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Topic: Cats and Guitars and Other Pets and Instruments Posted: September 18 2013 at 22:37
I was whistling Supper's Ready to my avatar cat and he was just captivated. He would pat my mouth several times like he just couldn't believe that sound was coming out of my mouth.
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Posted: September 05 2013 at 14:45
My dog used to nap when I played my xylophone. I used to read Bach violin pieces and play them on Xylophone or Marimba for school studies back then. He would relax in the room on the rug and just nod off. A few times I would find him sleeping between my bass drum foot pedal and snare stand also, but I always exited him when I moved to sticks. You can kill a dogs hearing on drums.
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Posted: August 02 2012 at 11:30
Jim Garten wrote:
When I used to have Hammond lessons, I could guarantee just as I was playing one of my homework pieces to the tutor, one of my cats would decide to join in by walking up & down the keys...
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Posted: July 14 2012 at 20:01
pitfall wrote:
Our
house rabbit Bunjamin (that's really him over to the left) would always
come into the room and run round and round me whenever I was playing
something good. Sadly, he became ill and died a couple of years ago, and
since then I've never been able to tell if any of the stuff I come up
with is great, or whether it stinks. Objectivity is the biggest problem
of the solo artiste.
Hey, it was obviously appealing music to a rabbit. If he'd had leapt up and bit your head off, then it would have been cause for concern.
Edited by Slartibartfast - July 14 2012 at 20:02
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: July 14 2012 at 17:53
Our house rabbit Bunjamin (that's really him over to the left) would always come into the room and run round and round me whenever I was playing something good. Sadly, he became ill and died a couple of years ago, and since then I've never been able to tell if any of the stuff I come up with is great, or whether it stinks. Objectivity is the biggest problem of the solo artiste.
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Posted: December 11 2011 at 10:52
When i was a teenager hangin down in my basement room practicing one night. Our cat who was in heat ( I didn't know it at the time ) came in i was sitting on the floor playing my Jazz Bass. He slowly walked over to me, turned around and sprayed right onto my hand + the pickups as I was playing! I was in a state of shock and the smell Hooo Boy ! I booted him out and quickly pulled the strings off removed the pickups and thoroughly disinfected and dried them with a blow dryer. Thank God for the wax type covering on the windings! So no damage That cat never visited the basement again.
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Posted: February 24 2011 at 21:18
One of my dogs Ted absolutely loves it when i'm drumming. In my old house where he had almost free rein of the entire place, he would quite often run in and try and bite my bass drum beater as I was playing! He would also just like sitting in the room and digging the frequencies I guess!
The funniest thing he did though was when I was doodling around with a synth. I had some funny beeping sound going on and he ran in from inside and proceeded to howl like a wolf. I've only heard him howl about 3 times in his life - he's 8. It cracked me up that's for sure!!
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Posted: February 17 2011 at 13:38
Way back in the dark distant 1974 or there abouts my Dad kept canarys, four of which had beatle moptops not unlike this one:
(not one of ours - a stock photo from the webs, but remarkably similar if memory serves me right) - needless to say these four birds were christened Mick, Keith, Bill and Charlie (such was my old man's warped sense of humour). Anyway, one of them use to go absolutely bloody mental whenever I played side one of Tubular Bells (it went quite quiet during side two for some unknown reason, then who doesn't) - Dad would swear blind that it could recognise the album cover so whenever I went to play it and would start ruffling its feathers before even the first note was played, then sing its little heart out for the next 25 minutes. We tried it on other instrumental album like Clearlight Symphony, Hergest Ridge and Mathematicians Air Display and it wasn't interested.
But as for our cats - nothing - they don't care for music - one tom cat sprayed my LP collection once - luckily Tom Petty took the major brunt of the attack - he¹ lost his nuts for that (he spray I spay).
/edit: ¹ ...the cat lost its nuts, not Tom Petty... just thought I'd clear that up incase there's any confusion.
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Jim Garten wrote:
If he'd had leapt up and bit your head off, then it would have been cause for concern.
