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I'll tell you what I think: I think Aberdeen should buck the trend and do away with 'ranks' and all the negative connotations that the word 'rank' implies. Instead, we could be the first city to have 'Taxi Awesomes' which will have roofs and comfy seats and plasma tvs with a wide selection of movies and someone mixing mojitos while their colleague makes fresh, tasty but affordable Mexican food and ten pen bowling lanes and maybe a log flume. That's what I think.

You care about rep too much.

What's yellow and goes woof woof? Bark infested custard.

Or you could just not post.

Cunt either way then.

I guess all blokes give it a tug when they can't score.

Yeah and it rains about 300 days a year in this city you fucking mong. This is your explanation as to why cars are being entirely engulfed in rain? Nice one.

George Peat blames him for everything....

I remember the gig at Exodus, it was ace! Mosh Pits where well good.

I tried to resist... But i couldn't Formed first band at school. We had a different name every month or two - THE VIBRATING WIRES (1992-94?) was the name that stuck - admittedly, it's as gash as the rest were. Recorded our only demo 'Pigsear' down in Glasgow - it was jangely shite. "The Wires" played at the sixth year school prom: we were truely dreadful, I recognise with hindsight. But the audience invaded the stage in a friendly manner and proclaimed us Gods anyway. I sang very badly, hiding behind a pair of shades so I didn't have to look at anyone. Martin Deadloss played guitar - due to his unfailing technique, his guitar was covered in blood by the end of the gig, as it has been at every show since. Craig Deadloss played tambourine, got drunk, and fell asleep in some dog shit under a park bench - there's a pattern there too. Around then we became aware of The Lorelei. As a local act who totally rocked and actually had some charisma, they inspired us to form a 'proper' band... SCUFF (1994?-98?) wrote much better songs and rehearsed, but were still quite indie sounding. Featuring Pogo (later of Clocker fame) and the drummer from Fools Gold, we recorded a few demos at Fluxus and Jim G played us on Northsound a few times. We played semi-frequently in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and loads in Aberdeen, where we almost always played with our best buddies, Clocker. Highlights include playing with power-tools at our (only) Lemon Tree show, but Scuff probably peaked with a gig down in London: new songs, free booze, and hot sex. If you grew up listening to Motley Crue and Guns N Roses, that's pretty much a textbook gig... ...... as an aside, Ross from Moshulu/Bond*Age/Dos Dedos was one of our biggest fans - he came to all the gigs and danced at the front. We all thought he was a bit simple Then our tunes man ditched his Strat and bought a red SG. I think that was the key. We crawled into a damp, dark place for six months, and emerged with a new drummer as DEADLOSS SUPERSTAR (1998?-2002) - "sometimes brilliant, sometimes dire, never knowingly inbetween" was our motto. I seem to recall Chris Officer saying he booed us offstage the first time he saw us... We also had a period where I 'scratched' records over various songs... but let's quickly gloss over that. We all lived together like The Monkees: we did a tour, we self-released an album, we had a track on Lithium Records Volume One, we got banned from venues, we smashed up TV sets and home-furnishings onstage, we sawed a christmas tree in half, soundmen attacked us mid-set, bands tried to fight us, guitars got broken and we generally had a rocking time. Well, some of us did. The others quit. By now we were putting on our own shows and writing a fanzine. We wanted a crowd-puller, so we formed a covers band and booked ourselves. RAGE AGAINST THE ABERDEEN MUSIC SCENE (2000-present) was born. Mart and Pogo Deadloss, Al Clocker and the infamous local scenester Pete Harper all joined me in dipping their toes in RATM, Limp Bizkit and Deftones. I made a Zak wig out of wool and a swimming cap, and we played 'in character'. Some of the most fun gigs I've played, including a packed Lemon Tree, circlepits at Westhill Community Centre, someone breaking their wrist crowdsurfing in Exodus and a slamming gig in Lava where 'Head-Up' almost killed me. We haven't played in years, but talk about it sometimes when we get drunk. Then at some point we brought Bristol-based dark-hop merchant MOTHBOY up for a show. We hit it off and he did some remixes of Deadloss tracks. Inspired by this, Mart Deadloss and I formed ALT.ROCK T.M. (2001?-present). Mothboy sent us some electro tracks, and we just attempted to throw some guitars and Cajun-French voodoo chants on top. We played one amazing gig at Kef (joined by Kenny Lucas and Adam Sinister Waltz) which involved jungle beats, oil drums, sledgehammers, Bill Hicks samples, Spiderman masks and a lot of fucking noise. Mikey Subsist wrote a review for our fanzine, it's on the webpage: ALT-ROCK TM on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads One day we WILL play another gig, and it will be truely terrifying. Which brings us finally to DEADLOSS MOTHER FUCKIN SUPERSTAR (2003-present). With the addition of James (We Become Less) and Waz (My Decaying Leg) from local legands TAR on bass and drums, we found our voice and Deadloss became the band I always wanted to be in. Unpredictable! Punky! Rocky! A bit Metal! But with tunes! We've released a couple of EPs, toured, and played some (in our heads) monumentally good gigs - most notably a somewhat enjoyable and chaotic 'invite only' show at Exile Studios. We also gained a cello player. More recently, Rass from Black Atom joined on bass, and the legendary Pete Harper joined on drums. We may have peaked with shows in Stockholm a couple of years ago - we now rarely play and never rehearse - but new material is lurking in the pipeline! Deadloss Superstar on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

