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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: TomW on June 11, 2007, 06:53:08 PM
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Did anyone else here go to Download? If so what were your highlights?
I thought Iron Maiden were outstanding as were Machinehead who I have never really listened to before, as I'm not really into really heavy music. Machinehead really got the crowd going and played brilliantly. Motley Crue, Velvet Revolver, Dream Theatre and Megadeth were also very good. :twisted:
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Dream theatre tone wise were amazing which shocked me as i hate petruccis tone normally
slayer megadeth and machine head were easily the highlights of it for me
one thing that ruined it was hangar 18 with drover..... i hate his lead tone plus megadeth should well have had more than 50 mins
i also had fun watchign the emos get slaughtered in the aiden pit by all the slayer/MH fans that went down early to get to front for there bands.
the stupid thing is those aiden pits were more aggresive than the MH & Slayer ones....
overall awesome weekend apart from the fri and sat headliners
oh yeah and the toilets.... :x
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haha yea the toilets were disgusting, I didn't think slayer were all that good, they didn't really get the crowd going, and they didn't play angel of death :x
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Chose not to go due to exams and stuff - But heart Maiden were great as allways.
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haha yea the toilets were disgusting, I didn't think slayer were all that good, they didn't really get the crowd going, and they didn't play angel of death :x
Yeah i was gutted that they didnt play angel of death.
But compared to there set i saw at download 05 they were shite hot lol/
Did you see bowling for soup?? they were awesome as always
and YES I LIKE BOWLING FOR SOUP
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Exams??? I went last year and I had A2 Maths on Monday morning so :P You did the right thing though.
I missed out Dream Theater because I was at the front from 1:30 right til the end of Maiden at 10:30 :twisted:
I too thought Slayer was rubbish. I was like, "huh, is that it?" when they finished. I thought Megadeth was good but the last song dragged on a bit. They should have just played Holy Wars straight.
Highlights for me were Korn, Lamb of God, Velvet Revolver and Iron Maiden. It was great on Friday when everyone was leaving main stage to go see Korn in the DD stage. Korn played amazingly and the crowd was so into it the atmosphere was fantastic. To say that tent was overfilled would be an understatement. Sweat steam was condensing and dripping from the ceiling! I later heard that MCR got bottled and left the stage early :twisted:
I heard the chant "if you're emo and you know it slit your wrist *clap*clap*" all over the place throughout the night :lol:
and yeah the toilets are legendary!! The trick is not to look down...
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:o Dream Theater? :o
What did they play?
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I later heard that MCR got bottled and left the stage early :twisted:
I heard the chant "if you're emo and you know it slit your wrist *clap*clap*" all over the place throughout the night :lol:
Haha, i would have placed a lot of money on that happening.
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aiden also got a shower of bottles from the entire audience the second they stepped foot on stage but they actually stood there and took it and seemed to be enjoying it
one thing i will give them is his speech of
if you like us then thankyou we appreciate you being here and if you dont then this is 30 minutes of your life that you are never gonna get back.
i dont even like aiden but his spirit was good and the pits were hilarious
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I didnt go because I thought most of the bands on the line-up were a bit shite. Watching a download of the Maiden web-cast though, and its really good so far :D
Loving their tone, is it the Hot Rails that they use in the bridge position of their strats (except the one with a full size 'bucker obviously!)
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Loving their tone, is it the Hot Rails that they use in the bridge position of their strats (except the one with a full size 'bucker obviously!)
If I remember correctly, Dave Murray uses 3 Hot Rails in his Strats, Janick uses JB Jrs in his, and I think Adrian uses a fullsize Dimarzio humbucker (Super D?) in his.
It's been a while since I read up on Maiden, but that's what they were using last time I checked :)
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Did anyone else find it annoying that Velvet Revolver played Guns n Roses songs? Sure they have Slash I think it's a backward step for him to play his old band's songs. It didn't sound right without Axle Rose anyway.
