Any of you dudes get banned from TGP?..Why?

Spaced Out Ace said:
As much as a lot of things on TGP annoy me, I *may* get a membership or whatever so I can sell my Synergy modules I am not using as well as quite a few of my overdrive and distortion pedals I no longer use.
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I go to one of my local guitar stores. And let them sell it via Reverb (or however they like). Yeah, I lose a 50 bucks or something but I have zero hassle.
 
mercifulfuzziness said:
I go to one of my local guitar stores. And let them sell it via Reverb (or however they like). Yeah, I lose a 50 bucks or something but I have zero hassle.
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Guitar Center would give me next to nothing, most likely. Where I lived in Washington, i had a store offer me something like $650-$700 for a VHT Sig:X because one had sold on Reverb for something like $1300-1400. I ended up selling it to a friend for $900 who still gets a lot of use out of it years later.

I'm sorry, but plight of a lot of guitar stores is their own doing.
 
Spaced Out Ace said:
Guitar Center would give me next to nothing, most likely. Where I lived in Washington, i had a store offer me something like $650-$700 for a VHT Sig:X because one had sold on Reverb for something like $1300-1400. I ended up selling it to a friend for $900 who still gets a lot of use out of it years later.

I'm sorry, but plight of a lot of guitar stores is their own doing.
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Okay, yeah.. where I live this is different. Sorry for the bad tip.
 
gy1900s said:
It's been over 40 years, but who's counting?
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Half their set-list remains Bon Scott tunes - and Axl Rose was able to do a couple that Johnson has never been able to.

As a teenager in Australia in the 70's Bon Scott rules forever. I saw them live at Gininderra High Scool and blew my tiny mind. As Brian himself has said, if you go into any pub in Australia and tell them AC/DC isn't really an Aussie band - good luck making out of the door alive! The band has discussed how strong minded Brian has had to be to remain the New Guy all these years.

Apart from Back in Black, there are a couple of songs but no real albums for me. YMMV.
 
Aelred said:
Apart from Back in Black, there are a couple of songs but no real albums for me. YMYMMV.
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Your brain stops liking new music after your mid 20's. It's just what happens. You feel the way you do because of science.

ACDC is half 70's and half 80's/early 90's. That's why the set list is half Bon and half Brian. After the Razors edge, ACDC was no longer relevant beyond touring. Both singers have 2 great albums and several great singles on less popular albums. Of ACDC's top 10 biggest songs, Brian has 5 of them to according to the numbers. Not bad for the "new guy."
 
gy1900s said:
Your brain stops liking new music after your mid 20's. It's just what happens. You feel the way you do because of science.
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I started liking Choral music, Opera and Medieval Chant in my 40's. I hated it before that. I have studied the philosophy of scientific method and I fail to see how a method of logical progression from hypothesis to thesis to theory based on evidence and demonstration means I prefer Bon Scott Akka Dakka to Brian Johnson. I think geography and cultural immersion in Oz while they were on the rise has more to do with it.

I now like the Masses and other music of Hummel, which I had never heard until a few years ago. The same is true for many of the CD's I listen to by Classical composers other than Mozart, Haydn and CPE Bach. The symphonies of Louise Farrenc, for instance.

10 years of Bon, 40 of Brian. Half the set-list is Bon. And there are still rumours about how much of Back in Black Bon wrote, given the royalty checks to his family recieve.
 
Aelred said:
I started liking Choral music, Opera and Medieval Chant in my 40's. I hated it before that. I have studied the philosophy of scientific method and I fail to see how a method of logical progression from hypothesis to thesis to theory based on evidence and demonstration means I prefer Bon Scott Akka Dakka to Brian Johnson. I think geography and cultural immersion in Oz while they were on the rise has more to do with it.

I now like the Masses and other music of Hummel, which I had never heard until a few years ago. The same is true for many of the CD's I listen to by Classical composers other than Mozart, Haydn and CPE Bach. The symphonies of Louise Farrenc, for instance.

10 years of Bon, 40 of Brian. Half the set-list is Bon. And there are still rumours about how much of Back in Black Bon wrote, given the royalty checks to his family recieve.
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We got around 10 years of Bon and around 10 years of Brian. Wouldn't matter who was singing after the early 90's because that style was dead, and they were old.

You like Bon more because that's what was cool when you were discovering music, and that's OK.

