For those about to chat...

slavetothegrind

meshuggah fans only i think!

I have enough trouble with six strings still fair play to ya boy!

Must pick one up sometime is it not really uncomfortable for the fretting hand with the neck so wide?


side note picked up a floorpod for 50 euro on adverts there, bit of a bargain! :-)

Max Power1

Malice wrote: »

I was wondering where this thread had disappeared off to.

Acceptable necro-thread?

Somnus

Max Power1 wrote: »

Acceptable necro-thread?

It's just for general chat though. It's good to have a place to post random bits and pieces that aren't big enough for their own thread

rednik

A couple of supergroups, one that could have been and one that could still happen,

Malice

Links234 wrote: »

or how about this one malice?

'cos you totally need that 1 more string

God damn it I must resist the GAS attack that picture is giving me!

slavetothegrind wrote: »

is it not really uncomfortable for the fretting hand with the neck so wide?

It takes a bit of getting used to but once you are used to it you can pick up a six string guitar and marvel at its narrow neck .

Nailz

How come nobody told me that Sleep were playing tomorrow!? Argh! Fuck sake, there's no way I can head down to it now...

Angron

Nailz wrote: »

How come nobody told me that Sleep were playing tomorrow!? Argh! Fuck sake, there's no way I can head down to it now...

I rely on Dublin Metal Events on FB and last.fm to figure out when most concerts I'd like are on, otherwise I'd miss loads

Nailz

Denny M wrote: »

I rely on Dublin Metal Events on FB and last.fm to figure out when most concerts I'd like are on, otherwise I'd miss loads

I have Dublin Metal Events added to my Facebook too, but I rarely ever look at it, which is ultimately a bit pointless, isn't it? I might start looking at it a bit more now, cheers for that!

Knifey Spoony

Nailz wrote: »

How come nobody told me that Sleep were playing tomorrow!? Argh! Fuck sake, there's no way I can head down to it now...

I'm heading down to it myself. Have one more exam left, coming up on Friday, but there was no way I was gonna miss this.
Can't wait to see them. Never thought that I woud get the chance to them, nevermind here in Ireland.

Jemmaa

Nailz wrote: »

I have Dublin Metal Events added to my Facebook too, but I rarely ever look at it, which is ultimately a bit pointless, isn't it? I might start looking at it a bit more now, cheers for that!

http://dublinmetalevents.com/mailing-list?PHPSESSID=4c2d0314554ca7bfc6eeefd18fffc7fe

dr.bollocko

Nailz wrote: »

How come nobody told me that Sleep were playing tomorrow!? Argh! Fuck sake, there's no way I can head down to it now...

You...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuqEbRzy_t8

Can't get no sleep?

Links234

DrumSteve

Can anyone point me in the direction of some good Dream Theatre... Individually all amazing musicians, but musically I really can't stand them!

dr.bollocko

DrumSteve wrote: »

Can anyone point me in the direction of some good Dream Theatre... Individually all amazing musicians, but musically I really can't stand them!

Can't stand em.
The most interesting thing I have seen about dream theatre is their guitar set up.

Just all seems kinda juvenile to me.


/runs for cover.

Angron

I don't have an issue with Dream Theater so much as I do with prog in general. Bar Opeth (and that's only the stuff prior to the last album) I don't like it, I find it kinda.. Long-winded I guess is the term.

DrumSteve

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Can't stand em.
The most interesting thing I have seen about dream theatre is their guitar set up.

Just all seems kinda juvenile to me.


/runs for cover.

Yeah his guitar set up is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD7ZnJdi2rY

Somnus

DrumSteve wrote: »

Can anyone point me in the direction of some good Dream Theatre... Individually all amazing musicians, but musically I really can't stand them!

What albums have you listened to so far?

I would recommend:
Images and Words: A classic
Awake: (My personal favourite, great musicianship but also great songs. I think they nailed everything on this album)
Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory: Kinda considered their magnum opus. Concept album, and it is fantastic, but just doesn't have the special something Awake has IMO.
Train of Thought: Their most "metal" album. It's technically heavy and I suppose it could be considered wankery to an extent, but I think it's full of great tunes.

Most of those albums are different enough, so you could check out each there. I would go with Awake just because I f*cking love it! It has an amazing atmosphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6SjyRLKy70

Jemmaa

Knifey Spoony

And for another rock/metal related meme/comic:

Max Power1

Now im at a loss as to who to vote for in the AOTW!!

Malice

Max Power1 wrote: »

Now im at a loss as to who to vote for in the AOTW!!

Let's fix it so Kess's votes for Sisters of Mercy don't win .

Max Power1

Malice wrote: »

Let's fix it so Kess's votes for Sisters of Mercy don't win .

