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Instruments that should be banned
1. Fretless bass - anyone playing one deserves an Asbo
2. Tenor Sax - invented by a Belgian, and sounds like it 3. Electric piano - funky like a train. A Virgin train any others? |
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Bagpipes - just because they freak me out
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Pan Pipes when used to play anything other than Andean folk music (and I'm particularly talking about Beatles or Phil Collins songs).
The Harpsichord. |
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I kind of like bagpipes. However panpipes are extremely unpleasant in the wrong hands.
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The Saxophone and the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer [that's the one Stock, Aitken & Wankerman used].
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What about bagpipes playing the later works of Phil Collins?!
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Naah keep the Saxophone. Otherwise Baker street would be a pretty boring song. Plus a well played sax sounds good, as performed by Clarence Clemons.
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...or Zoot
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Nope, I'm sorry. I don't care what great things the saxophone may or may not have done. I've got two words for you: Kenny G
Case closed m'lud |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Inkblot
1. Fretless bass - anyone playing one deserves an Asbo
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Ok I'm keeping harpsichord and bagpipes.
![]() I think pan pipes should be banned for everyone, as should the acoustic guitar unless you have a license. It seems that when the majority of people get one in their hands, they seem to think that the whole world wants to hear their woes. Well we don't
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Originally Posted by Inkblot
3. Electric piano - funky like a train. A Virgin train
Minus the electric piano, the Fender Rhodes in particular, we would be without some of the finest works of the last 30 or so years. |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by !!11oneone
What about bagpipes playing the later works of Phil Collins?!
Let's ban the voice of Phil Collins too |
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Have you never heard the now sadly diseased Jaco Pastorious?
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What's he 'diseased' with? Fretless bass flumps?
Ahem! I meant deceased.
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Quote:
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1. Fretless bass - anyone playing one deserves an Asbo
Stand up Mr Mark King of Level 42 fame you knobhead ! Quote:
Originally Posted by Arcas
Have you never heard the now sadly deceased Jaco Pastorious?
Not so much an instrument that should be banned but the way it is played .... Bass players/guitarists who play their instrument at chest height The lower strung your instrument = the cooler you look (see Ramones) Oh ... and twin neck guitars. Usually favoured by poncey muso tossers
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Can I also add giant gong at the back of ridiculously oversized drum kits ?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GlenL
Not so much an instrument that should be banned but the way it is played
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Bag pipes, quite the worst sound known to man.
The Recorder, sounds like somethings being strangled even when its being played well!! The violin, nothing against a good fiddle in a Pogues song but hell is surely a loop of Nigel Kennedy playing Vivaldi. That funny mouth thing that Peter Frampton used to use to make his guiter sound all cack!! |
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Originally Posted by Mr Matthew
The Saxophone and the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer [that's the one Stock, Aitken & Wankerman used].
It's not an inherently bad synthesiser. Like all other instruments it's all down to how you play it, although the DX7 is famous for practically requiring a PhD in computer science to program it decently.
Last edited by luvsnail : 12-09-2006 at 18:28. |
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Brian Eno is another eminent DX7 vet.
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Bag pipes, quite the worst sound known to man.
The Recorder, sounds like somethings being strangled even when its being played well!! The violin, nothing against a good fiddle in a Pogues song but hell is surely a loop of Nigel Kennedy playing Vivaldi. That funny mouth thing that Peter Frampton used to use to make his guiter sound all cack!! The recorder is almost always naff. In the right hands, the violin is the most beautiful and sublime of all instruments. There is a lot more to it than The Four Seasons. Frampton never needed anything except his fingers to make his guitar sound all cack.
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Quote:
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Gotta agree with that
Stand up Mr Mark King of Level 42 fame you knobhead ! Quote:
Originally Posted by GlenL
...The lower strung your instrument = the cooler you look (see Ramones)...
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The recorder should be banned RIGHT NOW!
Forcing children to learn this dreadful screeching instrument of the devil, in school is responsible for putting-off many from learning anything musical. WHY WHY WHY? We had a stock of them at school, and mine always seemed to have some chewimg gum stuck in the top. Yuck! |
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