The Confessions Thread

[Achtane]

Today I decided I was completely fuckin' sick of music and every sound I can make, then felt like playing bass, then my amp sounded like shit, then maybe I was just fuckin' done with guitar-based music, now I'm changing my pedals around and planning on bending my stupid Yamaha pss-570.
I'm kinda tired of guitars and pedals and brootl hebby metulz, which just rhymed, and also I feel like slamming my head through a microwave window. I need toans like that. Microwave-head-slamming-noodle-frying toanz. No "heavy" shit, just brain scorchers.
Maybe I need a sampler or something LOLOLOL GAS STRIKES AGAIN

[kbit]

A sampler was what I thought of as you were describing your situation, but bending your 570 would be awesome, too. The 460/470/560/570s are supposed to be full of useful bends.
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While I was making dinner tonight, I was talking to myself as if I were a young southern girl asking her "mama" for the food I was making. & now I'm snickering like mad because of how preposterous that was.

[mathias]

I confess that I read the confessions thread. And that my GAS is outta control.

[skullservant]

I mostly go to Talk Bass just to sit in the Luthier's Corner and wish I could make a bass

[Bassboar]

I only practiced for 30 minutes tonight.
I'm not sure what's wrong with me, how do you guys keep things interesting?

[mathias]

I only practiced for 30 minutes tonight.
I'm not sure what's wrong with me, how do you guys keep things interesting?

whips and latex, mostly.

[jrmy]

I only practiced for 30 minutes tonight.
I'm not sure what's wrong with me, how do you guys keep things interesting?

Gawd I wish I could get a solId 30 minutes in every day.

[dubkitty]

srsly. some of it's my weird living situation, but i'm lucky if i get in thirty minutes a WEEK.

[Josh Pelican]

I haven't had much motivation lately. I need to get rolling again. Last time I went into a music store, I played the same riffs on every instrument I picked up. Basically all of the riffs from "Behind the Wall of Sleep".

When I pick an instrument up in a store, I never know what to do. I used to know so many songs, but it's like I've forgotten it because I don't practice as much. It fucking blows.

[dubkitty]

i have a repertoire that i run through whenever i test a new instrument, usually guitars. first i hit three or four cowboy chords and see what the pickups/resonance sounds like. often a G chord is enough to send it back to the rack. if i get past the cowboy chords then i run through a series of different styles of playing: some bluegrass/Bakersfield country stuff on the bass strings, some Stephen Stills blues licks on the 7th/9th fret, some chords up the neck with open strings ringing through them, a couple of power chords, a bit of octavey jazz stuff with some densely voiced chords to see if the chords turn to mud, and then some passages from the songs i've written/am working on.

[Josh Pelican]

I promised myself I'd change this year. My problem is that I have other things I need to take care of.

I work so fucking much and have a lot of short change-overs. I'm a casual employee and work random shifts. Sometimes I work 10 shifts in a row, which isn't bad, but I they'll have me work until midnight the night before I have to be in for 8:00. I get home at 12:30 and watch television for a while. Sometimes 3:00 strolls around before I fall asleep. Many days I'm running on 3-4 hours of sleep.

On my days off, if I'm not hanging out with the girlfriend, I might stay in bed until 2:00 in the afternoon. Then I don't feel productive until later in the evening (after supper). I need to fix my sleeping habits before I can really get into a schedule with guitar and bass again.

I really need to start writing more for my band because we have a split coming out in April that should feature all new material from the new line-up. On top of that, I promised myself that I would start doing cover videos and put them up on YouTube. Hopefully that way I won't forget everything I learn.

Also, I just received this in the mail:


As much of a grind freak I may be, I am a huge sucker for blues solos. Once I feel comfortable enough playing this sort of thing on guitar, I'm going with a jazz book. I'm a far better bassist than I am a guitarist and I would like to improve on the latter.

[tuffteef]

i must get so annoying sometimes
i relate everything in my life to a simpsons episode ive seen

i always say its like that simpsons episode where so and so.....
i cant help it, its just so damn good and ive seen like the same episodes like atleast a few hundred times by now

[goroth]

Your avatar is probably not helping you

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

i must get so annoying sometimes
i relate everything in my life to a simpsons episode ive seen

i always say its like that simpsons episode where so and so.....
i cant help it, its just so damn good and ive seen like the same episodes like atleast a few hundred times by now

lol i did this the other day when we rolled into knoxville and that big golden wig sphere they got for the worlds fair!
couldnt stop laughing about it the whole time we were there...in full disclosure, was also kinda delirious from being on the road.

i also relate a lot of things to seinfeld and curb episodes too

[phantasmagorovich]

i must get so annoying sometimes
i relate everything in my life to a simpsons episode ive seen

i always say its like that simpsons episode where so and so.....
i cant help it, its just so damn good and ive seen like the same episodes like atleast a few hundred times by now

lol i did this the other day when we rolled into knoxville and that big golden wig sphere they got for the worlds fair!
couldnt stop laughing about it the whole time we were there...in full disclosure, was also kinda delirious from being on the road.

i also relate a lot of things to seinfeld and curb episodes too

There are such great postcards of that Sphere. What's it's name again? Something absurd too.
Did you play in Knoxville?