I'll have a look into that.
For some reasons, I always feel homeade slides (or at least ones you didn't buy) sound a wee bit better than the ready made ones.
Just my opinion. :)

[QUOTE=i_am_Jimmy_Page]I've always wanted to try a 5 string bass, there are a few reasons I could never get one though:
I don't have enough money to throw away at an instrument I'm not that good at, and don't play primarrily.
I already have a 4 string bass, allthough not very good, it has a decent(ish) range of sounds.
I can play my bassist's for free :p.[/QUOTE]

Heh, fair enough. He was a bassist in one band first, and then wanted to try guitar (which ended up with being in another band, I think). He didn't go out and buy multiple guitars, though; the 'electrocoustic' and the newest one he's bought just in the time I've known him (since October).

[QUOTE=IAJP]Wow, flashing the cash eh?[/QUOTE]

Reduced from £600 for various reasons.

[QUOTE=IAJP]Do you know what specific model he got? Was it Electrocousic or just Electric?[/QUOTE]

Electric - the acoustic was significantly less, and was bought a few months ago. I think the new one is a Yamaha Aes820, but that's just what I managed to get out of the hurried reply he gave me when I asked what it was.

[QUOTE=IAJP]
I know, I know.
<insert Harry Enfield sketch here>
I pretty much get it all the time, Liverpool isn't a bad place...If you're local that is, if you were from Manchester and came here strutting your stuff, chances are...[/QUOTE]

My dad grew up in and around Liverpool (well, close), I think, for the first five or six years of his life at least. I'm not at all sure why though; his parents were from up around Newcastle, and moved back there after a few years. Not sure if he was joking.

My flatmate, being from Widnes, kinda views both Liverpool and Manchester with apathy - if he goes to Liverpool everyone treats him as if were from Manchester, and vice versa.

[QUOTE=AntiHero3314]/me whores Sputnik reviews

I would appreciate your comments and feedback there, thanks :)

[url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=2138]30 Seconds to Mars- "30 Seconds to Mars"[/url]

[url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=2134]Vertical Horizon- "Everything You Want"[/url]

Good night, all. I have to get up early for another presentation tomorrow.

Hope you're well.[/QUOTE]

(a)

Just ignore the second and third-to-last sentences. Comments appreciated, even if you hate the site.

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So I went to an exhibit at another college to check out the Petra exhibit.

Here is a link: [url=http://www.calvin.edu/petra/]Petra exhibit[/url].

It was for extra credit, which is something I desperately need for this class.

Well, I have to say, I thought it was going to be boring as hell, but it was actually rather interesting. The inhabitants there were extremely skilled and crafted out various aqueducts and things... and all the channels expanded for miles and miles. I guess it's comparable to the Incans and the Mayans and their developments, even though the city was founded in the 14th century-ish.

Anyways, it was just cool. It wasn't discovered until the 19th century, so to go for over five-hundred centuries without being located on a map, especially of a city with such an amazing construction (everyone was built out of the cliffs in modern-day Jordan).

Unfortunately, the entire city was struck with a devestating earthquake in 363 AD, and so all that's left are the artifacts at said exhibit. I also learned about the lost wax method of sculpture.

I was just really surprised.

[quote=Bartender]I think the new one is a Yamaha [b]Aes820[/b][/quote]

lol moderator

[QUOTE=Bartender]Heh, fair enough. He was a bassist in one band first, and then wanted to try guitar (which ended up with being in another band, I think). He didn't go out and buy multiple guitars, though; the 'electrocoustic' and the newest one he's bought just in the time I've known him (since October).



Reduced from £600 for various reasons.



Electric - the acoustic was significantly less, and was bought a few months ago. I think the new one is a Yamaha Aes820, but that's just what I managed to get out of the hurried reply he gave me when I asked what it was.



My dad grew up in and around Liverpool (well, close), I think, for the first five or six years of his life at least. I'm not at all sure why though; his parents were from up around Newcastle, and moved back there after a few years. Not sure if he was joking.

My flatmate, being from Widnes, kinda views both Liverpool and Manchester with apathy - if he goes to Liverpool everyone treats him as if were from Manchester, and vice versa.[/QUOTE]
Wow, the Aes is a decent enough guitar I should say, I want a twelve string acoustic Yamaha so bad right now...It's like the only kind of guitar I'm missing, I have an electric, a Bass, an Acoustic and an electrocoustic. Maybe (deffinitley:p) for my birthday.

And I can see what you're saying, Widnes is kind of "Neither here nor there" it's a cool place though, from what I've seen of it. :)

Question: What's the general opinion on people from Manchester? Because one of my brother's faltmates didn't seem to think too highly of them :-/

[QUOTE=munky_magik]Question: What's the general opinion on people from Manchester? Because one of my brother's faltmates didn't seem to think too highly of them :-/[/QUOTE]
To be honest, and I hope to God no-one in here is from Manchester, I don't really like them.
Generally speaking, they are incredibly loud, in your face, and raucous. I've had bad experiences, mostly to do with football, with them.


