Most bizarre comment you ever received about your music.

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I had someone come up to me after playing live and tell me I was "getting better." I'd been playing for more than 10 years at that point. It was the most backhanded compliment I've ever received.
 
Since the early 1970's i never got negative comments about my playing [which has only gotten better] until the last 15 yrs on guitar forums.
And everytime im criticized the offender never offers an example of their own playing.
 
"You guys are great, but you sound like shit"

Said by a guy who thinks I'm dumb enough to haul mains, monitors, subs, snake, rack, console, lights, and soundman to a $350 gig.
 
Back in the 90's my band released our 1st CD. We had a contact phone number listed in the liner notes. Lead singer and I lived together and one day we found a message on our answering machine (drunken female) "Y'alls music sucks!"
 
shar-vell Dan said:
Since the early 1970's i never got negative comments about my playing [which has only gotten better] until the last 15 yrs on guitar forums.
And everytime im criticized the offender never offers an example of their own playing.
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Funny how that works. :unsure:
 
I’ve been out of the game for years now (no complaints), but a couple of takeaways…

1) You’re “PA” sounds better than any other band in the area”. True story. I bought and built our sound system and our sound guy ran monitor mixes for professional touring acts. We had at least 24 mics in play any given night for a 5 piece cover band in 150+ seat generic bars😆. 12,000 watts out front (QSC) peeling paint…

2) “You're solo on that last song sucked” (from the bass player in another local band). He was right. A guy I worked with bought the band 6 rounds of Jaeger Bombs (the whites trash elixir) in the first set and I didn’t pass on any of them. I have no recollection of that gig whatsoever…
 
IndyWS6 said:
I’ve been out of the game for years now (no complaints), but a couple of takeaways…

1) You’re “PA” sounds better than any other band in the area”. True story. I bought and built our sound system and our sound guy ran monitor mixes for professional touring acts. We had at least 24 mics in play any given night for a 5 piece cover band in 150+ seat generic bars😆. 12,000 watts out front (QSC) peeling paint…

2) “You're solo on that last song sucked” (from the bass player in another local band). He was right. A guy I worked with bought the band 6 rounds of Jaeger Bombs (the whites trash elixir) in the first set and I didn’t pass on any of them. I have no recollection of that gig whatsoever…
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Sucks to get wasted DURING a gig, it always sneaks up on you.
Someone mentioned the wrong bar, it’s where this guy was; metal band doing Judas Priest, Metallica, etc. Guy staggers up to the stage and while swaying from side to side says "you guys do any country?"
 
Dan Gleesak said:
We had one dude that would always yell “fuck your radio shit!” everytime we played this song because it had “a clean part” lol

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Wait. What radio station would he be talking about?

And yeah, that clean part 1:30 - 1:60 is kinda fucked up to be honest. I get that it was on purpose but does not fit the song. :lol:
 
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