Ya, Anyone got a cheap Electric set, or Module, Or Pad to sell? I just wanna have some electrics on the Kit NOw lol.

Big dog harware sucks

So many people on here are always buying or "upgrading" gear. Makes me wonder if they ever actually play or practice.


Gear ain't nothin but marketing. I can't touch Buddy, Tony, or any of those guys. And they had gear that pales in comparison to even low end stuff now.

I have £210 to spend.

What shall i buy?

[QUOTE=Josiah]So many people on here are always buying or "upgrading" gear. Makes me wonder if they ever actually play or practice.


Gear ain't nothin but marketing. I can't touch Buddy, Tony, or any of those guys. And they had gear that pales in comparison to even low end stuff now.[/QUOTE]


Haha, true dat.

Question about stick breakage I didn't really wanna make a new thread for: I've been told that sticks are "meant" to break at the middle, due to rimshots. I'm fairly sure my technique is steady on the cymbals. Yet, my sticks always break away/split at the top, and I never have any chips in my sticks where I play rimshots. Am I going wrong somewhere or is everything ok?

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EDIT (to Maniac0796):How many cowbells do you have on your kit?:thumb:

You mean like a crack from near the top going down until about half way?

I get chips and whatnot from doing rimshots. Just like that picture Josiah put up ages ago.

those splits come from playing tip-on on the hihat. i get them all the time cause i love tip-on.

That's what happens to me.

this vid needs to be shown to ALL n00bs who say "how can i play faster??"

[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5246869794001101487&q=Derek+Roddy[/url]

Yeah my sticks just chip and eventually split near the top. I guess it's due to playing hi-hats with the shoulder of the stick. But I still play a lot of pretty hard rimshots and no damage to the middle of the stick.

Hmm. I think thats the Roddy video I was just watching from another thread. It's basically stating the obvious; if you play repeated strokes on a limb for an extended period of time, that limb is going to strengthen.

Genius.

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its a different one, where he emphasizes the point, FAST ISNT EVERYTHING!!

:eek: it isn't???

Well jee-zus. There goes my philosophy on drums.

Seriously though thats cool, I'll have to watch it when my PC recovers from the Thomas Lang vids it's currently running!

One of my college friends said Roddy has recently really begun to focus on jazz as opposed to his normal styles, don't know how much truth there is in that though.

Got RHCP's new album today. I like a lot. Especially how the whole thing kicks off with a bar of that good ol' hard CS groove :smoke:

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I watched Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 today.

I didn't like the second one that much. Actually, I didn't like Bellatrix or Bill at all.
They should have just made the movie about the O-Ren/Gogo/Sofie love triangle with Elle as the side f[B]u[/B]ck for O-Ren, because I think through all of that holier than thou exterior, O-Ren likes to be sexually dominated. Sofie is totally submissive, especially to O-Ren, but I think that Sofie and Gogo would make the cutest couple.
=/

I think I would make good lesbian movies.

[quote=LiquidTensionTheatre]Haha, true dat.

Question about stick breakage I didn't really wanna make a new thread for: I've been told that sticks are "meant" to break at the middle, due to rimshots. I'm fairly sure my technique is steady on the cymbals. Yet, my sticks always break away/split at the top, and I never have any chips in my sticks where I play rimshots. Am I going wrong somewhere or is everything ok?
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If you are using rimshots for backbeats (you should be shouldn't you?) then yes. The stick should be wearing from the middle area out..


If you aren't playing that many rimshots, the stick will most likely break from the shoulder down in some sort of split.

I hate American clothes.

They're all ugly =/

Walk around in lingerie. Most of it's pretty.









Man I hate slash.
There is so much of it it's not even funny. For every 100 slash stories, there is 1 femslash story, and it's written buy a fat geeky guy who hasn't left the computer chair in weeks. How can something that is so totally fricken' icky be so damned popular? =/

Haha, I should. It's hot as hell here anyway.

I almost wish I lived in London, just because it seems like all the good rave clothes are over there =/

Just attatch bungee cords your pants and wear ski goggles a lot.
Extra points for neon sex braclets up to the elbow.

[QUOTE=Antigone]I watched Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 today.

I didn't like the second one that much. Actually, I didn't like Bellatrix or Bill at all.
They should have just made the movie about the O-Ren/Gogo/Sofie love triangle with Elle as the side f[B]u[/B]ck for O-Ren, because I think through all of that holier than thou exterior, O-Ren likes to be sexually dominated. Sofie is totally submissive, especially to O-Ren, but I think that Sofie and Gogo would make the cutest couple.
=/

I think I would make good lesbian movies.[/QUOTE]I like the first Kill bill. What an odd movie.

Three cheers for the spammer posting disgusting pictures of himself. Good thing my internet is running slowly and I had time to close the page before the images completely loaded.

woo!!

im at my mums school, helping her. she told me to go chuck some stuff in the DT cupboard, so i went and did that. at the back, i saw a kinda familiar shape of a round piece of metal, and went over and pulled it out

imagine my suprise when i found a UFiP 18" crash!!

i went and asked, and noone knows anything about it, so i'm keeping it!

free cymbals ftw!!

