I was perusing the local musician adverts and found this...
"Seeking good looking, stylish and skilled musicians to form a funky, yet chill and bad ass sounding band. I play the acoustic like a drum while I play the rhythm and lead. Youtube Andy McKee's song Drifting to get an idea. I like electro beats, cellos and violins, beat boxing flutists, and anything else that's different. I've been on the open mic circuit for some time and I'm known for my beat style acoustic skills. I want to blow people away with a more substantial sound. I'm not kidding about being good looking...sorry for being a jerk, but I want to create a stylish act. I'm 25, please don't be too old!"
This person is apparently serious, and apparently not ITM. Our loss.
I am certainly not qualified to join this band because I am almost twice as old as this person as well as being exceptionally plain, homely, and unhandsome for someone who is forty-nine going on fifty.
OK, I take it (the implied insult) back. I thought it might something computerized and soulless, but it isn't. I'm not sure it's enough for a 2-hour concert, but it is a nice parlor trick.
And I suppose this guy's other requirements are much the same as Simon Cowell's. Simon Inc. is good for a laugh, so why not. Takes all kinds, to make a horse race.
Bloody hell! Thought I was curmudgeonly, but some of you put me to shame. How do I achieve the glorious, brittle, easily baited indignance that you show so magnificently? No, really - I want to do it too.
Most Canadian guitarists play that way. What's your point?
I don't know about the flooties, though. Must be pretty spitty-drooly after a couple of numbers.
That's a tall order Martin. There are no shortcuts.
You can begin by coming here everyday. Even during working hours. Especially comment on any poster who uses the s - word. Don't let a single sheet music within a hundred feet.
If some of your comments are deleted it really seems to help develop the cur -ry attitude.
Above all, no matter how good a curmudgeon you think you are, keep your wits & show a sense of humour.
;)
Why would I want to apply? However, it would be an interesting experience for an old geezer like me to kick a young bratling butt, - er.... musically speaking.
Whose quotation is this "Youth is too precious to waste on the young."
Re the beatboxing anything - I went recently to a recording of the BBC Radio show "I've never seen Star Wars", which has already transferred to tv. The night we were there the guest was Joan Bakewell, sometimes described back in the 1960s' as "the thinking man's crumpet" from her elegant beauty and high intellect. She's still a fine-looking woman, by the way. One of the things she was invited to do was beatboxing, which she thought might have been a martial art. When the young lady beatboxer was first demonstrating it, Joan actually walked all round her, trying to see where the noise was coming from, and with what device.
Can you provide the contact info? I think he deserves some takers. It'll be fun screwing with the poor bastard. You can't put an add out in public like that and expect the smart asses to keep quite.
Back in the '60s' and '70s'................the music papers over here used to run adds for musos wanted, often including the comment "no timewasters need apply".
Cut to cartoon of guy of Morris Minivan doing wheelies and handbrake turns at the audition; caption reads "Says he's a funky timewaster with own transport."
Of course the ad-writer doesn't know enough not to spoil his own chances - if he'd used the positive phrases " young, dynamic, photogenic ' none of this need have happened.
old and ugly need not apply
old and ugly need not apply
I was perusing the local musician adverts and found this...
"Seeking good looking, stylish and skilled musicians to form a funky, yet chill and bad ass sounding band. I play the acoustic like a drum while I play the rhythm and lead. Youtube Andy McKee's song Drifting to get an idea. I like electro beats, cellos and violins, beat boxing flutists, and anything else that's different. I've been on the open mic circuit for some time and I'm known for my beat style acoustic skills. I want to blow people away with a more substantial sound. I'm not kidding about being good looking...sorry for being a jerk, but I want to create a stylish act. I'm 25, please don't be too old!"
This person is apparently serious, and apparently not ITM. Our loss.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by drone
Re: old and ugly need not apply
How devistating! At 31 I feel I'm over the hill:( Tragic.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by RoisinD
Re: old and ugly need not apply
I am certainly not qualified to join this band because I am almost twice as old as this person as well as being exceptionally plain, homely, and unhandsome for someone who is forty-nine going on fifty.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: old and ugly need not apply
He's obviously a shallow, immature little twirp.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by Quarter Irish
Re: old and ugly need not apply
What the heck is a "beat boxing flutist"?
Never mind, I don't really want to know.
And people like that are always serious.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by John Galt
Re: old and ugly need not apply
No? I did. Far out man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: old and ugly need not apply
This is a "beat boxing flutist"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by tnoumarap
Re: old and ugly need not apply
snap!
