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Do you make faces when you play guitar?

mudshadow	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 3:42 AM You know what I'm talking about. Only guitar players seem to do this...
zedsalt	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 3:57 AM Oh, c'mon now, I've seen plenty of other instrumentalists and singers do that. Guitar World had a GREAT master class lesson by Nigel Tufnel on what facial contortions fit which riffs.
GeneHilbert	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 6:07 AM I looked around for a pic with a really goofy face. Only to realize I look goofy in all of them.
BOWILLIE	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 6:07 AM uh..ditto
Vickxxx	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 9:18 AM ...I think I'm turning Japanese....
SimonWaldram	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 10:24 AM This guy's face pulling techniques are amazing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eQ4Og9LNJpk
SimonWaldram	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 10:27 AM But this guy is just being silly: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ZaZsfHgedc
Fraser	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 11:16 AM My mouth moves a lot when I play smash bro's brawl.
celtaidd	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 12:44 PM When I play its all obviously
Mojosnake	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 1:57 PM yes.....
Tattoomom	Date: May 23, 2008 @ 2:43 AM
GreatGooglyM...	Date: May 23, 2008 @ 7:41 AM Of course. And I drool too.
zedsalt	Date: May 24, 2008 @ 3:26 AM I witnessed some absolutely EXCELLENT fer real Chicago Blues in a living room in Warsaw, Indiana, and one of the gents had this strand of spittle that hung from the corner of his mouth to his shoulder through an entire song. No matter how much he swung his head this way and that, nodded to the beat, etc., that line of spit never broke. I kind of fixated on it. I have to admit- it held my interest better than a lot of music videos that were coming out at the time.
Alstroph	Date: May 24, 2008 @ 3:33 AM I've always been told that I make a weird face when I play... like I'm concentrating too hard.
zedsalt	Date: May 24, 2008 @ 4:18 AM Like the face a baby makes when it's soiling his/her diaper? Reminds me of an old Edie Brickell parody I saw on t.v. "Now, I'm not aware of too many things, but I know that it looks like I pee when I sing..."
GreatGooglyM...	Date: May 24, 2008 @ 9:21 AM I always thought Warsaw was in Poland. Geez, you Americans are really original...
zedsalt	Date: May 25, 2008 @ 3:21 AM Not like we can't be, but when it comes to naming cities, all the real local color seems to be in the South and the old Wild West. At least we were original when it came to deciding how to pronounce many of the names we stole from Europe and the natives here.
GeneHilbert	Date: May 25, 2008 @ 5:59 AM Seeing as how most of us came from Europe, and that we brought what we knew and were familiar with. Then mixed that indigenous culture would not to be unexpected, whether we changed pronunciations or not.
zedsalt	Date: May 26, 2008 @ 3:39 AM Around these parts, the county where Farfor44, Ghostie, JD2theOg, Mystery-machine, and SgtMay live is pronounced "kozzy ahsko". I'm told the proper pronunciation is something along the lines of "ko juice ko". Either way, I'd still have to look up the spelling every time.
mdearing	Date: May 28, 2008 @ 7:21 AM Yeah, and we say "Pear iss" Texas instead of "Pear eee"
zedsalt	Date: May 29, 2008 @ 3:31 AM I can't help but think that'd mess with your "flow". Let that face do what it will! You think John Mayer or...pretty extreme example here...Joe Cocker care what they look like when they're soundin' that good? Heck no! The other night, while I was doing just a rrrrrippin' solo, my face left the studio entirely and went downstairs for a chamomile tea.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: May 29, 2008 @ 9:16 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3nr_UMXryc That's how I look when I improvise. I think I didn't drool in that particular video.
szadawn	Date: June 2, 2008 @ 2:33 AM I'm mouthing the words of the song I'm singing while playing guitar. Very expressive.....
szadawn	Date: June 2, 2008 @ 2:33 AM I'm mouthing the words of the song I'm singing while playing guitar. Very expressive.....
zedsalt	Date: June 2, 2008 @ 3:31 AM Y'know, just change the "a" in "faces" to an "e", and THERE you've got yourself a forum topic!
