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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Scott674 on February 23, 2008, 03:23:52 AM
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I don't know if this has been done before or not. Sorry if it has.
I was curious as to the names of most of the pickups. After seeing why a few of the pickups were named the way they are, I thought I might be able to find the rest. Here's what I've been able to come up with. Any one fill in the blanks? Are any of them wrong?
Stormy Monday: Song by T-Bone Walker
PG Blues: ???
The Mule: Deep Purple Song
Riff Raff: AC/DC Song
VHII: Van Halen
Black Dog: Led Zeppelin song
Emerald: Thin Lizzy song
Abraxas: Santana Album?
Holydiver: DIO!!!
Cold Sweat: James Brown song
Miracle Man: Ozzy Osbourne Song
Nailbomb: A band named Nailbomb?
Warpig: Black Sabbath Song
Painkiller: Judas Priest song and album.
Geoff Whitehorn - 'Crawler': The band Geoff Whitehorn plays in
Steve Stevens - 'Rebel Yell': Billy Idol song
Apache: a 1960 instrumental song originally recorded by The Shadows???
The Sultan's: The Sultans were an American rock and roll band?
Mother's Milk: Red Hot Chili Peppers album
Irish Tour: Rory Gallagher album
Slow Hand: Album by Clapton, also his nickname.
Trilogy Suite: Trilogy Suite song off of Trilogy album by Yngwie Malmsteen
The Sinner: ???
Mississippi Queen: Song by Mountain
Blackguard: ???
Country Boy: John Denver's "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" Hank Williams "Country Boy can Survive"?
Yardbird: The band named yardbirds?
Brown Sugar: Rolling Stones song.
The Boss: Nickname of Bruce Springsteen?
Piledriver: Album by Status Quo?
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There are a few that I don't know where they came from. Not sure on all of them though.
Stormy Monday: Based on Allman Brothers version I think
PG Blues: Peter Green
The Mule: Warren Haynes of Government Mule
Cold Sweat: Thin Lizzy Song
Sultan: Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits?
Sinner: Judas Priest song
Piledriver: The Canadian metal band?
Nailbomb: The band?
Apache: ?
The rest I think you got right. I'm sure somebody will get the rest. :orcass:
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The Nailbomb has something to do with the Brazilian band sepultura as far as i know.
Apache is a song by the band The Shadows. Hank Marvin the guitarist there and he is credited with buying the first ever Fender Strat in the UK. It was a Salmon Pink one. God I'm tuning into a geek!
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I've always assumed the Blackguard is named after the original blonde Telecasters with black pickguards...
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Piledriver is an album by Status Quo - famous exponents of Telecasters.
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Nailbomb is the offshoot band by Max Cavalera from Sepultura
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Nailbomb is the offshoot band by Max Cavalera from Sepultura
Max from Sepultura & Alex Newport from Fudge Tunnel, with various guest appearences (Dino Cazares from Fear Factory amongst others IIRC).
They released one studio album "Point Blank" (very good BTW), & a live album "Proud to commit commercial suicide" (not so good, a live recording from one of their few live performances at Dynamo festival)
Sorry to be such an anorak :)
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PG Blues = Peter Green - in particular a reference to his famous Les Paul (that Gary Moore later owned, now at some US collector for >$1M), whose neck pickup had its pole pieces reversed for "out of phase" tones (don't quite understand the precise technical details, perhaps someone else could help out here? :)). Basically the PG Blues set has the same thing.
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I had always assumed that "Country Boy" was a reference to Albert Lee's party piece? Not sure I associate John Denver with Telecaster shenanigans...
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I think that's the lot!
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Isn't Yardbird from the band Clapton was in, the REALLY REALLY old one?
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Isn't Yardbird from the band Clapton was in, the REALLY REALLY old one?
You must be young, Jonny - you make it sound like pre-history! :lol:
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Isn't Yardbird from the band Clapton was in, the REALLY REALLY old one?
You must be young, Jonny - you make it sound like pre-history! :lol:
I was actually going to say "really really old, like Philly Q old" :wink:
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I was actually going to say "really really old, like Philly Q old" :wink:
1. :o
2. :evil:
3. :|
4. :lol:
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Your avatar does connote oldness though Phil :P
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Your avatar does connote oldness though Phil :P
Well I'd look a bit desperate if I went for something fashionable.
