Guitarists – Grow some ears and make sure you have a good tone. Calm it down with the distortion, you sound like garbage. Stop being so self-serving and play with some taste.
Bass Players – They’re called quarter notes, learn how to use them. And in case you didn’t know, you need to keep the time too.
Drummers – Where do I begin? Please play in time. PLEASE. When you’re dropping beats or rushing rhythms everybody hurts. PLEASE listen to some soul/funk/jazz/anything with some heart and swagger and learn how to play TASTEFUL, RHYTHMIC, CREATIVE, AND STRONG music. If you look past your snare you’ll find a beautiful thing called a ride cymbal. USE IT. Remember – you’re making music, be musical.
Singers – If you can’t sing. Don’t sing. —Sore Ears
This article appears in May 26 – Jun 1, 2011.
they’re was a lovely voice and guitar singing in our hood on sunday, then someone started weedwacking. thanks for the tuneage mystery lady
And it seems that noone knows what a guitar chord is anymore. They just pick away on one or two strings over and over and over again…ad nauseam…FFS, a trained monkey can do that. Do yourself, (and the rest of us), a favour and get some training.
Was the band drinking/drunk?
Thank friggin’ cripes to OP for posting. Of course, I did lose my hearing playing in those crap Halifax bands, but in my deaf dodderage I’m learning to be quite the Beethoven.
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Sweet image, PG. Thanks 🙂
You know, until I moved away from NS, I had never attended a party at which there was no live music. At the end of the night I was still waiting for the party to start. It was one of those “Is that all there is? When do we make the tunes?” moments.
halisux has a very limited group of performers to chose from. there are tons of thnk they are great assholes, then there are the ones with real talent.
I’ve yet to encounter any shitty musicians here in Halifax (aside from random people playing on the street), which is probably due to a) the fact that I don’t go that many live shows, and b) when I do, it’s usually a metal show so it’s supposed to be loud. 😛
Someone bitching about Kay’s drunk jam sessions with Desi’s out-of-tune instruments.
Musicians in Halifax…..lol….now that’s funny.