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First show ever? Like...first time seeing any kind of band ever, like at a wedding or drakes? Or like, first real professional big time band? If the former, I dunno some crappy wedding band that played too loud and were crap. They hurt my poor 5 year old ears. I think the guitarist had a les paul. If the latter, it was either Idlewild at the music hall last year (which was a pretty amateur show tbh) or Dream Theater at Manchester this year which was fucking awesome.

Pure lead were not there and their lead guitarist is a FAGGOT! I went up to him one day and he TOTALLY BLANKED ME!!! ASSMONKEY!!!

I'd like to take this oppertuniry to say that SCOOPING YOUR MIDS SOUNDS SHIT! Sorry, it does, ...And Justice For All would be a far better album if you could make out the guitar in that fuzzy mess that hetfield calls a guitar tone. How many bands have I seen in Aberdeen that go scooping out all their mids? All the bloody time!!! Guess what boys, guitar is a midrange instrument, thats right. If you get rid of the mids all you got left is the weak harmonics that dissapear when there are any other instruments involved. Bass end is the first to go being completely obliterated by the bassist leaving you with nothing but tinny tones that sound something like white noise with a boost at 4-8KHz. Soundian has a good point, you cant integrate some tones with the rest of the band, scoops are the worst to deal with, it ends up being EQ'd to fuck (you'd better believe it, you're highly prized EQ settings are being screwed with to get the instrument in its place in the mix, which lies in the midrange, sorry) at the desk so the audience can hear you without you being the loudest thing in the place. Sorry for the rant, a lot of guitarists just dont realise that how it sounds in the bedroom doesn't work out live. What they also dont realise is that the human ear picks up mid frequencies louder at low volumes, but this levels out at higher volumes. Another reason they scoop is because their shitty practice amps have no bass or high end response, this is NOT TRUE for real amps you use live! PLEASE for the aural health of your audience STOP SCOOPING YOUR MIDS!!! P.S. I agree with the comments about tim BENCH and Nuno Bettencourt. Fact of the day - if you put your fingers in your ears while listening to BENCH you can actually hear the guitar!!! meh.

I hate AC/DC, GnR, BENCH, Spice Girls, all death metal (Murderdolls, Slipknot, Marlyn Manson etc, grow up for fucks sake), radiohead, coldplay and anything else thats 'arty' and anything played on a les paul

You mean like username on the forums? I believe he posts under 'Arun-Dr Flaw'.

No, they havn't lost a guitarist lately. But they are looking for a new singer. They had an ad on AUBL but by now its at the bottom of the classifieds here.

Dr Flaw are very good live, but I reckon its their studio recordings that really shine

Yeah, the mp3s are very cool, very well recorded, very original and well done but I dont like the colour of them.

May I just say that 'Drive' was absolutely brilliant and I look forward to the next time I see yas. Smitty when are you not drunk? Honestly man... ...when? ?(

THEN PLEASE TELL ME WHY YOU STILL HAVE SHIT ON YOUR FAESS

WHY IS EVERYONE IN THE ABERDEEN MUSIC SCENE UP EVERYONE ELSES ASSES?????????? ITS LIKE THE GUY FROM ERIC EWAN CANT SIT DOWN BECAUSE HIS ASS IS TOO SORE FROM IT, AND HE HAS TROUBLE BREATHING WHAT WITH HIS HEAD BEING UP ANOTHER GUYS ASS!

This band already exists. Its called Dream Theater

+1!

Anyone else ever notice that people often prefer the sound of LPs compared to CDs, or reminice about them, or claim they're superior? Yet nobody ever misses casette tape. My theory: Tapes are shit. Like Les Pauls.

And many people also reckon he looks like Eric Jhonson. Some people think that the other guitarist looks like the boy fae behind the coop deli on saturdays...

I'd use anything apart from a les paul. Even the cheap les pauls sound better than the real ones. Firebirds are pretty shit too. If my axe broke and I had to play with someones firebird I'd lay it down on the stage and piss on it while the rest of my band played on.

That was one kickass gig!

Did anyone else think that they didn't play enough off metropolis pt2? And that intro video, how class was that???

I couldn't go