He did it again!

[futurefields]

This guy I work with, whenever we talk music he turns it back on himself. He does hip hop in his free time, raps and makes beats.

Everytime I try to talk music with this guy, he comes back with the same responses...

"that's the sound I'm going for"

"i can emulate that"

"i'm going to sample this beat thanks for showing me"


like really dude? can't you just appreciate something without turning it back on yourself or how you can profit off of it?

 

[skyking]

yeah, I get that. Yesterday, I was showing a friend the kitchen cabs and all the things I built, and he had to compare them to his previous house remodel cabinets. That he did not build.
I show him the new fan, and he is impressed, then waxes poetic about how powerful his attic fans were at the old house. I take it as general insecurity.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Everyone does that. Even though I deplore it when others do it, I still find myself fighting the urge to bring up the "similar thing I have" when someone shows me something interesting.

 

[futurefields]

I just responded with "Cool. Let's hear it." this time when he said he could emulate the piano in this song I showed him. I'm waiting for him to come back to work next week with something that obviously rips it off.

 

[IronWing]

This thread reminds me of thread I made this morning. It was a pretty good thread but no one read it.

 

[futurefields]

Maybe he THINKS i am showing him this music for him to sample.

Hip hop culture etc...

I made it clear to him I don't like sample based music or artists who don't play their own instruments.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ehh, people often will relate to their life experiences.

My brother hears any music, and he will start jamming something similar, but different in the same, and then in various different keys on whatever instrument he happens to have with him or be near at the time. Hes played guitar since age of 3 or 4, and also quite capable of playing all other instruments in every style of music. His new favorite is a 1970s analog/digital combo polyphonic 2 row organ with a spinning tube powered speaker inside it. He sat on his little stool, and during a conversation, he covered dixieland, chicago blues, delta blues, swing, modern jazz, bebop, classical, baroque, bluegrass, and dubstep improv type generic sounding scales or classic riffs.

EDIT: Ohh yea, should mention, he loves trombone, trumpet, french horn, accordian, viola, violin, bass guitar, and various homemade string and wind instruments as well ....
The guy is like if Beethoven wasn't deaf.

 

[JulesMaximus]