You're talking about CD's? I'm middle aged and have never purchased a CD. It's 2024 my friend.
 
gy1900s said:
We got around 10 years of Bon and around 10 years of Brian. Wouldn't matter who was singing after the early 90's because that style was dead, and they were old.

You like Bon more because that's what was cool when you were discovering music, and that's OK.

You're talking about CD's? I'm middle aged and have never purchased a CD. It's 2024 my friend.
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Yeah, I only have a few thousand CD's and hundreds of vinyl LP's, mostly "Classical" and bought after I turned 40.

I have said repeatedly that it was basically "required" of any young Aussie in the 70's to love AC/DC. It was them or Sherbet (or ABBA) - until I discovered indie/punk stuff. The airwaves - such as they were - insisted.

It's 2024 - and I listen to new (to me) Gregorian Chant whenever I can. I'm still saddend by the retirement of Anonymous 4.

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Christ, if my brain stopped liking new stuff past my 20’s I would have taken myself out years ago. It’s specifically the pursuit of new experiences and enjoyment of those experiences that gives me drive to ignore the bullshit life throws at you and keep going.

I do know there’s a subgroup of people that experience this, I refer to them as the ‘kid’s menu’ type.
 
DrewJD82 said:
Christ, if my brain stopped liking new stuff past my 20’s I would have taken myself out years ago. It’s specifically the pursuit of new experiences and enjoyment of those experiences that gives me drive to ignore the bullshit life throws at you and keep going.

I do know there’s a subgroup of people that experience this, I refer to them as the ‘kid’s menu’ type.
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DrewJD82 said:
Christ, if my brain stopped liking new stuff past my 20’s I would have taken myself out years ago. It’s specifically the pursuit of new experiences and enjoyment of those experiences that gives me drive to ignore the bullshit life throws at you and keep going.

I do know there’s a subgroup of people that experience this, I refer to them as the ‘kid’s menu’ type.
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It's not an absolute.
It's just that it's just that there's a lot of science that shows the parts of your brain that light up when you discover new art stop lighting up as much as they do in your youth.


It's why it's rare for bands to create music that still moves their original fans at some point. Take almost any band from ACDC, to Metallica, to Aerosmith and their original fans will almost always view their early work as their best work. The thing about that is that the fans that came later don't always see it that way because they don't have an emotional connection to the early work. I can say with zero hesitation that the Black album was my favorite Metallica album because I was a kid in the 80's. Guys a decade older than me that were into Metallica hated that album. It's because by the time the black album came out, they were in their mid 20's already and had an emotional connection to Metallica's early sound.

Again, this isn't an absolute, but most people are still listening to the bands they liked in their youth when they're senior citizens, especially non-musicians
 
Looks like a lot of you banned "members" found a new home, trust me it's a *much* better alt. than The LARP Page fka TGP due to the founding "members" selling out to Digital Enthused in 2019...

I'm not banned, still plan on using The Emporium for local sales/trades, but I'm done with the nonstop role-playing games, cosplay, guitar hero, vanity et al. $hit$how ~ It's turned into a great big circle jerk, with many newer "members" clearly not even musos, engaged in some strange fantasy where collecting/obsessing on gear is the price of admission...

Latest "member" trend: The Chatty Kathy , Self-Absorbed Vanity and/or Attention Ho "expert" posters/poseurs (look for the post count :ROFLMAO:) are appealing to the gullible members of the "community" after suffering medical issues/costs and/or unexpected expenditures via Go-Fund-Me (I hit the lotto Ma!).

Anyways, I'm pretty much done with the grab a$$ posts & volunteering to add to DE's (Are You Not Enthused?) click through, data scraping & other numbers games to enrich some wannabe Mark Zuckerburglar :wat

The commodification/monetization of TLP has gotten so bold, so in-your-face, that recently DE's IT geeks began blocking any & all direct links to Reverb.com, I'm guessing 'cause they wouldn't play the This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links like Ebay, Amazon, and others *game* (The Disclaimer is posted @ the top of *every* emporium page).

Oh, I just remembered I was *temp* banned 10 years ago for calling out St. Bill Finnegan's hypocrisy for playing victim while selling *new* OG Klons for $1500+++ on eBay...

Anyways, Happy Holidays! my fellow rascals! :pee
 
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