Dudes Playing Acoustic Guitars at Parties

[Eschaton]

Based off this contention here:

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42407.msg2007441#msg2007441

Depends on the song, I guess.

I know that antisocial nerds who go to one party every three years or so and probably stand in the corner casting creepy glances at girls across the room might be opposed to a decent guitar jam. Cool people can dig it. End of story.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

[Steve Contra]

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Basically.  My cousin sings Opera at parties though, that's pretty fucking rad.

[Van Cruncheon]

it's painfully narcissistic and usually obnoxious as human cliches go, but it's not like we can't throw a beer bottle at their head

[Van Cruncheon]

"well, if no-one's gonna talk to me, i think i'll just sit here and strum a little chôro no. 1 muttering 'please let me get some pussy tonight' from under my patchy ginger beard"
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[Am_I_Anonymous]

"well, if no-one's gonna talk to me, i think i'll just sit here and strum a little Chôro No. 1 muttering 'please let me get some pussy tonight' from under my patchy ginger beard"

At least you guys get people playing something interesting. Here in Ohio the top 5 guitar songs played at a party are as follows

1) Stairway to Heaven
2) Stairway to Heaven
3) Stairway to Heaven
4) Stairway to Heaven
5) Dave Matthews shit

[Dickie Dee]

I don't think I've ever heard someone actually play Stairway to Heaven in real life.

[Mr. Gundam]

A good friend of mine always brings his acoustic guitar to his cabin and plays it around the fire at night. That's the only time I'm kinda ok with it, but then it still gets old fast.

[Van Cruncheon]

public acoustic guitar noodling is for honors dorm stairwells, wannabe "dive" coffee joints, and street corners in gentrified urban strip malls.

gtfo with that cackery when human beings come together to get to' up from the flo' up

 

edit: last time i was at a party where someone started to strum an acoustic guitar, the song was "moonshadow" by cat stevens, AND THE TWEEBERT MOTHERFUCKER SANG ALONG. we shoulda killed the dude right then and there. i consider it a lapse of basic reason that we didn't. frankly, i blame democrats.

[Eel O'Brian]

Yeah, five minutes, tops, then put that shit away so people can get back to talking and drinking. Get a paying gig, Django.

[Eel O'Brian]

Even worse is when some Randy Rhodes cosplayer brings his electric guitar and amp. I'd rather play Wii music at that point.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Even worse is when some Randy Rhodes cosplayer brings his electric guitar and amp. I'd rather play Wii music at that point.

Bring your electric guitar AND amp to a party and not be famous brehs...

[Van Cruncheon]

the only POLE we're discussing is how much acoustic guitar players at a party hafta smoke to get out of their court-mandated backyard beatdown

[Steve Contra]

One thing, if you're talented enough to play flamenco guitar and not dad rock you get a pass.  Also you're going to get laid more than you could ever imagine.

[Mr. Gundam]

The survey hasn't even defined the parameters of guitar playing at parties.

Like, are we talking about all parties? So a party at a huge house with a big backyard to accommodate a full multi-instrument jam session is exactly the same as a tiny little apartment? How long does the playing go on? Does the player interrupt everyone to introduce the song? Is the guitar being played in the middle of the room, or in a corner somewhere? What kind of party is it? Who is playing, a resident/guest of honor, or some random dude who came along as a friend of a friend of a friend? Was the guitar already there at the house, or did someone bring it?

Without these details, this study isn't anything more than a Gallup poll with a really flawed demographic sampling.

Do you bring the guitar inside with you initially, or do you leave it in the car, hoping to worm it into conversation?

[Eel O'Brian]

One thing, if you're talented enough to play flamenco guitar and not dad rock you get a pass.  Also you're going to get laid more than you could ever imagine.

That would be the case, but everyone I've ever heard was in the painful learning phase where they don't even really know a complete song, just a bunch of "check out this cool riff...a dozen times in a row"

[Eel O'Brian]

I say bring a tambourine, whip that thing out midway through their "performance," and fuck their shit up proper

[Van Cruncheon]

in the first case, if you're looking to NOT socialize, just fiddle with your phone like everyone else breh

[Van Cruncheon]

eel, or just start masturbating. dance with the one that brung you, i say

[Eel O'Brian]

wait, no the worst, the WORST, is when there's already some music playing and Mr. Cover Band wants to awkwardly play along.

