Sometimes I will see a photo of someone posing with a guitar or bass

[bass_dinger]

Sometimes I will see a photo of someone posing with a guitar or bass, and it annoys me to see that they are clearly not playing it.

 

 

Thumb on the strings.  The other fingers holding the guitar up. No strap. 

 

 

Am I the only person who is annoyed by this sort of thing? Probably....

 

[Jackroadkill]

[MacDaddy]

 

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I must admit to being rather irked whenever I see how the bass player was generated on the Enterprise-D's holodeck.

 

 

[Sté]

1 hour ago, Jackroadkill said:

I would like to hear this awesome chord with this capo 😂

[Dan Dare]

Life's too short to get upset about it. If people want to make themselves look stoopid, it's a free country.

[bassbiscuits]

3 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

The misplaced capo is the least annoying thing is this photo. 

[bassbiscuits]

3 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

Sometimes I will see a photo of someone posing with a guitar or bass, and it annoys me to see that they are clearly not playing it.

 

 

Thumb on the strings.  The other fingers holding the guitar up. No strap. 

 

 

Am I the only person who is annoyed by this sort of thing? Probably....

 

I hear ya. You’d think they could find a pupil who actually plays guitar to advertise stuff like, er, playing a guitar. 

[MartinB]

If he knew how to play, he wouldn't need to go to the school

[Huge Hands]

This was on at the weekend and always bugged me. I'm sure he did it for comic effect, but Larvell Jones (Michael Wilmslow) "playing" bass on the back of a Strat?

 

 

[bass_dinger]

Rockin' all over the world? 

 

Not if she's in the band, you won't be. 

 

[TimR]

Not as much as children airing their parent's political views on the News. 

[Jackroadkill]

1 hour ago, TimR said:

Not as much as children airing their parent's political views on the News. 

[Musicman666]

look mum no strings....

[MacDaddy]

 

 

 

[casapete]

I’m sure most of our older members recall John Peel ‘playing’ mandolin

on this on TOTP. 
 

 

[Homatron]

2 hours ago, Musicman666 said:

look mum no strings....

 

Good thing they miked up the bass head though. Everyone knows that's where the tone comes from.

[Homatron]

 

 

[cybertect]

20 hours ago, bassbiscuits said:

The misplaced capo is the least annoying thing is this photo. 

A very different four letter word that begins with ’C’ came to my mind 🤐

[Dood]

22 hours ago, Sté said:

I would like to hear this awesome chord with this capo 😂

 

I like D9sus4/A, as for the rest of the picture, I've shut that out like all the other unhealed trauma 🤪

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Dood

[Burns-bass]

23 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I must admit to being rather irked whenever I see how the bass player was generated on the Enterprise-D's holodeck.

 

 

I was watching this yesterday. Classic of Series 1. Those crafty little Binars!

[bass_dinger]

On 14/10/2025 at 17:24, bass_dinger said:

 

Am I the only person who is annoyed by this sort of thing?

 

Clearly not the only person...

[neepheid]

Eh, it just makes me laugh. The more ridiculously unviable it is, the bigger the laugh

 

[Norris]

It's like the advert that's on at the moment where a young kid is playing a strat, then jumps on a pedal. The guitar sounds exactly the same. So he jumps on it again... and it still sounds the same.

 

Just looked it up... EDF advert

 

Edit: apparently he can actually play a guitar though

Edited 1 hour ago by Norris

[Dan Dare]

4 hours ago, casapete said:

I’m sure most of our older members recall John Peel ‘playing’ mandolin

on this on TOTP. 
 

 

 

Thanks for the reminder. That was hilarious. Peely, bless him, was pretty much tone deaf. Couldn't carry a tune to save his life.