Diesel

I'm looking for a decent Epiphone Les Paul to use for practice. I've been playing a Strat for years and have recently bought a Les Paul Standard which I intend to keep in mint condition and only use for recording and special gigs. Therefore, in order to get use to the difference (particularly the weight and balance o_O ), I'm looking for a half-decent Epi for practicing & jamming. I'm out of town from tonight, but have access to the 'Net, so if anyone is looking to sell within the next 10 days or so, then please drop me a PM. Ta. DZL

Vocals Sounds OK, some cool riffage in there but on my set-up at least, the vocals are drowing everyting else out and like someone else pointed out, the snare is non existent (like I say on my set up at least). Good work tho' Keep it up. DZL

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Please do, with my blessing. DZL

On the contrary - there's nothing like a spot of Phil-bashing of an evening. The horrible wee hing-oot deserves all he gets ..and I'm not upset with you or anyone today - I just like a good rant and enjoy dangling some bait I'm fit, healthy and minted beyond belief - what is there to be upset about ?( DZL

Connie Regarding my last post, I didn't check your Public Profile therefore the "keyboard hero" reference most likely doesn't apply to you as these folk tend to be of the male persuasion. Many Apologies. However the rest of the post stands. DZL

The Pelvis The King of What (or Where) ...but seriously' date=' the King had something new to offer at that time and had genuine presence, I contend that all these acts are insipid and deriviate - I do admit Mr Young has exceptional vocal ability, but has very little real credibility - because he took a shortcut. With regards to the other post.... It's a free country and everyone has their own equally valid opinion, but this is a [b']music site and these acts IMHO are Product I guess my problem with game-show derived and chart acts of the 90's/00's are: - The British media's lack of discrimination between art & marketability and the British public's misguided (and seeemingly voracious) appetite for mediocrity That the "music" is inconsequential, the whole thing is a clothing, cosmetics and accessories sales drive. My daughter has severely dented my bank balance as a result!!!! That none of the girls are sexy or elegant - frankly, they look like slags & lapdancers, not real women (believe me, when you get to my age, you'll be suprised at how repulsive they look to you - and I'm not that old) That none of them want to be GOOD - they just want to be FAMOUS, therefore the "art" doesn't matter and their loyal fans (who throw 's at them) are short-changed. And finally, hard work? - gie's peace!! Getting up out of bed to to a job you hate to put food on the table is real hard work - not everyone has the media-friendly looks required to "make-it" or the other opportunites to be whatever passes as a success these days and get the huge rewards. Slogging through the club circuit to get people to listen to your music - and drawing a blank coz you don't fit the media profile is also hard work. DZL Ps - Don't take me too seriously, I'm always up for a good debate. I've nothing against Will Young, but I do despise all the other frauds.

Will Young A mincer of the highest order... ...and furthermore, I have no time for c*nts who get handed success on a plate, when talented, hard-working acts have to slog their way to recognition. All that game show & reality TV pish is a celebration of mediocrity and like the 51st State of America that were are, the stupid, stupid British public swallow it like a $30 blow-job. Can someone please explain to me why two thick, ugly, talentless slags are now millionairesses?? - neither of them can sing, dance, cook, act or have any business acumen. Neither of the two repulsive wee hoors can do anyting other than stand there and look like the operation to remove their brains was a complete success. ?( Yet, the idiotic, schemie British public throw money at them both... ...and it's EXACTLY the same with Will Young, Girls Are Pish, Liberty Pish etc. Completely abysmal non-acts getting repetitive airplay and all the opportunities to the detriment of REAL acts

TV Magicians Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!...... ....that a 60's/70's TV magician could have been so influential in the development of Prog-Rock!!!!! Sadly, I'm old enough to remember David Nixon The videos is great - and in colour too!!!! You can see where Harry Enfield got his inspiration for those brilliant "Chumley-Warner" information film spoofs. DZL

Is that thon strange (but sexy) wee dame Juliette Lewis from Kalifornia & Natural Born Killers?

Most cynical piece of movie marketing One of the most cynical pieces of movie marketing I've ever seen was for "Vision Quest" starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino (sexy burd fae "Men in Black") Madonna appears as a singer in a bar performing "Crazy For You" and it's a background non-speaking role. The movie - about an aspiring High School wrestler, who wants to take on the state heavyweight champ and falls in love with an older woman (Fiorentino) - is actually OK, but did hee-haw at the box office. By the time it was due for release on video, Madonna's career had gone stratospheric and the clever marketing dudes released the movie as "Crazy For You" starring Matthew Modine and Madonna and both the video box and the trailers were ambigous enough for you to think that his characters fall for Moadonna's - even though she's only in for less that 20 secs. Opportunist or what ? DZL

Good spot - Agent Chester Desmond in Twin Peaks, Swat Team Leader in Silence.....

Any Given Sunday Not a shite movie - but a blinding, eclectic soundtrack, hardcore rap, soul, metal etc.. There's a special treat for Metallica fans in the changing room scene... ...hugely muscled and tatooted Linebacker "Madman" changes the music on the ghetto blaster from hip-hop to metal and when one of his black teammates complains, he screams in his face... "HETFIELD IS GOD, YOU SHOULD BOW DOWN BEFORE HIM...."" Brilliant DZL

Trucks "Maximum Overdrive" Good short story "Trucks" turned into a pile of steaming shite by the author himself - Stephen King. Good soundtrack AC/DC in an otherwise gash movie notable only for the presence of Yeardley Smith - the voice of Lisa Simpson DZL

Anachronism Dusty - you ARE the Gibson uber-geek Good spot though - I'm not really up on vintage guitars' date=' but I thought it looked kinda "new" for the era. Hey - there's another potential thread - [b']Musical Anachronisms (look it up), where music/kit is used, or a reference made from time-frame AHEAD of that in which the movie is set. "Detroit Rock City" has one where a song form '79 is used and the movie is set in '78. (now who's the geek ) DZL

Jagger Last one before I get back to doing whatever it is I'm supposed to be getting paid for Performance - with Mick Jagger, especially for the "video-within-a-movie" of Jagger singing "Memo from Turner" - it's absolutely YEARS ahead of it's time. The film came out in '70 and you can see it's influence on Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, Paul McGuigan etc. A brilliant gangster flick, directed by Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg that has sick violence, kinky sex scenes and weird post-60's imagery - what more do you want? Trivia - The gangster who's pursuing James Fox's character was a real-life London underworld boss. Trivia - Jagger has a sex scene with Anita Pallenberg, who was Keef's burd at the time. Apparently there was some friction (pun intended)

Bowie Speaking of the Thin White Duke - Bowie has a split-second cameo as a barman in "The Virgin Soldiers" from 1969.

Incubus Has anyone ever seen the 80's horror film "Incubus" (circa '81/'82) ??? There's a scene when the title monster butchers someone in the bogs at a rock concert. The band is Samson and they are playing "Vice Versa". The singer is non-other than pre-Maiden Bruce Dickinson. The concept was ripped of the next year in "The Hunger", where two goths are murdered and have their blood sucked by David Bowie and Catherine Denueve to the image of Bauhaus (arty-farty tossers) playing "Bela Lugosi's Dead" DZL

Good call! I thought "Almost Famous" was just OK first time around, but and 2nd & 3rd viewings, I thought it was brilliant.