Satirical or not? (bassist wanted content)

[Jakester]

Not sure if there's a gag I'm missing here:

http://www.gumtree.com/p/community/cool-black-bassist-wanted/1051695538

Or is it just a stunning lack of self-awareness on the part of the poster?

[MikanHannille]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv8QDN_-cEE

Edited March 24, 2014 by icastle
Link fixed.

[discreet]

Whoa! Imagine an ad for a cool white bass player...

[discreet]

[quote name='MikanHannille' timestamp='1394316850' post='2390320']
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv8QDN_-cEE"
[/quote]

[size=4] Classic.[/size]

Edited March 24, 2014 by icastle
Link fixed.

[dmccombe7]

Brilliant

[Dave_the_bass]

[quote name='MikanHannille' timestamp='1394316850' post='2390320']
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv8QDN_-cEE
[/quote]

I think that must be one of the few south park episodes I've never seen.

Absolutely brilliant

Edited March 24, 2014 by icastle
Link fixed.

[TheGreek]

Wouldn't it be a shame if Paul Turner or Mark King applied....

Edited March 9, 2014 by TheGreek

[uncle psychosis]

I'm fairly sure that it's meant to be a joke. Not that it's funny.

Still, at least the ad makes it easy to filter out whether you'd want to work with them!

[BassTractor]

To me it comes across as playfulness, and as not taking themselves too seriously.
I like it.

[Roger2611]

There is an interesting add in the current Guitar and Bass magazine......Wanted Brown Haired bass player in to heavy rock....must have long hair and be over 22 years old........I assume talent, experience, number of limbs etc are all of less importance then

I don't for a second imagine the guy placing the add would be some kind of control freak

[lojo]

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1394365566' post='2390642']
I'm fairly sure that it's meant to be a joke. Not that it's funny.

[/quote]

Thats my guess, none of their influences I believe have black bass players either

Does anyone really notice this stuff ?

[flyfisher]

Reminds me of that recent BBC4 film about Muscle Shoals studio and the story about how Atlantic sent their black artists down there to record and were amazed to learn that the 'swampers' (house band) were a bunch of white guys

[Dr.Dave]

I don't think it's supposed to be a gag - though it may be a stunt intended to make mischief. I'm surprised it hasn't been pulled. What it is beyond doubt - is a discriminating job advert and that , folks , is illegal. Funnily enough , I looked on twitter and there's yet to be a comment from Rio Ferdinand - I expect if it was for a cool white bass player there would be !

[Norm]

Cant see the gumtree ad, maybe been taken down. The south park clip is genius though!

[White Cloud]

Yup, it's a piss take!

Love the South Park clip....it's up there with the South Park guitar hero episode.

[skankdelvar]

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1394374989' post='2390777']
There is an interesting add in the current Guitar and Bass magazine......Wanted Brown Haired bass player in to heavy rock....must have long hair and be over 22 years old........I assume talent, experience, number of limbs etc are all of less importance then

I don't for a second imagine the guy placing the add would be some kind of control freak
[/quote]

I saw that! I also noticed almost identical ads presumably from the same guy wanting (iirc) a young blond, longhaired guitarist and a young black-haired drummer. I suspect it's got nothing to do with music; just some pervert wanting a four-way.

I only mention this because this was pretty much what happened to me on one occasion back in the 80's when I was a beautiful youth. Answer a similarly worded ad, go round to this bloke's place, hand on the knee, that sort of thing.


[size=3][b]Wanted[/b]: Nice young men[/size]

Edited March 11, 2014 by skankdelvar

[lojo]

Also depends on their definition of Black.

Im white skinned, but had a very dark father, I've had people say Im not white even though I look it, so do I qualify for this gig ?

[Dad3353]

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1394557962' post='2392680']...Answer a similarly worded ad, go round to this bloke's place, hand on the knee, that sort of thing...
[/quote]

I'll have that fiver back, please, if you're going to go into all these details.

[skankdelvar]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1394559429' post='2392717']
I'll have that fiver back, please, if you're going to go into all these details.
[/quote]

No, really. The guy was just like Jarvis Montgomery, the aristocratic roue of Baddiel & Newman fame. You've almost certainly met the type.

"Oh yessss ... Rock'N'Roll ... young men [i]performing[/i] on stage. Come and sit over here. Do you like [i]videos[/i]? The sort they don't show on TV?"

[Dad3353]

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1394560141' post='2392733']...You've almost certainly met the type...[/quote]

Unfortunately, yes. My elder brother had a buddy, a bit of a giant beanstalk frame, and regulation creepy bottle-bottom thick-rimmed specs. I went along with them to the flicks once, aged about 12 or 13; never again. None of that suave stuff, though. Just 'bent'. Horrible. Ugh...
Now I'll have to go and wash my keyboard.

[Myke]

Only in Bedminster..

[skankdelvar]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1394560933' post='2392750']
Unfortunately, yes. My elder brother had a buddy, a bit of a giant beanstalk frame, and regulation creepy bottle-bottom thick-rimmed specs.
[/quote]

No, not that type at all. I mean someone in a smoking jacket and black nail-gloss; owns an agreeable apartment with Chinoiserie-themed decor; bust of Aleister Crowley on the mantelpiece and an ormolu box of jazz cigarettes.

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Edited March 11, 2014 by skankdelvar

[Dad3353]

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1394561761' post='2392771']
No, not that type at all. I mean someone in a smoking jacket and black nail-gloss; owns an agreeable apartment with Chinoiserie-themed decor; bust of Aleister Crowley on the mantelpiece and an ormolu box of jazz cigarettes.[color=#ffffff].[/color]
[/quote]

It has become obvious to me that we move in completely different social circles.