TenuredVulture wrote:I want to know how this happened. So, a bunch of guys in their 40s decide to be in a band. I could see that. Unlike typical teenagers, they can afford to buy some decent equipment, and they're self-indulgent enough to blow their money on those toys. Fine. They're busy, so they don't practice much. OK. But instead of just jamming harmlessly once in awhile for fun, they actually get a gig. And they say yes. That's the part I simply don't get.

Let this be a lesson to all those here contemplating taking up a musical instrument... you will not be ready to perform in public after just a month of lessons/practice. It'll take at least TWO months.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:I want to know how this happened. So, a bunch of guys in their 40s decide to be in a band. I could see that. Unlike typical teenagers, they can afford to buy some decent equipment, and they're self-indulgent enough to blow their money on those toys. Fine. They're busy, so they don't practice much. OK. But instead of just jamming harmlessly once in awhile for fun, they actually get a gig. And they say yes. That's the part I simply don't get.

Let this be a lesson to all those here contemplating taking up a musical instrument... you will not be ready to perform in public after just a month of lessons/practice. It'll take at least TWO months.

Other lessons: Singing is harder than it looks. If you're gonna perform in front of people, choose a more forgiving up tempo number such as Just What I Needed by The Cars. I know that song isn't hard because the band I was in in eighth grade played a passable version of it. Though we did practice more than a week, and the drummer turned out to be an excellent musician who got a music scholarship at Indiana University. And both guitarists were pretty decent as well. (The bass player and the keyboard player (me) were not good.)

Kevin Arnold's band -- The Electric Shoes -- did the right thing...just play loud.

Yo pineapple juice is the truth

I love how when you get to the end of that video, one of the five 'Next Up' suggestions is Rusted Root

Despite the Storm of the Century my recycle bin was just across the alley behind my house.

my dad is sleeping in his recliner with the dog asleep on his lap. but if i change the channel from Two and a Half Men he's going to wake up right away and ask why i changed it.

Tell him its because he had Two and a Half Men on and to go the fuck back to sleep.

Or just trick him and tell him he had it on the porn channel. (if you have one)

td11 wrote:Yo pineapple juice is the truth

You would not think this any longer if you ever accidentally drank a sip of spoiled pineapple juice

can we get much higher?

probably.

Twitter conversation between Snooki, McCain and Jake Tapper

What a world we live in

Woody wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0[/youtube]

i was waiting for mo cheeks to come out and put his arm around the singer

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jg5pjvwjw[/youtube]

I'm sure you guys have seen this one before.

I FEEL STOOPID!!

Houshphandzadeh wrote:can we get much higher?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I FEEL STOOPID!!

related?

two lines written by groundbreaking artists with outsized personalities?!

I've posted, sober, on consecutive days in the PhilliesPhans politics thread.