iPhone Noise

[rv_bass]

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!

[BeenDown139]

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.

[jazzyvee]

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.

[dela217]

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.

[lbpesq]

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)

[dela217]

HA!!!!    "a glowing Pop-Tart".

[keith_h]

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.

[growlypants]

Where the heck is the "LIKE" button...

[cozmik_cowboy]

Flip-phone with texting disabled here.........

Peter

[pauldo]

Flip-phone with texting disabled here.........

Peter

   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)

[jazzyvee]

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.

[cozmik_cowboy]

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.......)

[lbpesq]

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

[cozmik_cowboy]

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

[xlrogue6]

“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.