Ventura
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But ya see, I have to argue with this point... The picture you've provided is now out of timely context. Back in the day this photo was taken, that was the general consensus of music fashion for what was in vogue at that time. The fact they're dressed like a bunch of tranny whores doesn't mean they're posers. It means they were following suit as to all the other spandex hair metal guy-liner bands that were happening at that time - and most of them actually did have talent. Most of them.TrueTone500":1t16hwzk said:I never linked 'poseurs' to people who can't play... To me it was a more a style of dress and attitude. Something like this:
So we kinda gotta figure out what being a poser is - or - more correctly, a "poseur". My defnition of a poseur in the context of this thread is someone who tells everyone they can rip it up on the guitar, they give advice as though they can rip it up on guitar, they talk about their exposure to music, to recording, to fans, to the club-grind, to all things "musician", they talk about the nuances in gear when it's turned up to 10, they talk about the "road worthiness" of road cases, they talk about "gigs", and speak with authority when it comes to making fun of drummers and bassists, they talk about cable quality as though it's a fact, and the list goes on and on - and ultimately, the person speaking and conducting themselves in this manner only knows how to play the first few barre chords to smoke on the water and only ever takes his guitar to "open jam night" just to keep it under his bar stool as an attention getter but when things get too hot and the pressure to play is on, B-lines it for the nearest exit only to "repeat" the following weekend with 5 weekdays in between spent talking about the "killer gig last weekend" on internet music forums.
Fuck relic'ing. This goes way beyond relic'ing
