The ten ways to make me hate your band

[Talent?!]

1. Synchronised jumps
2. The mic hug (see the Funeral for a Friend singer for details)
3. Leaning back with your eyes closed and 'singing from the heart' (see Hoobastank)
4. Naming yourself by taking a word then putting a random number behind it (see Sum 41, Blink 182)
Good Charlotte 93 ;) )
5. Having a Framus halfstack and letting it get rained on (see Simple Plan)
6. Taking the piss out of other bands in not one, but THREE of your videos (see Bowling for Soup)
7. Be a member of the Murderdolls
8. Leave another band then form a new one which sounds almost identical to the old one (see Alter Bridge)
9. The song everyone knows by you is a cover, (see Kelly Osborne)
10. Spell your song titles in a clever way (see gelosea by InMe)

[exit assasin]

Well, if you listen to ***** like that I'm not surprised that you are getting annoyed ;)

[Telstar]

I like this!! I agree with the above and will try for 10 myself.

1- Smashing equipment. What this says to me is "I have no talent and sound like sh*t so let me try to act cool.

2- Taking off shirts- I find looking at the nude male torso revolting, it's not tough or cool, it's just lame.

3- Sounding or looking like early Stones or Beatles- This is the weakest trend ever thought up, if you are trying to be Brian Jones give it up, you look cheesy. See The ****.

4- Trying to be political. Weak, politics is a no-no in any context especially music. See Green Day.

5- Having a 15 year old female lead singer who clearly has no musical talent but is there strictly for sexual reasons. Sell out.

6- Playing the Blues.

7- Mixing Hip Hop with anything.

8- Asking me to get closer to the stage or to put my hands in the air. If you have to ask, then you suck.

9- Taking 45 minutes to get set up for a half hour set.

10- Last but not least, the quickest way to get me to hate your band is to have a guitar that I should own, that's when I walk out.

[sweeppicker]

Originally posted by Telstar
Last but not least, the quickest way to get me to hate your band is to have a guitar that I should own, that's when I walk out.

Well , then you'll never should come to one of my band's shows.
;)

[Eithacos]

whats wrong with playing the blues?

[sweeppicker]

Originally posted by Eithacos
whats wrong with playing the blues?

I dunno...just forget about it I guess...

[spongemonkey]

Originally posted by Telstar
I find looking at the nude male torso revolting

Thanks for sharing, but you should probably discuss this with a therapist :D

[boyscout]

Originally posted by Talent?!

7. Be a member of the Murderdolls


hehe.

things that make me hate your band:
1. if you suck
2. Screaming into the microphone(see most underground metal bands, but sometimes the music outweighs the vocals IE shadows fall).
3. if you suck
4. If you describe yourselfs as Emo
5. once again the sucking ass factor comes in.
6. Having a gutiarist who thinks he's amazing, but isn't(saw a band like that it was amusing at best i didn't come to see this guy almost pull off a solo)
7. If you suck
8. Taking off clothing on stage(just stupid IMO see incubus)
9. If your pop-rock or rap-metal/rock
10. I can't think of anything else

[miscreated]

1. Any band that takes a **** on stage and throws it into the crowd
2. Any band that plays non-tube Randall's
3. Any band that names bands they hate on stage
4. Any band that wears... anything black metal
5. Any band that can't pull off what they have on record

...that's about all I can think of right now, I don't hate many bands

EDIT: I don't hate DEP, I just don't care too much for their new vocalist...

[intorvert]

1. if you're racist
2. if you're sexist
3. if you're unintelligible
4. if you're illiterate
5. if you're unoriginal

[kokoweef]

Originally posted by miscreated
1. Any band that takes a **** on stage and throws it into the crowd


Haha i instantly thought of DEP when i saw that

[summoner21]

Originally posted by Telstar
10- Last but not least, the quickest way to get me to hate your band is to have a guitar that I should own, that's when I walk out. that's kinda stupid dude, If you have an awesome guitar of course people are gonna have it!

[guidedbyechos]

1. have no sense of rythm melody or harmony
2.Your vocals only consist of high pitched screaming
3. This is a song from Rufio or any band even close to those I will leave the room.
4. You have a les paul studio and only play 3 chords
5. "This is a song about growing up"
6. Hello we are (name here) and we are here to kick your ass
7. You wear an emo shirt.
8. Playing any new metallica covers.
9. Grindcore
10. Both of our bands play and you do all covers and we do original and you get more praise because you played pop radio music from the 80's and 90's and nobody in the area likes metal save 10 people and there not here because all the **** music.

[doingtheunstuck]

Originally posted by intorvert
1. if you're racist
2. if you're sexist
3. if you're unintelligible
4. if you're illiterate
5. if you're unoriginal

man, c'mon.... what's so bad about GG allin? :D

[intorvert]

Originally posted by doingtheunstuck
man, c'mon.... what's so bad about GG allin? :D

see above
:cool:

[cubby]

Originally posted by doingtheunstuck
man, c'mon.... what's so bad about GG allin? :D

I was thinkin' Danzig...;)

[Welladjusted]

having seen incubus live, brandon takes his shirt off because of the heat, not to get the girls all hornied up. when he came onstage sans shirt in hamilton, he was absolutely drenched

[doingtheunstuck]

Originally posted by cubby
I was thinkin' Danzig...;)

gg is at least fun. everything danzig has done since the misfits sucks, thus why i told him he ****ing sucked when i had my chance at EMP a good while back :D

anyway, my big pet peeves include:
a) people who claim that they have nothing in common with such and such a band, but sound EXACTLY ****ING LIKE THEM.
b) bands that go all out political banter and sound like **** (the ones that come to mind immediattely include 99% of what conflict and aus rotten have put out)
c) 95% of metal bands should lynch themselves. how ****ing kvlt would that be?
d) anything that is a blatantly obvious hendrix/AC DC/metallica/etc rip off
e) bands that fit a, but add in a tendancy to constantly rip on the other band(s) which they sound like in order to distance themselves
f) be the exploited
g) have obvious influences from the exploited

there are more. many more. but i'm lazy and want to get back to practicing sweeps.

[drl_06]

1. You cite Simple Plan or Good Charlotte as one of your influences.
2. You use too much gain, especially live, and nobody can understand what you're playing
3. You tune to Dropped D, down X steps and only play powerchords and one-string solos.
4. Talking trash about the local favorite radio personality, then having to play 2 more songs before you accept the fact that nobody wants to listen to you anymore, and you should just cut your losses and get off the ****ing stage (Limp Bizkit)
5. Overdoing synth playing
6. Making a song about how hard it is to be a teenager, and how "it'll all be better someday"
7. Calling your band's style "Emotional Metal" becuase you're too chicken **** to admit you're just a plain old Emo band.
8. Being Simple Plan or Good Charlotte.
9. Being a Pop-Punk band
10. Wearing make-up to make yourself look evil and gothic but it comes out really cheesy and stupid (Dimmu Borgir take the cake here.)

