Diesel

Ltd

Indeed it is.

ESP For Sale *** SOLD ***

ESP Infinity EC-100 QM LTD

See-Thru Black Cherry. Quilted.

Mint condition.

Ideal Metal guitar, with rich tone and great sustain.

Free Ritter gig bag

• Bolt-on construction; 24.75 scale
  
• Agathis body w/quilted maple top
  
• Maple neck; rosewood fingerboard; dot inlays w/model name at 12th fret
  
• ESP LH-100 pickups
  
• 2 volume & 1 tone control w/3-way toggle;
  
• Black hardware
  
• Tune-o-matic bridge w/stop tailpiece
  
• 24 XJ frets
  

200.00

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GIBSON - Les Paul Wanted *** BOUGHT ***

Hi,

I'm looking for a Gibson-only Les Paul, preferably a Standard, although I'd consider any model.

Prefer one of the "Burst" colours, but again I'm open to offers.

Please PM me with details.

Paul

Ps - I have cash waiting and won't offer to trade anything.

Like-Minded Coffin-Dodgers Wanted to Form Band

Hi,

I'm looking for 30/40-something guys/gals (but age not really a problem) who are interested in forming a band for practicing/jamming with a view to working towards gigging.

Influences are : Zep, Purple, Sabs, Rush, 'Head, AC/DC, Maiden, Stones, SAHB etc...

All instruments welcome and a good vocalist would most certainly be welcome!!!!

I play guitar, but am a good few months away from gigging standard, following a very, very long lay-off.

So, if you are interested in an (initially) low-expectation venture that will help all the participants improve their game, then drop me a pm.

Paul.

Ps - I can get a drummer if needs be, have access to a cheap hall hire (near Dyce) and - eventually - recording facilities (my tutor is a record producer).

Sahb

Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Awesome.

Diverse, brave, experimental and unparalleled live.

Hi Buddy,

When you say new do you mean current or simply new to yourself (or both, of course)

Happy to make some recommendations.

For eclectic - try the Sensational Alex Harvey Band if you haven't already. Genius band and Scottish too!!

Frank Zappa is equally good (and hilarious as rock remier satirist) , although he's totally weird! ?(

DZL

Avoid Runrig like the plague.

Awful, just awful.

Another one of my all time crap lyrics was form that abysmally bad 70's outfit, Smokie (shite name as well).

"Mexical girl don't leave me alone, I've got a heart as big as a stone".

I mean, what the f***???

Inspired by Mr Boo's best decade question' date=' this struck me.

Every decade's had it's definitive artists, Elvis, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bowie, The Sex Pistols, Guns and Roses, Nirvana. No doubt these could be disputed for weeks on here, but I'm just churning up general examples.

Anyhoo, the question is...we're now 6 years into the decade of the 00's and I'm curious who people think will be seen as the definitive bands of this decade when we look back on it in 20 years or so? I hope it's not Coldplay.[/quote']

That's a tough one...

Clearly its completely subjective - and what really defines "definitive"?

Artists can make a difference for a number of reasons, take the 60's for example...

Song Structure - Beatles, Beach Boys, CSNY, Byrds

Stagecraft & Attitude- Stones, The Who

Musicianship - Hendrix, Cream

Commercialism - Beatles, Stones

Image - Beatles, Stones The Who

Progressiveness - Beatles, The Who, Stones

There are many more bands and categories than the above for the 60's alone.

I honestly believe you'd be hard pushed to find any band since the 60's that have brought anything truly new (musically) to the table. Maybe 80's/90's Electronica, but you could apply the above categories to any decade and see what comes out.

I was (sadly) born in the 60's and my musical "development" really began in the late 70's/early 80's (a vaccuum of creativity if ever there was one), so my heart doesn't really lie with the 60's, but I that decade has more indelible, "definitive" images of any other8)

Where and when?

I'm assuming that they will play Aberdeen again Nov/Dec 2006. Certainly that's the impression I got from the posts on the Yahoo forum (SAHBSTORY). Martin Kielty' date=' their manager, seemed pretty positive that they'll be back.

There was also a mention of a special Aberdeen gig beacuse of the f***-up at Moshulu, where most of us missed 30-40% of the show, owing to an early start.

I don't know if you caught them last time or in 2004, but they are on [b']fire. The new singer, Max Maxwell, is settling in nicely and his voice has improved out of sight this year.

I always thought Zal was brilliant, but his playing was stratospheric this time out. Myself and my long-time tutor (a genius guitarist himself) were simply blown away. It's made me raise my game and I'm practicing harder than ever, although I know I couldn't ever carry his gig bag.

Always happy to spraff with another SAHBster

DZL

I've seen the SAHBs 5 or 6 times I think' date=' from 95 onwards. I definitely preferred the previous lineup to this one where the singer is imo weak, but I would have loved to see the original band with the late Alex Harvey. I got into them through Fish covering 2 of their songs, then saw them playing the smae bill in 95, great intro to them. A very, very underated band,like Mott the Hoople, we need an underated band thread...

Cheers

Stuart[/quote']

You're the MAN!!!

