Diesel
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hey its steve' date=' drummer from mortuary
nah no demo as of yet but one should come around sometime soon after may (i have exams you see...), do you play bass?
thanks for interest folks
[/quote']Yeah and guitar, but I think I'm a good bit out your age range o_O
Good luck with the band.
DZL
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Gear Aquisition Syndrome:up:
I LIKE IT
My mate and tutor are exactly the same, they have houses full of gear although at least "The Sensei" is a pro musician.
They're both eBay addicts, so I guess it's contagious o_O
DZL
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Farty-Bum
As in Methane or is it an acronym?
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HiWatt
I really, REALLY wish I hadn't read this thread!!!
I have this disorder that makes me want to buy musical things.
It's quite common.
DZL
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Not wanting to be bored on my flight to London on Friday, I took my daughter's PSP and some UMD movies and one of them was Rob Zombie's "Devil's Rejects".
The movie was superb, a lot better than the usual slasher/psycho fare (due to the excellent cast) and the soundtrack was fantastic in the context of the film.
Even David Essex's weird '72 hit "Rock On" didn't sound out of place and I've never heard Skynyrd's music sound so effective in a movie.
I've included the full "All Music" link for a review of the soundtrack.
Try and see the movie if you can, it's brutal but strangely haunting.
DZL
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well' date=' im in souls of the sinister (singer/lead geetarist) but the drummer and i are also intrested in forming a black/death/and grind core metal band under the name of "Mortuary". ive got 4 songs written (track titles are as follows: Self Dismemberment, Disembowelment Of A Decomposing Corpse, Obliteration Of Christ and Impaling Mortification) enough for a demo. and i am going to be the singer/guitarist. u intrested in being 2nd guitarist? and do you no any bassists that would be keen?
wb
Guy[/quote']
World-class song titles!!!!!
Got a demo I could listen to????
DZL
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Ah yeah' date=' I remember them!
So... how much... the custom... ???
[/quote']Ah!, a gentleman never tells 8)
Let's say it was.....competitively priced.
DZL
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All the best
Due to public request (well' date=' StewCat, anyway!), I'm doing a tour diary of my trip.I'll hopefully post something from New York in the next few days....first gig is for a US Cable TV show called 'Horses Sing None Of It' on Thursday night.
I'm nervous............
Gig List...
Apr 13th Horses Sing None Of It (Randolph NJ)
Apr 15th Book Mill (Montague MA)
Apr 16th Sidewalk Cafe NYC
Apr 17th Knitting Factory NYC
Apr 18th WFMU session (Recording)
Apr 19th PA's Lounge (Somerville MA)
Apr 23rd TERRASTOCK 6 (Providence RI)[/quote']
Good Luck - knock'em dead.
DZL
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Who do we have to contact to get a gig at the lemon tree?
We are looking for a weekday support slot (or friday/sunday night) in june' date=' july or august.
We are an Edinburgh band - here is our site:
[url']www.kinaeda.com
Cheers
G
Just listened to your live tune
Cool 8)
Keep it up!!
DZL
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I'm with reject_monkey... kill the cunts
I see you're sitting on the fence on this one
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Gibbo
Lets see your Gibsons!!!
Here's my Standard & Strat from an earlier gallery photo.
http://www.aberdeen-music.com/galleries/files/5/4/5/1/MyBabies.jpg
I'll post a shot of the Custom shortly.
DZL
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Custom Lester
Holy Moly!Did I say "lightning quick" or "Warp Factor 10" ?????
No farting about with this guy!!! - some nice licks too !!!
Thanks buddy' date=' enjoy.
Now where's that 335???
Bri.[/quote']
You're welcome!
Plugged it in and cranked up the amp last night, sounds luvverly. Sweeter than my Standard at those volumes.
Don't suppose you've got an Engl Powerball going for the same kind of cash
:laughing: That's my next purchase
DZL
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did he write "war' date=' never been so much fun" and "goal scoring superstar hero" for those games? if so, i love this guy already, those two songs were the soundtrack to my youth.[/quote']
"war has never been so much fun" was indded the tagline for Cannon Fodder. Quite possibly the dumbest 7 words in history.
DZL
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUcRu0grPw&search=trower
Only heard his playing in Procol Harum till I heard this clip' date=' I think this is mighty juicy, if a bit too classic rock for my liking, but still...