And no, I don't support Everton (But that was funny... :p )

Hello people :wave:
So I just came back from the shops with:
The Clash-The Singles
David Bowie-The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars
Queen-Live at Wembley Stadium
:cool:

Nice :)

I haven't gone bought anything for ages :(

[QUOTE=munky_magik]Question: What's the general opinion on people from Manchester? Because one of my brother's faltmates didn't seem to think too highly of them :-/[/QUOTE]

To be honest, my experience with Mancs?/Mancunians? is limited. I've met some, but I've never spent any decent amount of time in Manchester that wasn't just catching a plane out of there. To me Manchester is just one of many vague southern cities that I know little about.

They make some good music occasionally, though.

Nice to see a Bowie fan.
:cool:
And yeah, I have that Clash Album, it's decent enough, and the Clash are possibly (maybe excepting the Stooges) the only Punk band I like.

[QUOTE=AntiHero3314
Also, just stop it with the "Oh, my posting has been challenged by the community, everyone's pointing the finger at me" horsesh[font=]it. Stop whining. Apparently nobody picked up in the last thread that I was mocking people who say this, so let me be very direct: if you took that seriously, well, I don't know how to respond to that.[/font]

In essence, I'm glad that things are progressing towards a healthier community. Yeah, there will still be the sporadic idiot posters, but again, they can be ignored. However, if the thread starts regressing towards a spamfest, I would be all for deleting not only this thread, but the first one as well, as opposed to closing them and keeping the posts. Just stop whining about how you think everyone's out to get you. No one is questioning your integrity, we're all trying to be on the same page, so seriously, just stop taking what people say about you on a friggin' Internet forum to heart so much.

[/QUOTE]

You are aboslutely right. I shouldn't have been whining last night, and I regret it now.

I'd much rather have this be a place where discussion goes on, instead of pages and pages of posts with no substance.

I'm going to work on posting more meaningfully.

On a side note, I downloaded Quicktime and saw your latest video, dude.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]Birmingham, is it?[/QUOTE]

Nope, more to the right. Think Leicester/Nottingham area if you're familiar with them (Nottingham does own the greatest gig venue in the known world)

[QUOTE=munky_magik]Question: What's the general opinion on people from Manchester? Because one of my brother's faltmates didn't seem to think too highly of them :-/[/QUOTE]

Like the music from there, hit and miss. Some people are ok, and others are horrible pieces of work

(usually the ones wishing to leave fall into category 1)

Trent Reznor released Nine Inch Nail's new single as a Garageband score, allowing fans to remix and mess with it. I am thinking about doing this. I think Cain should too, because I know for a fact he uses Garageband.

This post should be a Pit thread...
 

So I'm done with the California State Standardized Testing...actually I just gueesed on all of them, I wasn't in Geometry for the whole year so I forgot most of all the crap that was on there. So I got done early, of course, and I had my lunch with me (because we had a short brunch period before testing). I finished my Coke and pretzels and went to throw my trash away. As I was in the process of throwing the crap away, my teacher (Geometry teacher) told me to sit down. I said "why, I'm throwing my crap away" and he said "that's it, get out of here". So, I gladly obliged.

So after I walked around for the past half hour or so, walking of campus, etc...I visited my old Biology teacher and here I am now. This has been a weird day.

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]
Like the music from there, hit and miss. Some people are ok, and others are horrible pieces of work

(usually the ones wishing to leave fall into category 1)[/QUOTE]

I can only think of good bands/artists from Manchester, or from most places, actually. Except maybe The Stone Roses. I suppose I just never find out the origins of bands I don't like as much as those I do. Which bad bands that I might have heard come from there?

Not really bands, more like albums now that i think about it.

Oasis being the prime example. Elbow are another. Inconsistent.
When they're good, they're good. When they're bad.....


Now I realise there isnt that many bands from Manchester that spring to mind straight away. Hmmm

Hmm are oceansize from manchester? I have a feeling they are, but it may be Liverpool

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]
Oasis being the prime example. Elbow are another. Inconsistent.
When they're good, they're good. When they're bad.....[/QUOTE]

I was counting Oasis as "good", since they've had good albums. They just also had really bad ones, yeah.

[QUOTE=AJIG]Now I realise there isnt that many bands from Manchester that spring to mind straight away. Hmmm[/QUOTE]

Apart from those already mentioned, I had Happy Mondays, Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, (most of which I don't actually like that much, but I can see how many do like them). I had some more too, but I can't think of them.

EDIT: Maybe Simply Red. I think they (or at least the main guy) were from Manchester.