Haha what did he do to you then!

Malice

Max Power1 wrote: »

Haha what did he do to you then!

Nothing yet, it was just the first thing that popped into my head .

dr.bollocko

http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/Who_tickets_from_1979_to_be_honored_in_Providence.html
hehe.

Kess73

Malice wrote: »

Let's fix it so Kess's votes for Sisters of Mercy don't win .

Malice

Jemmaa

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2012/Aug/GALLERY_Inside_Steve_Vais_Harmony_Hut_Studio.aspx

Somnus

Jemmaa wrote: »

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2012/Aug/GALLERY_Inside_Steve_Vais_Harmony_Hut_Studio.aspx

Great pictures. That is some collection. Cool to have the little bits of info on the different guitars and such.

Nailz

Look at the Michael Angelo Batio set up in the centre of the big wall, a hugh purple hard as the body... Cheesy as fuck!

Schism

I need the help of metal peoples!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehsl1bpEInQ&t=1m21s

That's a link to The Exorcist by Possessed, at a certain point. I know some other band has used this exact riff but for the life of me I can't remember who. I've been trying to think of it all week, anyone able to put me out of my misery?

old gregg

Watching the Olympic closing ceremony thing last night and the celebration of 50 years British music, etc., and some part of me hoped that acknowledgement would be made as to the huge contribution classic British metal has made to modern music. Nothing. An entire genre written out of the story. Not surprising given that folks into metal encounter the same on a regular basis. Sad though.

Angron

I was surprised by just how bad Jessie J singing "We Will Rock You" was.

Malice

I lasted about half an hour watching it. Once that woman who sang the first song re-appeared I'd had enough.

dr.bollocko

Jessie J singing with Brian May.... That was pretty unforgivable.

Links234

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcuoaqdJ9w

Somnus

Links234 wrote: »

Weird al shreds

Totally got me :P

Links234

Malice

Anyone know what the one on the bottom left is?

Mr. CooL ICE

Malice wrote: »

Anyone know what the one on the bottom left is?

(i think)

Malice

I've no idea who he is but it's "Clay Aiken" according to the image filename so that's good enough for me .

Mr. CooL ICE

Well if this post was anything to go by, Clay Aiken is too brütal for you, but not brütal enough for me

Malice

Ah but if you were properly brutal you'd have spelt it br00tal instead of using the dated 80's metal umlaut .

xerces

So I see there's a shiny new Classic Rock forum now.

And in other news, it seems the regular R/M poster Jemmaa has closed her a/c :-(

Max Power1

xerces wrote: »

So I see there's a shiny new Classic Rock forum now.

And in other news, it seems the regular R/M poster Jemmaa has closed her a/c :-(

On the first point.. we already have a rock forum, I predict that forum will die a slow death.

Second point - Lets all have a celebratory beer (jokes)

Knifey Spoony

I'm not sure if this classic rock forum is sitting right with me just because discussion of the genres that I like are going to be split over these two forums now.

Can we still post about classic rock stuff here, or will it be shipped off to the other fourm?

Angron

Shame to see Jemmaa gone, that's 3 people I talked to regularly enough close their accounts in a few weeks.

Malice

With regard to the new Classic Rock forum, as far as I'm concerned this forum will continue to operate in exactly the same way. The new forum was created by an admin who doesn't post in this forum, who refused my repeated attempts to meet in the middle to see how we could make this forum more rock-friendly, who refused to acknowledge the opinions of the users of this forum, who declined to provide any sort of guidance on whether this forum should become metal only and who even repeatedly refused to properly define Classic Rock as a genre.

Denny M wrote: »

Shame to see Jemmaa gone, that's 3 people I talked to regularly enough close their accounts in a few weeks.

Okay, whatever you're saying to this people please stop!
Out of curiosity, who else has closed their accounts?

Links234

speaking of classic rock, here's some boc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo2Aypi0R2c

Angron

Malice wrote: »

With regard to the new Classic Rock forum, as far as I'm concerned this forum will continue to operate in exactly the same way. The new forum was created by an admin who doesn't post in this forum, who refused my repeated attempts to meet in the middle to see how we could make this forum more rock-friendly, who refused to acknowledge the opinions of the users of this forum, who declined to provide any sort of guidance on whether this forum should become metal only and who even repeatedly refused to properly define Classic Rock as a genre.

Okay, whatever you're saying to this people please stop!
Out of curiosity, who else has closed their accounts?

:pac:

Leeg17 and Jammstar, I talked to them a bit on the nocturnal forum.

Mr. CooL ICE

Denny M wrote: »

:pac:

Leeg17 and Jammstar, I talked to them a bit on the nocturnal forum.

Noticed this too. He organised the fantasy league in the MMA forum. Damn him!