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He said he got his teeth fixed. I'm gonna break them. edit: It won't let me write in caps. I love caps.

Got the new Twilight Sad and Unwinding Hours records. First half of UH is good, not entirely what I expected, but good. Yet to listen to the twilight sad.

Sorry about that, Rosie. Dumbfounding turnout made the Cellar look packed which is right good. Well done (and thanks!) to Dave, stu and Zippy for putting it on. More Cellar gigs on Fridays plz!

Sorted for you.

That is weak sauce Nev!

I forgot to load in my stuff last night. Lifting large bass cabs at 7:15 after rolling out of bed is NAE FUN. p.s. I think people are going out.

I think the singer (Joe?) from copy haho plays some sort of G+L tele. It's got a dark natural finish and a black scratchplate. Looks so, so nice. Sounds really great too. I want one.

I would like enough people to come to this to see Cellar packed out again. Such a good venue. Something like this would do:

I've got a Tele Deluxe. It does have much less twang about it, but still bright enough. It's lovely, in fact. It's got the 2 humber set up like those thin lines. That JA looks really, really nice.

Lovely.

Although he is giving decent responses, they all seem to be very condescending and with that blog he just comes across like he is trying to throw his weight about. There wouldn't have even been a 'highlights/lowlights' if Aberdeen was a good gig. HE had a bad gig, and the audience didn't enjoy HIS band, but I think pretty much every post here that has mentioned Vessels has been positive - so why try and discourage bands from coming up here? That is two members of that band that have gotten right on my nerves. Bassist is a top chap though. Spoke to all the bands when he played with Kong and was full of compliments.

Roll on Friday! Feel like we ain't played a gigin forever.

I was absolutely berrating some poor girl last night because she had an ASIWYFA. She did take it well though. I think it's their onstage persona more than their music.

Nero are beyond decent. Was that just a one off?

There's skipping genres like those rotters in Attack Attack who just write parts and run them at each other from a great distance and hope they stick, but you could work the genres of the bands you've stated without too much bother. Not saying it's easy, but doable.

I have this problem too. One day I'll be listening to something and be inspired to write like that, the next day something else. I'm gonna try and take them on one at a time from now on though. CW is kind of good for this, because we let ourselves get away with pretty much anything. What we get done is pretty much all dependent on how productive me and Ross are feeling at the living room stage, or whether we'd rather go to costco for lunch.

ooft. That JMP is affa tempting. I just got a Sound City head that needs repaired, but I just haven't gotten round to it. Got a rough price range for it?

That is a surprisingly good idea. I often come up with rhythms when I'm walking and that would be dead handy. Even sometimes I come up with idead in my room, but by them time I get downstairs to play about with them on guitar/bass, they've escaped me.

With CW stuff the most productive way to write starts with Ross and I having a jam at my house. We usually start with playing all the ideas we've had for guitar/bass parts then jam with something we reckon could go somewhere. Often we'll just jam out a part until it's tight, then we'll have a pretty good idea of where we're going. Often one of us will 'hear' a rhythm that could go well from there, or that one of the parts previously played could work. We try not to get too hung up on concrete rhythms until we get to full band practice. In the past we've demoed the tracks at the living room stage and fired them to Dallas to get an idea of rough rhythms/flow. Take the idea to full band practice and get each part reasonably tight and edit any parts that aren't quite working/that could be better (usually consisting of a lot of guitar/drum onomatopoeia, waving, pointing, nodding, descriptive jargon e.g. attack, drive, pummel - then and eventually "YEAH"s). Go through the last cycles of parts and concentrate on getting the changes tight, then finally we go from the top and forget everything we just did. Ideally demo the tune again with drums and send to all members to make sure they don't forget, which we are all pretty good at. I usually use the demos to try and come up with vocals using overdubs etc. Done!

you're on to something.

We play in open D9 ( it think ) coz WE IZ PUNX.

Sounds good. Do you do any internal stuff - soldering old joints, pickup fitting etc?

Yous do sound pretty decent. And REPRESENTING the homeland. Impressed.

I think it's literally ALL about who you know or can get to know.

Decent! This'll be good. Love playing in Cellar.