Distilled1	Date: June 2, 2008 @ 5:13 AM sometimes both
zedsalt	Date: August 4, 2008 @ 3:36 AM Well, it finally happened, what my mother had been warning me about since I was tiny- I was executing a 2 1/2 step bend, blissfully steering the sound around through the microtones, making a silly face...and it stuck that way! Yesterday was a hot steamy one here in Happy Hoosierland, and I took off my hat, tossed it on the sidewalk, and leaned against a storefront just long enough to wipe my brow...some guy threw a twenty into my hat! Purely out of academic curiosity, I stayed another ten minutes or so. I was getting contributions from about 80% of the passers-by, which I have to think is pretty good for a panhandler. I'd go back today, if it wasn't raining.
tsand20175	Date: August 4, 2008 @ 6:05 AM make faces? only when I'm playing a Spice Girls song......
GeneHilbert	Date: August 4, 2008 @ 7:45 AM How Posh........ Spicy....!
Tattoomom	Date: August 4, 2008 @ 7:48 AM Can somebody pass the Ginger?
ChillinBuzz	Date: August 5, 2008 @ 1:35 PM On 29th May 2012, zedsalt said: The other night, while I was doing just a rrrrrippin' solo, my face left the studio entirely and went downstairs for a chamomile tea. Ripping what? A humungous fart? As for guitarists only seemingly doing it, give Lars Ulrich from Metallica (who still suck and should go back to thrash metal) a moment of your time. Talk about an animated goldfish...
victorsskull	Date: August 5, 2008 @ 5:16 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJF_9HS8RU
zedsalt	Date: August 6, 2008 @ 3:19 AM Actually "rrrrrippin'" was in reference to a brief, unusual bit of digital dexterity. The fartlike aspects of the tone were added later, with the benefit of more precise volume control at the input of the effects chain. THEN I made the same face that I make after a humongous fart.
vilifiend	Date: August 6, 2008 @ 9:57 AM absolutely. its retarded.
Cryxan	Date: August 6, 2008 @ 10:34 AM At last year's Adams Avenue Street Fair, I watched Mike Watt and the Missingmen perform. I couldn't stop taking pictures of Mike because he kept making these faces and all the photos were just so memorable. Here's a few picks. He plays a mean guitar!
pullmytrigger	Date: August 6, 2008 @ 9:43 PM im really bad at that.... i deffinatly make some weird ones.
Tattoomom	Date: August 7, 2008 @ 5:15 AM Don't you think it's funny how Bill started this thread without ever answering his own question?
zedsalt	Date: August 8, 2008 @ 3:33 AM Oh, I think most of us just figured that's why he asked. I mean, the second I read the thread title, I assumed he must make some real doozies. Photos would be appreciated.
Tattoomom	Date: August 8, 2008 @ 9:00 AM HA! Let me work on that!
GTOriginal	Date: August 8, 2008 @ 9:02 AM Yes. I make faces no matter what I do. It would be impossible not to make a face. Even if you stick a bag over your head, there's still a face in there.
Tattoomom	Date: August 8, 2008 @ 9:05 AM PFFFT!
LZith	Date: August 9, 2008 @ 7:29 AM yeah my brother told me that when i play something ill move the mouth from one side to another XD
NickSawyer	Date: August 9, 2008 @ 10:49 AM I don't really know what faces I make, since I'm mostly webbed in the music without thinking of my face. But I'm pretty sure the only things I do are head-bobbing and the like.
SimonWaldram	Date: August 9, 2008 @ 12:01 PM On 6th Aug 2012, Cryxan said: At last year's Adams Avenue Street Fair, I watched Mike Watt and the Missingmen perform. I couldn't stop taking pictures of Mike because he kept making these faces and all the photos were just so memorable. Here's a few picks. He plays a mean guitar! Watt is an absolute legend
Snoogans775	Date: August 13, 2008 @ 8:02 AM not to mention a pretty shnazzy dresser. I make new guitar faces everyday, but lately, I only make faces when I sing.
rockguitarist89	Date: May 6, 2009 @ 7:51 PM Orgasm faces.
zedsalt	Date: May 7, 2009 @ 9:32 AM I've often thought that would be good tactic when trying to discourage children from being too awfully promiscuous: tell them to imagine their own faces during orgasm, then ask themselves, "Just how many people do I want to see that? How much do I need to care about someone before I let him or her see that?"
blackhearts08	Date: May 7, 2009 @ 1:34 PM I sometimes bite my lip to concentrate or tweak my head weirdly to the side I've been told. Whatever it makes me feel more comfortable...
