anybody go temporarily stupid ...lol

[teledude66]

i was debating to sell or trade my peavey Classic 50 because it was no where near the tone i was searching for so i was messing with it to search for the missing link of why i bought it in the first place ...anyhoo i had been regulating volume with the master, so i turn it to about 9 and adjust the indie channels for volume...BOINK there it was....has this happened to ya'll ? you work on something to get a sound be it pedal or amp and realize all of a sudden you hadn't adjusted one lil aspect that you take for granted ...now i'm stuck, it has the grind now that i was searching for the clean lacks that Fender 6l6 fullness but i think it'll do it still may be on the chopping block but it's going to be a harder descision now ....

[timgreene]

Nope, never.

[Joe-Bob]

Ever spend 5 minutes looking for your car keys....









...when you already had them in your hand?

[BB]

You mean today??

[PraiseCaster]

I'm a permanent sufferer myself

[Michael Murphy]

I've been temporarily stupid as long as I can remember...


-Michael
Charter Member S. Texas He-Man Emoticon Haters Local #316

[0le FUZZY]

anybody go temporarily stupid

<li>Nope, knott me.
<li>I are permanently that a way.
<li>Example: Lost my coffee cup one day and looked fer three hours. Found it !!! (inna micro-wave) HEE! HEE!


0.F.

[ye olde fretmonkey]

I hate the onstage bouts of stupidity...

...like, 'how does the intro to Folsom Prison go again?'

[whiteriot]

how bout lookin through the laundry for a half hour for a favorite shirt





then you realize you were wearing it

[J-man]

How about attempting to serve ice cream with a fork for a good five minutes before realising what I was doing? :D

[ye olde fretmonkey]

Originally Posted by J-man

How about attempting to serve ice cream with a fork for a good five minutes before realising what I was doing? :D

LOL!!

[teledude66]

looking for you sunglasses and they're on your head

[ravindave_3600]

pulled up beside me as I was taking my ski gear out of my jeep. All-American co-ed types, happily athletic and ready for a day on the snow. Although I'm married and 20 years older, I'm flattered when they both smile at me.

I smile back and wish them a good day as I slog over and slip into my bindings. Only to think "GOGGLES!" So I slog back to my jeep and the pretty girls and dig through my stuff only to find...no goggles.

They're still smiling - knowing I'm a dork. So I continue digging, then oozing with good natured cool tell them, "Guess I've forgotten my goggles; probably time to buy some new ones hahaha."

The pretty girls are still smiling - but in a different way - as I turn and catch my reflection in the window...and see my goggles pushed up on my cap.

:(

[eryque]

I have spent ten minutes in the morning looking for car keys, only to find that they're in my pocket. The ones I already checked.

Don't even ask me about tools when I'm working on a project. I can stay organized for about 6 minutes, after that it's a free-for all.

[rosett]

eryque-
don't feel bad-the whole time you were talking to them, they were probably thinking about tooth spray and hair polish. or, they were listening to a phone conversation on some ear bud phone.
john

[Scotland]

I drove 150 miles (one way) to deliver a note book computer and realised when I lifted the case off the back seat....yep, empty...just like my head !

[agent2x4]

I've looked angrily for a shoe that I just saw dammit!

Only to find it ...you guessed it...in my hand.

Sunglasses, keys, lighters...I'm getting old. I leave things behind wherever I go.

[Dono]

This is a true story...

Couple of weeks ago my band was playing a private party ($$$). We came to our infamous Surf Medley, which I start with Miserlou. Our arrangement is that we jam a bit on the main riff, then I come back in when the riff goes to 'A". We've only played this tune, I don't know, 400+ times?

We'll, on the 401st time when we came to that cresendo and I prepared to hit that riff in "A" I froze...which meant the whole band froze...which meant that the whole place froze! COMPLETE F%*$*ING SILENCE. The other guitarist and I were looking at each other --- well, his gaze was a bit more intense than mine --- and then he said, "It's your deal, man...what the f$#@(* are you doing????" We're talking a total of about 3-4 seconds here.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Complete brain drain. I don't think I have ever been more embarrased!

The interesting thing was, since everyone had stopped...that gave me/us time to realize there was a screw up...so we did what any of you'all would have done...

