What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[tauzero]

10 minutes ago, petecarlton said:

So not irrational, then? 🤣

 

Unless the belief that they sound and feel different is irrational.

[Misdee]

I can't entertain  the idea of buying a bass with blocks but without binding. It aught to be illegal.

[bass_dinger]

3 hours ago, petecarlton said:

So not irrational, then? 🤣

 

In that case, my irrational prejudice is that I don't know if the fretboard inserts make a difference, but I believe that they do, without any evidence either way.

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

Guitars and basses with mother of pearl fret markers that fill the whole space between two frets.

 

That's because the mother of pearl sections will sound and feel very different to wooden fretboard sections, and ensure that the tone between the positions is unbalanced. 

 

Only if you have a grip of steel and press the strings right down to the fretboard.

[snorkie635]

18 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I've only known one person, a guitarist, who did that. He also didn't know the difference between B minor and B flat.

 

Poor old Eric - he is getting on I suppose.

 

[SteveXFR]

If I see a relicd guitar or bass on stage, im not hanging around to hear the band.

If I see a video thumbnail with thumb about to slap string, im not clicking on it.

I don't like bass solos.

If I see a fish sticker on the back of a car, I will expect the driver to be incompetent. 

If anyone calls their kids "dude" or "guys" then their children should be immediately taken in to care and the parent should be put in solitary confinement in Broadmoor.

[paul_5]

15 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

If I see a relicd guitar or bass on stage, im not hanging around to hear the band.

What about if the player is also suitably ‘reliced’ ?

 

17 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

If I see a video thumbnail with thumb about to slap string, im not clicking on it.

Fair do’s on this though! 😄

[SteveXFR]

1 hour ago, paul_5 said:

What about if the player is also suitably ‘reliced’ ?

 

If he's 20 but with a face relic'd to look 70 with a file and screwdriver then I may accept that his guitar is acceptable. 

[petecarlton]

4 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

If I see a fish sticker on the back of a car, I will expect the driver to be incompetent.

This.

[Leonard Smalls]

Anyone else hate it when a song has kids singing on it? 

[Terry M.]

6 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Anyone else hate it when a song has kids singing on it? 

Really depends. I can't imagine Another Brick in the Wall any other way.

[Marc S]

3 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

Really depends. I can't imagine Another Brick in the Wall any other way.

Usually, I'd agree with @Leonard Smalls thoughts - but as you say with "Another Brick" it just suits the song so well.

 

Another example of this IMHO is "Circus Games" by the Skids. Again, the kids voices suit the subject matter, and I can't imagine it without 

[SteveXFR]

While were on it, anyone else's kids at school concerts. They're all rubbish and wasting everyone's time.

[Reggaebass]

40 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Anyone else hate it when a song has kids singing on it? 

Are you sayin you don’t like, There's No One Quite Like Grandma by St Winifred's School Choir Leonard 😁

[Len_derby]

Recording.

I don’t like the process or the environment. 
To me, modern digital recording smacks too much of pi$$ing around on computers.

I’d rather busk outdoors on a rainy Wednesday than spend time in someone’s home ‘studio’ (spare bedroom). 

[bass_dinger]

17 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Are you sayin you don’t like, There's No One Quite Like Grandma by St Winifred's School Choir Leonard 😁

 

@Leonard Smalls is in two minds about St Winifred's School Choir's cover of Another Brick in the Wall.

Edited yesterday at 16:05 by bass_dinger

[Leonard Smalls]

19 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

There's No One Quite Like Grandma

All the songs with kids singing in 'em sound like that, including the Floyd one. Unless they sound like "Grandpa, we love you" with professional old codger Clive Dunn.

[bass_dinger]

5 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

If I see a fish sticker on the back of a car, I will expect the driver to be incompetent. 

 

I get irrationally nervous when @SteveXFR is behind me, and start driving erratically.  At least, I think that it's him - I can't properly see, on account of the whacking great fish sticker across my rear window.  😉

[SteveXFR]

12 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

 

I get irrationally nervous when @SteveXFR is behind me, and start driving erratically.  At least, I think that it's him - I can't properly see, on account of the whacking great fish sticker across my rear window.  😉

 

Are you a fishmonger?

[Terry M.]

17 hours ago, Len_derby said:

Recording.

I don’t like the process or the environment. 
To me, modern digital recording smacks too much of pi$$ing around on computers.

I’d rather busk outdoors on a rainy Wednesday than spend time in someone’s home ‘studio’ (spare bedroom). 

I know what you mean. My last recording session was at a mate's house in his living room on his MAC using Logic Pro. There was so much intervention from it that a part of me was wondering what I was even doing there! I felt like I was playing second fiddle to the software.

[SimonK]

2 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

I know what you mean. My last recording session was at a mate's house in his living room on his MAC using Logic Pro. There was so much intervention from it that a part of me was wondering what I was even doing there! I felt like I was playing second fiddle to the software.

 

I wouldn't worry - AI is pretty much replacing session musicians now!

[Len_derby]

35 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

I know what you mean. My last recording session was at a mate's house in his living room on his MAC using Logic Pro. There was so much intervention from it that a part of me was wondering what I was even doing there! I felt like I was playing second fiddle to the software.

 

I think we’ve got the same mates. 😂

Jokes aside, I’ve done long stints in originals bands and I understand the importance of recording material, so I’ve committed to it and done my best.

Although, I often think of something one of our fellows @FinnDave said. 
A recording studio is often somewhere music goes to die.

Edited 7 hours ago by Len_derby

[Terry M.]

29 minutes ago, Len_derby said:

Although, I often think of something one of our fellows @FinnDave said.
A recording studio is often somewhere music goes to die.

I've never heard this before but my goodness it's loaded with truth.

[KingBollock]

18 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

While we’re on it, anyone else's kids at school concerts. They're all rubbish and wasting everyone's time.

We went with some friends to see their daughter perform in a talent show in a venue on Cromer pier. I don’t really know how to describe what her troupe were supposed to be doing but it was truly awful, an absolute shambling mess!

 

My mate was relieved that only the best three acts from each category went through to perform again in the afternoon. He was just glad that we wouldn’t have to stay for that. Except that there were only two acts in her category, so they got through by default.

 

I buggered off outside and spent the afternoon crab fishing.

[kiat]

Is there a thread about "pet peeves"?  I'll put my music bass related ones there.

 

Another irritational prejudice is those #@&£ers that drive straight through t-junction roundabouts without respecting the stop sign.

 

Can't count the times I've got to the roundabout way before any traffic on my right, but can see a vehicle or line of vehicles that are far enough away that I have the right of way to enter the roundabout, but they are going so quickly without slowing down for the stop markers on the road, that they might barrel over and hit my car, me and my passengers when I enter.