Saturday, March 6, 2010

The Metal Guitarist - Craigslist Commentary

I stumbled upon a craigslist post recently with the title...

"25 yr old metal guitarist looking for others to jam with"

As a guitarist myself, I was intrigued. If his definition of metal was on the mellow side it might be cool to go jam. I'm not really into the nonsensical screaming Death Metal side things, but I thought I'd at least see what this guy had to say.

I only read a little bit of his post before I became distracted.
"Hi im 25, living in bg, have a..."

Maybe it was just an issue of my short attention span but I decided to scroll down to see the image that he had included with his post.

It was then that I realized that maybe this guy wasn't so much referring to metal as a genre in his title. I had this guy all wrong. He meant it as a descriptive of himself. Sure, he has an interest in metal bands but I think that might be a coincidental result of his condition.

The entire post reads...
"Hi im 25, living in bg, have a vehicle and equipment. im looking to meet some other metal heads who want to get together and jam, and hopefully make something out of it.
main influences are, chimaira, as i lay dying, metallica, all that remains, trivium, bfmv...that kinda fast double bass, chunky guitar riff, screamin sh*t.

email me"


Then below all of that we see his self portrait.

craigslist commentary 1

If you look close enough you will see that yes, the metal guitarist, is apparently a metal man.

craigslist metal man

Oh the irony. (IRON-y? Get it? Ya know, because he's...Oh, nevermind)

If the original ad is still up, you'll find it here: http://toledo.craigslist.org/msg/1632078125.html