[Brehvolution]

The best is when there are 3 or 4 guitars out and nothing gets played because they all don't know the same songs. Well, you will probably hear 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

And also note it's ALWAYS some smug hipster (complete with one size to small walmart flannel) who thinks his run down of Death Cab for Cutie is exactly what this party needs to get the ladies going.

[Eel O'Brian]

mostly it was banger rednecks down here, some sort of off-key allman brothers or zeppelin or eddie van halen tryhards wherever you went

[kick51]

CAUSE AFTER ALLLLLL

YOU'RE MY WONDERWALLLLLLL

FUCK

[Brehvolution]

And also note it's ALWAYS some smug hipster (complete with one size to small walmart flannel) who thinks his run down of Death Cab for Cutie is exactly what this party needs to get the ladies going.

It's almost as bad as playing an original song no one has ever heard.

[Eel O'Brian]

Jazz/funk fusion white boys, ants marching shit that goes on forever 

[kick51]

lol STS9 and SCI.   thank fucking god none of the second rate jambands became as big as Phish or the Dead.  It was always obvious that they were all fakes without an original bone in their body.

[TakingBackSunday]

I don't mind it if everyone asks a person to pull out the guitar for a bit

otherwise its incredibly self-centered and a cry for attention

I know because I was that douchebag in high school

[kick51]

but you're all wrong, Wonderwall is objectively the worst. 

[Steve Contra]

lol STS9 and SCI.   thank fucking god none of the second rate jambands became as big as Phish or the Dead.  It was always obvious that they were all fakes without an original bone in their body.

Oh god String Cheese Incident.  And Leftover Salmon.   

[Eel O'Brian]

We went to this place called the mellow mushroom to eat one Friday night and some college funk jam band was setting up and tuning to play right after we ordered

I think that's the fastest I've ever eaten a pizza

[Kara]

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[Mr. Gundam]

Mellow Mushroom opened up a spot in Portland a while back. It didn't last long.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I'm easily the most experienced guitar player here so please understand,  it's never ok to play at a party. No exceptions.  No parameters.  No nothing. 

If you're bad or mediocre you shouldn't be inflicting your playing on anyone,  if you're good you should have enough self respect to only play in venues where people can pay you attention.  No exceptions.

[king of the internet]

Still better than white people busting out some kind of hand drum.

[TakingBackSunday]

And while a guitar is really douchy, NOTHING reaches this in terms of Douche Lording:

[Steve Contra]

I'm easily the most experienced guitar player here so please understand,  it's never ok to play at a party. No exceptions.  No parameters.  No nothing. 

If you're bad or mediocre you shouldn't be inflicting your playing on anyone,  if you're good you should have enough self respect to only play in venues where people can pay you attention.  No exceptions.

What does this matter?

I really wish you'd cut the "I'm the only real musician here" ego trip. No one cares that you were some classical prodigy as a teenager. You're like the titular character from the song Glory Days at some point.

People actually want to hear him play and he still says no, unacceptable. 

[headwalk]

WEIRD fucking night.

Instead of going to that dumb fucking biotch's friend's party early on, I took my guitar and went to a jam session that a downtown cafe was hosting. They played a lot of new-age sounding stuff, which was really out of my comfort zone (I mainly play rock and blues), but eventually I figured out what notes to play and actually got some pretty mean solos in there.

Later, I was walking to the bars to try to find that dumb fucking biotch's friend's party, and some girl said hi to me. Turns out she had been at the jam session and really enjoyed my playing. They were going to the corner store to get some soju, and she invited me to come with.

I thought about trying to kino her, but there wasn't really an opportunity, since we were walking and I was carrying my guitar.

After we got our drinks, we all started walking to the bars. A car came driving down the street (there are no sidewalks), and I kind of brushed up against her out of necessity, but I let it linger for a few seconds.

