Country Music Stars who pretend to play?

Niels Andrews · Post by **Niels Andrews** » 1 Sep 2012 8:13 am

Am I the only one who becomes irritated by Stars who just stand up there and pretend to play. I remember I went to a performance a while back and the headliner changed guitars every set and he could not even pretend to play well? My comment was since he never played one guitar, why did he need six on stage?

Jason Schofield · Post by **Jason Schofield** » 1 Sep 2012 10:21 am

It's the same as most of them wearing cowboy hats and boots. How many real cowboys are out there now..How many of them grew up on a farm? What a joke..It's all about the look.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 1 Sep 2012 1:47 pm

It's the same as most of them wearing cowboy hats and boots. How many real cowboys are out there now..How many of them grew up on a farm? What a joke..It's all about the look.

Who wrote the LAW that says someone can't wear boots or a hat if they aren't a "REAL COWBOY"? Where is this law written?

That statement is one of the most ridiculous statements I think I have ever read.

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 1 Sep 2012 10:24 pm

Richard Sinkler wrote:
It's the same as most of them wearing cowboy hats and boots. How many real cowboys are out there now..How many of them grew up on a farm? What a joke..It's all about the look.
Who wrote the LAW that says someone can't wear boots or a hat if they aren't a "REAL COWBOY"? Where is this law written?

That statement is one of the most ridiculous statements I think I have ever read.

If that was a law then Tom Mix, John Wayne, and Roy Rogers would have been in prison for life.

Jason Schofield · Post by **Jason Schofield** » 1 Sep 2012 11:33 pm

Sorry guys. didn't mean to offend..there's no law..haha..just meant there's a lot of show biz up on stage.. guitar props, boots, hats, makeup, ect.. it's an image..that's all.. I used to work in a local Nashville restaurant and served Kenny Chesney all the time. He's a little guy with glasses, bald and usually was wore a track suit... But up on stage.. different person. btw.. he was always a real nice guy to wait on.

Ransom Beers · Post by **Ransom Beers** » 2 Sep 2012 1:45 am

It has to do with pay,an artist who plays as well as sings gets mo' munny,or that's what I was told when I asked the same question,so if ya wanna get paid more pretend to pick a geetar,course it helps if ya got a lil' talent in at least one of those gyrations.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 2 Sep 2012 4:42 am

Thing is whether he can play or not he has guys who get paid to play..Thus a few less UNEMPLOYED Pickers sitting in the audience..

Walter Killam · Post by **Walter Killam** » 2 Sep 2012 10:01 am

I've seen a lot of acts, not just country, where the vocalist just wears a guitar, I think it's just so they don't have come up with a plan for something to do with their hands.

Niels Andrews · Post by **Niels Andrews** » 2 Sep 2012 10:39 am

I remember reading that Porter Waggoner had Dolly Pardon's guitar tuned to Open C, so she could just strum it.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 2 Sep 2012 11:09 am

I've seen a lot of acts, not just country, where the vocalist just wears a guitar, I think it's just so they don't have come up with a plan for something to do with their hands.

I know people who do that. Sure beats seeing them with a cigarette or drink in their hand, although I must say, a pretty girl singer with a beer in her hand is real sexy to me.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 2 Sep 2012 1:19 pm

Niels Andrews wrote:I remember reading that Porter Waggoner had Dolly Pardon's guitar tuned to Open C, so she could just strum it.

She does or did play an open tuning. I assumed it was so she could just bar the strings with one finger, because her nails were too long to fret the strings.

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 2 Sep 2012 1:25 pm

Jim Smith wrote:
Niels Andrews wrote:I remember reading that Porter Waggoner had Dolly Pardon's guitar tuned to Open C, so she could just strum it.
She does or did play an open tuning. I assumed it was so she could just bar the strings with one finger, because her nails were too long to fret the strings.

Correct,Jim...when I worked for Dolly,she had a rhinestone-studded guitar(unplugged)that she played that way...she told me she writes with a guitar tuned to an open E chord.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 3 Sep 2012 5:02 am

Barry Gibb also plays in open E, he's amazingly good with it.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 3 Sep 2012 5:43 am

I played in an Open "L"...At least thats what a lot of pickers said it sounded like..Eh Jim??

George Crickmore · Post by **George Crickmore** » 3 Sep 2012 6:27 am

Jason Schofield wrote:It's the same as most of them wearing cowboy hats and boots. How many real cowboys are out there now..How many of them grew up on a farm? What a joke..It's all about the look.

Jason your right. It is like these guys that trailer their bikes to Sturgis. Then they unload and dress in full leathers and ride around like they just came in from driving 500 miles. They are a joke. It's the same thing with the music scene.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 3 Sep 2012 6:57 am

Keeps their hands out of their pockets…

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 3 Sep 2012 8:05 am

Well if its about the look nowadays, the cleanest dirty clothes

: .If thats an upgrade???I'd rather look like a Cowboy than a stable cleaner..

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 3 Sep 2012 8:56 am

Funny Joe.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 3 Sep 2012 9:01 am

What's the difference between Cowboy boots and Country Music Star boots?:

Cowboy boots got the BS on the outside.

I've seen TV shows where the flat top strumming Star was in the camera while the fabulous lead guitar player did the solos. Sometimes, the star even pretended to be picking the notes, but we knew better, didn't we?

I guess the Star commanded the attention because he was, well.....the Star.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 3 Sep 2012 10:42 am

Jerry, see my post right above yours.

Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 5 Sep 2012 1:18 pm

"Wearing" a guitar as prop by more than a few country stars is old hat. The worst case of the phoniest performance that I have ever been involved in was in 1971 when I played bass for a fairly well known name at the time. This dude had been lip syncing to a recording for more than a month.

We were playing a show at a fair in Des Moines Iowa one evening when his lip sync went for a shi*. His wife had some how screwed up the tape speed on his third song and in a panic she hit the wrong toggle switch that dropped his tape down two steps instead of one. The band kept things going but his lip syncing caused a chorus of boos once the people in the audience caught on what was going on. Yeah, we ended the show a bit early that night.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 8 Sep 2012 12:18 am

certainly not Charlie Pride, he was a good rhythm player:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlqdqUqb ... re=related

Sherman Willden · Post by **Sherman Willden** » 8 Sep 2012 2:17 pm

I ain't no cowboy; I just found the hat

Darrell Criswell · Post by **Darrell Criswell** » 10 Sep 2012 9:39 am

Seems that I remember seeing Dolly Parton playing banjo, it was hard with her fingernails.

Darrell Criswell · Post by **Darrell Criswell** » 10 Sep 2012 10:16 am

Seems that I remember seeing Dolly Parton playing banjo, it was hard with her fingernails.

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Country Music Stars who pretend to play?

Country Music Stars who pretend to play?

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