Snoogans775	Date: May 8, 2009 @ 1:00 AM I've never seen what I look like during an orgasm. Zed, you may have just stimulated an interesting evening for me. "Yeah, seriously. I want you to take a picture when..."
zedsalt	Date: May 8, 2009 @ 10:13 AM a mirror over the bed and cowgirl position? a mirrored headboard and missionary or doggiestyle? These things occur to those of us who have more difficulty in getting laid.
Torrence	Date: December 30, 2009 @ 12:57 PM Me and the rythym guitarist in my band have contests to see who can pull the silliest face/do the daftest thing while playing.
sunshine	Date: December 30, 2009 @ 3:12 PM as long as its not the face gramma used to make to back up the car....geesssh...i so hope i dont do that...in fact, if she hit anything, like a tree or another car, in her older years, it might be because she was not holding her mouth right. bless her heart. geezzz i hope i dont do that to play guitar...
justinother1	Date: December 30, 2009 @ 4:21 PM On 24th May 2012, zedsalt said: I witnessed some absolutely EXCELLENT fer real Chicago Blues in a living room in Warsaw, Indiana, and one of the gents had this strand of spittle that hung from the corner of his mouth to his shoulder through an entire song. No matter how much he swung his head this way and that, nodded to the beat, etc., that line of spit never broke. I kind of fixated on it. I have to admit- it held my interest better than a lot of music videos that were coming out at the time. charles henry??? omg!wtf!lol!iou!bfd!nra!gop!iud! how did i miss this thread? i believe i know exactly who you're talking about,zed. brilliant guitar player/completely oblivious,while playing i still run into him,occasionally
DannyHowe2	Date: December 30, 2009 @ 4:26 PM On 22nd May 2012, mudshadow said: You know what I'm talking about. Only guitar players seem to do this... Oh yeah I sure do when I play a guitar but vocalist also make faces a lot when you think about it , I know I sure do. Kinda of think of it I make faces when I play a keyboard but maybe not for the same reason. Thank God for punch in and edit.
GTOriginal	Date: December 30, 2009 @ 4:40 PM
zedsalt	Date: December 31, 2009 @ 9:21 AM On 30th Dec 2012, sunshine said: geezzz i hope i dont do that to play guitar... Do NOT start thinking about things like that!!! Seriously, you run the risk of crippling yourself. Now that I think about it, this is a really dangerous topic.
zedsalt	Date: December 31, 2009 @ 9:30 AM On 30th Dec 2012, justinother1 said: charles henry??? So, it was one of our hosts and not one of his other friends? Good; I like to know these things. Vicious guitar, viscous spittle.
sunshine	Date: December 31, 2009 @ 9:45 AM the spittle story was quite riveting...i almost can imagine it in slow motion. i probobly do make wierd faces while playing, so far no spittle, kinda makes me glad i have long curly hair, somewhat like slash, so the actually angles of viewing said possibly distorted faces, may be minimized. thats my story and i'm sticking to it.
justinother1	Date: December 31, 2009 @ 6:23 PM y'know,zed...amongst the regrets in my life,i rank very high(low?),are the times that spontaneous musical genius occured,without the benefits of recording technology being present several times@charles and susans that night@gumbys,in his front yard more times than i can count@the house on the hill(gene and carols) odd,that you were there,for pretty much all of them
pog	Date: January 1, 2010 @ 2:40 AM I used to pride myself on being the only guitarist on the block that DIDN'T pull Hendrix faces... Now I don't really stress about it much cos I'm worrying about my little finger flying out like it's having a seizure all the time.
evansorchid	Date: January 2, 2010 @ 6:42 AM I don't know.....this one might belong the masturbation forum.
zedsalt	Date: January 2, 2010 @ 9:16 AM must...resist...urge...to make joke...about..."having a hand in...the masturbation forum"...
sunshine	Date: January 2, 2010 @ 9:20 AM still thinking about justinother1's reference to musicians hanging out and genious stuff just happening. man i could use that happening. some jams sessions are so f-in awesome.
