It don’t matter cause the audience can’t tell the difference..

[paisleywookiee]

Absolutely, and you had better have the best looking graphs to show the booking agents how pure your tone is.

If they balk at my graphs, I just say “do you even ABX, bro?”

 

[newholland]

Absolutely, and you had better have the best looking graphs to show the booking agents how pure your tone is.

(loads demos for spectrographic analysis)

'mm. appears there are significant phase anomalies and comb filtering present in your cymbals. denied.'

 

[Frodebro]

If they balk at my graphs, I just say “do you even ABX, bro?”

That’s a much more diplomatic approach than conducting a null test on their face.

 

[metropolis_4]

I don’t see it that way.

To me, it’s a reminder to not get lost obsessing over minutiae and to keep the focus on the music instead of the gear.

Going back to Rembrandt: I care about his art, I don’t care about what tools he used to create it.

 

[metropolis_4]

There’s like four, maybe five people in here making art instead of performing audience-tested music, lo (probably an exaggeration, shut up nerd). People heading down to get shitfaced and hear some covers do not give two shits what amp you’re playing, what drums you have, etc. They honestly don’t even care if you play song right as long as it’s close enough to be recognizable. Tools for creation aren’t always the appropriate tools for reproduction.

Wait, you’re saying gear used to perform original compositions is more important than gear used to perform someone else’s compositions?

 

[Frodebro]

Wait, you’re saying gear used to perform original compositions is more important than gear used to perform someone else’s compositions?

Or…. Gear used to make shitty, unlistenable dreck versus gear that brings joy to other people’s lives.

 

[ian_dissonance]

Wait, you’re saying gear used to perform original compositions is more important than gear used to perform someone else’s compositions?

Yes. But also no. Gear used to CREATE original compositions is more important than gear used to be a live-action jukebox. No telling WHAT the tools may be, but one of those is definitely more important than the other.

 

[ian_dissonance]

Or…. Gear used to make shitty, unlistenable dreck versus gear that brings joy to other people’s lives.

I’ll pay a cover on the chance that the unlistenable dreck might be up my alley. I won’t pay money for covers.

 

[Frodebro]

I’ll pay a cover on the chance that the unlistenable dreck might be up my alley. I won’t pay money for covers.

Hey, some people dig on unlistenable dreck.

 

[ian_dissonance]

It’s some of my favorite.

 

[newholland]

fwiw.. i know unlistenable dreck, covers, and art can be created with the same materials. while my typically bad nature lets me chuckle that ones more important, cause im an asshole like that, the higher self says.. eh. nah

just if yer gonna do it, bring it via yer own decisions, dont phone it in no matter what yer playin, concisely.

 

[Frodebro]

It’s some of my favorite.

It’s the dissonance…

 

[metropolis_4]

Yes. But also no. Gear used to CREATE original compositions is more important than gear used to be a live-action jukebox. No telling WHAT the tools may be, but one of those is definitely more important than the other.

So… I was hired to play two shows at the same venue. One was a group that hired me to perform Bohemian Rhapsody with a full orchestra and choir, the other hired me to help compose industrial music to perform with a local dance troop. Both were 3 sold out performances at a venue that seats ~600.

You’re telling me my gear for the first was less important than my gear for the second based solely on the fact that I did not compose the music I performed?

What if I’m performing a premier of an original composition that someone else composed? Do I bring my A rig or my B rig?

 

[JiveTurkey]

So… I was hired to play two shows at the same venue. One was a group that hired me to perform Bohemian Rhapsody with a full orchestra and choir, the other hired me to help compose industrial music to perform with a local dance troop. Both were 3 sold out performances at a venue that seats ~600.

You’re telling me my gear for the first was less important than my gear for the second based solely on the fact that I did not compose the music I performed?

What if I’m performing a premier of an original composition that someone else composed? Do I bring my A rig or my B rig?

You can only justifiably be a snob in one direction. Duh!

 

[ian_dissonance]

So… I was hired to play two shows at the same venue. One was a group that hired me to perform Bohemian Rhapsody with a full orchestra and choir, the other hired me to help compose industrial music to perform with a local dance troop. Both were 3 sold out performances at a venue that seats ~600.

You’re telling me my gear for the first was less important than my gear for the second based solely on the fact that I did not compose the music I performed?

What if I’m performing a premier of an original composition that someone else composed? Do I bring my A rig or my B rig?

Yes.

 

[metropolis_4]

Yes.

Interesting. So if I’m going to a local blues jam my gear would be super important because I would be composing new music on the spot, but if I was sitting in with a jazz combo playing some standards my gear isn’t important because somebody else composed the pieces?

What percent of the composition do I need to personally do to make it worth bringing my good gear? What if someone else composed the piece but I composed the guitar part? Or what if someone else composed the guitar part but I’m performing it for the first time? Or what if it’s original music but I’m filling in for the regular guitarist who came up with the parts? What if it’s an original arrangement of a piece someone else composed?

If a buddy asks me if I’d lay down a guitar part for a song he’s working on do I need to bring better gear than if someone is paying me to play a Broadway show?

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Hey, some people dig on unlistenable dreck.

And some people rather get a job as greeter for Walmart than do the cover thing.
Which can be/often is dreck.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

Or…. Gear used to make shitty, unlistenable dreck versus gear that brings joy to other people’s lives.

The things that bring joy to people lives at the sport bar are the game on TV, the alcohol and the (mostly remote) chance at a hookup. The band's job is to provide music without getting in the way of the joy.

 

[Frodebro]

The things that bring joy to people lives at the sport bar are the game on TV, the alcohol and the (mostly remote) chance at a hookup. The band's job is to provide music without getting in the way of the joy.

I didn’t ever play in a sports bar, but they aren’t exactly a venue for live music.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

I didn’t ever play in a sports bar, but they aren’t exactly a venue for live music.

good so take out the TV sets.

Gear for joy:
Kegs and Titties.