[Skuzze]

10 Ways to Make Me Hate You, on an Internet Message Board

1. Post this thread.

[boyscout]

Originally posted by Skuzze
10 Ways to Make Me Hate You, on an Internet Message Board

1. Post this thread.

YESSSSSSSSSSS.

Um, i hate to ask, but...where's the other nine ways to make you hate me on an interent message board?

[sweeppicker]

Originally posted by doingtheunstuck
95% of metal bands should lynch themselves. how ****ing kvlt would that be?

I'll bring it up, next bandpractice.


Originally posted by doingtheunstuck
there are more. many more. but i'm lazy and want to get back to practicing sweeps.

:)

[GDan]

Originally posted by drl_06

3. You tune to Dropped D, down X steps and only play powerchords and one-string solos.


Is your avatar wes borland?

[GDan]

My personal gripe is bands who just are not listening to each other.
I saw one the other week where almost every member was singing and it sounded like they had written the songs by going "Then I sing this line..." "That line sucks!" "Well tough, because IM singing it" "Then I get a long an unnecissary solo" "I want one too!"....It just looked like every member wanted to be in a diffferent band,

[Talent?!]

Originally posted by Skuzze
10 Ways to Make Me Hate You, on an Internet Message Board

1. Post this thread.

Whoo! :D


Originally posted by guidedbyechos

6. Hello we are (name here) and we are here to kick your ass



Not a Motorhead fan? ;)

[drl_06]

Originally posted by GDan
Is your avatar wes borland?

Yes.

[Rayguitargod]

Originally posted by miscreated
1. Any band that takes a **** on stage and throws it into the crowd
2. Any band that plays non-tube Randall's
3. Any band that names bands they hate on stage
4. Any band that wears... anything black metal
5. Any band that can't pull off what they have on record

...that's about all I can think of right now, I don't hate many bands

EDIT: I don't hate DEP, I just don't care too much for their new vocalist...



BLACK METAL ****ING RULES MOTHER****ER!!!!!!!!

:D


Serioualy don't disrespect black metal it really is quite awsome.

[Dan the Man]

The only thing that makes me totally hate a band is if they get all political onstage (though I figure Lamb of God and Superjoint Ritual can get away with it) or if they do an imitation of Nirvana without the wise ass attitude that makes Nirvana tolerable. I'm thinking Seether or Puddle of Mudd here

[Welladjusted]

i don;t mind political bands provided they're actually informed and not just being pretend anarchists or pretend activists. when bono says something about politics, i know i can at least trust that he's informed. when good charlotte say something about how imperitive it is to defeat george bush, it doesn't seem terribly intelligent

[JDogg]

1) Writing every song about a girl who is 'out of your league' (and using that line in all of them (see McFly)

2) Screaming without any singing

3) Enjoying being hated and **** (see Good Charlotte, Reading 2003)

4) Intentionally writing to appeal to young teenage girls (see Busted/McFly etc)

5) A large part of your success being because of your looks rather than your talent

6) Wearing costumes/boiler suits with silly masks or similar (see Slipknot, Murder Dolls

6) Spelling your name with the wrong letters/text language etc (e.g Limp Bizkit)

7) Spell songs in text language e.g I H8 Dat I luv U 4 Eva (that really ****s me off)

8) Making bad bad music and succeeding, when other bands with much more promise, talent and originality don't succeed.

9) Naming your band a name begining with 'The' ( I don't actually ae the bands, just that their are so so many of them it gets boring)

The Thrills
The Stills
The Kills
The Killers
The Millers
The Thrillers
The Chinchillas
The Fillaz (see point 6)
The Chillers
The Chill
The Fill
etc


10) I'm stuck now.....

[Talent?!]

Originally posted by JDogg
9) Naming your band a name begining with 'The' ( I don't actually ae the bands, just that their are so so many of them it gets boring)

The Thrills
The Stills
The Kills
The Killers
The Millers
The Thrillers
The Chinchillas
The Fillaz (see point 6)
The Chillers
The Chill
The Fill
etc

The Who
The Yardbirds
The Beatles
The Police
The the
The Clash
The Ramones
The Sex Pistols
The Deep Purple ;)


Just messing, it annoys me as well

[miscreated]

Originally posted by Rayguitargod
BLACK METAL ****ING RULES MOTHER****ER!!!!!!!!

:D


Serioualy don't disrespect black metal it really is quite awsome.

Black metal is good... the make-up is not...

[sweeppicker]

Originally posted by Rayguitargod
Serioualy don't disrespect black metal it really is quite awsome.

No, it's not. :p

me listening to black metal many years ago:

-mom screaming from downstairs: 'Are you vacuumcleaning your room?'
-me: 'No, mom, it's True Norwegian Black Metal I'm listening!'
mom: ' :eek: :mad: Put it down, don't make me come upstairs!'
me: :eek: :(

nah, just kidding, if you want to like it, be my guest. ;) :p

[adrien]

Originally posted by GDan
My personal gripe is bands who just are not listening to each other.
I saw one the other week where almost every member was singing and it sounded like they had written the songs by going "Then I sing this line..." "That line sucks!" "Well tough, because IM singing it" "Then I get a long an unnecissary solo" "I want one too!"....It just looked like every member wanted to be in a diffferent band,
HAHAHAHA
that's great

[Ice age coming]

1. unoriginal
2. boring
3. A4
4. you play the same style of music for 30 years
5. the music you play is comparable to the music being played by random "acting" bands in american teenage tvshows.


etc.

[spongemonkey]

Originally posted by JDogg
1) Writing every song about a girl who is 'out of your league' (and using that line in all of them (see McFly)

2) Screaming without any singing

3) Enjoying being hated and **** (see Good Charlotte, Reading 2003)

4) Intentionally writing to appeal to young teenage girls (see Busted/McFly etc)

5) A large part of your success being because of your looks rather than your talent

6) Wearing costumes/boiler suits with silly masks or similar (see Slipknot, Murder Dolls

6) Spelling your name with the wrong letters/text language etc (e.g Limp Bizkit)

7) Spell songs in text language e.g I H8 Dat I luv U 4 Eva (that really ****s me off)

8) Making bad bad music and succeeding, when other bands with much more promise, talent and originality don't succeed.

