I have faced this issue in my own life by not wearing trousers around the house.sockofgold wrote:I have solved this issue in my own life by wearing shoes around the house.ugo wrote: - I don't write nearly enough music, mostly because I allow myself to be lazy and unfocused.
Your (music-related) confessions....
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scaramouche1066 scaramouche1066 https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=17826
- KVRist
- 42 posts since 20 Mar, 2004 from United Kingdom
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
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- KVRAF
- 2263 posts since 6 Aug, 2007
Mock all you want. The new shoe-wearing motivated me pays no heed! 
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Reverse Engineer Reverse Engineer https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9129
- KVRAF
- 4968 posts since 23 Sep, 2003 from Glasgow
i don't own a tube amp
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- KVRAF
- 2263 posts since 6 Aug, 2007
I'll indulge a couple. This thread is getting laughed at a bit, but I think it's a pretty good topic:
1.) For the most part, I don't like going to see live music. 9 times out of 10, it just pisses me off how bad the people on stage are, and how much chicks love them for it.
2.) I have been a guitarist all my life, but lately I have been trying to learn the keys better, thus neglecting the guitar. I tell myself that the reason is that keyboards are much more versatile, but deep down I think it's just because I don't like taking my guitar out of my case and plugging it in (even wearing shoes can't motivate me that much).
3.) No matter how much hate they get and how much sampling they did, I still think Daft Punk's Discovery is among the best electronic albums ever.
4.) I am secretly envious of peolpe who make loads of money using nothing but stock loops and synth/ROMpler presets, yet I can't bring myself to do it myself. (Use presets or make money )
5.) I own and love the first album from Sixpence None The Richer, and I enjoy singing along to "Kiss Me". In full falsetto. In front of my girlfriend.
6.) I can't use a plugin if I hate the GUI. Compressors with 3D knobs sound better.
1.) For the most part, I don't like going to see live music. 9 times out of 10, it just pisses me off how bad the people on stage are, and how much chicks love them for it.
2.) I have been a guitarist all my life, but lately I have been trying to learn the keys better, thus neglecting the guitar. I tell myself that the reason is that keyboards are much more versatile, but deep down I think it's just because I don't like taking my guitar out of my case and plugging it in (even wearing shoes can't motivate me that much).
3.) No matter how much hate they get and how much sampling they did, I still think Daft Punk's Discovery is among the best electronic albums ever.
4.) I am secretly envious of peolpe who make loads of money using nothing but stock loops and synth/ROMpler presets, yet I can't bring myself to do it myself. (Use presets or make money
)5.) I own and love the first album from Sixpence None The Richer, and I enjoy singing along to "Kiss Me". In full falsetto. In front of my girlfriend.
6.) I can't use a plugin if I hate the GUI. Compressors with 3D knobs sound better.
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- KVRAF
- 1791 posts since 17 Sep, 2002
i'm not actually a musician. i just waste all my time and money on recording as a "f**k you" to the spoiled, shallow, materialistic society in which i was raised. sorry mom and dad, i don't want to go to college and get a career.
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- Banned
- 9890 posts since 14 Nov, 2006
I had one release back in the day.robojam wrote:I didn't know you were a jizz vocalist...debra1rlo wrote:I figured it would be the climax of the thread.vespers75 wrote:I knew this was going to cum at some point in this threaddebra1rlo wrote:I didn't really pass out backstage after ingesting gallons of bukake... it was really Rod Stewart!!!
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- KVRian
- 1343 posts since 26 Aug, 2005 from Netherlands
I was [briefly] the drummer of a speedmetal cover-band (think Slayer, Metallica, etc.).
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
1. I love music, it's the best thing that ever happened to me
2. I hate music, it's the worst thing that ever happened to me
2. I hate music, it's the worst thing that ever happened to me
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 2844 posts since 1 Jan, 2003
I don't much like going to see live music anymore. Partly because that was "work" for me for most of my life, but mostly because of the audience. I hate drunks. I resent that live music and alcohol are married. Fuckin' drunks...
I get territorial on stage. I have swung my guitar at a few drunks, but never caused an injury. That I'm aware of.
I love to play the guitar, but lately have decided I often don't like the sound of guitars, especially as a solo instrument.
FM synthesis feels like homework to me. I won't participate.
I am secretly a Reaper fangirl, but I try to keep it to myself when posting at KVR.
I would say out loud that using loops to create music is OK, I think that it is ethically OK, but deep down I feel it's sad.
With a few exceptions, I hate "folk" music recorded by middle class white Americans.
It pisses me off that in discussions of music composition, the word "imagine" rarely comes up. I am prouder of my musical imagination than any of the skills I have acquired over the years.
I get territorial on stage. I have swung my guitar at a few drunks, but never caused an injury. That I'm aware of.
I love to play the guitar, but lately have decided I often don't like the sound of guitars, especially as a solo instrument.
FM synthesis feels like homework to me. I won't participate.
I am secretly a Reaper fangirl, but I try to keep it to myself when posting at KVR.