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by tnoumarap
Re: old and ugly need not apply
here's a different one, have to say I kinda like it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2hzA5RNwg
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by tnoumarap
Beatbox
Dj Scratch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLN63bRcY5I&feature
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by Ben Steen
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Andy McKee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by Ramiro
Re: old and ugly need not apply
OK, I take it (the implied insult) back. I thought it might something computerized and soulless, but it isn't. I'm not sure it's enough for a 2-hour concert, but it is a nice parlor trick.
And I suppose this guy's other requirements are much the same as Simon Cowell's. Simon Inc. is good for a laugh, so why not. Takes all kinds, to make a horse race.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by John Galt
Re: old and ugly need not apply
haha...
i was looking at a Dubliners album recently
they all looked like they needed support workers.
proper bunch of hairy nutters.
thats whats missing in the trad scene these days.
everyones trying to look well scrubbed and Trendy.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by DubChieftain
Re: old and ugly need not apply
At my day job, I don't have to look "Trendy" but I do have to look well-scrubbed.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: old and ugly need not apply
drone - Is this geezer in Canada?
If so, thank goodness he is there, and not here.
# Posted on May 2nd 2009 by nicholas
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Oh, yes... he's in Canada... although he has yet to earn geezerdom.
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by drone
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Bloody hell! Thought I was curmudgeonly, but some of you put me to shame. How do I achieve the glorious, brittle, easily baited indignance that you show so magnificently? No, really - I want to do it too.
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by Martin_BC
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Most Canadian guitarists play that way. What's your point?
I don't know about the flooties, though. Must be pretty spitty-drooly after a couple of numbers.
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by oldstrings
Old and ugly need apply
That's a tall order Martin. There are no shortcuts.
You can begin by coming here everyday. Even during working hours. Especially comment on any poster who uses the s - word. Don't let a single sheet music within a hundred feet.
If some of your comments are deleted it really seems to help develop the cur -ry attitude.
Above all, no matter how good a curmudgeon you think you are, keep your wits & show a sense of humour.
;)
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by Ben Steen
. . .
a single sheet (of) music . . .
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by Ben Steen
1 last
for my money one of the best curmudgeons is on this very thread.
I won't call him out by name. Best you suss that out for yourself.
A true master.
who knew they made 'em like that in Greece?
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by Ben Steen
Re: old and ugly need not apply
That advertisment would actually be illegal in the UK on the grounds of ageism.
Q. Is there no similar law in Canada?
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Well, I wouldn't want to play with him anyway........
....jumped - up young whippersnaper.
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by Guernsey Pete
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Why would I want to apply? However, it would be an interesting experience for an old geezer like me to kick a young bratling butt, - er.... musically speaking.
Whose quotation is this "Youth is too precious to waste on the young."
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by Micheál
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Hmmm, Andy McKee already 30.
Nonetheless, he said "sorry for being a jerk." At least he was insightful about it. (smirk)
# Posted on May 3rd 2009 by Lint - upon - Tweed
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Re the beatboxing anything - I went recently to a recording of the BBC Radio show "I've never seen Star Wars", which has already transferred to tv. The night we were there the guest was Joan Bakewell, sometimes described back in the 1960s' as "the thinking man's crumpet" from her elegant beauty and high intellect. She's still a fine-looking woman, by the way. One of the things she was invited to do was beatboxing, which she thought might have been a martial art. When the young lady beatboxer was first demonstrating it, Joan actually walked all round her, trying to see where the noise was coming from, and with what device.
# Posted on May 4th 2009 by Guernsey Pete
Re: old and ugly need not apply
This sounds like a gig for me. How do I contact him, the cool dude?
# Posted on May 4th 2009 by bodhran bliss
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Where does anyone in their mid / late 40's stand?
# Posted on May 5th 2009 by lisaniska
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Can you provide the contact info? I think he deserves some takers. It'll be fun screwing with the poor bastard. You can't put an add out in public like that and expect the smart asses to keep quite.
# Posted on May 5th 2009 by MR.
Re: old and ugly need not apply
Back in the '60s' and '70s'................the music papers over here used to run adds for musos wanted, often including the comment "no timewasters need apply".
Cut to cartoon of guy of Morris Minivan doing wheelies and handbrake turns at the audition; caption reads "Says he's a funky timewaster with own transport."
Of course the ad-writer doesn't know enough not to spoil his own chances - if he'd used the positive phrases " young, dynamic, photogenic ' none of this need have happened.
# Posted on May 5th 2009 by Guernsey Pete