9) Naming your band a name begining with 'The' ( I don't actually ae the bands, just that their are so so many of them it gets boring)

10) I'm stuck now.....

for points 4, 5, 6, and 9 see The Beatles

[Doctor J]

Originally posted by spongemonkey
for points 4, 5, 6, and 9 see The Beatles

More reasons for me to avoid them, eh?

[flipperbaby]

Really low screaming and really wimpy emo talk-singing is a HUGE way to get me to hate your band and kick your ass.

Really bright tone

Playing cranked mesa rectafiers in small venues

Really high gain

Pointy guitars

Standing still

Strumming only using your rist

Strumming completely up and down with arm movements

pogo-ing

any kind of -core.

[deadhead420]

1- Smashing equipment. What this says to me is "I have no talent and sound like sh*t so let me try to act cool.



The Jimi Hendrix Experience.......The Who.......?

[guidedbyechos]

Originally posted by Talent?!
Whoo! :D





Not a Motorhead fan? ;)

Not really I've heard one of their albums and it sounded like hardcore punk, but none the less they could kick my ass.

[summoner21]

i guess i'll post mine,

1. If you do **** like throw **** in the crowd or piss and stuff like that, we wanna hear the music, not watching you take a crap.

2. dissing other bands in the genre

3. If you sound bad, seriously, who's gonna like a band that sounds crappy?

4. If you use rap-related words, like shizzle or homie.

5. the thing where they jump all at the same time, syncronized hopping, i find that pretty stupid also.

6. breaking equipment, its like "hey, I could use that stuff!!"

7. forgetting a song onstage, if you forget a song go with it, dont just stop.

8. having a guy lead singer that looks like a chick, see AFI.

9. I dont really like those band names that are shortened, example AFI, is a fire inside.

10. Band names with numbers, Its like your making a username. Is my band gonna be called summoner21? no!

[drl_06]

Originally posted by summoner21
6. breaking equipment, its like "hey, I could use that stuff!!"

That's what I thought, at a concert last year when I noticed that Linkin Park guitarist smashing one of his PRSs.... it made me so sad, I stood there, flabbergasted at how he could just smash it like that.. I mean, I know I'd use it.

P.S. just to save my own ass; the only reason I was at a Linkin Park concert was becuase I was waiting for the Deftones to come onstage.

[Doctor J]

Originally posted by drl_06
P.S. just to save my own ass; the only reason I was at a Linkin Park concert was becuase I was waiting for the Deftones to come onstage.

You must have seen the You Have Bad Taste In Music guy with his megaphone, didn't you?


Linkin Park is a rolla coasta (http://www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com/) (click on "Linkin Park" in the menu in the center)

I'm so glad Shane posted this URL several weeks ago.

[GDan]

Originally posted by drl_06
Yes.

He plays drop d 1/2 a step down. Like me.

I dont like the assumption that poor music is caused by the tuning you play in. Good music is still good and bad music still bad regardless. If all the guys who play boring unispired drop D stuff never learned drop D they would be playing boring uninspried powerchord stuff.

[drl_06]

Originally posted by GDan
He plays drop d 1/2 a step down. Like me.

I dont like the assumption that poor music is caused by the tuning you play in. Good music is still good and bad music still bad regardless. If all the guys who play boring unispired drop D stuff never learned drop D they would be playing boring uninspried powerchord stuff.

I know what kind of tuning he uses.

See, that comment of "playing drop D down X steps..." was mainly directed at all the local "metal" bands in my area. Seriously, you get sick of their music by the second verse, it's horribly repetitive. It's the same 3 powerchords, just played in different arrangements for different songs. And then their idea of a solo is doing a few string bends on the high E string and calling it a day.

[JDogg]

Originally posted by spongemonkey
for points 4, 5, 6, and 9 see The Beatles

I always wondered why I was never really a fan :p

[drl_06]

Originally posted by Doctor J
You must have seen the You Have Bad Taste In Music guy with his megaphone, didn't you?


Linkin Park is a rolla coasta (http://www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com/) (click on "Linkin Park" in the menu in the center)

lol, No didn't see him there.

[Doctor J]

Originally posted by drl_06
I know what kind of tuning he uses.

See, that comment of "playing drop D down X steps..." was mainly directed at all the local "metal" bands in my area. Seriously, you get sick of their music by the second verse, it's horribly repetitive. It's the same 3 powerchords, just played in different arrangements for different songs. And then their idea of a solo is doing a few string bends on the high E string and calling it a day.

Sounds like the other guitarist in the last band I was in. Everything he played sounded...exactly the same. I got sick of his riffs in mere seconds. It was sad.

[SGROCKER0791]

Wahahaha! *Grabs flamethrower*

1) If you just suck! (Wicked Wisdom, Panic! At the Disco, Simple Plan, etc)

2) Pop. (Backstreet Boys, Ashley Simpson, etc)

3) Emo. (MCR, Sences Fail, etc)

4) If you make crappy Hardcore and/or Metal. (The bands that Lp_Man puted down in another thread, ****, etc)

5) Cheesy job on synth. (Europe)

6) Cheesy Metal. (Whitesnake, Mr Big, etc)

7) Rip-Off Bands. (Towers of London)

8) Wiggers. (Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, etc)

9) Make me go to sleep and/or want to hit my speakers. (Any Rap (except Beastie Boys), Pop, and Emo bands)

10) You don't even sing your own music. (Villi Manilli, Ashley Simpson, etc)

All IMO.

[mrpenguin354]

Originally posted by JDogg

6) Wearing costumes/boiler suits with silly masks or similar (see Slipknot, Murder Dolls
6) Spelling your name with the wrong letters/text language etc (e.g Limp Bizkit)


10) (see 6b) :D :D


+1 for all posts

[ferrellio]

Not a whole lot makes me mad about other bands, just a few things. I know the good charoletteorinsertbandyoudon'tlikehere look-a-likes feel and love the same adrenaline I do when I play live.
But I do have a few pet-peeves:

1) High gain- This has been mentioned before, but I feel even metalheads know when to turn it down.

2) Screaming/Butchering- Again, mentioned before, but screaming isn't my thing unless it really suits the song (see the Who: Won't Get Fooled Again)
-Butchering: If a live band is going to cover a really well known and loved song, please do it well, is that so much to ask?

3) Tribute, not cover- I've been in a couple of cover-bands, and I always call them cover-bands, what's the big deal about being called a cover-band?