Say it loud - I'm old and I'm... mildly depressed really. :?
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Why not take a trip to R Soles shoe shop then!
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I like Phil's W.C Fields avatar! Phil don't let middle age get you down mate. You have to get out, socialise, laugh and be silly!
I like my full moon one too as it's ageless and I took the photo myself when I got my Eos 1Ds with a 600mm tele and a x2 converter when the moon was the closest to the earth for 200 years. I was also pissed up and stoned! :lol:
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I was also pissed up and stoned! :lol:
must be midlife crisis :lol:
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I was also pissed up and stoned! :lol:
must be midlife crisis :lol:
I like Phil's W.C Fields avatar! Phil don't let middle age get you down mate. You have to get out, socialise, laugh and be silly!
Cheers Johnny! :D
Speaking of socialising, I'm actually going to a stag night next weekend, believe it or not. I'm kind of dreading it - getting pissed up (never mind stoned!) and going out with "the lads" is really not me at all :? . But I thought I should make the effort and go, rather than make some cr@p excuse.
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I was also pissed up and stoned! :lol:
must be midlife crisis :lol:
I like Phil's W.C Fields avatar! Phil don't let middle age get you down mate. You have to get out, socialise, laugh and be silly!
Cheers Johnny! :D
Speaking of socialising, I'm actually going to a stag night next weekend, believe it or not. I'm kind of dreading it - getting pissed up (never mind stoned!) and going out with "the lads" is really not me at all :? . But I thought I should make the effort and go, rather than make some cr@p excuse.
Phil go to the stag and just flow along at your own pace, all that 25 quid round cr@p is bollocks as after 5 odd no one can remember who's round it is anyway. The best way is a whip and if it gets too much pull out and go on your own. As for getting stoned, don't. I've given up all narcotics and tobacco and feel like a new man. In fact I've got loads of energy at the moment and I'm loving it! Depression is all body chemistry, if you can manage to get a real belly laugh out of this stag then it will give the serotonin a boost then take that to a new place by a bit of exercise and before you know it everyone will be laughing at your jokes and all the chicks will want your babies, it really is that easy!!! Good luck Phil and I'll will be checking in on you from time to time. No Bkp buddy of mine is going to feel low while I'm around ok! :D
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I was also pissed up and stoned! :lol:
must be midlife crisis :lol:
That was as it happens, just before my 40th but I embrace it all now! :lol:
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As for getting stoned, don't. I've given up all narcotics and tobacco and feel like a new man. In fact I've got loads of energy at the moment and I'm loving it! Depression is all body chemistry, if you can manage to get a real belly laugh out of this stag then it will give the serotonin a boost then take that to a new place by a bit of exercise and before you know it everyone will be laughing at your jokes and all the chicks will want your babies, it really is that easy!!! Good luck Phil and I'll will be checking in on you from time to time. No Bkp buddy of mine is going to feel low while I'm around ok! :D
Cheers Johnny, much appreciated. Seriously.
I've never dabbled in the ol' substances, thankfully, and never been much of a drinker either, but I have got overweight and very badly out of shape the last few years. Just started addressing that in the last couple of weeks, even hoping to get the confidence to start back at the gym in the not-too-distant future ("Why has that fat old man got a red face, Mummy?" :roll: ).
We'll see. I'll be truly amazed if all the chicks will want my babies, though - they haven't shown much interest previously. :wink:
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As for getting stoned, don't. I've given up all narcotics and tobacco and feel like a new man. In fact I've got loads of energy at the moment and I'm loving it! Depression is all body chemistry, if you can manage to get a real belly laugh out of this stag then it will give the serotonin a boost then take that to a new place by a bit of exercise and before you know it everyone will be laughing at your jokes and all the chicks will want your babies, it really is that easy!!! Good luck Phil and I'll will be checking in on you from time to time. No Bkp buddy of mine is going to feel low while I'm around ok! :D
Cheers Johnny, much appreciated. Seriously.
I've never dabbled in the ol' substances, thankfully, and never been much of a drinker either, but I have got overweight and very badly out of shape the last few years. Just started addressing that in the last couple of weeks, even hoping to get the confidence to start back at the gym in the not-too-distant future ("Why has that fat old man got a red face, Mummy?" :roll: ).
