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Subject: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Musket Date: 27 Mar 13 - 07:03 AM Are they labelled as guitarists because they occasionally pick up an instrument and play... Not necessarily believing in guitar, not quoting Woody Guthrie or Pete Townsend, not worshipping at the altar of Eric Clapton. And certainly not necessarily following the political views of Dick Gaughan or Martin Simpson. Or is my lack of wishing to be labelled as a guitarist a form of aggressive atheism? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Steve Shaw Date: 27 Mar 13 - 07:11 AM And is a guitarist who isn't quite sure whether he's a guitarist or not a "strummer"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Musket Date: 27 Mar 13 - 07:18 AM Worshipping Joe can be seen as heresy by some.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Big Al Whittle Date: 27 Mar 13 - 07:54 AM I suspect its cos you see 'guitarist' as having certain implications - a bit like disabled people are labelled as scroungers and gay people are treated like perverts. You need a wider circle of acquaintances -people who don't adopt lazy assumptions and negative stereotypes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Pete Jennings Date: 27 Mar 13 - 07:58 AM Yes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Little Hawk Date: 27 Mar 13 - 08:52 AM Musket, your fly is open. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Green Man Date: 27 Mar 13 - 09:09 AM Guitarista, purveyor of guitar music. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Little Hawk Date: 27 Mar 13 - 09:12 AM What about air guitarists? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Dave Hanson Date: 27 Mar 13 - 09:27 AM He's just looking for an argument. Anyone who plays a guitar is a guitarist, no more, no less. Dave H |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: GUEST,Niggardly Bastard Date: 27 Mar 13 - 09:38 AM Are they really guitarists? Or mere guitar "players"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: GUEST,Musket sans cookie Date: 27 Mar 13 - 10:35 AM Air guitarists worship false idols. . So... looking at this thread and the one this thread takes the piss out of.. What is the difference between a guitarist and an atheist? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Ron Davies Date: 27 Mar 13 - 10:41 AM Just as long as they're not bouzouki players. You can't get a bouzouki on a plane-- unless you call it a mandolin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 27 Mar 13 - 11:13 AM What is the difference between a guitarist and an atheist? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Bert Date: 27 Mar 13 - 11:29 AM Strummer, definitely, I'm a strummer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Date: 27 Mar 13 - 11:44 AM Musket:"Are they labelled as guitarists because they occasionally pick up an instrument and play... Hey Musket...are you asserting that you're a 'yourselfist'? GfS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Little Hawk Date: 27 Mar 13 - 03:16 PM If you see God every time you look in the mirror, you are either... 1. approaching enlightenment or... 2. a typical atheist! ;-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 27 Mar 13 - 03:59 PM Wow! I said "Good one! GfS!" before. Now it is gone. So I repeat! Good one! GfS! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Stringsinger Date: 27 Mar 13 - 05:13 PM This is more appropriate for a musical debate. There are essentially different guitarists that keep the instrument growing in transition. Guitarists are evolving every day. What is a guitarist? You know, who cares. If someone plays and communicates well on this instrument, what you call him/her is insignificant. What is playing well? Now we've opened up a can of worms! This may be in the ear of the beholder. ie: I don't like the playing of Ted Nugent but I'm not about to say that he isn't some kind of guitarist. And when Burl Ives plays a simple yet appropriate accompaniment on his guitar, is he not some kind of guitarist? I get a snob thing going here where people are categorized in their playing depending on who gets to criticize. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 27 Mar 13 - 05:21 PM Fear not Stringsinger. Musket is not looking for an answer he is simply mocking another thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: gnu Date: 27 Mar 13 - 06:30 PM Yer all just wannabe Rhan players. Guitar lesson : Put this finger here and that finger there and... Bodhran lesson : Play it. >;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Mar 13 - 07:32 PM There's an indication of some special competence in any such term. If you describe someone as "a writer" you would normally mean more than just that they have use a pen or a keyboard. 'A cook' would mean more than someone who can heat up a tin of baked beans. I play the guitar, but I'd hesitate to describe myself as 'a guitarist'. I'd leve that judgement to other people. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: frogprince Date: 27 Mar 13 - 08:49 PM I waited too long to accept Doc Watson as my personal saviour. But I guess I can be happy settling for Pat Donahue. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: GUEST,Musket sans cookie Date: 28 Mar 13 - 01:58 PM Hey Goofus. Someone agrees with one of your posts I notice. If I were you I'd print it out and frame it. Mind you, he is all at sea so don't get too excited. The good professor gets excited though, don't you boy? Woof! Woof! Grrrr Woof! What's that? Goofus? No, he can't cure you of atheism. He can cure gay people though, and I thought you and I were barking. ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 28 Mar 13 - 03:47 PM Musket you could cure gay men! Just one look! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 13 - 06:30 PM "If you see God every time you look in the mirror, you are either... 1. approaching enlightenment or... 2. a typical atheist! ;-D" or 3. doing some real heavy shit, man |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are guitarists really guitarists or... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 28 Mar 13 - 09:15 PM Guitarists are really guitarists until they put down their guitars and pick up different instruments. Then, if they're like Mark O'Connor or JP Cormier, they become fiddlers/violinists. If they're like me, they become hopeless wannabes who should stick with their guitars. |