Suddenly she increased her walking speed and didn't even seem to care that I was no longer beside her. I knew exactly what was up, so I basically said fuck it and took a different turn and never saw her again for the rest of the night. Actually, I did see her once, but neither of us gave the other the time of day. That was WEIRD. If a girl isn't interested, she should learn how to convey that without making the dude feel awful.

In the past this might have ruined my night, but I said fuck it and started drinking. Then I met a dude who had also been at the jam session. We both busted out our guitars and started jamming in the street. At one point, we had a crowd of like 20 people singing along to Under the Bridge. It was amazing. Towards the end, some girl came up to me and asked if I knew how to play Crash by DMB. It just so happens that I do know how to play that song. So I played it for her, and she just kinda melted, and I took her home and tapped that.

Weird night, but satisfying overall.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I'm easily the most experienced guitar player here so please understand,  it's never ok to play at a party. No exceptions.  No parameters.  No nothing. 

If you're bad or mediocre you shouldn't be inflicting your playing on anyone,  if you're good you should have enough self respect to only play in venues where people can pay you attention.  No exceptions.

What does this matter?

I really wish you'd cut the "I'm the only real musician here" ego trip. No one cares that you were some classical prodigy as a teenager. You're like the titular character from the song Glory Days at some point.

What is the problem with someone taking pride in what they accomplished? The only ones who hate on that have never accomplished anything.

[Brehvolution]

Maybe Walrus and Puppy should cut heads and let us be the judge who is the most experienced.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

And while a guitar is really douchy, NOTHING reaches this in terms of Douche Lording:

While this may not be prevalent today (hell if I know haven't been around the scene in 15 years) but these particular fuckholes will always have my scorn.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Contact juggling is amazing, BrandNew.

You are such an asshole-tonguing, Lebron slurping embarrassment to the human race.

Know how I know Walrus pisses off everybody at a party?

[headwalk]

shirtless contact juggling to drive by incubus with an acoustic guitar on your back while wearing a peaked beanie on a beach.

[kick51]

fire dancing is cool though.  been to a few (hundred) hippy parties in my time.  It's gotta be at a beach party or outside somewhere.

[Steve Contra]

An acoustic guitar thread does Glen Shinobi in?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

An acoustic guitar thread does Glen Shinobi in?

He just takes things too seriously. He's alright in my book, hope he comes back.

[jakefromstatefarm]

What about the neckbeard clique who're in a room by themselves, whipping out tornado of souls and angel of death, using amps supplied by the host?

I'm asking for a friend.

[TakingBackSunday]

what did we do shinobi? 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

What about the neckbeard clique who're in a room by themselves, whipping out tornado of souls and angel of death, using amps supplied by the host?

I'm asking for a friend.

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[Dickie Dee]

Kitchen parties where people sit around playing music is sort of a thing around here 

[ToxicAdam]

I went to a  'theatre kid' party where it worked. But you had a bunch of different rooms in the house where unusual stuff was popping off (improv, re-enacting scenes from RHPS, tabletop gaming, french film room, ironic spin the bottle/truth or dare game). I was 19 and dating an older girl (22) that took me to the party. I felt so out of place and young.

 

 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Yeah that might be true, but at least I don't play at parties

[Supermanisdead]

i lost my virginity to one so im biased

[Madrun Badrun]

i lost my virginity to one so im biased (Image removed from quote.)

Did he keep on playing guitar while sodomizing you?  Cause i'd image he could rest the guitar on your back but the fingering angle would be hard. 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Is slacklining still a thing? Do I have to watch greasy hipsters do it in the park again this summer?

[Steve Contra]

Hipsters don't slackline, those are burning man losers.  Get your subclasses right

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Not in Toronto, dude. It somehow worked its way into the hipster community and the big park everyone goes to to drink and look at cool dogs turned into a cirque du fucking soleil.

[Steve Contra]

Canada

[Mr. Gundam]

Hipsters don't slackline, those are burning man losers.  Get your subclasses right

Slack lining is a total Seattle passive aggressive Capitol Hill hipster thing.

[Steve Contra]

Hipsters don't slackline, those are burning man losers.  Get your subclasses right

Slack lining is a total Seattle passive aggressive Capitol Hill hipster thing.

Basically Canada