Wow,I got the first vote!...musician all the way,there's not much entertaining about me,I just play guitar.

I'm an entertainer. I'm just loud, obnoxious, and fast when I play.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

what if you are both?!?

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Squier For Life!

Peavey Mark IV Bass head
Peavey 2x10
Peavey 1x15

The best are both. And that does not mean "insane technicality and ridiculous stage choreography", it can be three chords, some shouting, and a stage dive. Being a musician is relative, if you can make the sounds you want, you're a musician. Being an entertainer is about projecting an energy, the exact nature of which varies greatly, be it by diving into the crowd, pyrotechnics, etc., or by standing mostly still and strumming that guitar as hard as you can and putting everything you have into the feeling you project.


It's why I love Folk punk... so simple, so rawly emotional, and so moving

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

i never moved much when playing lead live in pubs and stuff. just not how i roll. im not good enough to wave my guitar round and do big windmills without looking like a nob. i prefer understated to overstated - with the exception of hendrix. watching roger waters live he did a tour with Snowy White and some other prettyboy american guitarist, cant remember his name, but it was ridiculous, something something the 3rd or similar.

this guy had a sharktooth necklace, a one pice crushed velvet catsuit on extravagant facial hair, an upside down, back to front, reverse strung strat, and all the facial expressions you could imagine. he was very very good, but i thought he looked like a pretentious fool.

Snowy White came on next to him wearing some old jeans, a black t shirt and a beige leather jacket. and totally overpowered this other guy. for exmaple i'll take Gilmour over Vai any day of the week.

I think "Artist" is a better word than either.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

I play music for myself. Im not looking to entertain anyone it people like what I play good for them.

Actually, that could just make you a player. Or a musical technician..



Now that IS the mark of a musician!

I'm a musician, no doubt about that. If everyone in a band was like me, audiences would be fast asleep by the 2nd number. I hide behind my keyboard rig and don't make any fuss. If I'm playing guitar on a number, then I'm still hiding behind my keyboards..

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Me too!

Hi Tochai!!!

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I hope people like it when they're paying to hear us play....if not the alternative isn't pleasant!

I meant that even if you have the technical skill of a fruit fly, if you can make it sound how you imagined, you're a musician. Like, a guy never really learned how to play, but playing in a band setting, he want to make feedback and lots of noise. If he can make feedback and lots of noise like he wants, dude's a musician.

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

We'll agree to disagree. To me a Musician is someone who has a considerable range of skills - often formally acquired, but just as often instinctively realised. The ability to create music, understand it, arrange it for someone else, are all indicators. But mostly importantly the ability to impart emotion into a performance - and having the insight to feel what the writer intended and then moving it on sometimes to a place where your interpretation becomes as valid as the composition. Thats why I so agreed with the other half of your original post..

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Fender Highway & Classic 60s Strats, Fender Toronado, Telecaster, Gretsch Projet, Charvel 3, PRS SE Soapbar II & Custom 24, Burns Batwing and many others!

I chose entertainer, but I would have went with performer
if it was an option.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Two halves of the same walnut, I'd say. Ideally, anyhow.

Cheers - C

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You may be in a room by your self playing your music or singing a song. In my book that's entertainment / being an entertainer.
----Danny,