The most annoying thing EVER...

[timeroo]

I could go on and on for days when ranting about this.

1. Guys that talk opinionated about gear they have never owned
2. Guys that talk a huge game and act like they are top notch when they only play in cover bands. Bro you play other people's tunes? You must be amazing.
3. Pretty much every Marshall amp not named the JCM 800
4. Double neck guitars
5. When I come into my jam space and find that someone put a beer bottle on my amp
6. Pedals with a plastic casing.... seriously you are building something that is made to STEP ON...
7. The over use of pick squeels
8. Every single BC Rich guitar that isn't the mockingbird
9. Slayer solos and other solos that feature whammy bar wankery and no real plan
10. CRAPPY STOCK PICKUPS....
11. Fretless basses.
12. Jazz wankery
13. Brand snobbery
14. Sketchy fucking custom builders, if you can't do business properly, don't do business
15. Unreliable musicians
16. Most of the drum sounds in the 80s
17. Seeing a band live and having them be sloppy because they are wasted on stage
18. Going on stage with musicians that are wasted
19. Crappy sellers that lie about what they are selling and then seem shocked when the buyer calls them out on it.
20. Tortex guitar picks
21. Guys that feel they are above you because they have this room in their basement with 27 modded Marshalls and 40 cabs.
22. Guys that bring more than one 4x12 cab to a bar show, seriously, there just isn't need unless you have multiple amps but when I see a guy with like 2+4x12s at a small bar show I am thinking "wow, what a douche" and the soundguy is thinking "wow, Im not even putting him in the mix"
23. People that think you aren't a musician if you don't like the Beatles or the Stones. You can respect a band without enjoying their music you know.
24. When I get shocked by a microphone
25. Guys that bring their wife/gf to every practice and feel that it's ok
26. Drummers that don't hit the snare with a rimshot, hit the fucking thing already Sally
27. When a sound guy is stuck in the 80s and puts the vocals way too up front with too much verb
28. Opening for a band that has all kinds of attitude because there's local support on the bill
29. Touring and having local bands ask for money,,, yah your case of beer is much more important than my gas tank
30. Touring and having a shitty promoter with no idea of how to run a show
31. When I record and have one of those days that as soon as the red light goes on I fall apart and turn into an idiot
32. Trying to talk metal with someone that has no idea outside of FFDP and Slipknot
33. Talking further with said people and having to hear about how Joey Jordison is the best metal drummer in history
34. How guys stuck in the 80s will masturbate constantly over EVH, George Lynch etc but dismiss Chris Broderick, Jeff Loomis etc when they come up.
35. Guys that think having a wireless means they can take a walk into the crowd,,, yah man, you are cool as hell
36. Whenever someone from the crowd comes on the stage for any reason whatsoever, you wanna come onstage? Start a band.

I have loads more but I will stop for now.

 

[phil b]

Busting your ass most of your life to finally get to the point where your offered a major label deal only to find out they want ALL of your publishing and so much other stupid clauses that by the time your done you'll still have to find a part time job to pay the mortgage and the rest of the bills. Yup..living the dream.

 

[skoora]

Lack of enough free time to allow me to obsess over, write, record and play music is annoying.

I know man, jobs are such a pain in the ass! Damn this thing they call rent!!

 

[timeroo]

Searching and Rupe are now in my real good books.

 

[billboogie]

The recent spam on this sight.......Definitely.......

 

[Anonymous]

People that easily get annoyed with unimportant shit...

Edit: And illiterate people that write SQUIRE instead of SQUIER

 

[Skinny fingers]

Writers block. Hate it. Finally find time to write some music or lyrics and........ Nuthin!

 

[jkkkjkhk]

People that easily get annoyed with unimportant shit...

Edit: And illiterate people that write SQUIRE instead of SQUIER

symbols instead of cymbals, petals instead of pedals, and I know a few people who say Sketcher instead of Schecter and Gretchen instead of Gretsch.
Also people who count every drum, CYMBAL, and stand and say they are selling a 20 piece drum set.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

The general one is the uninformed guitarists who feels the need to inaccurately inform other uninformed guitarist with the inaccurate knowledge. You see guitar players who can't play give lessons? what? You're teaching how NOT to play guitar. You see guitar players inform others to adjust their truss rods because their bridge is set too high. You see so much misinformation form know it alls that don't know shit LOL

To piggyback on that, I have to roll my eyes when bedroom/basement players talk about gear and tones in absolute terms. Sorry, but if you have never played/recorded with a band, your opinion on tone and gear is next to meaningless. The likelihood that you don't understand the mechanics of a mix is a near certainty, especially seeing as there are far too many players who actually do play with bands that still fail to get this.

