Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: rv_bass on November 14, 2021, 08:12:27 AM
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It’s been mentioned, and I had since forgotten about it. At practice last night I started getting a strange static pattern from my speaker. I checked everything…cables, bass, amp, speaker cab, connections, but the noise continued. My drummer asked where my cell phone was. I said in my from pocket. He said remove it from my pocket and place it on the shelf away from everything. Presto, issue resolved! Drummers, a bass player’s best friend! :)
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He said remove it from my pocket and place it on the shelf away from everything.
i'd take this a step further and shut it off. i really hate when people call/text/otherwise bother me while i'm practicing my art such as it is. i'd be really embarrassed if it happened on stage were i still performing.
for many years i referred to my phone as my leash and it seems to be getting worse as we get more electronically connected.
said the cranky old man as he does his mental warmups for another day of toil and tears in the dog-eat-dog world of commercial electrical contracting.
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I turn mine off at gigs and on mute or airplane mode at rehearsals and check at the end or if we have a break.
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I would have my iPhone in my right pocket at gigs. Then I would hear the noise and remember to move to my left pocket. As long as it is in my left pocket I have no trouble. My main bass is pretty quiet for a 1975.
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You guys can't even turn off your phones WHILE YOU ARE PLAYING! The world is going to hell in a hand basket! If I super-glued my 26 year old's phone to his left palm, it would be three days before he noticed! I turn my cell phone on when I'm out of town, when I'm in the car, or when I want to make a telephone call (remember those? people actually TALKING to each other?) Otherwise, it is turned OFF. In the new Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cartoon, the guys smoke a magic joint in 1969 and wake up 50 years later. As they watch people walking down the street, they wonder why no one will talk to them and why everyone is walking around staring at a glowing pop-tart in their hand.
NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!
Bill, tgo (hehehehe)
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HA!!!! "a glowing Pop-Tart".
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We are a lot like you Bill. We only have a cell phone so if an emergency pops up with my mother, she's 92, my sister can get a hold of us in the event we aren't at home. So ours sits on the kitchen desk unless we are going out then it sits in the charging compartment in my truck. I guess it boils down to we're not slaves to FOMO.
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Where the heck is the "LIKE" button...
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Flip-phone with texting disabled here.........
Peter
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Flip-phone with texting disabled here.........
Peter
;D Same. Pay as you go. Sadly the technology is becoming obsolete. They DO make newer flip phones with updated guts. However… I was just reminded today that The Systems in place are now ASSuming that everyone owns a smartphone. It is unnerving to me to say the least.
Paul (who openly admits to being a hypocrite with a bi-polar love/hate relationship with technology)
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Paul i have that same relationship with technology. I love it, am fascinated by it. However, i wish we had more controls on our privacy and how it uses us to make money.
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Yeah, I have gotten notice that the network that supports my phone will be taken off-line 12/31/21 - it looks like they may have one flip-phone that works on the new network. If not, I am more than willing to go to another provider (providing, of course that they have a proper phone for me).
Peter (who hates touchscreens like they were gigbags or pantyhose.......)
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Peter (who hates touchscreens like they were gigbags or pantyhose.......)
Don’t knock gig-bags and pantyhose. Ever try and sneak a shotgun into a bank and rob it without a gig-bag and pantyhose?
hehehehe
Bill, tgo
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Peter (who hates touchscreens like they were gigbags or pantyhose.......)
Don’t knock gig-bags and pantyhose. Ever try and sneak a shotgun into a bank and rob it without a gig-bag and pantyhose?
hehehehe
Bill, tgo
Sure - I sawed the shotgun down & put it in a violin case (well, this was Appalachia, so it was a fiddle case), and used a proper stocking! (But I did not use one with a lace top........)
Peter
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“We memorized phone numbers. We memorized driving directions. No one knew what we looked like. No one could reach us. We were gods.”
— Omri Elisha via Twitter
A friend posted this on FB yesterday--ironic that it came from Twitter via FB, but true nonetheless.
My T-mobile Nokia candy bar phone quit being able to connect about 3 months ago, they refused to refund the $50 that was on my pay-as-you-go account. I was spending maybe half that a year, the phone spent most of its time in my bicycle saddlebag. Went to Consumer Cellular, got an Android phone for $100, it costs me <$25/month. I'm not distributing my number widely and I keep the ringer off most of the time.
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Yeah, I have gotten notice that the network that supports my phone will be taken off-line 12/31/21 - it looks like they may have one flip-phone that works on the new network. If not, I am more than willing to go to another provider (providing, of course that they have a proper phone for me).
Peter (who hates touchscreens like they were gigbags or pantyhose.......)
Yep they're turning off the 2G network the end of December.
We had to have the cellular transceiver for our alarm system replaced earlier this year because of that. Guess what they replaced it with? A 3G transceiver which the big service providers, including the one my alarm service uses, are planning to shutdown in Dec. 2022. I'll also be forced to upgrade (?) my phone since it is 3G. I've always been of the mind if it broke ..... then again I predate planned obsolescence.
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Yeah, I have gotten notice that the network that supports my phone will be taken off-line 12/31/21 - it looks like they may have one flip-phone that works on the new network. If not, I am more than willing to go to another provider (providing, of course that they have a proper phone for me).
Peter (who hates touchscreens like they were gigbags or pantyhose.......)