I would say out loud that using loops to create music is OK, I think that it is ethically OK, but deep down I feel it's sad.
With a few exceptions, I hate "folk" music recorded by middle class white Americans.
It pisses me off that in discussions of music composition, the word "imagine" rarely comes up. I am prouder of my musical imagination than any of the skills I have acquired over the years.
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DJ_Schoolcraft DJ_Schoolcraft https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=189215
- KVRist
- 311 posts since 13 Sep, 2008 from Wandering
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- KVRAF
- 21348 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from Gone
and that was a whole gallon???debra1rlo wrote:I had one release back in the day.robojam wrote:I didn't know you were a jizz vocalist...debra1rlo wrote:I figured it would be the climax of the thread.vespers75 wrote:I knew this was going to cum at some point in this threaddebra1rlo wrote:I didn't really pass out backstage after ingesting gallons of bukake... it was really Rod Stewart!!!
Oh sorry, that was Rod Stewart...
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
...new additions
* I can't play keyboards worth a f**k. Back in the late 80s I was in a synth rock band with one other keyboardist and a guitarist. Mostly I played one-handed melody lines and simple two-fisted chords. By the very end I had finally started to be able to play a bass line with my left hand and some chords or simple melody with my right hand...then the band broke up. Nearly 20 years later, I'm back to playing everything one-handed.
* I fear jam sessions because I have no concept about key signatures or chords...Tell me something's in G and I have no clue what you mean. Guitars are taught with chords, so guitar players think in those terms. But I taught myself keyboards for the most part (I don't count the one year of organ lessons). You have all these notes and some of them sound good together. Some of them don't. I've memorized a few patterns. That's all I know. Likewise, I feel clueless about chord progressions in any style of music. Like Blues. No clue. I hunt and peck and eventually learn to play along to something.
* I avoid attending live performances. Partly because they're too expensive, and partly because there are so few people I'd like to see live...but mostly because crowds make me nervous. If someone else organizes the whole ticket buying, driving to, parking, blah, blah, then I'm more likely to go. But who the hell would I see?
* The thought of being a touring musician is kind of depressing.
* I don't mind other people's looped music, but the few times I tried it, I felt cheap and dirty. It didn't feel like composing at all. It felt like...faking it or something. Totally dissatisfying.
* I can't play keyboards worth a f**k. Back in the late 80s I was in a synth rock band with one other keyboardist and a guitarist. Mostly I played one-handed melody lines and simple two-fisted chords. By the very end I had finally started to be able to play a bass line with my left hand and some chords or simple melody with my right hand...then the band broke up. Nearly 20 years later, I'm back to playing everything one-handed.
* I fear jam sessions because I have no concept about key signatures or chords...Tell me something's in G and I have no clue what you mean. Guitars are taught with chords, so guitar players think in those terms. But I taught myself keyboards for the most part (I don't count the one year of organ lessons). You have all these notes and some of them sound good together. Some of them don't. I've memorized a few patterns. That's all I know. Likewise, I feel clueless about chord progressions in any style of music. Like Blues. No clue. I hunt and peck and eventually learn to play along to something.
* I avoid attending live performances. Partly because they're too expensive, and partly because there are so few people I'd like to see live...but mostly because crowds make me nervous. If someone else organizes the whole ticket buying, driving to, parking, blah, blah, then I'm more likely to go. But who the hell would I see?
* The thought of being a touring musician is kind of depressing.
* I don't mind other people's looped music, but the few times I tried it, I felt cheap and dirty. It didn't feel like composing at all. It felt like...faking it or something. Totally dissatisfying.
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
Boy, that's a familiar one. I've got a Minimoog that needs repaired. But if I spend the money to have it restored...do I keep it or sell it? If I keep it, it's unlikely I'll use it. And if I sell it, how can I get the rest of the $ I need to buy one of these: http://www.analoguehaven.com/macbeth/m5n/ ?ugo wrote:- I've got a ton of gear I never use and yet I'm unreasonably bothered by the thought of selling it so it just sits around unused...which also bothers me.
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- KVRAF
- 21348 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from Gone
OK, let's see...
I like the sound of old guitar strings. New ones just don't sound right.
I think it's fun to play classic songs on the wrong instrument. 'Freebird' on the mandolin amuses me.
When I was at school I deliberately failed the hearing test for tones because the music teacher said no one is completely tone deaf.
Even since I first learned to play and then got rid of it, I have been promising myself I'll get a new alto sax. I've been doing that for years.
For some reason I almost always misfret a Dm chord on the guitar.
I like the sound of old guitar strings. New ones just don't sound right.
I think it's fun to play classic songs on the wrong instrument. 'Freebird' on the mandolin amuses me.
When I was at school I deliberately failed the hearing test for tones because the music teacher said no one is completely tone deaf.
Even since I first learned to play and then got rid of it, I have been promising myself I'll get a new alto sax. I've been doing that for years.
For some reason I almost always misfret a Dm chord on the guitar.