He has that Hendrix 'Machine Gun' sound!
[/quote']Robin Trower - a hell of a guitarist! One of my inspirations. I love that dirty, spacey sound.
Missed the Lemon Tree gig (was in Baku at the time), heard it was great.
DZL
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captain sensible also had a successful career in the 90's doing music for the computer game developer Sensible Software' date=' creators of Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer.[/quote']
Sensi Soccer - there's a blast fae the past. I did some of the coding on the original ST & Amiga versions back when I was freelancing.
Punk - I got shouted down by some of the pedants for a tongue-in-cheek response to Mr Geldof's rant about the Clash.
I said Punk in the UK was fake - and someone in this post has articulated perfectlt what I was trying to say (through the Smirnoff haze)....
"Mainstream 70's Kings Road peackock postcard punk....".
Perfectly put. It doesn't make any of the bands less good, but I believe "Punk" flies out the window as soon as the big record deal is signed. There are a few exceptions though....e.g. SLF, Exploited and so forth.
Punk has nothing to do with the manky look or tuneless shouty "songs", it's a state of mind.
DZL
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Tix
".....and he so can't have them"
Sweet!
That's him told:up:
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Les Dennis
Another Les Paul?
Need something to spend my
bonus:up: on and the Epi wasn't forthcoming.DZL
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Lester
pm'd you.
DZL
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Pfft. That's the best you can do as a response? I'm disappointed.
Zzzz....
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Angling...
Stop right there. I see what you're doing there' date=' and it's quite clever. However, you are being selective with the truth. Punk in the 70's was never about the music, it was about style and attitude. Bands as disparate as Joy Division, Talking Heads, Television, Ramones, Magazine, Slits and Pere Ubu all fitted comfortably into the "punk" category despite the varied styles of music they were producing.You also fail to mention the success of bands such as The Jam, Buzzcocks and The Undertones, all of whom achieved great things chart-wise. You're also only taking single sales into account. If I were to do that with, for example, metal in the 70's, I could point out that Black Sabbath only had one top 20 hit, and Led Zeppelin never had any. Singles chart sales for Yes, ELP and King Crimson were just as poor, so it just goes to prove that you can make statistics prove whatever you want.
You've also got to remember that a lot of early punk bands were on smaller independent labels, so they didn't have the clout of the majors. They couldn't press up 100,000 singles for general release in one week, for example. This led to the early singles by punk bands being much sought after, and excellent album sales when the bands signed to majors.
Absolute nonsense. Apart from the bands I mentioned above, there's Stiff Little Fingers, more political and angry than the Pistols, and a huge influence on the big punk acts today. Sham 69, a band that were cut off in their prime by right-wing idiots getting the wrong idea. Not to mention bands such as Crass, Subway Sect and The Dead Kennedys, genuine talents and huge influences on the punk scene and beyond today.
Mmmm, no, wrong again. Just about every form of popular music that has evolved over the past 100 years has come from the States. The British managed skiffle, which was just American folk music sung in regional accents, and we were probably ahead of them when it came to dance music, but only just. Jamaica produced reggae. Anything else is completely made in the US.
And punk spawned a new group of bands to counter them. Squeeze, Elvis Costello, The Police, The Cure, the entire ska/reggae scene etc. They didn't do so bad either.
What, "Strummer's dead so I can be a complete arse about him with impunity"?[/quote']
Aw jeez, it's not even fun anymore it's so easy o_O
It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
Lighten up fer feck's sake.
DZL
Ps - forgot about SLF. A good band.
Pps - The Ramones reference was that they were real street punks, not middle-class whitebreads.
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Punk? Schmunk!
calling a spade an earth inverting horticultural implement...http://www.uk-dance.org/knowledge/social_aspects_of_music/000056.html
Mon the wee independent labels and taping John Peel' date='punk rock was a lot more than selling merch or getting on Top of the pops,Pans People dancing to The Clash Bankrobber was indicative of what happened to bands unwilling to conform by miming.[/quote']
F***kin sooooooooooooooperb !!!
D'ye think the guy that wrote the piece gets out much
I particularly like this passage...