Im completely hopeless of knowing where bands come from at the moment. MTV2 is having a new music week, and im being bombarded by new bands from all over the place. Having a hard enoguh time remembering band names, let alone locations

I have no idea I'm afraid.
What kind of music do they play?

[QUOTE=Bartender]


Apart from those already mentioned, I had Happy Mondays, Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, (most of which I don't actually like that much, but I can see how many do like them). I had some more too, but I can't think of them.

EDIT: Maybe Simply Red. I think they (or at least the main guy) were from Manchester.[/QUOTE]

When someone says 'Manchester', I usually think of 100s of bands that I could name from there. Then I forget all but 2. My memory needs work

Oceansize - quality prog stuff..I compare them to pink floyd/radiohead/incubus

Definateley worth checking out their album effloresce.

Sounds good.
I'll have to check some of their stuff out.

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]Im completely hopeless of knowing where bands come from at the moment. MTV2 is having a new music week, and im being bombarded by new bands from all over the place. Having a hard enoguh time remembering band names, let alone locations[/QUOTE]


MTV2 is annoying the hell out of me lately. I used to watch it because of Headbangers Ball and the Viva La Bam reruns, but their new format is annoying as hell. They're trying too much to be "funny" like FUSE.

Is fuse available in the UK, what channel on sky digital?

[QUOTE=Bartender]

I haven't gone bought anything for ages* :(

[/QUOTE]

*days ?

Whoa, it's actually cloudy out here; the weather here for the past two months has been either

a) Windy as hell
or
b) Sunny and hot as hell.

Screw California. I hope it godda[size=2]m[/size]n rains.

NP: In Flames-Bullet Ride

[QUOTE=ICB]Whoa, it's actually cloudy out here; the weather here for the past two months has been either

a) Windy as hell
or
b) Sunny and hot as hell.

Screw California. I hope it godda[size=2]m[/size]n rains.

NP: In Flames-Bullet Ride[/QUOTE]

Don't worry, 3,000 miles away the same thing is happening. It was mid 80's a couple days ago along with hot and sunny, now it's 50's with clouds/rain.

[QUOTE=lunch998]Don't worry, 3,000 miles away the same thing is happening. It was mid 80's a couple days ago along with hot and sunny, now it's 50's with clouds/rain.[/QUOTE]

I swear, man. I don't know why I stay here.

Oh, yeah, it's because of the music scene. Da[COLOR=White]m[/COLOR]n you, awesome Claifornia metal scene!

[QUOTE=ICB]I swear, man. I don't know why I stay here.

Oh, yeah, it's because of the music scene. Da[COLOR=White]m[/COLOR]n you, awesome Claifornia metal scene![/QUOTE]

We have crap weather and a crap music scene.

Sorry for you, buddy. This time of the year is usually when it gets really windy here, and I hate it. The wind sucks, especially when it's blowing at about 35 miles per hour. The rest of the year, it's triple-digit temperatures for us...

[QUOTE=lunch998]We have crap weather and a crap music scene.[/QUOTE]

:eek:

What about the 9:30 club? They have amazing concerts. I am going to see Porcupine Tree there in a few days.

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]:eek:

What about the 9:30 club? They have amazing concerts. I am going to see Porcupine Tree there in a few days.[/QUOTE]

True, but those places are few and far between. The local scene in Annapolis is lame.

Merriweather is cool too.

[QUOTE=lunch998]True, but those places are few and far between. The local scene in Annapolis is lame.

Merriweather is cool too.[/QUOTE]

I like the 9:30 club because they have good bands, it's small so you are very close to the stage, and the tickets are always $10-20.

[QUOTE=Superpeer]*days ?[/QUOTE]

*thinks*

Nope, actually ages. A couple of weeks at least.

I haven't bought a CD since...

December, I think. Money doesn't come by easy for me.

[QUOTE=Bartender]*thinks*

Nope, actually ages. A couple of weeks at least.[/QUOTE]

Define "ages".

I hate being at a CD shop without having money to buy CDs.

[QUOTE=lunch998]Define "ages".

I hate being a CD shop without having money to buy CDs.[/QUOTE]

You hate being a CD shop?

[QUOTE=Bartender]*thinks*

Nope, actually ages. A couple of weeks at least.[/QUOTE]

Impossible, I vividly remember you buying "Fresh fruit..." and Hüsker Dü amongst others, can't have been weeks ago.

PS: I uploaded a Dandy Warhols track for you in the YSI if you missed it.

I'm out now. :wave:

[QUOTE=ICB]You hate being a CD shop?[/QUOTE]

:lol:

I don't know if I would hate, actually.

Well, later everyone. :wave:

[QUOTE=ICB]You hate being a CD shop?[/QUOTE]

*at a CD shop

You know what I meant :angry: