Diesel
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Why are so many people putting up demo's that feature abysmal playing' date=' for example...
[url']http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33011
http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33036
Works in progress and so on are fine for giving others a general idea of what your band/songs sound like, but I just dont understand why anyone would wish to present their music to the public with such poorly played half assed recordings.
Demos dont have to be shit!
Your thoughts?
Maybe they would appreciate some constructive criticism:help:
Perhaps a virtuoso like yourself could impart your wisdom and help them along the way:up:
Just calling it "shit" doesn't really help:down:
DZL
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Anyone can open a website and trade in goods at 1% profit. But how many people make use of shops like R&B' date=' Prosound, and Bruce Millers when they need help, information, a repair etc???
The overheads involved in running a shop are much greater than a website. The overheads of having plenty of knowlegable staff around to provide help and advice to all those people who then go away and buy on-line are also substantial.
It is worth paying extra to support these local businesses because they provide a valuable and high quality service. Think where we'd be if they all closed down. Or became websites.
Quite often the person sitting behind the website doesn't really give a shit. For starters they're only making peanuts off your transaction anyway, and that quickly becomes a loss in the event they have to spend more than 5 mins arguing with you on the phone.
Me? I buy locally, and pay through the nose, for anything that they have in stock. If I need to order something then I'll usually go on-line. BUT... if I get advice from a shop on something that has to be ordered, then I'll order it through the shop. Just consider it another form of tax, but one that is well worth paying.[/quote']
I'm with you, I think we should support the local economy - although that shouldn't give the BM's R&B's etc licence to overchage. To be fair to Brucie-Bonus, they do offer discounts if you ask and they are very helpful. A visit is also a good social occasion, there's always someone to discuss EQ's and string guages with (sadly, there's always some cunt in the booths that's miles better than you). It kind of reminds me of the local motorbike shop, which was always a good meeting place in my biking days, before I lost the power of my legs - well, at least that was "The Gaffers" opinion after last Saturday's defensive display (skinned rotten all day by some wiry wee mink fae Garthdee - 'til I put him up in the air mwah-ha-ha).
I never had much time for those schemie cunts back in Kilmarnock (home town), who would pile into a bus with 50 bottles of vodka, 500 tins of leg-opener and a mountain of 3-cornered sandwiches and drive all the way to the Metro Centre to pump thousands of pounds into the Geordie economy buying shite they didn't need (and could ill afford) for ungrateful cunt relatives, that they could have got locally or in Glasgow.
THEN the thick, alkie, obese, fag-smoking NHS-reliant cunts would sit in the Bingo and moan that "theres no' oany decent shoaps in this toon". CUNTS!
Aye, go ahead, save 50p buy online from some cunt who doesn't care and let the North East go to hell.
Tight Cunts.
DZL
Ps - I've tried everything paracetemols aspirin, ibuprofen, penicillin, steriods, antibiotics and I just can't shake off this bastardcuntfucktwatshitbolloxknobcheesefannybree Tourets.
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Now surplus to requirements, my Ibanez SA320 is for sale.
Solid wood body, rosewood fretboard, twin humbuckers, built in preamp.
Just been restrung.
Will throw in brand new Ritter gig bag.
PM me for more details
150
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Drums as lead
It could work, although I think a balance is necessary for longevity in this game.
We are all used to the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-solo-verse-chorus format and we're comfortable with it, but it's nice to hear something different once in a while.
The danger though, in becoming a one-trick pony, being famous for a gimmick rather than for being good.
Samle examples - in my opinion - where the guitar in important, but not the main focus.
We Will Rock You (Queen), United, Take On The World (Judas Priest) are examples of drum-lead numbers. In fact WWRY only has a solo and no real rythyhm guitar!
Two of my personal favourites "Faith Healer" & "Give My Compliments To The Chef" (SAHB) don't have guitar solos at all - remarkable, given that Zal Cleminson was one of the best and most flamboyant axemen around - but the guitar in both still stands out.
The Stones have two guitarists, but there are few real "solos" in their music (lots of fills though) and like Aerosmith, who have the same format, the vocals are the true lead.
I'd do more but I'm hungry (cue cheers from other members)
DZL
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My new(ish) Strat (USA' date=' factory settings, no whammy bar usage) keeps busting 'B' strings at the bridge - about one a week. Bizarrely it does the same with 'A' strings on a forthnightly basis.
I've been using 9's a lot recently. Average use is two hours an evening - 4 hours a day at weekends. I play mostly blues-based hard rock & some metal.
