Respect for guitarists?

[PerianArdocyl]

When I get on the bus in the morning, recently, there's always an empty seat that no one's taken and all of the other seats are filled up...there's nothing wrong with the seat, and I'm not unpleasant to sit by (unless you find toe-tapping, head-bobbing, and finger-tapping, all at the same time, unpleasant... :o ), or large, or ugly, or anything along those lines. The same empty window seat, every day. It's a little strange, don't you think?

This very morning, when I got on (I brought my guitar, too), I had to go to the back again because all of the seats were filled up. I asked the guy in the way back with the big emergency exit seat all to himself if I could sit by him, and the guy just gives up the seat completely! Wierd, right? These are some pretty hellish-acting people, but somehow, there's always a seat for me back there...

What do you think? Respect for a guitarist?

[Plstrcast]

back of the bus.. WALDO!
lol, sorry, couldnt help it

[PhantomLord]

maybe you're too hot, and it distracts people to sit near you...guys and girls? :D...i dunno...

[AcousticShred]

I aint get no respect for playing guitar in my home town. Mainly because most kids my age dont even like rock. Its all like teen pop and hip hop

[Sexymonkey]

Maybe its the hair... yea... must be the hair...

[Smallfrie_Omega]

or maybe... the seat is just there. and that guy got up so u can have room for ur precious guitar..

[bugman]

maybe people just don't like you.

[RobbieB]

Are you ugly and kinda smell funny? just kiddin:)

[Help_me]

DO you have spikes on your guitar? DO you dress up like Osama?

[PerianArdocyl]

I aint get no respect for playing guitar in my home town. Mainly because most kids my age dont even like rock. Its all like teen pop and hip hop

That sucks. Whatever happened to music?

or maybe... the seat is just there. and that guy got up so u can have room for ur precious guitar..

Good point. But that still doesn't explain why nobody's taken that other seat...

Are you ugly and kinda smell funny? just kiddin

No, in fact, I'm very vain about my looks. :cool:
(although recently, I'm a little insecure, because I really want that guy who looks like lead guitarist Mike CampBell to like me. :scared: )

DO you have spikes on your guitar? DO you dress up like Osama?

You know, I just don't know who that is. Name sounds familiar though. Was he involved in that terrorist attack?

[Its_Me]

yes but lets not condemn your thread to the political section ;)

[PerianArdocyl]

Good plan.

[RobbieB]

Mike CampBell? Dosen't he make chicken soup?

[gtrhrcane]

Maybe they like you ( not in the creepy uncle sort of way) and you're like their future rock star on their bus route??

[b3n]

or maybe you're already a rock star and we don't know about it?

[PerianArdocyl]

That would be nice. :smile:

And no, you...bleh. Mike CampBell is the lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Yes, he looks a little older now, but this Mike(yes, his name is actually Mike! How trippy is that!!) is like a young, teenage Mike. :smile: :smile: :smile:

And he likes rock 'n' roll, and he digs my philosophies, and...

Ok, I'm rambling now. Back to the topic.

I was able to get the seat again this morning. I might've just seen some gangsta gestures, but I think I saw someone actually pointing to it as I came back! :eek:

[Juri-Juri]

Well, guitars do give some sort of statement. It's like a business man holding a suitcase, y'know? "Now you know what I do. Stay out of my way."

[RobbieB]

Easy now I worship at the house of Tom often. I was just being my usual smart*** self.

[RobbieB]

What kinda axe are you toting every morning. Is it huge or is it something that will fit in a gig bag? I used to carry my jackson kelly at school in the hard shell case just to **** off the preps. that damn thing was huge. :_devil: :_devil: :_devil:

[ValveTronix]

hah... i used to carry around my gothic explorer with me... in the gibson hard shell that came with it... I nearly doubled the strength of my grip lol

i never road the bus but everyone prolly has seats they always sit in...

[RobbieB]

gotta love those huge cases in crowded hallways. you can just take so many people it's amazing. Me and my friend actually were told over the pa to not bring our guitars anymore. The school didn't name names but we knew who we were and we hit the floor laughing. lol

[PerianArdocyl]

Well, guitars do give some sort of statement. It's like a business man holding a suitcase, y'know? "Now you know what I do. Stay out of my way."

:lolpnd:

Easy now I worship at the house of Tom often. I was just being my usual smart*** self.

Heh, ok. I should stop being a hypocrit anyway, cuz I didn't know his name a few months ago.

What kinda axe are you toting every morning. Is it huge or is it something that will fit in a gig bag?

No, it fits in my backpack(!). Just my Short Cassie. Until this tuesday, when my band finally meets, I haven't taken Wings with me.

