Day 121b: <Tangent> Top 10 guitar terms that sound filthy to the uninitiated...

[davewrites]

#10... hammer-ons & pull-offs

#9... bending above the nut

#8... headstock

#7... bolt-on

#6... buckle rash

#5... hot pickups

#4... bone nut

#3... single coil

#2... brown sound

#1... humbucker!



Honourable mentions: G-string, F-hole and speed knobs.

Feel free to add more in the comments section.

:spank

 

[davewrites]

For reasons that should be self-explanatory, more honourable mentions for pedal-related jargon like Big Muff, Big Muff Pi, tube screamer and wet chorus.

 

[mrmudcat]

way huge swollen pickle ....gotta love that one or way huge echo puss..............:rollover

 

[davewrites]

Yeah, I was cruising a pedal 'n' effects page and found dozens of great examples, many from Way Huge.

Ultimately, I pitched the pedals as honourable mentions for 2 reasons: (1) they're not guitar parts or techniques, they're accessories and (2) unlike the top-10 list, pedal names are deliberate innuendoes. I was shooting for accidental humour when jargon loses context.

Imagine if you were talking about guitars in a public place and someone overheard you say "firmly plucking my G-string" or "a warm brown sound from my single coils." :what