Any tips, hints etc would be appreciated
Ps - my Ibanez SA320 is on the original strings and it's a year old!!! Similar usage up until I got the Strat.
DZL[/quote']
Well would you effin' believe it!!!!
The 'B' string on the Ibanez popped just now!!!
Not bad going for a year!!!
I only picked it up because I didn't have a replacement 11 for the Strat.
Definitely not touching my beloved Les Paul until the curse has been lifted.
Thanks to everyone for the advice
DZL
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Yep' date=' the graphite is good for reducing friction.
Or you can use vaseline if you have it handy. o_O[/quote']
I really, really hope we're talking about strings here o_O
Thanks for the advice, I had suspected that there was a possible burr in the 2nd & 5th string saddles as the strings are snapping at exactly that point.
Whilst I'm here, any recommendations for good quility strings?( I've been using fender bullets.
DZL
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My new(ish) Strat (USA, factory settings, no whammy bar usage) keeps busting 'B' strings at the bridge - about one a week. Bizarrely it does the same with 'A' strings on a forthnightly basis.
I've been using 9's a lot recently. Average use is two hours an evening - 4 hours a day at weekends. I play mostly blues-based hard rock & some metal.
Any tips, hints etc would be appreciated
Ps - my Ibanez SA320 is on the original strings and it's a year old!!! Similar usage up until I got the Strat.
DZL
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Most of you fools are potentially as yet fairly unaware of Nuno Bettencourt's untouchable guitar playing' date=' eh?
Extreme: 'He-Man Woman Hater'
Download it![/quote']
Yep, another virtuoso - but ike all of Satriani's students he tends to overcook it, but the solo from "Am I Ever Going To Change" from Extreme III is brilliant.
DLZ
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Solo
Too many guitar solos to mention, but here's few...
Lunar Sea - Camel (Andy Latimer)
Fairwell To Kings - Rush
Back To Shalla-Bal - Joe Satriani
I Would Love To - Steve Vai
City Of Tiny Lights - Frank Zappa (not sure if it's Zappa or a guest on geetar)
No Quarter (Live Version) - Zep
DZL
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People on here are really fucking stupid. I bet most of the bands that people on here like have used a strat on one of their recordings at some point or another.
I think you would be surprised how many acts who are known as using humbuckers would also use a strat or tele (stock) in the studio to add a different texture to a recording.
Anyway' date=' messrs. Hendrix and Vaughn seemed to get a beefy enough tone out of their strats without swapping their pickups.
[/quote']Correct - I know many pro musicians who would not be without their Tele in the studio. I'm pretty sure a certain Mr Page recorded the "Stairway..." solos on a Tele.
I do all my practicing on my Strat becaase it's lightweight, has a clear sound and forces me to stretch across the frets more. When I move back to my 'Paul or Ibanez I find them a breeze as the strech becomes relatively effortless.
DZL
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People on here are really fucking stupid. I bet most of the bands that people on here like have used a strat on one of their recordings at some point or another.
It's completely pointless saying that a strat is crap' date=' or a les paul's crap or whatever. They are completely different beasts, they do different things and what they do, they do well.
Personally I think everyone should own at least one good strat and one good les paul.
Back on topic, all I'll add is "This is the AK-47 Assault Rifle, the preferred weapon of our enemy. It makes a distinctive sound when fired."
But then so does the strat.[/quote']
I'm with you bro'
I own both and they are very different beasts, but both great in their own right.
As for the AK47, I'm sure it's a fine weapon, but exactly WHAT has it got do with music?
Tosspots like Tarantino have glamourised gunplay to the point where idiots think it's "cool" when folk get shot. Probably the same sad c*nts, who, if faced with the business end of a gun, would shite themselves. And don't start me on that cheesy "gangsta" holding-the-gun-sideways-whilst-holding-up-some-poor-hardworking-grocer pish that 50-Cent and his sampling-other-c*unts-music-coz-we-canny-write-our-own cronies promote.
Oh dear, I've gone off on one anyway, back to guitars - Strats good, 'Pauls also good, Guns bad.
DZL
Ps - no prizes for guessing who's been at the wrong end of a shotgun???
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I'll go with the AK47' date=' as most strats I've played suck monkey bollocks!
Andy xx[/quote']
As opposed to Chocolate Salty Balls ?(
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Deep Purple's "Rat Bat Blue" & Uriah Heep's "Gypsy" (amongst many other classic rock tracks) on the brilliant "Life on Mars"
DZL
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Strat vs AK47
Get of hold of the 1980 interview with Alex Harvey. He gives a great explanation of the penetrative power of the Strat (although it might have been a Tele) over an AK47.
