Ukeleles

Fuck them.

I'm sure many will agree. I feel this is a valid thread. Bye.

i heartily concur

see. pretty valid.

https://www.payservices.com/images/valid.png

reckon this thread is inherently linked to RFD: Light-hearted, whimsical indie hipster music that seemed specifically manufactured for Apple commercials

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/valid-documents_zpsbf77c7c7.jpg

In Tune-yards's hands they're okay.

Just like any instrument really, they can be used for evil.

They're ok with Patrick Wolf, although he uses one less and less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmAeijj5cM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3TBTssYm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBweqmLk6dU

Like computer keyboards, it's all in the quality of the agent.

kill them all

most of the music i've done lately has been on ukulele, come at me bros come at me.

I've got one.

Netizens of ILX, I bring you Roy Smeck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s794A35Th14

Wrecking Crew alumnus the great Lyle RItz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9qT2XY8J6M

John Justen needs to stock some of these
http://s10.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/2BF1196D.jpg

Here's one in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcysiFxgK2Y

It's yer man

http://weirdestband.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/tiny-tim.jpg

Did you know that Tiny Tim apparently got a lot of his shtick from this guy http://www.nicklucas.com/biography.html?

No, looks interesting!

Think Tiny Tim acknowledged him as an influence, even had him sing at his wedding to Miss Vicky- on the Tonight Show!- which caused late career revival.

His original version of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" from 1929, which is what he sang forty years later on The Tonight Show at that wedding, is awesome.

basically, if you are Hawaiian or a hundred years old, you're good.

I have a ukelele but it is used exclusively as a butt-swatter

Makes a nice chord when you're spanking a dinner guest

holy shit that lunchbox ukelele, want

dude doesn't actually know all the words/chords for "I'm A Believer" tho

Leaving a big Dan Perry-shaped niche in the Lunchbox-A-Lele world.

most of the music i've done lately has been on ukulele, come at me bros come at me.

― the kind of man who best draws girls' eyeballs (Merdeyeux), Friday, April 26, 2013 2:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok I'm at you bro, what now?

*cue sexy ukelele music*

I'm tired of seeing ukeleles everywhere

it makes me feel like this

http://collectionofawesome.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tumblr_maxnj7q7bk1qedb29o1_r1_500.gif?w=562

ok I'm at you bro, what now?

since that failed to scare you maybe instead i can terrify you by knitting you a nice scarf?

merdey you're exempt from the above statement, at least for as long as you're far far away from me :)

Ukes didn't particularly annoy me until Five Years Time by Noah & The Whale, it was downhill from there

I dunno why it bothers me, but... It's ukulele, with 2 'u's and 2 'e's. Not ukelele, with 3 'e's. ahem.....

lol VG:

You know that scene with John Belushi and Stephen Bishop in "Animal House?" That's how I feel inside whenever I hear a ukulele.

― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Monday, April 15, 2013 9:27 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well I finally found a gif to go with it

:P

let us suppose that I am the toughest jazz banjulele player in town

xpost at least I'm consistent lol

I saw a hitchhiker outside petaluma last week with a ukulele hanging off his pack.

u_u

perfectly fine instrument imo, those shitty indie bands would be just as shitty playing a different instrument. Hate the player.

ur problem here veg is that smashing up a ukulele would look so wimpy, even in smashing it you'd be submitting to its sweet and harmless ways.

unless you drove over it in a monster truck or some such, i suppose.

I saw a hitchhiker outside petaluma last week with a ukulele hanging off his pack.

u_u

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, April 26, 2013 2:56 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's gotta be tough to hitchhike with a guitarron or something though.

the ukelele is really not a great instrument, so limited in comparison really every other string instrument & it's signature tone/sound is not great.

I'd be down with haoles suddenly being obsessed with guitarrons. Guitarrons are badass.

ukelele's are pretty much the worst stringed instrument you could think of, very limited range of notes, small neck makes it easy to pick up but difficult to really achieve anything playingwise, small body doesn't have resonance, got that irritating plinky plunk kind of thing, it's really an "effect" instrument like you just want that one specific sound it does as an effect

unless you just kneejerk to the "ooooh any instrument is great it's just got to be in the right hands", i mean there's a reason talentless indie hacks love it and there are reasons it sucks

Only acceptable use in history IMO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyinJyWUhas

ime it's more beloved of talentless hippies than talentless indie hacks

xxp it's kinda that uselessness that's making it useful for me lately (and well also that my guitar is 500 miles away) - the flat, characterless tone seems to me a good initial input when your intention anyway is to obliterate that initial tone through swathing in in piles of effects. It's a good blank to sculpt something distinct out of. But I don't rly know what I'm talking about so it's possible there's some essential dumbassery in what I'm saying.

i'd be curiuos to hear heavily efx ukelele, do you have sound samples?

not rly, my amp tried to electrocute me before i had really taken advantage of my new pedal purchases. this bit of fiddling around is as far as i got https://soundcloud.com/eeeeeein/ukecho

perfectly fine instrument imo, those shitty indie bands would be just as shitty playing a different instrument. Hate the player.

― what's the crime, mr rolf? (wins), Friday, April 26, 2013 2:57 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is otm

ukelele's are pretty much the worst stringed instrument you could think of, very limited range of notes, small neck makes it easy to pick up but difficult to really achieve anything playingwise, small body doesn't have resonance, got that irritating plinky plunk kind of thing, it's really an "effect" instrument like you just want that one specific sound it does as an effect

unless you just kneejerk to the "ooooh any instrument is great it's just got to be in the right hands", i mean there's a reason talentless indie hacks love it and there are reasons it sucks

― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 26, 2013 3:25 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

otoh this is also otm

I rock a baritone uke that has been in my family since the early 60's, but that is a different beast more akin to a tenor guitar. ukes are tuned like banjos iirc, and are therefore alien to me.