We'll see. I'll be truly amazed if all the chicks will want my babies, though - they haven't shown much interest previously. :wink:
Your welcome and don't let kids get to you as they have it all to come, considering how thick and incapable they are your winning by miles. Cut out the bad food stuff and get more active and you will feel a new man, trust me, then you'll look back and think what was all that about! Go on, you know it makes sense.
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maybe a new avatar would be just the make over you need philly? something young and 'street'.
you could call yourself MC Philly Q?
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maybe a new avatar would be just the make over you need philly? something young and 'street'.
you could call yourself MC Philly Q?
:o Oh, Holy Mary Mother of God (apologies to any Catholics).
I absolutely CAN NOT STAND anything "street", "urban" etc., and the hero-worship of MCs and DJs drives me up the wall. So they $%&# about with other people's music, big $%&#ing deal.
And I hate the way the "establishment" always represents "youth culture" with bloody hip hop and "urban" music. You'd think there were no kids in the UK into any other kind of music. Just wait until the London Olympics, the opening ceremony will be like the MOBO awards. Including that cretinous graffiti-style "2012" logo.
AAAAAAAAARRRGH!!! It makes my blood boil. :evil:
Sorry. Rant over.
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^Oh my, that damn Olympics logo... I mean, I know it's only a logo...
But WHAT... THE HELL were they smoking?
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maybe a new avatar would be just the make over you need philly? something young and 'street'.
you could call yourself MC Philly Q?
:o Oh, Holy Mary Mother of God (apologies to any Catholics).
I absolutely CAN NOT STAND anything "street", "urban" etc., and the hero-worship of MCs and DJs drives me up the wall. So they $%&# about with other people's music, big #$%!& deal.
And I hate the way the "establishment" always represents "youth culture" with bloody hip hop and "urban" music. You'd think there were no kids in the UK into any other kind of music. Just wait until the London Olympics, the opening ceremony will be like the MOBO awards. Including that cretinous graffiti-style "2012" logo.
AAAAAAAAARRRGH!!! It makes my blood boil. :evil:
Sorry. Rant over.
heh ;) ;)
gotcha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:) :) sorry - should have added smiley to make joke clear. i think you are well known for your dislike of urban music ;)
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Why not take a trip to R Soles shoe shop then!
It's one of my favourite shops - down the Kings Road
Have you been there Will?
It has the best selection of cowboy boots in London IMO
A bit expensive but bloody great
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:) :) sorry - should have added smiley to make joke clear. i think you are well known for your dislike of urban music ;)
S'okay, I knew you were kidding. Still triggered my "urban overload" reflex though. :wink:
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I also hate street music, hip-hop etc with a passion
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Why not take a trip to R Soles shoe shop then!
It's one of my favourite shops - down the Kings Road
Have you been there Will?
It has the best selection of cowboy boots in London IMO
A bit expensive but bloody great
Sadly it was a school trip to some ermm national war museum historic kefuffle. Walked off to get some lunch and spotted it, thought I would take a pic quickly. If I happen to be in the area, may look again. Is it seriously Mr R Soles, or some silly one liner?
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http://www.rsoles.com is their website
Seriously expensive for rich tourists , but great quality
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I hate urban cr@p too. Anything like that is cr@p. That's why we all play the guitar though isn't it? MC's and DJ's are w**kers. Fact. Did you hear on the news about that DJ called Groove Rider? He got nicked by customs in Dubai with an illegal substance. I also heard on the news today that in Dubai someone got caught by their drugs detecting sniffer machine with some cannabis stuck on the sole of their shoe the size of a grain of sugar and got a 4 year sentence!!! Don't fancy the DJ's chances much.
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I hate urban cr@p too. Anything like that is cr@p. That's why we all play the guitar though isn't it? MC's and DJ's are w**kers. Fact. Did you hear on the news about that DJ called Groove Rider? He got nicked by customs in Dubai with an illegal substance. I also heard on the news today that in Dubai someone got caught by their drugs detecting sniffer machine with some cannabis stuck on the sole of their shoe the size of a grain of sugar and got a 4 year sentence!!! Don't fancy the DJ's chances much.
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article3333905.ece
Here's a link to that story.....
I think that the rapid rise in knife crime & gun crime can be predominatly linked to a lifestyle that is represented over and over in hip-hop music
You never hear of an EMO kid or a metal fan doing this stuff
It's always some hip-hop hoodie/chav or rival factions of immigrant/asylum seeking population.
