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HamishR

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This afternoon I was playing a new guitar in my office, which is a room at the front of my house. Our house is old for our city - just over 100 years old. It's kind of a small cottage kinda house I guess - typical old Australian brick house with a tin roof and a small front yard with a fence at the front. The block is only 10m wide.

So as I'm playing I hear somebody shouting at me. I turn to the window to see some middle aged guy with his face pressed up against the front window with his hands cupping his face so that he can see inside. "Keep playing mate - rock on! Great riffs!!" and so on. Who the fuck does this?? I said "Do I know you?" "Nah mate I'm just guy walking down the street. I heard the guitar and actually I expected the player to be a bit younger!"

WTF? So not only has he come into my yard and pressed his face against my window but now he is calling me old? I just turned 60 but have been told I look no older than 59. Maybe even 58. Who is this knob?

And just like that he takes off.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? A few years ago I had a large white South African man ring the doorbell to ask what guitar I was playing. I thought that was a bit odd but at least he was polite and didn't tell me I was old.
 
I daresay that's how Robbie Krueger came up with the song. And thanks Nostradoomus - I think that's what I will assume! I think it just took me by surprise - you don't expect someone to peer through your front window at you. It did occur to me that me was using white privilege. Fortunately these things aren't generally very consequential here!
 
Nostradoomus said:
sounds like the dude was just stoked and thought you were playing well
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Yeah, just an excited dude, don't think he meant to offend, just maybe not the best with respecting personal boundaries. Some people are just like that. And I get it. When I hear people blasting a song I like in their car I also have the urge to give em the 🤘 or whatever. This dude just went one step further :D
 
When I was a kid my parents had an apartment in a small Italian town and you could pretty much see through the neighbors window across the street. One day one of the neighbors heard me play guitar and gave me a compliment and started asking about various riffs etc. We chatted for a few minutes. We never talked ever again even though we lived there for many years after that.
 
I usually don't wear much at home, so somebody pressing up against my window to complement my guitar playing would be quite unwelcome.

Then again I also live on the fourth floor, so I would be curious about the logistics.
 
My “guitar room” is at a back corner of the house, all of 6 feet from the sidewalk. My wife’s mentioned that casual neighbors have complimented her on our son’s playing (he’s 31, and hasn’t lived at home since 18…). I think it’s less a comment on your being old and more their surprise that an electric guitar is not being wielded by a kid. I’ll be 74 in a few months.
 
Basement studio and play at lower volumes when the wife is home minus tracking days. That said, when she is gone, I am certain you can hear me playing on the sidewalk out side. Sadly, no one has commented on my playing, good or bad.
 
HamishR said:
This afternoon I was playing a new guitar in my office, which is a room at the front of my house. Our house is old for our city - just over 100 years old. It's kind of a small cottage kinda house I guess - typical old Australian brick house with a tin roof and a small front yard with a fence at the front. The block is only 10m wide.

So as I'm playing I hear somebody shouting at me. I turn to the window to see some middle aged guy with his face pressed up against the front window with his hands cupping his face so that he can see inside. "Keep playing mate - rock on! Great riffs!!" and so on. Who the fuck does this?? I said "Do I know you?" "Nah mate I'm just guy walking down the street. I heard the guitar and actually I expected the player to be a bit younger!"

WTF? So not only has he come into my yard and pressed his face against my window but now he is calling me old? I just turned 60 but have been told I look no older than 59. Maybe even 58. Who is this knob?

And just like that he takes off.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? A few years ago I had a large white South African man ring the doorbell to ask what guitar I was playing. I thought that was a bit odd but at least he was polite and didn't tell me I was old.
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You had me at "new guitar".....where da pics?
 
HamishR said:
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
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There was a Scrub Jay who would perch right outside my jam room window at my last house before the current one and look inside with his head cocked when I was playing mega distorted slide bass, but AFAIK he never called me old. :cool:
 
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