[juggernaut]

sounds like dreamville isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[PerianArdocyl]

Oh...why do you say that? I can't find anything in the thread that would indicate the meaning of that statement...

But no, Dreamville is great. Dreamville is perfect. All is good in Dreamville. :boggle:

Why else would Tom sing of it so fondly?

[ferdinand]

So it's not a hardcase. They must respect you. People only get out of the way of my hardcase because it's big, hard and mysterious. Hmmm... The gansters of old put tommy guns in violin cases. What weaponry would be good for a guitar case, I wonder?

[PhantomLord]

anti-take missile.

[almost a regula]

there is a ****** at my school who laughs at my grades(c's and b's) when he gets like 33%(took a peak at his grades on the teachers comp.)
he always takes my stuff and runs with it(hes ruined alot of my projects for no reasn he even wrecked my assignment folder(well i got him back for that one))so when first went to that school(1month and 2 weeks ago) he walks up to a group of guitarists and starts dissin guitar playin (no one knows that i play if i told them kids would start callin me a poser so i geuss ill have to wait till i have enough calous on my fingers to prove it) but hes shorter then me and his upper arms are smaller than his forearms one of the shorter weaker kids once broke his nose with one punch ill probably get annoyed with him bugging me(he humps my desk and makes these sounds that a girl makes during sex, he always bugs me like that)and puch him.

[stratman50th]

Why don't you just ask? I mean what could it hurt?

[DevilMayCare]

People on my old bus used to look at my case (one of the black, material ones which goes around the shape of the guitar) and ask me what was in it, then believe me if I said a violin. :confuse:
They never laid a hand on it though, even though they'd quite happily grab other people's stuff and mess about with it or throw it. I think even they realised if you touch a guitarists instrument without permission, you're going to have a less than happy player raining down on you.

[haganator]

people at my school wouldnt get out of anyones way for anything...they just stand in the middle of the hallway. im not even sure if they are talking. In todays world there is little respect for guitar players. So much freaking crap polluting the radio waves. when i take my guitar to school i usually just take it straight to the music room befor the bell rings so theres not many people in the halls. then i just run into people with it when im leaving...and with a reversed jackson headstock...they decide to move.

[FruscianteFan62]

The next time a guy gives up his seat for you, give him a nice firm slap on the *** as he passes by. That will get him thinking properly.

[Submerged]

i bet you jsut have the mojo to back you up from all that guitaring.

by the way, drummers get no respect. i do both, and when i play guitar i am treated nicely, but on drums i just get yelled at constantly :P

[Irontallica]

Where I Come From If Your As Good As Me Your Titled As A God I Dont Want Them To Call Me "god Guitarist Of The World" They Just Do It....i Try To Live A Normal Life A Really Do Its Just To Hard.there Are Too Many Gifts And Free Food....yesterday A Guy Came Up To Me And Gave Me A Bottle Of Champange Worth £1000 And I Excepted It Gladly.

[Irontallica]

Drummers Shouldnt Get Respect They Bearly Do Anything Slammming Your Hands Onto The Drumms Im Sorry That Aint Skill Thats Going Back A Stage And Turning Into Children

[Arc]

ahhhhhh

the old respect thingy. I don't see why people can't respect each other decently. In england here we have this massive thing where gangs would hang out at places and 'happy slap' people. This usually ends in a death or knock out. If you've seen a video, it's like a woman is riding a bike down a road. Suddenly a hooded guy jumps out and clotheslines her straight off her bike and knocks her out. She lays there for about 5 mins and then the gang are laughing frantically. Btw to make this even worse, it's recorded on a phone.

I dunno why, but why do hip hop/rap people tend to go 'Respect!' when it seems like they don't know what it means.

[GuitarDesperado]

Well, unless you can back up your chops for the "luggage" you tote around, people wont give much respect for you, and some wont even after witnessing. It's just the way it has been for guitarists and musicians alike. And the basic rocker-type look and such just dawns on people as if you are a drop-out or something, and another reason for people to just leave respect out of the equation. Then, a lot of people now-a-days just don't know how to give respect. :hmmm:

[The_Strokes123]

One day, just hop on the bus with a hardshell case full of knives, open it on the bus and say. "SH** Wrong Case!!!"
It wont solve people not sitting next to you....itll just scare them.
yeah.....im pointles..

[Ghostrider]

Maybe there is a realy skanky, smelly person who sits in that seat, but gets off the bus right before you get on.?.?

[SKEETER]

I have very long hair and a beard, and am a rather big guy. I never have problems with people avoiding me ( I also am not into following fads such as tattoos and attatching metal to my face). People constantly ask me if I ride a "harley". I never ride busses though, and avoid cities.