zedsalt	Date: January 2, 2010 @ 10:21 AM The last "real" band I was in relied completely and utterly on that kind of...um...psychic connection, for want of a better term. We recorded literally every note we played together; never "practiced" anything; never said anything like, "o.k., this one's going to be in the key of..." or anything like that. It was pure improvisation. Many of the tunes built slowly, because the keyboardist would often enter the studio, start playing/recording, then maybe I'd pick up the guitar and join in, or maybe the bassist would be the next to come into the room while I was letting the other guitarist in the front door, etc. That was about twenty years ago; I've been trying to put together another unit like that ever since.
sunshine	Date: January 2, 2010 @ 10:32 AM i love it when willie and i do that then mark jumps in on the drums nad one of us, usually me starts making lyrics up and just jam...it may not be productive in a band practice way, but those are the practices i actually love and get into, anymore hte covers just feel, blah to me..my add contributes i am sure.
sunshine	Date: January 2, 2010 @ 10:36 AM wish you lived closer i would join that band
Torrence	Date: January 2, 2010 @ 11:32 AM I've beem told I tend to portay different emotions with different guitars f'rinstance, on my SG copy i'm apparently completely zoned out and focused on what i'm doing, whereas when i'm playing my washburn I always have a half grin and flaring nostrils. I was not aware of this until told by my friend.
zedsalt	Date: January 2, 2010 @ 12:08 PM On 2nd Jan 2012, sunshine said: wish you lived closer i would join that band About three years after the last time we played together, all four of us were in the same town again...way out in Bend, Oregon! I never did convince more than one of them at a time to sit down and jam again, though.
zedsalt	Date: January 3, 2010 @ 9:15 AM It just dawned on me, Sunshine, that the keyboardist in the band I've been talking about came from your gerneral neck of the woods in Defiance (insert your own "in Defiance of what?" joke here).
justinother1	Date: January 3, 2010 @ 4:44 PM ahhh...the atlanteans i have a cassette,of some truly inspired stuff,that mike,mary,brian,and zed(then known as warren),recorded,on the fly. zed,do you have any of that,digital? i'd love to grab a copy,if you do telepathic interplay... fortuitous happenstance... a gift,from the gods of music... who's to say? all i know,is,it's thoroughly enjoyable,sonically. and...back to the thread topic...i've seen faces,that halloween cannot justify,but,i'm sure the mask industry would love to copy. no offense,really
zedsalt	Date: January 4, 2010 @ 9:36 AM I really should digitize at least the eponymous album and "Rise at Herron"... The bassist (on DMusic, briefly, as Draskull) was hard at work at that the last time we spoke, back when he was a Sony employee and had just set himself up with some REALLY sweet gear, but that was a long while ago...
JeraldHenry	Date: May 20, 2010 @ 12:56 AM Mostly when I mess up so, no not too often. Hahaha
galenpepys	Date: May 30, 2010 @ 3:59 AM Hm... not really, but I don't like playing guitar while sitting? Even when I'm recording I have to be standing up. I dunno, I think it's because I spent a LOT of years playing drums, so playing while sitting is something I've done aplenty. I think sometimes my eyes are half closed, though, or it's sort of like I'm slowly falling asleep. Nothin' terribly obvious... I like to move more, I think, kinda like Carlos D.
elektronz	Date: May 30, 2010 @ 7:44 AM i dont play the guitar ,but i do pull the odd face sat on the loo ,,probably due to the curry a day regime im on ..its the give a f**k diet im currently employing
zedsalt	Date: May 30, 2010 @ 11:09 AM I can't figure out how Ben Harper uses a wah wah pedal and still keeps his Weissenborns and Big Bears on his lap. It's like a magic trick.
ShadowMom	Date: May 30, 2010 @ 2:53 PM I'm still waiting for pics here. You all are not usually so shy!
GTOriginal	Date: May 30, 2010 @ 2:55 PM On 22nd May 2012, mudshadow said: Only guitar players seem to do this... Satchmo's ghost disagrees.
zedsalt	Date: May 31, 2010 @ 10:08 AM This is my guitar-playing face. Mom was right; it got stuck this way.

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