In my teens I had some mates who started dabbling with forming a group. One guy had a ramshackle drum kit that he had cobbled together and I fell into slot as 'drummer', despite having never played, due to being slightly less inept than the other available guy who took on bass duties. By this I mean I could co-ordinate my arms and legs sufficiently to play a beat. Being barely proficient it wasn't great, although the nominal lead guitarist had a fair talent for learning songs by ear. Our repertoire consisted of U2, Stiff Little Fingers and Cult songs. With no singer. The lead guitarist, who owned the drum 'kit' and was the leader of the group, got wind of someone who actually owned a kit and decided a proper drum kit was key to becoming a good band so I was given an ultimatum to either get a kit or leave. So I left, having insufficient funds at 14/15 to buy a drum kit. They kept going with the same repertoire for a while but never went anywhere. I eventually found myself in a situation in my late 20's where I had suitable funds + housing to get a drum kit so I bought one and proceeded to self-teach. Discovered Aberdeen-Music and started thinking about trying to join a band. About 2004/2005 I joined Sin E who became Port of Saints. Played a few gigs in The Malt Mill(!?!) and Tunnels. Eventually left due to bizarre plans to do a mid-week residence in ICI's which seemed like the worst idea ever and was largely based on the fact a supply of free drink was to be available which wasn't really as compatible with my working life as the other guys. Also I didn't fancy playing at Free at the Dee. So I left. I did however meet diminutive tyrant Jan for the first time. After a while I applied as drummer for Dedalus. In the reincarnated version. Played a fair few gigs with various set lists and songs in stages of development ranging from not bad nick to barely proficient before the band imploded. Disappointing as I feel there was potential for good things. The remnants of Dedalus plus a few other folk then formed a band which became Kartta. Played lots of gigs and had some abortive attempts at recording which sadly never progressed to public consumption - sad because there was good things going on in there. I ended up leaving as I felt my newly arrived fatherhood was likely to hold them back from what they wanted to do. With hindsight this probably wouldn't have been the case. Oh well. Will see their last gig tonight though. I didn't really have any plans band wise following that, then Jan asked me to play for 1864 in Art and after a few jams we seemed to have some decent works in progress, sadly Jim the hairy bass demon left for pastures new after 2 gigs and nothing has really come together since although I don't believe it is deid yet. Due to lack of 1864 activity and no foreseeable plan I offered to play for Winter in Siberia, 2 gigs have been played thus far and nothing has happened for a few weeks due to holidays and such.

It's a shame you don't get the same response when you tell them to other people.