colb

5 hours ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

I've lost memories. I don't remember much of 2013. And 2015-2017 is mostly a blur. People bring up stuff that I did or stuff that happened and I can't remember. I get that you would only remember key points from childhood the older you get, but this is only a few years ago. And I can't remember much except big things that happened. Kind of worrying. But at the same time, I was drunk/not sober for most of that time. 

I remember more since I stopped drinking a couple of years ago, and I remember things that were previously a blur, definitely much better with people's names and bands i've done gigs with - on the other hand I hate everyone and I don't ever want to go out. 

On 11/20/2018 at 10:27 AM, AVB said:

there are people in Aberdeen that actually go to gigs?!

dinna get excited, there's only 7 or 8 of them. 

On 11/6/2018 at 3:59 PM, AVB said:

as far as i know its mostly word of Mouth..I see the odd event page pop up here and there  & there is an aberdeen music promotion fb page which is nae bad-ish

The aberdeen music promotion is just promoters telling each other about awful blues-rock gigs they're not going to go to - no one that actually goes to gigs is part of that group. 

31 minutes ago, MattJimF said:

Why are WWE going down the rehash route?

DX, Evolution, Kane and Undertaker, NWO.  Have they run out of original stuff and trying to get people back by going back in time? 

Because only old men watch WWE now and they're going for that nostalgia dolla

5 hours ago, Soda Jerk said:

I just learned that DJ Lethal isn't even in that band anymore, so who even cares?

He rejoined them earlier this year, he's very upset with Shaggy2Dope...

Now in a string of Instagram comments, Limp Bizkit’s DJ Lethal has stated that he was a “fan until now”, before telling Shaggy: “Bro step up!! Man to man. No suckerstage rushing ‘I’m gonna get on TMZ’.”

He also called him a “bitchmade G,” a “wack bro” who “just got wack,” and a “bitch ass clout chaser.” He repeatedly asked Shaggy “Where you at?”

Most of those acoustic nights in town pay you a beer or some food for playing.

Bob Knight is a bit bizarre.

On 8/10/2018 at 8:12 PM, James Broonbreed said:

Sidca.

Aye - Curve Off is a fucking belter

4 hours ago, Dan G said:

'comedy photo'. 

As far as I recall it was just a normal (if not somewhat generic) band photo, rather than being anything particularly cringe-worthy.

I wasn't meaning to have a go btw - just seemed an unnecessary qualifying phrase. But then again I'm a 35-trapped-in-a-25-year-old's body, so 2008 feels neither hilariously dated or particularly far away to me!

All band photos are comedy, this one was just a standard metal glower at the camera I think - not bad in any way, just the same generic poses we all use to lump a group of people together. made me laugh more cos of reading this thread than anything else.  

11 hours ago, scottyboy said:

Total Guitar!? (OK, it's the poppier, easiest - for instruction purposes - end of guitar mags; although I'd say that's more impressive, given the genre, than ending up in Guitar Techniques brief, tiny flirtation with anything but tuition), but still. I recall there being various incarnations of up-and-comerspieces, most/all of which (bands) got nowhere big AKAIK.... but still if I got in there I wouldn't have chucked it, no.  I think Sikth got mentioned multiple times (readers writing in raving about them; non-plussing the staff) without ever getting a photo, let alone a tab.

It's been the best bit of looking through these mags, apart from the ridiculously low prices of guitars 10-15 years ago and the awful tech we all thought was great. Obviously never heard of most of the up and coming bands but Gallows and FFAF were in the ones i've read so far.

All the tabs are terrible obvs, just the same recycled tunes over and over again - so many Nirvana tunes that people shouldn't need help to play.
 

17 hours ago, Dan G said:

It's reassuring to see that ten years later people can't mention MMW on this forum without including a dig in there somewhere.

I owned and binned that copy of Total Guitar many years ago, but thanks for the offer anyway.

How was that a dig? The page might actually have been called up and coming, and all band photos from 10+ years ago are comedy. 

Relax your balls and don't be silly, i'd never heard of your old band until this thread started.

1 hour ago, Gypsum_Fantastic said:

One of the Officer "twins"? And some cartoon villainy from Rangers fans.

 

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/gers-fans-kicked-boys-sand-castle/

Councillor Sarah Dickinson, who represents the Stonehaven and Lower Deeside ward, admitted she was shocked when she heard of the incident.

She said: “It’s just plain bad behaviour. I’m shocked anybody would behave in that way, especially a child. I hope it’s an isolated incident.”

