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Post subject: Guitar Stereotypes
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:37 pm
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Just for laughs, I thought i'd be funny if we tried to list all the guitar player stereotypes. I always find it funny when people have a certian impression of me because i play guitar. They obviously don't know the joys of music. List anything you want from straight up guitar stereotypes to guitar brand stereotypes, or if you want, you can also list other instruments and the way they have an impression on people.


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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:44 pm
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People often stereotype Telecasters as being country guitars...what ignorant dumb :twisted: sses those people are.... :lol:

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Not sure if this is the kind of thing that you are looking for... but I am QUITE accustomed to being discriminated against because of my appearance/interests. I'm a biker (recently had to give that up), I play guitar, have a few tattoos, and long hair... almost down to my belt. I once visited my parents at their country club and was nearly tackled by security just for walking in the door... just for the way that I look.

Now the truth about me: I'm a college graduate with a BBA and currently undertaking postgraduate studies while working as a corporate trainer for about a dozen major insurance companies, I'm learning guitar in hopes of playing in my church group some day, and approximately every 3 years I cut all my hair off and donate it to "Locks of Love"- an organization that makes hairpieces for children who have lost their hair from chemo and radiation treatments for cancer.

You can never judge a book by its cover.


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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:59 pm
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Every time I tell people I play guitar they go: Then who's the better guitarist, this or that? as if I hold the answers to all guitar-related questions.

Oh, and a lot of people start playing air guitar forcibly while humming Smoke on the Water :lol: :lol:


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ClearwaterZiggy wrote:
Not sure if this is the kind of thing that you are looking for... but I am QUITE accustomed to being discriminated against because of my appearance/interests. I'm a biker (recently had to give that up), I play guitar, have a few tattoos, and long hair... almost down to my belt. I once visited my parents at their country club and was nearly tackled by security just for walking in the door... just for the way that I look.

Now the truth about me: I'm a college graduate with a BBA and currently undertaking postgraduate studies while working as a corporate trainer for about a dozen major insurance companies, I'm learning guitar in hopes of playing in my church group some day, and approximately every 3 years I cut all my hair off and donate it to "Locks of Love"- an organization that makes hairpieces for children who have lost their hair from chemo and radiation treatments for cancer.

You can never judge a book by its cover.



Wow man thats deep. Sorry to hear about that, but it seems like your a nice guy so i guess they're just missing out.


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8) :shock: They often stereotype if your a guitar player you're a trouble maker.


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ClearwaterZiggy wrote:
Not sure if this is the kind of thing that you are looking for... but I am QUITE accustomed to being discriminated against because of my appearance/interests. I'm a biker (recently had to give that up), I play guitar, have a few tattoos, and long hair... almost down to my belt. I once visited my parents at their country club and was nearly tackled by security just for walking in the door... just for the way that I look.

Now the truth about me: I'm a college graduate with a BBA and currently undertaking postgraduate studies while working as a corporate trainer for about a dozen major insurance companies, I'm learning guitar in hopes of playing in my church group some day, and approximately every 3 years I cut all my hair off and donate it to "Locks of Love"- an organization that makes hairpieces for children who have lost their hair from chemo and radiation treatments for cancer.

You can never judge a book by its cover.



Wow man thats deep. Sorry to hear about that, but it seems like your a nice guy so i guess they're just missing out.

:P Yeah, but he lives in Clearwater. :wink:


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ClearwaterZiggy wrote:
Not sure if this is the kind of thing that you are looking for... but I am QUITE accustomed to being discriminated against because of my appearance/interests. I'm a biker (recently had to give that up), I play guitar, have a few tattoos, and long hair... almost down to my belt. I once visited my parents at their country club and was nearly tackled by security just for walking in the door... just for the way that I look.

Now the truth about me: I'm a college graduate with a BBA and currently undertaking postgraduate studies while working as a corporate trainer for about a dozen major insurance companies, I'm learning guitar in hopes of playing in my church group some day, and approximately every 3 years I cut all my hair off and donate it to "Locks of Love"- an organization that makes hairpieces for children who have lost their hair from chemo and radiation treatments for cancer.

You can never judge a book by its cover.


Sounds familiar dude. I still wear my hair long, at times I can sit on it. Got a few tats, beard. Typical aging hippie look. I too donate to Locks for Love. Great charity. Havning had cancer myself, it feels good to give a foot or two of hair to them. Basically I'm a decent middle aged guy like any other. I've had plenty of problems over my appearance. Cops don't give you a break when your pulled over for speeding. Doctors have refused to give me pain pills for very real problems because I simply must be a drug seeker with all this hair and those evil tatts. It's just ridiculous. Doesn't matter if you tell them you haven't used hard drugs in 15 or 20 years. Long hair and tatts equals liar. I've even gone so far as to go to court because I refuse to pay a doctor when he refuses to provide a service. I'm not paying for the visit if he's going to send my on my way without help. He wasted my time, not the other way around. Anyway, just wanted to throw in my two cents.

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I'm pimarily a metal/doom/grunge player. Yet people are always asking me if I know such and such country song. Uh, no.

Then the most annoying thing is when somebody finds out I play guitar. They usually know somebody else that plays and suggest that we should get together and jam. I get alot of, "Oh man, you should get together with my bud and jam! He is soooooo good." They always have this stunned look when I tell them it doesn't work that way.


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I'm pimarily a metal/doom/grunge player. Yet people are always asking me if I know such and such country song. Uh, no.

Then the most annoying thing is when somebody finds out I play guitar. They usually know somebody else that plays and suggest that we should get together and jam. I get alot of, "Oh man, you should get together with my bud and jam! He is soooooo good." They always have this stunned look when I tell them it doesn't work that way.


Not to sound elitist, but I've often found that if you ever actually meet that other guitar player they were saying is so good.....you find out they aren't that good at all. Now you're in the position of having to find a way to never jam with that person again without hurting anyones feelings. Sometimes what other people call jamming, I call giving lessons for free.

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I usually get that I am some kind of a trouble maker or a hippie. A good one is that I am in mid-life crisis.


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Many people think that I was a "band kid" in high school. I don't know many others have the same impression of "band kids" that I have but the "band kids" at my high school did not exactly display, what is regarded as socially normal behavior. In other words they were weird. When someone think I was in band I am a little offended and confused by that.


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I usually get that I am some kind of a trouble maker or a hippie. A good one is that I am in mid-life crisis.


Oh yeah, I get the midlife crisis crap too. I tried the suit and tie thing for 10 years and now I've gone back to what I've always been. Since when is that a crisis? To me, those years in a suit and tie were a cry for help, not the other way around!!!! :lol:

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When people find out i play guitar they just kinda look at me and tell me that they think we should jam, out of the many times this happens, only a few times have I met someone that actually can play like they said they could.


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I have short hair and wear a suit, but that doesn't mean I'm uptight. I go to church on most Sundays, but that doesn't mean I'm judgmental. I wear a tie but that doesn't mean I'm a narcotics officer, although I have met many of them - good guys. Just because I play guitar most days, emphasizing Blues, doesn't mean I haven't sung traditional music in a church choir. Just because I like to play BB King and Clapton, doesn't mean I don't enjoy Beethoven. Looking like I do, I still get pulled over sometimes, but I haven't gotten a ticket for years.


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