What just launched into "Pipeline". I don't really think anybody knew :-)

YMMV

Dono

[jpkusa]

I can't tell you how many times we've been playing a show and I've started a song off with a capo, only to realize with horror when the rest of the band comes in that I've got the capo on the wrong fret. And I'm talking about songs we always play. This actually happened to me again Saturday night, and I can't even blame it on alcohol cause I hadn't had any.

One time I was playing an acoustic gig and I played one song in drop-D. Next song is in standard tuning and I'm strumming along and singing when I hear what I think is low-end feedback of some kind, that lasts through the whole song. I'm giving the soundman dirty looks, only to realize when the song is over that I'd never tuned back up to standard.

And yet another night, our band was playing a show with a long guitar jam part at the end, and I was trying to cue everybody to bring it down real quiet for effect. Drummer, bassist, everybody complied, except for the other guitarist who had this long feedback ringing out. It kept going and going and I kept motioning to him to bring it down. He looks puzzled and starts fiddling with his knobs, when I suddenly realized it was me that was feeding back.

[Chris S.]

Not me, but once heard on a gig:

"C Jam blues."

"Okay... what key?"

Ay, yi yi.

Favorite spot to "lose" the keys: hanging outside, in the door.

Weirdest spot to "lose" the keys: in the freezer. (I have no idea, you tell me...) CS

[Joel Terry]

The more appropriate question to ask me is, "When are you ever not stupid, Joel?"

Stupidity is not a temporary thing with me. And I only get worse the older I get. :P

Joel

[shakedancer]

You guys are smoking too much I'll be in the middle of a song and forget what key i'm in. Sometimes I go to play something I know and I'll completely forget how to play it. Don't worry too much, I have a clip of Clapton back in the 80's when Phil Collins was playing drums. They are doing " Sunshine of your love". When it comes time for the solo( which Clapton based on the song " Blue Moon") he starts a few notes and has some serious head lock and makes a mess of it. He looks over smiling at Phil and Phil smiles back. We're not alone.

[JJRaccoon]

How about stopping at a green light or paying for gas and driving away without putting it in your car?

[Jakedog]

My two favorites from the Jakedog hall of shame:

I once played bass for a moderately successful heavy rock band. Well, one night we're playing a big room, packed house, around 1,000 people in this club, all there to see us. The lights come up, and I come flyin' off the drum riser. I'm about 6-7 feet up in the air, and the big down beat to launch the first song is supposed to happen when I land on the stage. Well, it happened. With a startling emptiness and lack of low end. Note to self: SVT's are only loud if you remember to turn them on.


A few years before that, I was running late for a gig, and got in too big a hurry. I threw all of my gear in the car, and hauled a** to a gig that was about an hour and a half away. (I got there in an hour, like I said, I was in a hurry.) Well I run in, set all my stuff up just in the nick of time, only to realize, I have no guitars. I guess I was in such a big hurry, I just forgot them. No biggie, we all have a good laugh, I borrow the other guitarists back-up, and we play the show. I get home at about 4 o'clock in the morning, and all of a sudden have the sickest feeling I've ever had in the pit of my stomach. Sitting there for all the world to see, right in the middle of my driveway, are two guitar cases. Right down by the street, not far from the garbage cans. I had carried them out of the house after all. Why they were still there, 10 hours later, I'll never know, but somebody was looking out for this stupid S.O.B. that night, and I have never forgotten it.


Jake

[TheGoodTexan]

Originally Posted by Jakedog

A few years before that, I was running late for a gig, and got in too big a hurry. I threw all of my gear in the car, and hauled a** to a gig that was about an hour and a half away. (I got there in an hour, like I said, I was in a hurry.) Well I run in, set all my stuff up just in the nick of time, only to realize, I have no guitars. I guess I was in such a big hurry, I just forgot them. No biggie, we all have a good laugh, I borrow the other guitarists back-up, and we play the show. I get home at about 4 o'clock in the morning, and all of a sudden have the sickest feeling I've ever had in the pit of my stomach. Sitting there for all the world to see, right in the middle of my driveway, are two guitar cases. Right down by the street, not far from the garbage cans. I had carried them out of the house after all. Why they were still there, 10 hours later, I'll never know, but somebody was looking out for this stupid S.O.B. that night, and I have never forgotten it.