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Not just to disagree for the sake of it, Johnathan, but 90% of the time someone stateside carcks up and decides to non-consensually murder his classmates, they go directly for the metal in his music collection, and hold that up as a reason. They're clearly wrong, but I don't see why it would be any more valid to lay other crimes at the feet of other music, or what it promotes.
I'm not saying you're wrong, by the way, just that it's a matter of interpretation.
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Not just to disagree for the sake of it, Johnathan, but 90% of the time someone stateside carcks up and decides to non-consensually murder his classmates, they go directly for the metal in his music collection, and hold that up as a reason. They're clearly wrong, but I don't see why it would be any more valid to lay other crimes at the feet of other music, or what it promotes.
I'm not saying you're wrong, by the way, just that it's a matter of interpretation.
I know what you say about the USA situation, and thankfully we don't get stuff like Columbine happening here too often.
I just feel that Hip hop and rap continually shows off a lifestyle that is then copied, by kids who are straight out of Croydon rather that straight outa Compton
Not that this is not true with other music genres, but walking around thinking you are David Coverdale (or whoever) generally causes less bloodshed that if you acted like Tupac.
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Yeah, I would probably agree with Feline that the two can be LINKED- but I would be sceptical of the actual causality of such violent crime being the music itself.
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That's quite accurate what you said Feline, although you can say things like that being across the pond.
In the U.S. connecting the dots between rap music and violence is normally greeted by a wave of racial finger pointing.
Unfortunately, that's just the way it is.
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I was only saying that a similar conjecture could be, and has been, made to say the dark themes in Metal, which abound, have something to do with such events. I think laying either sort of crime at the feet of either genre is to ignore a broader spectrum of social conditions which have as much, if not more to do with it. I don't see any particularly strong evidence in either case for music enjoyed having a causal relationship, nor is it entorely clear whether love of the music promotes the violence in one's nature, or vice versa.
As I say, I'm not just spoiling for a row or anything. I think I might be best to agree to disagree here, and leave it at that. I won't infect this board with my political leanings.
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Interesting points. I'll tell you what I've heard recently. I work with a lad in his mid 20's. He comes from a large family from Tottenham and has several older bothers who are constantly in and out of prison. In there one of his brothers learnt from other inmates about some of the pirate radio stations. Some of them have DJ's for want of a better term that speak in such fast slang as to be not understood by anyone not familiar with it. In these broadcasts are messages to gangs about the whereabouts of rivals ect. In short they are encouraging gang violence. Nasty horrible shite if you ask me.
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Just how off topic can a thread get!!
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Interesting points. I'll tell you what I've heard recently. I work with a lad in his mid 20's. He comes from a large family from Tottenham and has several older bothers who are constantly in and out of prison. In there one of his brothers learnt from other inmates about some of the pirate radio stations. Some of them have DJ's for want of a better term that speak in such fast slang as to be not understood by anyone not familiar with it. In these broadcasts are messages to gangs about the whereabouts of rivals ect. In short they are encouraging gang violence. Nasty horrible shitee if you ask me.
Hmm, well to me that sounds like organised crime basically, not music. :wink:
Personally, all I meant was I highly doubt that listening to rap music causes violence. :)
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Not that this is not true with other music genres, but walking around thinking you are David Coverdale (or whoever) generally causes less bloodshed that if you acted like Tupac.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if kids really did walk around thinking thay were Old Cov? Especially if they talked in that cod Shakespearian way of his, instead of going "init" and calling each other "blood". :lol:
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Yeah, I would probably agree with Feline that the two can be LINKED- but I would be sceptical of the actual causality of such violent crime being the music itself.
On a fairly similar subject, I've spent years arguing that watching gory horror movies (or action movies for that matter) doesn't make anyone violent unless they're already a little unbalanced. It hasn't done me any harm... :roll:
So I'm reluctant to believe that rap music makes kids get into violent crime, just as I'm reluctant to believe that listening to black metal makes people burn down churches (those Norwegian churches are the most amazing looking buildings, why the f*ck would anyone want to burn them?.... but I digress).
I'm not going to say listening to hip-hop will turn you bad, but hip-hop music and that gang lifestyle really do seem to go hand in hand, unfortunately. I'm always amazed how many successful rap artists can't leave that lifestyle behind, and still get involved in shootings and drug crime. You don't - it seems - get that in any other genre of music. They're not role models in any way (and that's ignoring other factors like attitudes to women and gay people).
