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Saw this on Backpage.com under musicians wanted classified. I sent them this reply: I can save you the trouble of having to gather all the information from such a survey. Basically ALL musicians are psychotic indivuals in various ways. Included psychoses are attention deficit syndrome, obsessive/compulsive, alcohol and drug addictions, delusions of grandeur, fear of success, schizoid, etc. etc. That's it in a nutshell...

Sentient Paradox wrote:You forgot possible high functioning Autism Bob.

All of the above, and it is true. It's been this way for years, so why is there being a study on this.

Black57 wrote:

Sentient Paradox wrote:You forgot possible high functioning Autism Bob.

All of the above, and it is true. It's been this way for years, so why is there being a study on this.

I have no idea why there is a psychological study on band members. There's been countless tax dollars wasted studying a myriad of subjects. I just thought it was quite humorous that they would put it in the Backpage.com classified. Talk about studies in psychology, I have got the weirdest responses to musician searches in that particular musician's classified. For example, one time I got an e-mail from a prospective guitarist who claimed he had over 20 years of stage experience. He showed up dressed to kill and had good equipment but literally couldn't play a note. I asked him how on earth he had twenty years stage experience. Turns out he was in a union that built stages for world famous touring acts (Rolling Stones, Eagles, Styx, etc.), so his stage experience was BUILDING stages. I wonder what a psychologist would say about him...

That's one of the funniest stories I ever heard about an audition...what...did he think he'd pick up his abilities through osmosis?

philbymon wrote:That's one of the funniest stories I ever heard about an audition...what...did he think he'd pick up his abilities through osmosis?

I guess in his experience he met people like Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, etc. and really believed he could be in a band. He knew how to dress, he bought good equipment, he just thought that's all you needed to be in a band I guess. Shame was that he was a really nice guy and IF he could play he would have been a valuble band member for somebody. He did have a lot of knowledge of the music business, just couldn't play anything.

fisherman bob wrote:Saw this on Backpage.com under musicians wanted classified. I sent them this reply: I can save you the trouble of having to gather all the information from such a survey. Basically ALL musicians are psychotic indivuals in various ways. Included psychoses are attention deficit syndrome, obsessive/compulsive, alcohol and drug addictions, delusions of grandeur, fear of success, schizoid, etc. etc. That's it in a nutshell...

Yeah. All of the above and more. Looks like you did a Google search on me.

Gee...I thought we were perfect examples of the human condition - narcissistic, selfish, agist, racist, angry, militant, OCD, ADD, sexually repressed, exhibitionistic, pathological liars, druggies & drunks, psychotic, neurotic, etc, though we may be, we're just ppl, ain't we? Not much different from any others. At least we have an artistic release for our lil problems, & that makes us much safer to be around than those who don't!

Someone say MILITANT

What would the world do without such losers? Music makes the world go round.

Ah, it's a dirty job, but someone's gotta be a loathsome creepy talented genius to keep up iPod sales.

philbymon wrote:Gee...I thought we were perfect examples of the human condition - narcissistic, selfish, agist, racist, angry, militant, OCD, ADD, sexually repressed, exhibitionistic, pathological liars, druggies & drunks, psychotic, neurotic, etc, though we may be, we're just ppl, ain't we? Not much different from any others. At least we have an artistic release for our lil problems, & that makes us much safer to be around than those who don't!

You get an "A" my dear...A+.