Good to see the Councillor is blaming Officer Jr. rather than the gers fans.

On 6/7/2018 at 8:32 PM, scottyboy said:

TBF: There's a "top 5" thread somewhere in general discussion which sooner rather than later turned into comedy and there's a "top 5 am-mus posters" which largely ended the thing, on a piss-take, AFAIK. I was thinking, nevertheless, that I'd stick Dan G (or... Dan Weapon? Was it also once Dan Atom, or am I thinking of someone greater :P ? ) for coming back after years and years and getting some good discussion going. Definitely GBOL (you miss that one? Site has not been *completely* dead. Please. Taking and turning something - and in this case a 2nd hand meme - into a years' long running joke is still alive and healthy on this site, if nothing else). And this Dan guy isn't even posting from Poland, claims he's still actually IN Aberdeen (you can probably get that one... but not the extent to which we've been milking it and in practice turning into a site rule).

More seriously: the MMW-related input in this thread was really interesting and enlightening, definitely vis-a-vis the OP's question (from someone who was always just trying to get into a band, any band, as a guitarist; without ever getting to worrying about this shite; and as someone who was impressed by MMW but noticed that it was always an inch short of - here we go! - "making it", only to have a line-up change). The stuff in this thread, though, makes a lot of sense for anyone not just wondering in hindsight about XYZ back in the day, but also for a band or promoter (like the OP who may be taking notes but hasn't replied) who's in a similar position and might have gotten a rude but possibly career-making proverbial bucket of cold water.

Also FWIW: The singles MMW put out I found very impressive. The videos... I think you said something like "this is, as I understand it, the director's literal understanding of the symbolic lyrics", to put it politely... But then who now gives a fuck about music videos. Not even MTV. If you're a K-Pop band trying to sell in SE Asia, yes, need an MV; but also need to be a literally plastic - or silicon, minimum - bunch of ladies. Not applicable in all boxes. Confusion over the repeatedly screamed lyric  "discourse" and, uh, "Tesco's" is something that sticks in the mind and as being VERY CONSTRUCTIVELY critiqued and may or may not be in a bunch of other nostalgia threads...

...But, I genuinely did not get why a guitarist (and "touring" was definitely mentioned in the press release, if we could call it that) would leave just when the  band was seemingly bigger than ever. Nor why the singer might (less sure about this one). I knew neither the singer (a Ben?) personally, nor did I get into any arguments with (Mmm... Bladeola? Something?) his online persona. Those threads with him and either Jake or Scourge (neither of whom are around any more on here, also) are lionised on here (I think you noticed. If not indulge in more nostalgia and search more) as best-threads-ever and long-gone BANTER LADS but honesty, as a newcomer at the time, I thought them toe-curling. Especially when it got to "you don't say shit when we're going in and out of Tom's to practice!?!11" territory. But anyway.

Where was I going with this... the common denominator with people talking about MMW (not in this or any similar thread; the feedback threads at the time) was that no one liked the vocals (yes, got it, that's why I made a whole point about not having anything against the singer personally... because it seemed a lot of people did). Now that I am reasonably into djent and  prog metal, I run into god knows how many youtube comments that say stuff like "thank god, no vocals" or, conversely, "instrumental plz". Monuments would be an exemplar: gone through multiple vocalists (sometimes 2 at a time) with people still begging them to do instrumentals (and it seems, in this odd but outstanding case of a band, that the auteur of the band genuinely could not do anything great with a lead guitar driven track or album; genuine rhythm guitar virtuoso. I actually ran into the guy coming out of a guitar shop in London; he was texting on his phone the whole way up to Tottenham Road, I think it was, then went the other way. Didn't want to bother him, not my style. Almost posted it in the "lame celebrity meetings" thread, but didn't. Walking obliviously past Bill Nye was another London one. The thread about lamest celebrity meetings. You in there? The nostalgia man!). Someone called (on here) Keeno (I think; anyway he was in my top 5!) turned me onto them... I *think* I remember you mocking him for getting an 8-string and saying he should have got a 7-string and rigged it to play Meshuggah because it was entirely feasible. I think my last memory of you on here is saying that you totally got the hype about Meshuggah despite thinking that the guitar parts sounded easy enough if you've heard them; but there more so the respect for the drummer and the composition in the first place. To which I thought "yas! I'm not crazy". Are you aware that Soda Jerk said their songs sound like a million intros stuck together (I'm paraphrasing)? I'd find the quote but you're more of the nostalgic bent.