I've done something similar.

During my single years, I lived in various cheap apartment complexes...usually as cheap as I could find for a ground floor unit...so, not always in the nicest parts of town.

After a gig one night, the singer asks if I'll take his gear back to storage for him, so I loaded it up in my pickup, along with my gear. I went home, parked the truck and got out, checked my mail at the little "community mail boxes", then went inside to set my mail down and get something to drink, checked my phone messages, turned on the TV and sat down in the recliner, fell asleep.

Woke up an hour later, took a shower and got in bed.

The next morning I got up and got ready for work. Walked out to the truck to find all of our gear still there, with a fresh coat of morning dew atop.

DOH!

[shakedancer]

Jakedog,youmust live in a good area. One time a friend and I are going to a concert. We meet at my house and we party awhile before we leave( I think you know what i'm saying). We have to go RT. 128 S. I got on RT 128N and drove for half an hour before I realized I was going the wrong way. He was just as bad. 8)

[TheGoodTexan]

Originally Posted by shakedancer

We have to go RT. 128 S. I got on RT 128N and drove for half an hour before I realized I was going the wrong way. He was just as bad. 8)

I dated a girl for a while during the college years...Bambi...no kidding, that was her given name. And her last name makes it even better, but I hesitate to post her full name on the internet...

Bambi was exactly how you'd imagine her. A complete centerfold quality knock-out, with about as much sense as God gave a grapefruit.

Bambi and a friend made a shopping trip to a larger town, about 60 miles away. She took Hwy 71 South to get there.

They shopped all day, and got in the car to come home. As the evening turned into night, no one had heard from Bambi and company (the days before everyone had a cell phone). Finally, around 10:00pm, I get a call from her. She's lost.

She says, "I've been driving on 71 South for 4 hours, but I'm still not home."

[Michael Murphy]

OK, here's one-

Going to a gig, the bass player picks me up. He has a restored '56 Chevy in immaculate condition- big trunk, lotsa room.

We unload his stuff to make room for mine, then load everything up, get in the car, and start backing out of the driveway.

Immediately, there is a significant 'bump' as the rear wheels roll over something. We just look at each other, and say "What the Hell was that?".

Do we stop and get out and look? Of course not! We continue backing up and oddly enough, the car goes 'bump' again as the front wheels go over whatever it was.

We *still* keep backing out, and pretty soon we're far enough back that we can see his bass case laying in my driveway, with a big ol' tire track across one end.

He had a Ric 4001, and both tires had gone directly over the bridge. Absolutely no damage to the bass, just the tire's tread pattern on the tolex.

Not only are those things bullet-proof, apparently they're '56 Chevy-proof as well.

Good thing for him.

After that we instituted a little 'walk-around' program when loading up...


-Michael

Charter Member S. Texas He-Man Emoticon Haters Local #316

[TheGoodTexan]

Driving in the car with Bambi during the Christmas season.

Bambi - "What does 'parse' mean?"
Me - "What does what mean?"
Bambi - "Parse"
Me - "Spell it"
Bambi - "I don't know...p-a-r-s-e...I guess"
Me - "I don't know. Where did you hear it?"
Bambi - "In that Christmas song...."

Then she sings the line to Walking in a Winter Wonderland.

"In the winter we will build a snow man
And pretend that he is parse and brown"

[TheGoodTexan]

Bambi is telling me about her parents going on vacation. I asked where they were going.

Bambi - "Cuba, Hawaii, Alaska...some place in the Gulf"...(meaning the Gulf of Mexico.)

Me - "What? Hawaii and Alaska aren't in the Gulf."
Bambi - "Sure they are."

We argue about it for a while, then move on to a different topic.

A few days later, we're at her parent's house, and she brings to me a World Book Encyclopedia (remeber those?), with a map of the United States and parts of North America. Hawaii and Alaska are placed in an "inset" in the bottom right hand portion of the map....in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Bambi - "See, I told you".

...I couldn't make these things up fellas.