PM me if you are interested and I'll mp3/wma/mpg a copy for you - it's affy interesting.
My own take on though, it is that musicians own Strats, whereas anyone outside the armes forces who owns a Kalashnikov AK47 (or any gun for that matter) is likely to be a sorry little toss who got "kicked f**k out of" or to use modern parlance "bitch-slapped" by his peers at school and is "angry" with the world. Small, limp ineffectual penis too.
These "little jobbies" also watch Kung-Fu movies and adore such cinematic bobbins as "Flying Pish, Crouching Shite", and "Kill Pishy Wankstain Bill, Vols 1&2".
Love & peace
DZL
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Nobody got mine yet... come on people' date=' it's a great movie from 1976, part of a series of films, repeated on telly all the time.[/quote']
The Enforcer - Starring Big Clint and Tyne "Cagney and Lacey" Daly.
One of the few benefits of being 40+. You know shit! - the you get even older and forget it. But Hey!!!
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Quotes
Here are my guesses...
"I ain't got time to bleed" - Predator
"I can turn left" - Zoolander
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue" - Airplane!
What? You pooped in the refrigerator? And you ate the whole wheel of cheese? How'd you do that? Heck, I'm not even mad, that's amazing! - Anchorman
It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic. - Napoleon Dynamite
Now, a question of etiquette, as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch? - Fight Club
Your entrance was good, his was better. The difference? Showmanship - Batman Forever
Taking me to a place like this is about as exciting as saying to me 'Let's fuck' - Taxi Driver
TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! - American Psycho
You may know kung fu... but you're still a fairy. - Kung Fu Hustle
Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. - Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
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5 for Today
Faith Healer - SAHB
Pride - Living Color
Carry on Wayward Son - Kansas
Overture/Long Time - Boston
Draw of the Cards - Kim Carnes
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Classics have crap pickups. I'd suggest you should get a standard for quality and value' date=' hence the name..[/quote']
...and that's exactly what I've done. Heritage Cherry Sunburst. Just can't bring myself to touch it yet. I'm not worthy, I suck...etc.
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Good working order
Reasonable condition
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DZL
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just bumping this post as still looking for stuff' date=' duff amps, broken necks stuff like that. If anyone has any musical junk let me know![/quote']
I have an old 1x12 Speaker Cabinet that you can have.
DZL
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the contentment from the knowledge that the world is RIGHT' date=' because you've made a child very very happy, as he can buy the cab he's always wanted. (fuck, should have tried this before christmas. )[/quote']
Ah, my young Padowan apprentice, Diesel-Wan-Kenobi did not get rich by giving his money away. I fact I'm possibly tighter than 2 coats of paint.
But I'll be rooting for you and that elusive cab - maybe The Force will provide if you steer well clear of the Dark Side.
F**k!!! Listen to me!!! I need to get out more.
DZL
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wanna GIVE me 900quid...if you're that minted you won't want it back...
What do I get in return for my 900 sheets?
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Bully for you
I've too many guitars except a Gibson Les Paul, which I'm currently trying to buy.
Hearing mixed reports about Classics vs Standards ?(
All too confusing - maybe I'll buy a PRS instead or a something completely different
I'm f***ing minted, so anything is possible
DZL
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I love ESP Les Pauls...
Glad to hear it:up:
Buy this one then - it's a Les Paul shape;)
fender bass?
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Agreed. There does tend to be an irrational misty-eyed nostalgia over old kit (especially cars amps & guitars). I recently bought a new Les Paul Standard which is wonderful. I took it to my long-term tutor, who has a mint early 60's Standard and he reckoned mine played and sounded better (as a record producer, he knows the difference). The build quility of mine was better and it stayed in tune, unlike his - so go figure. However, put them both on eBay and I'd blow 250 at least on mine whilst he'd get 10 times what he paid for his - 'coz it's old!!!
Old does not necessarily equal better and neither does new - standards can dip as manufacturing output increases.
Personally, I don't see the point of paying through the nose for a 'Paul that was the same year as Jimmy Page's (especially as Pagey probably had about 50 of them). That to me is just pose value.
Still, if someone has a passion for ownership of an instrument from a particular era, then there are plenty people willing to take their money off them.
IMHO - musical kit is better, more reliable and cheaper than ever. The only thing that has taken a nose-dive is music itself - but that's for another forum:up:
DZL