Add to this players who put more focus on gear rather than practice and technique. Simply owning <amp brand> in no way means you'll sound like <guitar player> if you don't have the chops to play the material properly. I'd rather listen to a great player wailing through a cheap amp than a player with questionable chops and timing playing through a Bogner/Diezel/Friedman/Suhr/etc rig. A hack player with great gear is still a hack player...I have no problem with that (everybody starts somewhere and some don't have the time to put into it) until those players start offering their unqualified opinions as something meaningful. TGP is ripe with those "gear as a right of passage" types.

Yep, for sure. People obsess way too much on gear and forums are the big reason behind that. Totally agree they should be obsessing with playing not the latest and greatest flavor of the month amps.

One I always find funny is folks wanting to know exact amp settings you use. I guess as a general guideline but why not plug in, close the eyes and turn some fuckin knobs to find out what your ear likes to hear? That's what I did Amp settings don't remain static unless you play the same room with same amount of people so what you set today may be different in a different venue with a larger crowd

 

[TrueTone500]

The general one is the uninformed guitarists who feels the need to inaccurately inform other uninformed guitarist with the inaccurate knowledge. You see guitar players who can't play give lessons? what? You're teaching how NOT to play guitar. You see guitar players inform others to adjust their truss rods because their bridge is set too high. You see so much misinformation form know it alls that don't know shit LOL

To piggyback on that, I have to roll my eyes when bedroom/basement players talk about gear and tones in absolute terms. Sorry, but if you have never played/recorded with a band, your opinion on tone and gear is next to meaningless. The likelihood that you don't understand the mechanics of a mix is a near certainty, especially seeing as there are far too many players who actually do play with bands that still fail to get this.

Add to this players who put more focus on gear rather than practice and technique. Simply owning <amp brand> in no way means you'll sound like <guitar player> if you don't have the chops to play the material properly. I'd rather listen to a great player wailing through a cheap amp than a player with questionable chops and timing playing through a Bogner/Diezel/Friedman/Suhr/etc rig. A hack player with great gear is still a hack player...I have no problem with that (everybody starts somewhere and some don't have the time to put into it) until those players start offering their unqualified opinions as something meaningful. TGP is ripe with those "gear as a right of passage" types.

People obsess way too much on gear and forums are the big reason behind that. Totally agree they should be obsessing with playing not the latest and greatest flavor of the month amps.

Give me a LP, a good cathode bias amp, compressor, gain, modulation, delay, and reverb... Good to go!

 

[yngzaklynch]

I hate dudes that buy nice gear and do super cheesey ass 80s metal riffs in their bedroom. You know they guy that has nice gear but can't really play and tries to capture the tone of the really nice gear on his crappy Iphone. Fuck that dude. He needs to take lesson and learn some real shit.

 

[Mailman1971]

I hate dudes that buy nice gear and do super cheesey ass 80s metal riffs in their bedroom. You know they guy that has nice gear but can't really play and tries to capture the tone of the really nice gear on his crappy Iphone. Fuck that dude. He needs to take lesson and learn some real shit.

Hey man.....you told me you liked my clips.


Yeah....its all fun.

 

[yngzaklynch]

I hate dudes that buy nice gear and do super cheesey ass 80s metal riffs in their bedroom. You know they guy that has nice gear but can't really play and tries to capture the tone of the really nice gear on his crappy Iphone. Fuck that dude. He needs to take lesson and learn some real shit.

Hey man.....you told me you liked my clips.


Yeah....its all fun.

 

[leib10]

-Maintaining and keeping guitars properly set-up, especially Floyd Rose-equipped guitars.
-Keeping amps and equipment dust-free.
-Rebiasing amps that have no external bias pot (I'm looking at you, Rev 2!).
-Lugging around 50 pound tube amps and 100 pound cabs.
-Mic placement.
-Bitchy neighbors who complain when you fart too loud, let alone try to crank an amp.
-Being satisfied with tone and an amp's settings.
-Metal elitists who think that any mainstream acts are nothing but talentless hacks and the only bands worth listening to are known by maybe 5,000 people worldwide.
-Brand snobbery, and those who think Les Pauls are the only legitimate guitar ever.
-Guitar Center.
-Nail-biting when shipping expensive gear or tubes.
-FRET BUZZ!

 

[Steinmetzify]

Guys that look down on you for playing a guitar they've never heard of. I have guitars that cost thousands, some that cost hundreds, and a few that I snagged for a little over $100. When they ask to play, those are the ones they get handed and they laugh cause it's not a Fender Custom Shop Relic, never realizing they're sitting right in front of thousands of dollars in cased guitars that they're not trustworthy to touch.

Would you hand a Ferrari key to someone that tells you they don't know how to drive?

 

[Splinterhead]

When guitarists turn playing into an olympic event.
When the drummer plays while other band members are working out arrangements.
Close-minded musicians who cut down innovative equipment or innovative playing.
People who think music is objective.
A guitar is allowed to have as many strings as you want and still be a guitar.