Anyway: you're not talking horseshit, running your mouth and pointlessly talking back-in-the-day (conversely: clearly, what I've written above is a masterpiece that field). I didn't really get why MMW, while touring and putting out music/videos on serious, if not "major", pro labels, did not move to actually doing its thing full-time. And that every new high seemed to bring about a line-up change. The singer I could understand (critically; not anything to do with who, how, whatever he was trolling on here  or anywhere else, or whatever), but he was defended through all of that (musical criticism; nothing else), AFAIK.  So that's all legit great info. Not to torture you, but one wonders what might've been if MMW had moved to Glasgow or Brighton; even if the members all got day jobs in Glasgow or within an hour (say) of each other in England. Might've been Aberdeen metal's X-Certs. On the other hand: as the internet gained speed, would've faced (in lined with increased youtube views or bandcamp downloads) yet far further increased requests to fire your singer; and scarily good, globalised competition (to the point where I wonder if admiring MMW's music and chops is unrealistically nostalgic; haven't done so in posting this). And the site really didn't fall off a cliff, there's been good stuff while it declined over a decade or so.

 

 

 

 

Completely unrelated - but someone gave me a huge stack of guitar mags, i was going through them looking for riffs/chord progressions to steal and MMW was on an "up and coming bands" type page along with a comedy photo. If any of MMW want it I can make that shit happen..

Broke my ankle playing 5-a-side in deepest Norfolk, didn't really know any of the guys I was playing with and had to drive 15 miles home so my Mrs could take me to hospital. Working the accelerator and brake on a broken bone was fucking horrendous. 

Brexit going really well.

1 hour ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

People don't realise that anything Kanye's rapped that's any good has been written by someone else. And the spunk on the mink, it's meant to be like a dirty love song. He's rapping about his wife, but in a over-the-top dirty way.

His lyricism on Ye has been fantastic. Hilarious standouts for me:

"I love your titties 'cause they prove I can focus on two things at once"
and

"Hit that pussy raw like fuck the outcome. None of us would be here without cum."
 

Fixed that for you...

yearly colb moan about True North.

True North - features the contemporary music industry's most interesting, relevant and exciting artists. This year the line up includes:

The Magic Numbers

Glasvegas

Mull Historical Society

Vic Galloway on the wheels of steel

Yeah...

Still at least they're not pretending this has anything at all to do with the songwriting tradition of the North East this year. 

I'll probably go and see Mogwai mind you.

On 7/5/2018 at 9:51 AM, Teabags said:

Kanye West has some absolute stinkers.

"I wanna fuck you hard on the sink
After that, give you something to drink
Step back, can't get spunk on the mink
I mean damn, what would Jeromey Romey Romey Rome think?"

"I am a God
So hurry up with my damn massage
In a French-ass restaurant
Hurry up with my damn croissants"

"I keep it 300, like the Romans
300 bitches, where's the Trojans?"

not forgetting:

"Tell the promoter we need more seats

We just sold out all the floor seats"

57 minutes ago, Lemonade said:

"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak,

Somewhere in this town" 

I'd say at the jail most likely. 

Unless "somewhere" is the name of a suburb in that town, the 3rd verse does say he's gonna bust out, which does indicate that he does know where the jail is, cos he's in it.

Although that then contradicts the whole "don't you be around" bit, and the "boys getting up and going down".

it's possible Phil Lynott was pissed when he wrote this, or really confused, or IDENTICAL TWINS - which would sort the whole thing out.

On a par with this:

No one is into Clocks by Coldplay, even Coldplay don't like Coldplay songs.

12 hours ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

Cellar is ~80 cap. We definitely need a Malt Mill/Downstairs sized place again though. I'm happy Exo has been used a lot recently for gigs. Has there been any gigs recently at Crash? There were a few a few years ago. But haven't really seen much recently. 

 

That 80 includes bands, soundpeople, barstaff etc. On an average gig night the paying punter cap is about 60, lower when it's Emo capers as all the bands seem to have at least 5 members.

How many of you does it take to play octaves and one finger power chords anyway?

The issue with Exo is no PA and they want free entry gigs, unless they're providing a budget/split of the bar that's out of reach to most promoters unless they've got a 5k PA in their back pocket.

2 hours ago, neepheid said:

I'm down to 3 basses.  I blame Brexit.

I've got one less bass than you, not even a bass player - up your game fella xx

Nah min, according to this thread it's a normal thing - https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?t=34398

It's fake mate.