Yep they're turning off the 2G network the end of December.
We had to have the cellular transceiver for our alarm system replaced earlier this year because of that. Guess what they replaced it with? A 3G transceiver which the big service providers, including the one my alarm service uses, are planning to shutdown in Dec. 2022. I'll also be forced to upgrade (?) my phone since it is 3G. I've always been of the mind if it broke ..... then again I predate planned obsolescence.
I am, alas, with Sprint; they're shutting down 3G (just found out they're delaying it until March, though).
Peter
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wow. there's some serious luddites on this board.
not that there's anything wrong with that.
said the cranky old man in the engraving shop with his wooden dentures who parks his buggy whip next to the shovel for the coal-fired pot-belly stove that keeps the frost off of the bear-grease-coated paper windows.
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wow. there's some serious luddites on this board.
not that there's anything wrong with that.
said the cranky old man in the engraving shop with his wooden dentures who parks his buggy whip next to the shovel for the coal-fired pot-belly stove that keeps the frost off of the bear-grease-coated paper windows.
I wouldn't call myself a luddite. Throughout most of the 90's when the Internet was being commercialized I was one of my company's representatives to the Internet Engineering Task Force . The IETF is group that oversees the design of and standards for the Internet. So having been inside so to speak I'm just not taken in by the marketing hype that all of this being connected anyplace all of the time is really necessary for a fulfilling life.
On a side note when I was still working I would be frequently asked when I would take some time off, "How can we reach you?". My response was always, "You can't but if the world stops spinning I will be sure to notice and give you a call."
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wow. there's some serious luddites on this board.
not that there's anything wrong with that.
said the cranky old man in the engraving shop with his wooden dentures who parks his buggy whip next to the shovel for the coal-fired pot-belly stove that keeps the frost off of the bear-grease-coated paper windows.
I wouldn't call myself a luddite. Throughout most of the 90's when the Internet was being commercialized I was one of my company's representatives to the Internet Engineering Task Force . The IETF is group that oversees the design of and standards for the Internet. So having been inside so to speak I'm just not taken in by the marketing hype that all of this being connected anyplace all of the time is really necessary for a fulfilling life.
On a side note when I was still working I would be frequently asked when I would take some time off, "How can we reach you?". My response was always, "You can't but if the world stops spinning I will be sure to notice and give you a call."
Where's that "Like" button?
Peter
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I’m not really a Luddite (I just play one on TV- lol). Seriously though, I don’t mind new technology, but I do believe a lot of it is unnecessary and just developed to separate people from their money. I’ve never understood why car manufacturers come out with new models every year. And do we really need a new iPhone released every two months? I have an iPhone (6SE - the old small one). It does everything I need from a phone. I also have an iPad that is about three generations behind the times. Why upgrade while it still works fine? I do get a lot of grief and peer pressure because I refuse to text, tweet, instagram, tik tok, facebook, or wallow in social media. This is a conscious choice I have made as I view much of this as a time suck. I do not want to be part of the group mind where everyone is connected to everyone else 24/7. Those of you familiar with Star Trek, Next Generation, and following series, will understand when I say I do not want to join “The Borg”. When I disengage from the outside world I want to be disengaged. I just have better things to do than worship the glowing Pop-Tart (I REALLY like that one!)
Now, again, get off my lawn!
Bill, tgo
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I’m not really a Luddite (I just play one on TV- lol). Seriously though, I don’t mind new technology, but I do believe a lot of it is unnecessary and just developed to separate people from their money. I’ve never understood why car manufacturers come out with new models every year. And do we really need a new iPhone released every two months? I have an iPhone (6SE - the old small one). It does everything I need from a phone. I also have an iPad that is about three generations behind the times. Why upgrade while it still works fine? I do get a lot of grief and peer pressure because I refuse to text, tweet, instagram, tik tok, facebook, or wallow in social media. This is a conscious choice I have made as I view much of this as a time suck. I do not want to be part of the group mind where everyone is connected to everyone else 24/7. Those of you familiar with Star Trek will understand when I say I do not want to join “The Borg”. When I disengage from the outside world I want to be disengaged. I just have better things to do than worship the glowing Pop-Tart (I REALLY like that one!)
Now, again, get off my lawn!
Bill, tgo
I have watched, I do believe, every episode of Star Trek, and there was no mention of a "Borg"; that must be from one of those shows that, while they may be fine sci-fi, lacked Shatner & Nemoy and thus were not Star Trek.
Peter (who does remember when Jeri Ryan got divorced from her sleazy-Illinois-politician (if you'll pardon the redundancy) husband because he made her go to public-sex clubs)
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I have watched, I do believe, every episode of Star Trek, and there was no mention of a "Borg"; that must be from one of those shows that, while they may be fine sci-fi, lacked Shatner & Nemoy and thus were not Star Trek.
Peter (who does remember when Jeri Ryan got divorced from her sleazy-Illinois-politician (if you'll pardon the redundancy) husband because he made her go to public-sex clubs)
I am duly chastised. I have edited the above to clarify that the reference is to Star Trek Next Generation, and beyond ... though I heartily agree with the Cozmik one that there is only one Star Trek and the rest are johnny-come-lately pretenders!
Now get off my Jeffries Tube and keep your dirty hands off my Dilithium Crystals!
Bill, tgo