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Nah I really liked their cover of Mr. Brownstone, I thought Scott Weiland did a great job of singing it.
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Did any of you go see current Kings Of Metal - Mastodon? I bloody hope so.
haha yea the toilets were disgusting, I didn't think slayer were all that good, they didn't really get the crowd going, and they didn't play angel of death :x
bar-stewards never played it at Reading last year either!! :(
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YES!!! At the front :twisted: Mastodon was awesome. Played most of my fav songs so I was very happy. Blood and Thunderrrrr.
Another spot of awesomeness was Paparoach I really enjoyed their show because I was really into them when I was in high school. I don't like their new stuff though. The singer (forgot his name was it Jacob?) really got the crowd going.
I think Slayer played Angel of Death at Leeds Fest btw. Heh it looks like we might have had a better set :wink:
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Mastodon $%&#ing own at the moment. I wish I could've gone to Download this year, really really fancied it, but four words are taking me back to Reading:
Friends
The Smashing Pumpkins
BOOYEAH!
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Mastodon #$%!& own at the moment. I wish I could've gone to Download this year, really really fancied it, but four words are taking me back to Reading:
Friends
The Smashing Pumpkins
BOOYEAH!
see yu there :D pumpkins are gonna own. Always wanted to see em live
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Snap! After seeing Alice In Chains last year, to have another of my all-time favourites reuniting is pretty boneriffic.
But yeah... Download... metal... RAAARGGGHHHHH!!!! *chugriffs*
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Just started watching a download of the Velvet Revolver webcast, sounds really good so far, even better tone than Maiden, and the first song "Let it Roll" is really good :D
edit - LazyNinja what are you on about, the GnR covers are great. I want this tone, its $%&#ing awesome. Looks like a wall of some kinda Mesas behind Dave (that hollowbody he's playing looks great as well!)
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lol ok tom it's just my opinion and I wasn't saying Slash's tone (or anyone else's) was bad. I just felt it's not the same without the iconic voice of Axle Rose, as much as I hate the guy he's a big part of GnR equation. They played it well I agree but I was just referring to the band's mentality which I thought was backward. I guess it was festival and they were crowd pleasers.
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Oh don't tell me Dave's joined the generic Mesa crew now. :(
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He had some kind of Green-grey tolex and tan grill combos stacked up. Oh and I don't think he used his signature green Fernandes.
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DON'T USE MESA'S, DAVE, STAY WITH BOGNER!!
According to Dave's official site, he's been experimenting lately with the Mesa Stiletto Ace 2x12 and Lonestar 4x10 so it was probably them.
Also, my detective skills lead me to believe that - even without seeing a photo to be sure - the semi-hollow that he used MAY HAVE BEEN the sexual Yamaha Troy Van Leeuwen model - the SA503TVL - as Dave has commented on how awesome it is in the past:
(http://www.yamaha-europe.com/picture_archiv/products/10_Musical_instruments/guitars_basses_amps/electric_guitars/sa503TVL_medium_jpg.jpg)
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lol ok tom it's just my opinion and I wasn't saying Slash's tone (or anyone else's) was bad. I just felt it's not the same without the iconic voice of Axle Rose, as much as I hate the guy he's a big part of GnR equation. They played it well I agree but I was just referring to the band's mentality which I thought was backward. I guess it was festival and they were crowd pleasers.
Yeah I know what you mean.. I thought they sounded better than the STP song, even with the "proper" singer :lol:
And yeah Mr Ed, that isnt the guitar he was using, I think he's using a normal gibson 335 or something..
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Ah yes, it seems to be, I managed to find a photo, albeit a teeny one, but it looks like a regular 335. Lame.
Although, I was suspect of the bridge, so I found another:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/images/2007/06/09/download_2007_ja_fri_2583_460x345.jpg)
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/images/2007/06/09/download_2007_ja_fri_2584_460x345.jpg)
And yup, it's definately got a Bigsby on it so it's not just bog-standard.