Spoonie

i wanna know why will smith was allowed back into a recording studio!

lay off smith, he's the finest entertainer of our generation. nexy you're gonna be ripping into wet wet wet and hanson! what's wrong with you people!

spoons

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i've never heard them and i'm pretty sure they'd not be my thing either. they've had a lot of good stuff said about them and quite a lot of industry interest from what i've been lead to believe but as we all know, that's not the best way to judge!

spoons

Dragonforce

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i think the problem with that gig was not the quality of the support, but the fact that you paid to see a band called Dragonforce!

spoons

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aye, maxwell does come across as a bit of a bellend in almost every thread he goes near!

nonetheless, back to business - what's gonna happen with the lineup? are there gonna be late additions to fill in the gaps or not?

and i think lucifer need to be getting some motley covers in the set!

as for the atom, just get mac to cover some dire straits!

spoons

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that's fuckin outstanding! i'm still laughing out loud as i write this!

spoons

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any chance someone can scan the pic of paul and post it on their gallery for the less fortunate among us?

spoons

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i was chatting to jamesy last night and saying it's one of the better awards to get because at the end of the day, the fact you're in peoples heads when they're filling out the form shows you're at least being though about. at the end of the day, all the people who are nominated for best rock/metal/other etc but don't win are forgotten as soon as the awards are over and the only category that myself (and most people) can remember the winner for every year are worst band!

i can't even think who's won BEST act most years! not to take anything away from the other winners of course, especially my boys in the atom cos that's a great sweep, but everyone remembers the worst band category.

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i didn't realise it was with mendeed. one of my homies is good friends with them. they're supposed to be cracking live.

good chance to impress the underground metal posse in glasgow.

shame i won't make it, but i'm sure it'll be quality!

spoons

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5ive had their moments - slam dunk da funk, everybody get up, etc. and backstreet boys dropped some classic cuts - larger than life, backstreets back etc

it's a tough call!

spoons

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note to self, reinstate those nicknames!

snaileen - derived from the name aileen: genius!

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i know doc, imagine being enthusiastic about a gig you went to but then putting in a spelling error when you try and write about it. that negates everything she's said. how could she!

to be fair, i don't see how a little guy with a long neck and a glowing finger could have caused such an atrocity. he couldn't even ride a bike, so hed never have got away before the blast.

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i can sympathise with tony blair to an extent because he's got to be shitting himself. if anything did happen terrorism-wise, he'd be fucked and it would all land on his shoulders. nonetheless, i do think there is a certain fragrance of shite in the air and passing these laws seems ridiculous. imagine someone who was under house arrest forever more!! great entertainment. you'd be completing 2player halo on your own, even on 'legendary' mode in about a month or two!

spoons

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for bands who are at the level of the majority of those on these boards, recording on a whim always strikes me as being dangerous risk towards a waste of money. you don't want to work the songs over and over before you get to the studio and work all te life out of them, but at the same time, if you're not tight and well rehearsed and aware of the songs when you get to the studio, you'll either spend a fortune in the studio or make a hash of it.

it does get more fluent with time tho. we recorded 3 EPs in a number of years and by the time we did the 3rd one, we were familiar with the studio, our equipment and the engineer so things flowed more than in previous times. just remember that it's your own money and if you fuck about, it's your cost.

one thing that made me smile was when we were collecting our equipment from the studio after we finished, nero were arriving to record. we'd always agreed that we'd have everything ready to go when we got to the studio to save time and money so it's new strings in time for them to settle, clean your instrument, look over the electrical shit etc. then as we're leaving al nero walks in looking half baked and talking about getting chucked out of the lemon tree and pulls his SG out of the case. the thing had one string left and looked like shit!

well it made me laugh!

spoons

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i see your la haine and raise you a jurassic park.

god bless america

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aah nice! if only everyone wasn't banned every five minutes, i'd be able to keep up with who's who! not that i'm dissing the moderators you understand, it;'s just been a while since i've been on regularly!

spoons

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fair play. i got a txt from one of my boys back home about the gig and i got tickets straight away. they're a band i used to love and i have the first 4 albums so i dug them out, hoping i'd not be disappointed but no, on came 'Japan' and a lrage smile came across my face!

it's great when you rediscover a band or an artist that you've forgotten you loved

spoons

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i get one guest for me and (conveniently) so does my lady and since the last album she got was 'allow us to be frank' by westlife, her interest in rise against was minimal! now i would definately have hooked you guys up but i'm afraid that before the entertainments convenor even knew that the gig was on, jamesy weapon and jason had been added to the guest list.

any new gigs that are announced tho, just give me a holler and i'll see what i can do.

spoons

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stay anywhere you like, it's cheap as fuck and like the guy says, keep an eye on your shit, a girl we met had her camera and about 15 rolls of film she'd used stolen on the train.

also, DO NOT go to prague without hitting some of the jazz clubs that are in th old town and under the round. i'd go back there in a second, just for those. the music and atmosphere is amazing and the beer is ice cold!

have a great one

spoons

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the queen margaret union is one of the two unions for the university of glasgow, out in the west end. because it's a union and a private members club, you have to either be a member to enter or join on the night with a special temporary membership which lets you in for the gig. if you're a member of any university or college union which has a reciprocal agreement with the QMU, you only need to show your membership to that union to get in. If you go to a gig at the QMU and there's a massive queue outside, the chances are the people are waiting to fill in the temporary membership sheets (which only takes 2 minutes) and you can skip past them if you're a student. students at aberdeen university, RGU and i think aberdeen college are all cool for this handy queue jump.

as for the venue, it's a 900 capacity place which has an awesome sound and a fantastic atmosphere. nirvana have played there, as have the black crowes, the chili's and a great number of other bands right up to killswitch engage, TBS and rooster! bar prices are good for a venue and they go down once the gig is finished so as has been mentioned, it's worth hanging around afterwards and heading up to jims bar for a few hundred pints!

and if you're a board member, you get free guestlist places too

and there's my advertising done for the day!

spoonie

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Hon. Vice President, QMU

are you aware of the presidents gig at the glasgow garage on the 26th of april? 15squids a ticket. should be a beast. new album out too

spoons

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chris rea - road to hell (i still love this album)

led zep - 4 (ace)

rem - automatic for the people (ace)

seal - seal (ace)

as well as:

tears for fears (everybody wants to rule the world!)

jimmy nail (hmmm)

paul young

thems was the days!

Ya cheeky wee scamp....i'll tak yi ower ma knee.....again!!

Can you do this to MoZart?

aah, it's been a long time!

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i sold hitlers penis on ebay a month or so back. in reality it was a dried carrot pickled in vinegar but i made it clear that it wasn't definately the fuhrers appendage in order to avoid trouble.

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wow, this thread is old and unanswered!

try getting the weather report album 'heavy weather' first

his playing on that is astounding.

then move onto what is effectively the solo stuff. it's more self indulgent but his playing is outstanding throughout everything he's done.

not sure if you're a fan either but you should check out the albums he played on for joni mitchell. 'hejira' is a great place to start with that area.

just sit back and listen to his playing on 'teen town' from the 'heavy weather' album. it's so precise and intricate it just blows you away.

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