[jpkusa]

Originally Posted by TheGoodTexan

A few days later, we're at her parent's house, and she brings to me a World Book Encyclopedia (remeber those?), with a map of the United States and parts of North America. Hawaii and Alaska are placed in an "inset" in the bottom right hand portion of the map....in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Bambi - "See, I told you".

...I couldn't make these things up fellas.

Hah! Good one!

Similar: knew someone who worked at a big music biz company in NYC. The head honcho had set up some appointment for an act in Raleigh. After some confusion or disagreement within the company about the artists' itinerary, someone informs this head honcho that said artist is in North Carolina already. Honcho says, "What the hell are they doing in North Carolina???!!! They're supposed to be in RALEIGH!!!" True story.

[teledude66]

Originally Posted by TheGoodTexan

Bambi is telling me about her parents going on vacation. I asked where they were going.

Bambi - "Cuba, Hawaii, Alaska...some place in the Gulf"...(meaning the Gulf of Mexico.)

Me - "What? Hawaii and Alaska aren't in the Gulf."
Bambi - "Sure they are."

We argue about it for a while, then move on to a different topic.

A few days later, we're at her parent's house, and she brings to me a World Book Encyclopedia (remeber those?), with a map of the United States and parts of North America. Hawaii and Alaska are placed in an "inset" in the bottom right hand portion of the map....in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Bambi - "See, I told you".

...I couldn't make these things up fellas.

no offense to anyone from West Va. but this guy happened to be from there we were on break at work and i was tellling about a guy i knew who bought a motorhome and drove to alaska (we live in N.C.) so the WVa guy looks at me funny like i'm telling lies ...i say "what's wrong" he goes"man you can't drive to Alaska" and i said "yes you can" he says "i'll ask my wife she graduated college she'll know", so he comes back next day and said, " she said you used to not be able to but that they fixed it where you can get there now" you think Bambi married this guy ?

[jaybee001]

Originally Posted by Joel Terry

The more appropriate question to ask me is, "When are you ever not stupid, Joel?"

Stupidity is not a temporary thing with me. And I only get worse the older I get. :P

Joel

weirdest place to find brand new socks: the fridge
place to check immediately: the sock drawer, in there you will find the bacon you bought the same day you bought the socks...

edit

if anyone is wondering why I quoted THIS post, so am I

[TG]

I keep hoping it's temporary but it's been over 4 decades now.

[jaybee001]

Originally Posted by TG

I keep hoping it's temporary but it's been over 4 decades now.

oh, but it IS temporary TG, it only goes on for as long as YOU go on

[weelie]

Three things of utter stupidity:

I've looked for my eye glasses having them on (and I don't see really anything without them or contacts).

I've almost sold a lot of gear that I then fell in love with just when I had made the decision to sell...

I also asked about metronomes here the other day. No replies. What was thinking? A metronome, who needs, they are for the people who need to practice, not us, eh? :D

[simonc]

We argue about it for a while, then move on to a different topic.

A few days later, we're at her parent's house, and she brings to me a World Book Encyclopedia (remeber those?), with a map of the United States and parts of North America. Hawaii and Alaska are placed in an "inset" in the bottom right hand portion of the map....in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Bambi - "See, I told you

at least she didnt say they were vacationing in "rand Mcnally"

me , well im stupid every day.
todays example : I pick up the phone at work, say who I am, and before the person on the other end can respond, I say "im fine thanks how are you?"
duh, they didnt even ask me.ok.I admit it.I do this often.

[TheGoodTexan]

You ever give someone an improper "you too" ?

Example...

Walking across campus in college...I see a buddy of mine walking toward me. Remembering it's his birthday, I say, "Hey John! Happy Birthday!"

He smiles and says, "Thanks, you too!"

[simonc]

yeah,that too.usually really inappropriatly.

ie -

hey simon how are you?

im ok and you?

well im going into hospital thisafternoon to get a skincancer removed....

then at the end of the conversation -
ok simon - have a great afternoon

me - yea you too , have fun !

[jaybee001]

Originally Posted by simonc

yeah,that too.usually really inappropriatly.

ie -

hey simon how are you?

im ok and you?

well im going into hospital thisafternoon to get a skincancer removed....

then at the end of the conversation -
ok simon - have a great afternoon

me - yea you too , have fun !

don't you just wish there was a "rewind - delete"function in our mouth?