Is there anyone more annoying than a musician?

[darkstar12]

Ok, seriously...I know people from different walks of life and who have different interests, and musicians have hands down got to be the most annoying group of people on the planet.

At a party or get together with some friends and there is a guitar in the corner ? Pretty good chance that if there is a musician in the group they will start playing and won't stop no matter how much the other people in the room DON'T want to hear it..

Have a co-worker or facebook friend who is a musician? Welcome to the world of "Dude, my bands playing Friday night, its gonna be RAGIN"...but dude, I've already seen you guys play..."yeah man but you havent been out for at least a month!"...also say hello to the endless facebook invites for gigs...

Already in a band ? Say hello to "hey man, we gotta have a band meeting, we just don't think you are taking this seriously enough".
sorry....Ive got to work, cant have a band meeting..."ah, see man? you're always working!"....ummmm...you do realize that the youngest person in this band is 50, and the one time we played out no one came to see us don't you?

 

[skull and roses]

I'm in 2 bands and what you describe can be true for some musicians, but just like everything else there's exceptions....in my experience you're discription is of early 20's musicians. Once again another generalization, fuck it! Ha!

 

[marbles]

I used to live in a very secluded area with a couple of guys on a mountain. It was great because one of the guys had a remote building he lived in and only came in to cook or do laundry. The other guy was on the road almost all the time playing music. So I basically had a cabin all to myself.

Well this guy that was always gone came home for a few months to "recharge" and work on new material. This was basically our first time living together for so long after the whole time I'd lived there. He was a folk style singer/songwriter who played an acoustic guitar. Every morning I would wake up to him writing music and it was always something annoying like this "...and the eagle flies...and the eag...and the eagle....and the...and the eag....and the eag.....and the eagle fliiiiessss at dawn". Just him constantly working on the song and it began to really get to me. Long story short we had our words with each other one day and I moved soon after. He's probably still in that cabin smoking hand rolled american spirits, drinking french press coffee, burning sage, and singing his eagle earth songs.

 

[BrnCow]

I don't listen to unrefined music...period!

 

[BrnCow]

And musicians that think they are above others suck dog dicks... and if they piss me off, I don't mind telling their sociopathic asses about it either.

 

[Darth Fader]

Religious people.

 

[HidingInTheHaze]

Jahovah's witnesses, I really don't like unexpected knocks on the door.

 

[Stoner4Life]

I gave my love a story ♪ That had no end... ♫
I gave my.......

 

[PhenoMenal]

lawyers, insurance salesmen, telemarketers, religious nuts knocking on your door ....... mate if you find MUSICIANS the worst type of people on the planet you seriously need to get yourself a drink and relax to a few good tunes lol

And for those about to rock ... I salute you!

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

lawyers, insurance salesmen, telemarketers, religious nuts knocking on your door ....... mate if you find MUSICIANS the worst type of people on the planet you seriously need to get yourself a drink and relax to a few good tunes lol

And for those about to rock ... I salute you!

Yeah, I agree Pheno. The complaint was about a subset of the musician's out there, those who are extremely annoying, not because they are idiot musicians, but because they are idiot HUMANS. These idiot humans exist in each and every field/profession, like what you listed and more. I'd much rather listen to a crazy musician parade his peculiarities than those idiots in the banker/attorney/etc sphere.

 

[floralheart]

Now that all the uncool people have outed themselves... carry on.

 

[darkstar12]

I'm in 2 bands and what you describe can be true for some musicians, but just like everything else there's exceptions....in my experience you're discription is of early 20's musicians. Once again another generalization, fuck it! Ha!

I play in bands also, or at least I used to until I got tired of being around musicians...the people I am talking about are all essentially grown men acting like they are still in high school.

Also, I left one out. The guy who you go visit socially and will sit there for a half hour or more playing guitar in front of you.

Now that all the uncool people have outed themselves... carry on

meh..musicians aren't that cool..

 

[mtbazz]

LOL

I play music and have known all the stereotypes talked about in this thread.

 

[sallyforthDeleted member 75382]

I play drums. I admit to being extremely annoying. I will tap on anything to make a beat, kitchen work tops are my favourite. People often shout at me to stop. Even stirring a cup of coffee becomes a beat, then I have to Finnish off the beat with a few taps to the inside of the cup before the spoon lands on a surface, which will then end said beat, with a little tap tap of the spoon.

My partner and kids are now leaving me too. No joke!

 

[EclipseFour20]

One summer I lived in the front duplex unit and my landlord lived in the back. She also was pianist for a Pentecostal Church, so there were daily recitals (piano practices) and mini operas (choir members practicing).

Since I was gone most of the day, it was really no big deal, but what really got me to move--was the evening knocks on my door by her bible thumping friends, looking for her "bible study group". Talk about a buzz kill!

Anyone for a rousing chorus of "Onward Christian Soldiers"?

 

[GeorgeWBush]

 

[OrganicOzarks]

An ex that has it out for you.

Pedophile Priest

That one dude at the hair salon that keeps trying to convert you to the other team.

Inlaws?

 

[lockwood]

My buddy invited them in and he's the superior intellect type and had a good rousing with them. He was just wearing his bath robe and that was it while puffing on a sherlock. They kept coming back to talk to him and get to him. That always cracks me up.

 

[bombadil.360]

anyone who plays acoustic guitar (steel strings) and claims to to be a musician is just funny...

anyone without enough self-criticism to realize that to sing: "the eagle flies through the blue sky and it's pretty" and does not realize he lacks talent, can hardly be called a musician. end of story.

 

[blastfrompast]

My wife finds those who play guitar well when sober REALLY Annoying when drunk/blasted.

One friend who can play and sing decided he wanted to play "If I had a million dollars"...but he was so blasted he could only remember the first couple of lines......then stop...then re-start...after 20 or so times....It got to be too much.