4) Guitar is a Competition- I almost hate this the most. Why does it seem that every player in my high school have to take playing guitar as a contest? I don't even think they enjoy it anymore. It's always "I'm fastest, no I'm fastest!" Seriously... why does it matter? At least nobody else can say they've made the first edition jazz band nor their all state jazz band. :P

5) No fun?- The worst. We've all seen this. You're at a live concert, and there's a band up on stage that looks scared half to death. They've been on for over an hour and they still haven't moved from the spot they started playing in, you would think the guitar player isn't breathing if he/she wasn't playing chords. Have some fun! Relax! It's a live gig, the best place to be in the world!

[Dan the Man]

Originally posted by SGROCKER0791
Wahahaha! *Grabs flamethrower*

2) Pop. (Backstreet Boys, Ashley Simpson, etc)

3) Emo. (MCR, Sences Fail, etc)

lol Burn lol.

[thefobia]

1. Give yourself a meaningless name which SOUNDS like there is a hidden meaning or an 'in joke' involved, but infact it is just a random silly name.

2. Pompous bands who really think they are doing something new, but infact are just ripping of bands from the past.

3. 'Scene' bands, or 'fashion' bands drive me crazy. I hate it when a bands image is a more important reason for liking them, than their music.

4. Band-wagons. Bands who change their songs and their style every six months to keep up with the trends, but at the same time pretend to be 'real' or 'honest'.

5. Bands that pretend to be raw, but are really public school boys with a rich daddy.

6. Pretend you are a heroin addict/alcoholic/ etc.

7. I hate bands that treat their music as a cumbersome accessory to thier celebrity status. (Pete Doherty)

8. Bands who treat people like sh*t because they are 'superior' in their own eyes. Stop taking yourself so damn seriously!

9. Bands that wreck OTHER people's equipment.

10. Bands that sign a 'record deal' and are 'on tour', but ask you to lend them their bus fare home.

[zinctobaccoindi]

I pretty much agree with the last 3 posts :rolleyes:

I find that I end up disliking bands that have any sort of pretension about them. like how some bands are young and "aggressive" and are "really serious about making it big". it's usually because they don't have enough talent to be successful or appealing, so they have to make up for it by doing a bunch of guitar moves. that usually bugs me. also, I've never really enjoyed a band that's named after the singer/songwriter, like "the George Pataki Band" or "Bill Jeremy Band". it's better to either go by your own name and have a back-up band, or name yourself a band and have a revolving cast of musicians.

[lp_man]

4) If you make crappy Hardcore and/or Metal. (The bands that Lp_Man puted down in another thread, ****, etc)
Death of narnia badges have sold out unfortunately :rolleyes:

edit; for anyone who missed it the first time arround www.myspace.com/deathofnarnia

[Shiro]

I will... uhm....dislike...and probably not listen to your band if :

1. You're, literally and honestly no good. I mean, like, really, just starting off bad. I won't blame you if you're not good (but I will dislike you alot if you pretend you are or think you are and go around saying "I'm in a band!" about it), but I won't listen.

2. If I don't like the music. (I won't dislike, just won't listen or pay attention.)

3. If you're seriously too pompous and take yourself too seriously and stuck up and (if it is all just to show off, but if you really are, then that's ok.) you talk about taking a new direction and how you're spreading this message of whatever and whatever. All that frilly stuff. Having a band member or more that shows off tooooo much falls under this too.

4. If you're really dishonest and lame people.

5. If your singer or band mates act like my band's ex-other singer. But by then the live shows would be annoying enough to make me not want to listen anyhow.

6. If you're one of those.. "Bands" where you're announced as the name of the singer and the rest of the "band" stands behind you and you pose and run around and sing and stuff while the band just plays backing powerchords and looks REALLY bored.
Being a pop singer and sticking in some random band looking guys on guitar and drums and bass to make your "band" look less pop also falls under this. I mean, I don't mind vocal based pop, but oy, stick in a funky looking guy with a keytar and some break dancers or something.


Lalala, but if it's good music anyhow I'd probably still listen.
I'm too open minded about musical tastes though. But I dun care! Is music! Sound otay to me = listenage!

[bob]

This one takes the biscuit :

- If you play an enormous festival, and ask the crowd to shout "Thank you MTV !"

(scene witnessed by my unfortunate self, stuck in a festival crowd waiting for Jane's Addiction, and having to put up with Nickelback ...)

[Aphoniser]

Originally posted by SGROCKER0791
4) If you make crappy Hardcore and/or Metal. (The bands that Lp_Man puted down in another thread, ****, etc)
[/B]

****? haha, I know the guys that run their label

[SGROCKER0791]

Originally posted by Aphoniser
****? haha, I know the guys that run their label

lol They are terrible IMO. Chesse Metal with crap all over it. ;)

[Aphoniser]

Originally posted by SGROCKER0791
lol They are terrible IMO. Chesse Metal with crap all over it. ;)

from what I have come to understand, the technical term is electro-trash ;)
Its not really my thing

[AmericanId3ot]

Originally posted by summoner21

8. having a guy lead singer that looks like a chick, see AFI.

I am so glad I'm not the only one who thinks Davy Havok (Or whatever his name is) looks like a woman. Everytime I see him, I want to gouge my eyes out.

[zinctobaccoindi]

Originally posted by AmericanId3ot
I am so glad I'm not the only one who thinks Davy Havok (Or whatever his name is) looks like a woman. Everytime I see him, I want to gouge my eyes out.

I remember when I first saw the video for "Girl's Not Grey" I thought he was Cher. I mean it's not like Havok wasn't androgynous before, but yeah. Ridiculous.

[hybrid_evolve]

things I hate...


1. When you're a local band who's played maybe 2 shows at parties, and you have a 10 foot banner and/or neon sign emblazened with your band's crappy name. Nobody cares. And you'll break up within a year anyways.

2. Bands that have NO energy live. If I wanted to look at my shoes, I'd be at home jerking off and looking at my shoes.

3. Metallica covers. Cut it out. You're not clever. Everybody and their mother knows how to play "Creeping Death", why don't you try something original?

4. Any band that plays music that my 60-year old parents consider "nice". ****ing A, isn't rock music supposed to be offensive!?

5. 6-string basses, and to a lesser degree, 7-string guitars.. bass players, stop trying to be ****ing guitarists. Nobody wants to hear a bass solo, shut the F up already. And 7-string/super low guitar players, it's pretty funny how you guys are all so low it just mushes together and makes me want to crap myself... which brings me to #6..

6. Guitarists who play with the guitar at the knees all hunched over and whatnot. Korn, other late 90s nu-metal comes to mind. These guys always look like they need to take a dump real bad, or they just got kicked square in the nads.