It must be a horrible life for these gang kids - constantly trying to show how tough you are, never showing "weakness", trying to "out-macho" everyone else. I bet deep down they're scared all the time, no wonder they only feel safe in gangs.
And this really is off-topic. :roll:
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Interesting points. I'll tell you what I've heard recently. I work with a lad in his mid 20's. He comes from a large family from Tottenham and has several older bothers who are constantly in and out of prison. In there one of his brothers learnt from other inmates about some of the pirate radio stations. Some of them have DJ's for want of a better term that speak in such fast slang as to be not understood by anyone not familiar with it. In these broadcasts are messages to gangs about the whereabouts of rivals ect. In short they are encouraging gang violence. Nasty horrible shitee if you ask me.
Sounds like something from that 1980s movie - The Warriors
I agree with you Johnny - shall we get back on topic
Sorry for my part in de-railing it (getting off my soapbox)
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Well we're in time out here, is off topic such a concern :P
Parental influence would be a major thing I think. Anyone seen the film 'idiocracy' the first scene springs to mind in that. Just as the population gets stupider in that, the city streets get more gangsterised (my teachers disagree that this is a word, along with gangsterism)
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Back on topic ......
Emerald - Yes a Thin Lizzy themed pickup , but even more specificly Brian Robertson playing his Les Paul Custom . LP Customs had a hotter wound bridge pickup by the 1970s , hence the Emerald has a higher DC than a PAF type pickup
Cold Sweat - again Thin Lizzy, and again a Les Paul Custom but this time it's John Sykes and the sounds that he brought to Lizzy and also his work on Whitesnake's 1987 album (think Tim toyed with calling this pickup the "Badboy" after the track on the WS album before settling on the much better Cold Sweat.) I believe Sykes was using Dirty Fingers pickups in that LP Custom at one time so it's a different vibe to the Emerald. Ceramic magnet for one thing.
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Parental influence would be a major thing I think. Anyone seen the film 'idiocracy' the first scene springs to mind in that. Just as the population gets stupider in that, the city streets get more gangsterised (my teachers disagree that this is a word, along with gangsterism)
Yeah, I watched Idiocracy the other week.
I'm very much afraid there may be some truth in the basic idea - that as stupid people "breed" faster the population as a whole will get stupider on average (I didn't think the film took that idea anywhere very interesting - or funny - though).
Sorry, I'll stop now. These off-topic discussions are funny, though - in a few weeks we'll never be able to remember which thread we discussed gangstas on. :lol:
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Wonder if someone could cut and paste all those bits out into a new thread leaving just the pickup stuff?
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what pickup stuff? were you guys talking about pickups?
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Ok, I've gathered all of the updates from everyone and placed them in a new thread. I didn't mind the off topic, it was some good reading!!! Please continue...
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+1 Gwem
I like electro far more than i like rock.
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+1 Gwem
I like electro far more than i like rock.
sorry indy ;)
for those who didn't see i entered quite a long :shock: type post.
decided it was a bit too much and deleted it though. basically the point was that rock and metal musicans are into drugs and gangs too and conduct themselves pretty badly at times.
theres new music coming out all the time, we can't like all of it, but maybe its not sh!t.. just different. for example, i'm a big drum'n'bass and dubstep fan too.
(and like electro as it happens)
edit: by the way indy... JCM800 + Ibanez + Nailbomb... thats quite a RAWK rig you know. just curious as to the music you actually play these days. i remember in the 'old times' you were keen your big 80s type tones, even some talk of modern high gainness. whats brought about this change?
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What do I play? No idea... I'll make some clips one day when i get a half decent recording rig (I keep making some with my MacBook mic, but they always sound SO bad). I play a lot of big crunchy open chords, slow, intense arpeggios, some straight up rock lead guitar. There's a sound in my head, and I keep going to name bands that sound like it but there isn't any really.
I still love 80's rawk tones - i just hate the image and the style (and I'm not too keen on that whole wasp in a jam jar thinness they sometimes have). As for high-gain I like a bit of that too, but i find i get bored with it quite quickly. I'm not really very good at guitar, and it's not something i really aspire to be amazing at anymore, i just strum around when i feel like it. I'm far more suited to electronic music I think.