to analyse bird-songs, I guess. daylia |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Bsondahl Date: 13 May 03 - 09:53 AM The bird thing is a coincidence. I'm not sure of the interval, but it's chickadees in spring that do the pronounced two note whistle, and I wrote it into a song, available on my MIDI page (called Birdsong), and now whenever I go out and hear the birds sing, that tune starts in my head. http://home.earthlink.net/~sondahl/birdsong.mid there's the blue clicky to it. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: *daylia* Date: 13 May 03 - 09:40 AM You spend half an hour going through the rings on your new phone to find one that's in the same key as your doorbell? Sometimes the birds outside your window early in the morning drive you INSANE because they keep singing that same d*** minor third OVER and OVER and OVER ... (So you let the cat out, hoping they'll either change their tune or flock off!) You think the most attractive thing about Liona Boyd is her fingerpicking techniques? |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Rapparee Date: 13 May 03 - 09:04 AM Your wife or other significant person pats you gently on the arm and says, "That's okay, dear. I now know more about 12/8 time than I've ever wanted to know. And the guests left three hours ago." |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Pied Piper Date: 13 May 03 - 06:10 AM A researcher decides to investigate the old idea that pets grow resemble there owners, so she borrows the dogs of an Architect an Accountant and a Musician. The idea is to put the dogs in a room full of bones to see how they react. First in is the Architect's dog, which assembles the bones into a neo-gothic kennel, then the accountant's, which stacks the bones in piles of 10 and groups of 100. Finally in goes the musician's dog, eats all the bones, shags the other two dogs, shits all over the floor, and asks the researcher how much he's getting for the gig. All the best PP |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: GUEST,mink Date: 13 May 03 - 05:51 AM You get to work late every day because you picked up your guitar to practice "just one song" before going in. One song leads to another. An hour later you realise you still haven't cleaned your teeth, washed your hair & ironed you clothes........ Worse than that though, is when you find a kindred spirit to go for a quick jam at lunchtimes...... one tune leads to another..... etc etc |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Blackcatter Date: 13 May 03 - 12:06 AM God, Rapaire, you're right! I play tin whistle, just about the simplest instrument going, and I find myself going on and on with people who just ask the simple qustion - "What is that you're playing?" Of course I often open up my whistle case (a large drum stick bag) and start showing off 15 some whistles (about all I can resonably fit in the bag - the rest are at home). Usually 4 metal types, two mouth piece types, 8 keys, graduated -vs- straight bodies, countries of origin, etc. Don't get me started about jews harps . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Cluin Date: 12 May 03 - 08:41 PM You probably DON'T listen to the radio while driving your car. |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Rapparee Date: 12 May 03 - 08:36 PM If you can discuss, intelligently and at GREAT length, every variation of the instrument you play (e.g., you play dobro and you can discuss valved, stringed, tenor, soprano, bass, plucked, hammered, keyed and every other variety of the thing) as well as the variety of their key signatures (e.g., the difference between an A flat hammered banjo and a banjo hammered flat). |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Blackcatter Date: 12 May 03 - 04:56 PM If you complain about the BS threads |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 May 03 - 06:12 AM It's 11.15am local time, you're still wearing your night attire and you're posting to Mudcat threads NOT labelled BS! LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Blackcatter Date: 12 May 03 - 12:14 AM You receive SPAM from sheet music sites more than porn sites. You play Name That Tune with yourself. You remember vacations by the CDs or tapes you brought along to listen to. You have at least 5 formats of recorded music. (CD, MP3, LP, cass., reel to reel, 8-track, 78, 45, etc.) You chose where to eat, not by the quality of the food, but the type of music played. You bring your instruments along to any party in the hopes it will turn into a jam session. You sing the words to Musak, even though you hate Musak. While most people have a favorite color, you have a favorite time signature. You have your own website dedicated to the lyrics of TV Theme Songs. Blackcatter's World of TV Theme Lyrics |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Merritt Date: 11 May 03 - 11:42 PM ...you keep a full-scale pitch pipe in your car so that you can try out singing a new song until you get the right key. ...you look forward to long car trips (I have responsibilities around the state in my job) in order to work on vocals. ...instead of going "out on the town" when you travel, you bring pizza and beer back to your motel room (and your guitar) so you can go over more tunes. - Merritt |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 May 03 - 11:39 PM Well, Wesley, I personally get a much stronger lust in my heart going into a nice music store that I would going into a topless bar. After all, the topless bars don't let you play with the merchandise for hours and walk out without having spent a cent. Bruce |
Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if... From: Les B Date: 11 May 03 - 11:06 PM You take your guitar to bed with you and can't understand why your new bride is upset (a friend claims he really did this!!!) |
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