7. Modern Rock needs to die. The radio ****. Nickelback, Staind, Seether, etc. all that crap. Who actually listens to this crap?! Does anyone REALLY need to hear a fully grown 30-year old man whine with the lyrical depth of a 14-year old girl getting over her first crush? "Boy he'd like me if I didn't have braces!"

8.. Final peeve.. I can't take playing another show with a band who's guitarist uses one of those cheap ass Crate half stacks.. I love cheap amps and all, but those things un-mic'd are ridiculous, no volume, all treble, completely crap-tacular.

~H_E~

[james teh OG]

just gonna do a Top 5 here - -

1. hocking your album during a show. i realize you gotta move units, but really it just comes off as tacky and desperate.

2. if you do covers of pop-punk bands. Blink 182 barely sounds good when THEY play their songs. they sound worse coming out of you.

3. writing songs about adolescent angst. you know you're just doing it so it'll sell to teenagers who have enough life experience to know better. either that or you're just really immature.

4. when your singing is so terrible that if the PA goes out it actually sounds BETTER.

5. cleverly mis-spelling of words for your band name. a friend of mine seriously wanted to call his band "Frozzen Over". i promptly swatted him in the back of the head.

[Talent?!]

11. Be Lamb of God (http://dts.ystoretools.com/1092/images/250x1000/cookiemonster1.jpg)

[SGROCKER0791]

Originally posted by Talent?!
11. Be Lamb of God (http://dts.ystoretools.com/1092/images/250x1000/cookiemonster1.jpg)

HAHAHAHAHA! :D

[BlownAway82]

Originally posted by Welladjusted
having seen incubus live, brandon takes his shirt off because of the heat, not to get the girls all hornied up. when he came onstage sans shirt in hamilton, he was absolutely drenched

it's times like these that i think prove why My Chemical Romance owns all. They played in florida and didn't take off their bullet-proof vests even though they were sweating like mad. way better than incubus...real men don't show off their fuzzy navels.

more seriously:
1. you work on your image more than your sound. (MCR as noted)
2. you have tons of effects because that's how you think you'll sound more like radiohead.
3. you have delays, but you don't time them with the song correctly OR you use reverb to cover your mistakes.
4. you leave a phaser on accidently through most of your set
5. if you think louder music is better music
6. you play only prs, martin, mesa because you like to flaunt your wallet.
7. poorly processed vocals
8. you sample phrases from another band (kid rock)
9. you consider yourself goth, punk, emo, or metal
10. you tell me what you named your guitars

[james teh OG]

Originally posted by james teh OG
just gonna do a Top 5 here - -

1. hocking your album during a show. i realize you gotta move units, but really it just comes off as tacky and desperate.

2. if you do covers of pop-punk bands. Blink 182 barely sounds good when THEY play their songs. they sound worse coming out of you.

3. writing songs about adolescent angst. you know you're just doing it so it'll sell to teenagers who have enough life experience to know better. either that or you're just really immature.

4. when your singing is so terrible that if the PA goes out it actually sounds BETTER.

5. cleverly mis-spelling of words for your band name. a friend of mine seriously wanted to call his band "Frozzen Over". i promptly swatted him in the back of the head.

i want to make an addition to my list

- - when you actually refer to your genre of music as to whatever music is popular at the time. examples: grunge, nu metal, pop punk, emo, screamo, etc.

you're an idiot and you don't know anything about music if you do this.

[zinctobaccoindi]

Originally posted by james teh OG
i want to make an addition to my list

- - when you actually refer to your genre of music as to whatever music is popular at the time. examples: grunge, nu metal, pop punk, emo, screamo, etc.

you're an idiot and you don't know anything about music if you do this.

or if you make up your own genre or combination of genres to describe your music (see KT Tunstall).

[james teh OG]

Originally posted by zinctobaccoindi
or if you make up your own genre or combination of genres to describe your music (see KT Tunstall).

i just remember reading an interview with the guys from New Found Glory in a guitar magazine and they actually referred to themselves as "pop-punk". i just thought "you ****ers need to die."

[BASSMUNKEE]

Originally posted by miscreated
1. Any band that takes a **** on stage and throws it into the crowd
2. Any band that plays non-tube Randall's
3. Any band that names bands they hate on stage
4. Any band that wears... anything black metal
5. Any band that can't pull off what they have on record

...that's about all I can think of right now, I don't hate many bands

EDIT: I don't hate DEP, I just don't care too much for their new vocalist...

Lol at number 1 - I saw Dillinger escape plan do that at a festival, I thought it was very chucklesome, but then I was standing 300 metres from the stage at the time...!

[BASSMUNKEE]

Originally posted by guidedbyechos

9. Grindcore


And just exactly what's wrong with Grindcore...?!

[BASSMUNKEE]

Originally posted by hybrid_evolve
things I hate...
5. 6-string basses, and to a lesser degree, 7-string guitars.. bass players, stop trying to be ****ing guitarists. Nobody wants to hear a bass solo, shut the F up already. And 7-string/super low guitar players, it's pretty funny how you guys are all so low it just mushes together and makes me want to crap myself... which brings me to #6..
~H_E~