"Punk-rock tracks invariably feature one or more guitars, which are invariably 'treated' with distortion or feedback. In the mid 1970s, this was a reaction to the 'clean' sounds of mainstream pop. Guitars are generally played in a somewhat simplistic manner, with few chords. Those chords that are used often 'bleed' into each other, giving the suggestion of a 'buzz saw' or drone, where individual notes or chords are barely distinguishable."
I bet he was so chuffed with his "work" that he immediately went upstairs and threw one over the wrist.
DZL
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Punk Rock
Geldof is a total c**t and his band were pish.
However, he has a point...
The Clash's image, like most British punk rock, was fake.
The whole image thing was engineered by Malcolm McLaren on ideas he ripped off from the likes of the New York Dolls, Dead Boys etc, to promote his boutique SEX.
Basically, the London Punk movement (Bromley Contingent, London SS et al) were a bunch of yaw-yaw Sloane Ranger wannabee, university dropouts who were too ugly for the debutante circles. Just look at a few photo diaries for evidence - outside of Souxsie (who was kinda sexy), all the girls were repulsive wee trolls with speech impediments (Toyah, Polly Styrene etc) and the guys were utter mingers (Sid Vicious - an advert for "Blitz Those Zitz" if ever there was one).
Punk in Britain was a complete myth, the sales were poor*** and there weren't even that many actual punks outside of London.
A lot of the act that jumped on the punk bandwagon and "made it" weren't punk bands at all - Stranglers, Ian Dury & Blockheads etc.
***What "Punk" records actually made any impact on the charts outside of the Pistols???...
(back in the day when you had to actually SELL records to make the charts)
1. Souxsie & The Banshees : Hong Kong Garden - about as punk as Liberty X
2. Clash : I Fought the Law - a cover of a 60's hit
3. Jilted John : Jilted John - Graham Fellowes, an actor taking the piss
4. Plastic Bertrand : Ca Plain Pour Moi - a Belgian stand-up comedian.
5. Skids : Into the Valley - a wannabee actor and art critic (Jobson) fronting a frustrated rock band
The list of fakes goes on....
Music-wise the Clash and the Pistols were VITAL, especially the early stuff. A few decent bands rose from the pile of shite that was Punk Rock...The Ruts were fantastic andThe Danmed were good fun.
Other that that? F*ck-all.
The only band of genuine punks were...The Ramones and Punk is probably the only popular music genre where the Fat Americans were actually ahead of us in the game (excl. blues, jazz etc).
Think about it - Punk made such a "lasting impression" in Britain that the very bands they claimed were "boring old farts" (quote: Rotten) and were finished, came back with vengance just 18 months later and brought a whole new generation of acolytes with them - Motorhead, Maiden, Saxon, Whitesnake etc...
Yes, Geldof is a pus-ridden, festering, weeping japs-eye of an excuse for a human being...but he makes a valid point.
Thank you folks, you've been a lovely audience - don't miss my show at the AECC it's call "Ripping the Pish Out of Everything". Tickets on sale now.
DZL
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G:tar
I need some help people! I need a new guitar' date=' my old epiphone was nice but the poor old girl has had enough and doesn't perform so well so im going to treat myself to a shiny new g-tar:I like high action (like les pauls) and lots of sustain so i can do uber bends.
I like clean notes, not too heavy or goth like.
I have about 500 - 650 to spend.
Help me find what the best guitar for me is!!!
Jamie
ps, i almost forgot, i want an electric one cos i've already got an acoustic.[/quote']
I'm fortunate enough to own several guitars including a Les Paul Standard and a USA Strat. I've also got an Ibanez which I use for practicing coz it's easy to play. They're all good for different reasons: -
Strat - clean, versatile;
Lester - tone, sex appeal;
Ibanez - fast action, right on the 'board and it's a lightweight guitar
Anyhoo, my tuppence worth, given your needs and your budget, would be to go for a Strat - clean tones, good action, extremely versatile and you're getting a "real" guitar (no offence intended to anyone) for not a lot of money
I paid 500 smackaroonies for mine off eBay - it was weeks old, mint and came with hardcase and accessories and I absolutely love it
Having said that - the SG's a good beast too.
DZL
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Killswitch Engage is also a big long arc of steaming yellow pish for a band name
HIWATT'S in Cash Converters!!!
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