A COLLECTION OF MUSICAL QUOTES
THAT BOGGLE THE MIND
Each and everyone of these are real quotes, to keep from further tarnishing the images of these "great" musicians, I will not give their true identities...
"You've got to quit playing so hard when you hit the strings the notes play twice!"
- Said by a guitarist, with no concept of psychics, to a bassist.
"Never turn the green spotlight off, I have to see the dots on my neck..."
- Said by a guitarist to a lighting tech.
"If I took the time to learn it right, so should you..."
- Guitarist, who learned a song from tablature, to a bassist.
"You've got to turn down, I can't hear myself!"
- Guitarist who runs through a Carver Power Head to bassist using 100 watt combo amp set on three, and who was not plugged into the PA or Monitors at the time.
"I think we should do a song by Eve 6...what do they sound like?"
- Guitarist to bassist the day after an Eve 6 transcription appeared in Guitar For The Practicing Musician.
"You need to buy an Ampeg, Crate sucks."
- Guitarist and Drummer, with no idea that Ampeg amps are made by the same company that makes Crate amps, to bassist who just purchased a Crate.
"Name me a guitarist in the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame who doesn't use a Marshall..."
- Guitarist who obviously has never heard of The Beatles, The Who, Black Sabbath, Eric Clapton, etc., to a bassist.
"I don't care what you say Eddie Vedder sucks c**k..."
- Southern Fried drummer, who must has not yet come to grips with the fact there is a reason Southern Rock disappeared, to bassist who doesn't like either style of music.
"I started playing guitar back in 1984, when guitarists knew how to tune their instruments...."
- Guitarist, who obviously has never listened to any recorded music prior to 1984.
"We play the songs just like they are on the record."
- Guitarist to other guitarist.
"Now let's see if you can find a harmony for this section..."
- Same Guitarist quoted above, a few days later, concerning a song with no guitar harmonies in it.
"Now if you'd only play that volume live..."
- Guitarist to bassist who just cranked his amp up to eight, twice as loud as his normal stage volume.
"We really need to work that song up, a girl requests it everytime we play here..."
- Guitarist to band concerning a song by Poison after a night of ignoring people requesting Led Zeppelin tunes.
"I'm don't play music for other people, I play it for myself..."
- Guitarist to other guitarist concerning why he plays music.
"We need to work that song up, alot of people keep requesting it..."
- Guitarist quoted above the next night.
"Uh...(husband's name) is busy at home and (wife's name) wanted to see the movie..."
- Bandmember who brought bandmate's wife to movie to a guitarist from another band who had yet to ask why they were there together.
Many More To Come!
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