The guy in the next room has been strumming the same four chords for over an hour

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Em C G D
2 beats per chord
130 bpm

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 12 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

apparently he's filled up like 18 cassettes with songs he's written about the Lord

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 12 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. I feel sorry for my beightbours now. :-(

My songs aren't about The Lord, though, they're just about cute boys.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Tell him, he's not interested in his ramblings.

"The Lord loves silence. It's pristine."

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, dorm life. Has anyone propped a 50-gallon garbage bin full of water against your door yet?

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Does ILM know about this guy? They'd love him over there.

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

apparently he's filled up like 18 cassettes with songs he's written about the Lord

You live next to Jandek?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

haha I was going to say The Edge.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

...Jason Pierce...

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

OTM!

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

You're a bot now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

Last year I would habitually discombobulate my entire student household with overdriven throat-sung guitar impersonations and amplified toothdrumming, so Curtis' annoyance threshold I venture to say hasn't really been tested as of yet.

― Exscourageate! (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

This thread subject = my job.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Friday, 12 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

People in flat below mine seem to be trying out a new musical instrument each month. First it was flute, then bass guitar, now it's some kind of keyboard. They always play the same thing over and over, but it's a different thing per instrument.

My wife wants to buy me a guitar amp so we can get revenge on them, but we unfortunately do have neighbours above and next to us so it's not really fair on them.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Just get a lot of subwoofers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Just take the guitar amp and lie it on it's face on the floor. I did this with a bass amp, and it worked wonders.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Friday, 12 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

"Just take the guitar amp and lie it on it's face on the floor"

uh, I hope the inputs are on the back of yr amp then.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

My wife wants to buy me a guitar amp so we can get revenge on them, but we unfortunately do have neighbours above and next to us so it's not really fair on them.

Invite them for a jam session. You could become the new Monkees.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Um. You've seen guitar amps w/top mounted controls and input panels, right?

xpost

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Friday, 12 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

I need to grow some balls and go round and tell to stop being selfish fucks but so far I haven't done that. We just make do with passive-aggression, i.e. put hip hop on and turn the bass up full. My wife has tried banging on the floor with a hammer but that doesn't work either.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

In regards to this kind of monkeytorture, I generally start doing a better version of what they're doing, slightly louder, and more ludicrous.

― Geza biers has perfect packwards bompatability (The GZeus), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Which might be awkward if the person causing the monkeytorture is involved in autoerotic S&M.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Just take the guitar amp and lie it on it's face on the floor.

Is it safe to play a bass through a guitar amp lying on it's face on the floor?

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

i used to live with - and am indeed still good friends with - a guy who would sit and whack fuck out of a (thankfully unplugged) plywood strat copy and wail and shout tunelessly over the top. his favourite bands were husker du, wire, spirit, led zep and, er, the wu-tang clan, and he genuinely managed to combine bits of the worst of all of them.

over two years, he broke four strings. but he'd never replace them. so by the end of it he'd just be sitting there going TWANK zung CLUNG zung ding ZUNK on the G and B strings. thankfully he got a girlfriend before he got down to the last one.

my other flatmate had a (fucking brilliant) power-grunge trio who practised in the room on the other side of mine. one day the neighbours from three doors down came to complain. best bare-faced lie i've ever told:

"is there some kind of live band playing in this flat?"

[GRUUUNG GRUUUNG GRUUUNG THWACK BOK THWACK THUD]

"no."

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

The title of this thread sounds like the first line of a Lou Reed song.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Or else it is about Lou Reed.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

crazy fucking landlady's son's acid-damaged funky backwoods psych

― cheesesteak and shake (dubplatestyle), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

e2-e4

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Em C G D
2 beats per chord
130 bpm
Who will saaaaaaaave your soul...

― Frank Reich always kind of looked like Scott Bakula to me, btw (rogermexico), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Whoops, forgot to switch back to my old username. Rookie NUILX mistake. But it does sound like yr neighbor may be a Jewel fan...

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

or an every-shitty-rock-song-ever fan

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 12 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Next door to my house on one side there's a kid learning trumpet most mornings, and next door on the other side there's one learning piano. This is useful in case I ever forget I live in the most middle-class part of the city

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 13 January 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

you need to learn the drums and start up the world's first improvised jazz trio where two of the members don't even know they're in it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 13 January 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

-- Feargal Hixxy (lackofinteres...), January 13th, 2007.

you need to learn the drums and start up the world's first improvised jazz trio where two of the members don't even know they're in it.

-- grimly fiendish (simonmai...), January 13th, 2007.

IMPROMPTU EXCELSIOR MOMENT (seeing as I'm still locked from the thread)

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

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