+ 1 gajillion for this. I am a Bassist. I use 4 strings. Bass guitars have 4 strings.
************
FLAME ON:
Equipment snobs - oh gee I don't like these guys, not coz they're bad or anything but coz, like, he plays a Gibson Les Paul green smokestack special through a half-caff double-sweet 3 stackorama and EVERYONE knows that you should use a tubeless sub-valve wooferiser with them;Bands with guitarists/bassists who insist on running everywhere and twiddling needlessly in increasingly desparate gymnastic displays coz they think that this somehow enhances their music - there is nothing wrong with standing still, sometimes you need to let the music create the energy - if you have to fill in for it physically yourself, maybe you need to ask yourself...?; guitarists and bassists who seem to feel that they should have a billion strings on their guitars to "allow them to express themselves" - (bass = 4 strings, 5 at a push. Guitar = 6 strings, 12 is acceptable. Double-necks are acceptable also); skate bands; poodle-hair bands; bands that court celebrity over talent; bands that slag everyone else off; anodyne teen-angst-bands that think they are "goth" - you don't know what Goth is. just coz you wear nail varnish and write bad poetry about like, how it all sux, man - doesn't make you a Goth - grow the hell up. Anything that involves Fred Durst; bands that seem to think that fashion - or the lack of it - is "A Statement" - by which I include Art-Rock Gooners Franz-Ferdinand, and Slipknot; Bands that persist in calling their music Rock n Roll when it blatantly is not; Anybody who keeps telling me to Have A Good Time - just get on play and I'll let you know - (and another thing, if you have to pad out your set with talking and jokes, then go away and take a good look at your material);Bands that get political and/or social when they blatantly have no idea or concept of what they are talking about but do coz everyone else is - RATM could get away with it, U2 - just about, though it's a bit tiresome now; people who don't like Grindcore, industrial hardcore, noise - because it's noisy and you can't hear the words. The human voice is an instrument too guys;Overly technical players - and i don't mean just too much technology and no ability to use it in context but guys who've obviously been "taught" and know their stuff but insist on CONSTANTLY showing off their "chops" and "licks" - if I wanted to see a w4nk4th0n I would access an adult satellite channel; Equally people who are regarded as "heroes" when in fact all they have done for the last 40 years is play 8th-note lines "In the pocket"; bassists whose guitars are strapped somewhere around nipple-height; anyone who spends their entire time trying to play other people's stuff rather than trying to do something original AND bands who do "covers albums" because, no matter what you say, it just means you've run out of ideas; Hip-Hop; Rap - (except The Beastie Boys); people who hate Billy Corgan - the man's a genius!; RnB; bling; bands with 40 members of whom about 2/3s are there to go "Ah Yeah!" and "Muthaf*ck4!" and play the triangle on 3 tracks;Bands who insist on doing "interractive" breaks - hey yeah let's get a bunch of people up to play our instruments! NO NO NO if I wanted to watch some adolescent fan boy hack away on a 6 string I would go to a music shop on a Saturday afternoon - I can do that for free...
Oh yeah and "Rock Posing" - only Iron Maiden can do this. And Motorhead.
I so easily could go on.
FLAME OFF.
Man that felt good!!! :D

[ASHJN]

You should edit that and put each new thought on a different line or something, might make it easier to read....

Speaking of "Rock Posing," I saw a band on Friday night and their guitarist would put his left leg up on the monitor and play solos with the guitar standing straight up, while his head was leaning back looking up at the sky.

Made me not like his band

[BASSMUNKEE]

Originally posted by ASHJN
You should edit that and put each new thought on a different line or something, might make it easier to read....

Speaking of "Rock Posing," I saw a band on Friday night and their guitarist would put his left leg up on the monitor and play solos with the guitar standing straight up, while his head was leaning back looking up at the sky.

Made me not like his band

Yeah I know - I would have but I kinda wanted to capture the full Venomous effect of that particular stream of consciousness...!
As to your last point, that is EXACTLY what I'm on about.
Oh yeah and one more thing that really does deserve a mention - Pete "Oxygen Thief" Doherty - not just his "band" but ANYTHING to do with him... :mad:

[thefear]

I personally live by the Buddyhead rules of rock. If you're in a band and don't follow these rules, I probably hate you.



http://www.buddyhead.com/music/rulesofrock/rock.html

1) Don't misspell any words in your band's name. Many bands opt to switch the letter 'I' for the letter 'y'. This is cool if you're into everyone with 1/8 to 1/6 a brain assuming that you are a crappy jock/rap/metal band. For instance, Limp Bizkit, Strait Up, and Korn are all these type of bands. Are any of them good? Check and mate.

2) Avoid using food products in your band's name. Chances are you'll misspell it anyways. Also, chances are you'll pick some crappy food over a tasty one.

3) Don't wear your band's own shirts. No exceptions or excuses accepted. Don't think the "but I'm on tour and we haven't been able to wash our clothes, it's the only thing clean I had to wear" story is gonna fly… wear the dirty shirt, you're a rocker my friend.

4) Don't play reggae unless you are in Bad Brains.

5) Cowboy hats are for cowboys only. That is why they are called cowboy hats. You aren't Madonna nor are you trend setting. And unless your main transportation is a horse just don't wear a cowboy hat, or you're a total poser cowboy.

6) This one here is a no brainer and it's mainly, but not solely, directed towards the ska bands. DO NOT insert the name of your genre, or something related to your genre into your band's name. You don't see any good bands attempt this. (except Metallica, but they have songs about satan so it's cool) The best solution to this problem is to not start a ska band in the first place, cos not only are ska bands just itching to break this rule and prove their dorkdom, but nobody's scoring gash with a ska band anyway.

7) Avoid using the words theory, project, or plan in the title of your band name.

8) Don't play funk. Don't even joke about playing funk.

9) Mc Hammer pants aren't cool anymore, don't wear them. Yeah, Fred, we're talking to you.

10) Visors on band members (or anyone for that matter) earn yourself a b*tch slap. If you have your visor sideways, upside down, or both your penalty increases to additional groin area pummeling.

11) For shows, props are generally a bad idea. They usually stimulate the audience's what-the-hell sensors. If you do decide to use one, make sure it's small and you don't spend most of your time playing with it. Unless of course you are the Beastie Boys, it's 1986, you're opening for Madonna, and you have a giant two story p*nis on stage.

12) If your band has a cozy fan base of say, five, skip out on the huge rock star banner. It is key to grasp the idea that people don't operate on the if-they-have-a-banner-they-have-to-be-good mentality.

13) Never ever have all members wear the same shirt. This is a ridiculous concept and should not be explained.

14) If you're playing your hometown, don't say, "What's up (town)". This phrase is reserved for the out of town and/or touring bands. You might make them mad by stealing their pep speech.

15) If you're playing outside of your hometown, don't say, "What's up (town)". This phrase screams shoot me in the face.

16) Preaching is for church, shut up and rock.

17) Cordless guitars are only ok if your first name is Eddie, your last name is Van Halen, and you kick ass at playing a guitar with a power drill. If this is not the case, don't venture there.

18) Playing your guitar up by your neck makes you look like a geek. Period. If you need an example, take a cue from a few of the greats… look at Slash's guitar height, or maybe take a peek at where Duff let the bass rest, or possibly look at just how low Krist Noviselic rode his rock axe.

19) If you play bass make sure you have only 4 strings. If you play guitar make sure you only have 6 or less. If you play drums know that if your set looks like something Tommy Lee would play while hanging upside down, you are a jackass. You don't need 12 cymbals fruitcake.

20) Gold hardware and/or wood stained anything is a no-no. Ditto for neon anything.

21) White cordless mics were used by Vanilla Ice, don't travel the same road.

22) Unless you are an immortal rock god, spitting or throwing water into the crowd instantaneously eliminates any chance you had at getting laid that night. It may ensure you getting your ass kicked though.