I got into them whilst they were still on the go with Alex. He was spellbinding live.

I reckon that "Delilah" effective torpedoed their shot at glory. I say that because whenever you mentioned SAHB, folk would look nonplussed, then go "Oh aye, them that did thon Tom Jones song? Good laugh that!". They were criminally mistaken for a vaudeville act and I think many people dimissed them for that.

Cleminson is God. I had him lined up to sign the scratchplate on my new Strat (USA, of course) at the Garage gig, but had to miss it coz I was I'll.

Bummer - I'll catch them this year hopefully - after missing the frist 5 numbers of the Moshulu gig.

Good idea - let's start an "Underrated Band" thread - It'll be positive at least!!!

What's your problem with that lyric?

My problem with this lyric is that Sting's clearly going to get his hole aff some sexy wee schoolie, whilst the rest of us get feck-all:laughing:

Happy New Year all:band:

On the "Most Overrated Band..." post, someone mentioned the excesses of Yes, ELP etc.

It got me thinking that a Crap Lyrics thread might be cool. These might fall into the following example categories....

Bad Grammar - the writer can be arsed finding the right words

Pretentious - has some inner meaning for members of the band only or they're simply trying to look "clever" (e.g Yes, ELP)

• Yes - "In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky and they stand there"
  
• Yes - "Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are"
  

What The F***? - not to be confused with Pretentious - just plain daft lyrics.

• The Tamperer (featuring Maya) - "What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?"
  

Cheesy - Any toe-curlers - usually 70's or 80's love songs (e.g. Spandau, Lionel Richie etc)

Spot The Cliche' - Predictable retreads (e.g. Whitesnake, any Hair/Poodle Rock Bands)

I've stuck a couple of examples in there, please feel free to submit you're own faves.

Love & Peace

DZL

"sitting on the fence as always!"

Ps - apologies if this has already been done.

Hendrix is a poor slowed down rip off of the White Stripes

Erm, didn't Hendrix die before either of them were born?(

This could be the best post that I've read in a long while... I'm reading away at Mr. "DZL" slaggin U2' date=' Oasis then lumping Franz Ferdinand, Green Day and Coldplay together as "middle-class, weedy, student arty-farty bollox, dour tinkly-bonk riffs and nasal vocals".

Who does this boy like?

The Darkness!?!?! Product!!

Genius! I hope he wasn't being serious but it made me laugh.[/quote']

Genius? - Thanks!!!

I'm not being too serious, but I didn't want to pass up the opportunity to vent my spleen

All of the bands I've dissed have something to offer someone and all of them have produced, for me at least, some memorable tracks (especially The Darkness, who are memorably PISH ).

My main problem is the amount of airplay and media coverage these acts get to the detriment of other equally worthy bands/acts/singers. But I suppose it's always been like that.

Someone mentioned "death by pentatonic", it's a fair statement if you're not into blues-based music, but what about "death by bar chord" as yet another band of weird-looking misfits thrash and shout their way through another ansgst-laden dirge.

Or "death by strumming" (e.g. Idlewild, Turin Brakes). Nothing wrong with that, but do they have to be so dreary? Where's the drama/fun/excitement? Life can be crap enough without being drawn into someone else's misery:laughing:

Still, each to their own:up:

Anway, this thread is an exercise in futility, but provides us all with some amusement.

DZL.

Ps- some bands ARE truly mince:down:

Pps - what am I into ? - Everything!. Good musicianship, song structure, thought-provoking lyrics, live performances and sometimes just plain mindless boogie (as long as it's FUN).

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band are my all time faves. All you guitarists should catch them later this year for a masterclass in musicianship and showmanship from Zal Cleminson - he's the reason I started playing:up:

how about Cream with the most overrated guitarist of all time: Eric - death by pentatonic scales - Clapton

Hey!

Don't knock "The Pents" - I can play the other scales nae bother, but "Pentatonic" is the only one I can spell!!!

Love & Peace

DZL

magic numbers

arctic monkeys

libertines

babyshambles

I'm with you on this one. I despise all these toneless, hookless, tuneless, noncy student-wank indie bands. Pretentious claptrap "played" by narcissitic junky tosspots, expecting us to listen and relate to pishy lyrics about their user girlfriends spilling caramel mahciatos over their favourite copies of Proust or not being able to score, because Banker daddy has cut them off.

I would personally like to "kick f*ck" out of whoever commissioned this type of mince to be recorded.

Love and Peace

DZL - "sitting on the fence as always"

U2 - whining, one-note wonders

Oasis - whining no-note wonders

The Darkness - utter pish

Franz Fedinand/Green Day/Coldplay etc - they're all the same, with their middle-class, weedy, student arty-farty bollox, dour tinkly-bonk riffs and nasal vocals.

Ps - Don't diss "The Led" - diverse, progressive innovators. Their canon of work has stood the test of time. You don't have to like them, but you do NEED to respect them.

U2 & Oasis have been churning out the same dirges for years, The Darkness are a metal version of the Black Abbotts - they are PRODUCT.

The rest you can poke firmly up your excrement-caked hole.

Love & Peace

DZL

Ps - I feel better after that, thanks.