EDIT: i have no idea on model, it looks old, feels unusually curved, and has a red logo on top, 18" crash, but on the back has "solid ride" in black??

help on ID, photos when i get home on weds

[QUOTE=Antigone]I want a Dobro. Is it a squareneck?[/QUOTE]

I don't know exactly what that means, but the back of the neck is rounded. So no?

[QUOTE=Josiah]If you are using rimshots for backbeats (you should be shouldn't you?) then yes. The stick should be wearing from the middle area out..


If you aren't playing that many rimshots, the stick will most likely break from the shoulder down in some sort of split.[/QUOTE]

I'm don't rimshot ALL my backbeats, sometimes it just doesn't feel right. I suppose if I used them all the time, then my sticks would break from the middle.

Hmm Kill Bill. I've only seen one of them. I think the first one. The one which ends with some chinese lady having part of her head cut off or something similar?

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yesterday it was 111 degrees with the humidity.

It's rediculously hot here in Wales. I'm working all this week, if we didn't have air con I would kill and eat all my fellow staff members...

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I know, i had to help my brother move to his new house in san luis obispo, CA. I drove for 3 hours to get there. My dad thought i needed the freeway experience before i got my license.

Dude, you drove for 3 hours without a license?

If you tried anything like that around here you'd get jumped on and probably sexually abused by the police. DAMN them. Can't believe the police who shot that brazilian guy 7 times in the head aren't getting charged at all. I think we here in the UK have one of the worst justice systems in the world.

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I was bored, so I decided to make lunch completely one handed.
The sandwich went well, but putting twist ties back in the lettuce and bread bags was hell. I ended up boiling my noodles dry, and they got burned to the bottom of the pan. =/

Now everything stinks.

How does porcupine tree release 20+ albums and still remain unknown in america?

[url]http://www.chuckivy.com/LiveMusic/PorcupineTree.jpg[/url]

Because Nazi's aren't cool.

Because they're called Porcupine Tree?

I quite like them =)

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Mm Porcy Tree are very popular over here in Europe, there is a band over in the US that are very similar to PT, I can't remember their name. Maybe that puts 'em off. :) No, I wouldn't have a clue tbh, not enough air time.

Their most well-known albums are In Absentia onwards, and they've released loads of remastered ones such as "Stupid Dream." An absolute classic. Porcupine Tree's best to date I think.

They're recording their next album for early next year, and their side project "Blackfield" later this year.

[I]edit[/I]: Sorry to go off point

[QUOTE=LiquidTensionTheatre]Dude, you drove for 3 hours without a license?

If you tried anything like that around here you'd get jumped on and probably sexually abused by the police. DAMN them. Can't believe the police who shot that brazilian guy 7 times in the head aren't getting charged at all. I think we here in the UK have one of the worst justice systems in the world.

~~[/QUOTE]

I have my permit and since i was with somebody over 25 years old it was all legal.

[quote=LiquidTensionTheatre]Dude, you drove for 3 hours without a license?

If you tried anything like that around here you'd get jumped on and probably sexually abused by the police. DAMN them. Can't believe the police who shot that brazilian guy 7 times in the head aren't getting charged at all. I think we here in the UK have one of the worst justice systems in the world.

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yuh, but if you were a police officer who was given the resposibility of stopping any suspicious people, when another terrorist attack could happen anytime soon, i think you'd be a bit trigger happy.

Also, the fact that he didn't stop for the police gave them the right to shoot him. . But what if he was a terrorist with a bomb? Then you wouldn't be bitching about the police and our justice system.

If you want slack law, come down west country. We've got more road than luxembourge in devon, and the police force is like, the smallest in the country.

[QUOTE=maniac0796]yuh, but if you were a police officer who was given the resposibility of stopping any suspicious people, when another terrorist attack could happen anytime soon, i think you'd be a bit trigger happy.

Also, the fact that he didn't stop for the police gave them the right to shoot him. . But what if he was a terrorist with a bomb? Then you wouldn't be bitching about the police and our justice system.

If you want slack law, come down west country. We've got more road than luxembourge in devon, and the police force is like, the smallest in the country.[/QUOTE]

I agree, I think that policeman acted in the right way- he was forced to do it.

[quote=British Boy]Ayup Phil!

I´m very much alive and enjoying myself. Got loads of new clothes today, and new Emerica shoes, and a new Savier bag. I move into my apartment in Newcastle on the 21st of August. Oh man I can´t wait. We were thinking of getting a lizard! :cool:[/quote]

Cool man. Still in byker aye? Its just down the road from the missus' place. Be cool to see you around there sometime man.

I'm so psyched for those hi-hats. I just can't wait. And i'm going to my friend's birthday party today. He was born 5 hours before i was. Pretty crazy.

[QUOTE=Antigone][url]http://www.chuckivy.com/LiveMusic/PorcupineTree.jpg[/url]

Because Nazi's aren't cool.[/QUOTE]
HAHA funny picture :p

Hey everybody.
How goes?

Theres is video evidence that Zinedine Zidane's offence in the world cup was seen differently in different countries:

As seen in germany:
[IMG]http://www.theregister.com/2006/07/13/image001.gif[/IMG]

As seen in france:
[IMG]http://www.theregister.com/2006/07/13/image002.gif[/IMG]

As seen in italy:
[IMG]http://www.theregister.com/2006/07/13/image003.gif[/IMG]

As seen in america:
[IMG]http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/13/image004.gif[/IMG]