23) Covering new wave songs, oldies, or current Top 40 songs means your band sucks mad horse dong. The "hey wouldn't it be funny to cover that N'sync song and make it punk" idea is about as funny as a knee to the crotch.

24) If all of your songs are about how much you miss your girlfriend, do us all a favor and instead of touring, stay home geek.

25) Kick out the fat guy, he's the reason you are never gonna be big.

26) If you're fat, kick yourself out, you're blowing it for the rest of the band.

26) If you're a metal band, make sure that you are a metal band before you say you are a metal band. A pretty fool proof test is to ask yourself if you think Rob Halford would be into your band back in the days when Judas Priest was the sh*t.

27) If you have a DJ make sure he at least has two turntables. We actually recommend no DJ, but if you gotta go there...

28) We take that back. No DJ's. This DJ in bands sh*t has to stop now.

29) Shave. Beards = blowing it.

30) Don't wear backwards baseball caps, unless you're the Beastie Boys.

31) Use a pick. If you play slap bass you need your fingers broken.

32) Don't tell the crowd what they can and can't do. You're not in Fugazi. If you want to be a cop, get off the stage and go join the police academy champ.

33) Unless you're the headliner you shouldn't be playing hour and a half sets, keep it short. The idea that, "Hey these people don't seem to like us, maybe they just didn't like those songs, let's play some more until we play one they like" is never accurate. Get off the stage. We want to go home.

[BASSMUNKEE]

+infinity.
All of us, our mates and that cr*p-ar5e band I saw in a pub last week should learn these words by heart.
Good effort. :D

[GDan]

Number 6 is so true. I have a friend who works a lot in the Ska scne and he's seen so many awful bands with names like "Ska'd for life"

I'd like to add, if you are a bassist, and you have to concentrate really hard to play bass, give up now. I saw a bassist the other day who had his bass up high and looked like he was scrutinizing every single note like a maths formula. I hate bassists who cant grove.

[TerrapinStat10n]

Originally posted by hybrid_evolve
things I hate...


1. When you're a local band who's played maybe 2 shows at parties, and you have a 10 foot banner and/or neon sign emblazened with your band's crappy name. Nobody cares. And you'll break up within a year anyways.

4. Any band that plays music that my 60-year old parents consider "nice". ****ing A, isn't rock music supposed to be offensive!?

8.. Final peeve.. I can't take playing another show with a band who's guitarist uses one of those cheap ass Crate half stacks.. I love cheap amps and all, but those things un-mic'd are ridiculous, no volume, all treble, completely crap-tacular.

~H_E~

1. Pretty much every band starts out local somewhere.

4. How would you know what good music sounds like without bad music?

8. I don't mind this as long as I'm only playing with one band that's like this. It just makes my band sound better. But any more than one just scares people away.

[hybrid_evolve]

Originally posted by TerrapinStat10n
1. Pretty much every band starts out local somewhere.


That wasn't my point. My point was that when you're a LOCAL just-starting-out band.. you shouldn't have gigantic banners and neon signs making the stage look all crowded and ****. There is no need for that kind of crap.

~H_e~

[daniel2001]

1) Emo Bands
2) Saying Pink Floyd is "old"
3) Claiming an Epi Les Paul is better than a custom shop Gibbo
4) Sh!te guitarists getting free stuff (read Billy Martin and Mesa Boogie)
5) Greenday
6) Smashing guitars
8) People who's stage presence only comes from having a large amp
9) When the beer is warm (not strictly related to the band, but still)
10) Making a song that makes a statement.

[SGROCKER0791]

1) The band sucks and/or is a clone.
2) If it falls into the genres of Pop Punk, Emo, Nu Metal, Hardcore, etc.
3) Members wear eyeliner girl pants (doesn't go for Metal bands haha).
4) The band rips off other band's riffs, drumming, etc. *cough*Trivium*cough*Carcass*cough*
5) Sound the same every damn song.
6) The band creams over breakdowns.
7) The band sells millions of records and it sounds like crap and/or is a clone.
8) The singer raps.
9) The singr screams like his balls are being twisted. lmao!
10) You get a record deal for being a clone or sounding like crap.

:D

[hairychris444]

Oh man, this could get nasty....

In no order apart from the ones that are in order. Like number 0.

0) Metallica. Never did something so good go so rancid
1) Pete Doherty
2) Any band that NME likes
3) Any band that Kerrang (Kerrwrong) likes
4) Emo
5) Pete Doherty
6) Screamo
7) Pseudo-thrashers (Trivium et al)
8) Bands that I liked on CD but sucked live (Lamb of God et al)
9) Bands that I liked live but sucked on CD (OK.. I was very drunk when I saw Coal Chamber... :-/ )
10) The 'Wembley Stadium Effect'. No... you're in a 100 capacity club, you stupid c***ts.
11) People who are way to serious. (Practically every London band, especially the Industrial Metal ones... My god....).
12) People with great rig who make it sound like crap. There's an EQ, dontchaknow?
13) People with crap rig who make it sound great (I'm just jealous, hehehe!)
14) Kids in band + retarded set changing + their dad/manager x (me + several cans of Kronenbourg) = comedy
15) Roadrunner signed you in the last 8 years or so.

and finally

16) If your band's s**t for any other reason that I've missed out above. Sorry, that's 99.99% of them.

Oh well.

:D

[DAVIDCOUPE]

Doingtheunstuck, did you really tell Danzig that he ****ing sucked? That's hilarious:)

[Fall Out Boy]

Originally posted by hybrid_evolve
6. Guitarists who play with the guitar at the knees all hunched over and whatnot. Korn, other late 90s nu-metal comes to mind. These guys always look like they need to take a dump real bad, or they just got kicked square in the nads.

I was seriously nearly on the floor laughing when I read this.. Good call. :D

[Fall Out Boy]

Originally posted by thefear
I personally live by the Buddyhead rules of rock. If you're in a band and don't follow these rules, I probably hate you.



http://www.buddyhead.com/music/rulesofrock/rock.html

Thats one of the funniest things I've ever read. :D

[Panic Button]

Originally posted by Telstar


4- Trying to be political. Weak, politics is a no-no in any context especially music. See Green Day.

*squints eyes* i don't like you.

Anyway, here's my list.

1. You sound the same on every song.
2. People like you JUST because they heard about you on Guitar Hero
3. You play really fast to mask your crappy technique.
4. You use ProTools (I know this is kind of unfair, but i mean people that use them excessively *coughMetallicacough*)
5. You "sound like" anything.
6. You appeared on fuse after 2003
7. You can't play your songs live *coughDragonFarcecough*
8. You can't sing your songs live *coughWolfmothercough*
9. You wear random mish-mashed clothing and saddle shoes. Just because the schoolboy thing worked for Angus does NOT mean you need to continue it.
and, finally
10. Your lead singer claims to be "Bisexual" in a desperate, shark-jumping bid for attention. Allow me to list just a few.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Gerard Way
that guy from The Used
etc.
It's really demeaning to people that actually are bi to see people using it as a marketing ploy.


okay, so that's it. haha.

[NoFroBro]

Time to join the hating.

1/ You have so much 'special gear' that your set turn over is longer than your set on both sides.
2/ You play some sort of groove dirge music where the shortest track is ten plus minutes and then play several encores to a snoring ovation.
3/ You claim that you HAVE to play in drop C because it's so bad assed. It's only two whole steps for frick's sake. Get a frickin' bass if you need more bottom end.
4/ Seven string guitars. Take five off a standard six string and play that until you sound like Bo Diddley. Put back on one more string, rinse, repeat. If by the time you get back to six you still need more you're a lost cause and need to have other people punch some sense into you.
5/ Six string Basses. See above.
6/ You wander across stage during other bands sets.
7/ You leave immediately after your set because there's obviously no point in supporting the scene/venue/vibe.
8/ You make the entire audience leave during your first song.
9/ You forget to tune your instruments and don't notice until it is pointed out to you by the audience.
10/ You offend my delicate sensibilities by squealing (fortunately) incognisable obscenities into the mic in some stupid growly voice. So you're pissed off? Not nearly as pissed off as I now am. Want to see me backstage? Use the cookie monster voice, wear the cookie monster suit. This is not negotiable.

[Vamplifier]

1) Stop noodling around you wankers. Bass players, just follow the guitar player if you don't have any ideas. Drummers, you don't need a fill for every perceived climax. Guitar players, if you must solo, it should be a short climax or a reflection of the song's melody. Vocalists, find a note and love it, no more American Idol divas.

2) Drummers with huge kits.
You know at some point there will be a roll or a fill when they hit all 12 rack and floor toms and all 8 cymbals. Why? Because he can.

3) Bands with no hooks.
Especially bands with two guitar players and neither one can play a freaking hook, like some god awful drone on one guitar and wanky lead that never lands anywhere.

4) Singers that hold their arms out like they're Jesus.
Especially when they slowly move a hand over their heart, oh that's precious, he's soooo deep.

5) Anyone who sings "fantasy" as a lyric. Or any of the other cornball "poetic" words. Just stick with "baby".

6) Bands that confuse minimalism with inspired amateurism and abuse the hell out the concept. Especially the chanty grrrl rock bands. I get it, you have all those hip ironic t-shirts and nowhere to go.

7) Technically proficient players. Wow it's a bunch of hired mercenaries that play with no feeling whatsoever. Even worse are the guys making phone calls between songs or during the song. Even worse than worse making calls with those hands free headsets. I'm looking at you Memphis blues players!

8) Bouncy drums. God I f**ing hate the bounce. Keep it four on the floor baby, back beat. Especially bouncy drums with acoustic guitar.

9) Bands with tons of friends and no fans that act like rock stars. You're not fooling anyone. We know you're from the burbs and still hang out with all your high school friends and you guys got nothing to do out in Momsbasementburg so you and all your friends drive into the city and cop hardcore attitudes.

10) 5-15 minute songs. Stop. Stop. Shut up. Stop playing. Hit it and quit.

11) Instrumental bands. Meandering wankery that drags on forever. The songs will all sound the same. BS factor compounded by the necessity of announcing the pretentious song titles.

[Panic Button]

I have a new one. actually, two new ones. And there are only two. i'm sorry about breaking the pattern.

1: you have a bass with umpteen pickups but you insist on only putting on a volume control because that's the only way it sounds "badass" enough. (saw "Brand New" (who sucked by the way) at lollapalooza, their bassist is an offender here)

2. You have 40 or so old fenders and you change every song, abuse the whammy on it, and you suck. (Once again, "brand new". Lead singer hand a beautiful 1970s JM. Black w/ matching headstock, and they were terrible.)

UGH

[DAVIDCOUPE]

Originally posted by NoFroBro
6/ You wander across stage during other bands sets.Or you have a bunch of loud-ass workers setting up your props and backround bull**** right behind Canned Heat during their ****ing amazing set.

Originally posted by NoFroBro
8/ You make the entire audience leave during your first song. I have to disagree with this. I've seen some cool bands clear the house on the first song. They must have been pussies though. Or it was a case of NoFroBro's #7 'way to make me hate your band.'

[Fuzzhead]

- You have no sense of humor/you are too serious about everything.
- You pay more attention to your gear (particularly pedals) as opposed to rocking out.
- You play music that "sounds just like classic rock." If I wanted to hear classic rock, I wouldn't be listening to your band, dip****.
- Rock star stances.
- Standing still, staring at your instrument. You don't have to be Iggy Pop, but try to look alive.
- You look like you're pissed off to be up onstage. If music ain't fun anymore, don't do it.
- Bands who look like they're rocking out in a really careful, planned way. Around-the-shoulders-guitar-spinners, this goes out to you.
- You've got that haircut where it's sorta in your eyes, but still very well-kept. Either you've got the long, sloppy rock and roll mop or you don't. Also, backwards-mullet hair.
- On that note, your stupid ****ing Indie bands with their stupid ****ing Indie clothes and hairstyles. Playing the same music on the same guitars. You're the reason people ridicule the "indie genre."

I cranked out more than I thought.

[DAVIDCOUPE]

Originally posted by Fuzzhead
- You have no sense of humor/you are too serious about everything.
- You pay more attention to your gear (particularly pedals) as opposed to rocking out.
- You play music that "sounds just like classic rock." If I wanted to hear classic rock, I wouldn't be listening to your band, dip****.
- Rock star stances.
- Standing still, staring at your instrument. You don't have to be Iggy Pop, but try to look alive.
- You look like you're pissed off to be up onstage. If music ain't fun anymore, don't do it.
- Bands who look like they're rocking out in a really careful, planned way. Around-the-shoulders-guitar-spinners, this goes out to you.
- You've got that haircut where it's sorta in your eyes, but still very well-kept. Either you've got the long, sloppy rock and roll mop or you don't. Also, backwards-mullet hair.
- On that note, your stupid ****ing Indie bands with their stupid ****ing Indie clothes and hairstyles. Playing the same music on the same guitars. You're the reason people ridicule the "indie genre."

I cranked out more than I thought.
That's the guy! (http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_stage_theat/images/2008/05/20/boom.jpg)