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bdawg
Joined: 25 Feb 2004
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Personally, I've never understood the fascination people have here with foreigners who play guitar. I would say 99% of the gee-tar playin' laowais play at a very low level, belting out a few chords here and there and I've never seen anything that I would quantify as being "good".
I suppose it is the whole stereotype thing.
On the contrary the locals who play in the bars/restaurants/tea house are pretty damn good. Mind you, they are playing covers for the most, but actually, on the whole, I would say their sound is better (vocals aside) than most live acts I've heard back home.
I haven't been too impressed with the live foreign acts I've seen here so far. |
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Shan-Shan
Joined: 28 Aug 2003
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Location: electric pastures
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/jxfPOGOQ6eA/
Gotta love the quote from the FT:
(to the students) "Ah, did anyone prepare anything? No?! (laughs). Ah, good, so it'll be a short class then...I still don't know many songs...I was ready today, for today, I prepared an old American song, Chinese song, like the one from the movie"
Does this mean that we are allowed to prepare nothing, aside from gratuitiously promoting our guitar playing talents, finish early, and still get paid? |
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foreignDevil
Joined: 23 Jun 2003
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 Oh my. I finally had time to sit down and watch most of the videos on this thread. But I could not bring myself to watch many of them all the way through.
I suppose it brings new meaning to the old saying: If a few monkeys type a few emails on a few computers for a few minutes, they are bound to get hired.
foreigndevil
p.s.- as the one teacher said: "I LOVE PEOPLE! AND PEOPLE LOVE ME!"
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william wallace
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| A wee bit of clowning around is fine, but it's knowing where to draw the line; and you can't be seen as too tight arsed. |
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Shan-Shan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:21 am Post subject: |
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p.s.- as the one teacher said: "I LOVE PEOPLE! AND PEOPLE LOVE ME!"
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This same guy could very well be making 8000RMB or more per month as a "Business Motivation Specialist" at a Sino-British/Canadian/American university out in some city's "Special Economic Development Zone".
Pathetic, really pathetic. Were a Chinese learning English, I'd approach every single FT with great caution and suspicion. Telling me how to tune a guitar or "believe in myself" ain't forth a fen of tuition. |
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tw
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| There you have it: a white dancing monkey. |
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evaforsure
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Which is more sought after and therefore gets paid more than any other a monkey of another color. |
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