I was thinking more passionate, she must be a really speical girl.

Wow this is a pretty cool thread, never knew what it was about but I just noticed that its been alive for weeks so I just decided to look at it. I'm Billy Condoulis born in Greece in October 1989, I moved to the US when I was 5 in the summer of 1995 and stayed with my uncle in New Hamshire for a month until I moved to my grandma's house in Brooklyn while my house was being constructed and I had to move to Brooklyn to go to school. Now I'm a junior in Fort Hamilton High School in two school bands and a rock band but I'm always looking to get into more because experience is the only thing you can't learn from books and other people. My hobbies include music friends girls and working out. When I'm not doing those or sleeping I'm on this forum or on aim or playing starcraft with friends but it gets real boring real fast because I've been playing it since it first came out. My favorite genres of music are classic rock 80's metal and system of a down. Most people who know me ussually say that I'm very laid back and I never get angry, I get agrivated sometimes(mostly with my band... their like little kids)(Well not sometimes all the time) it takes alot to get me angry and thats a good trait I guess since I'm not really passive so I won't let things go. My goals for this year are to get really good at drums, discover jazz music and win the bodybuilding show at my highschool. My motivation for the bodybuilding show isn't to be the best but rather because the compition was so bad last year that I can't let it go on, the only reason that I didn't join was because I had too much fat on me, but now I've lost about 15lbs of fat and 5lbs of muscle and I still get some more work to do but in 2 months I'll be ready to get abbs and start lifting more seriously. I've been single for about 3 months because my phone got wet and I lost the number of most my friends who I'm not close with but who hang out with alot of girls who I try to hook up with and now that I'm back in school I've accually got like 8 numbers back in 3 days of school, so thats cool.
Well that was me in a nutshell, I always have alot to say, now to check up on my Hall of fame thread

I live in Brookyln....whats your bands name? Have you heard of Black Stalyon by any chance?

No, where do you guys play, I'm in the bay ridge area
Edit: Had to put bands name its now pestilent or something always changing it used to be the city falls.

Its not my band. My brothers. I might be in it but as of now I'm not.

Do you or did you have Mr.Corn (korn)? I dunno how to spell it.

Hmmm I got neg rep'd for a joke I made in an ahead thread. DBJ is there anyway you can find out who did it, it was unsigned? I'm not going on a manhunt or anything, just plain curious, and to wonder why would anybody say that about me?

[QUOTE=Massik Kretal]Its not my band. My brothers. I might be in it but as of now I'm not.

Do you or did you have Mr.Corn (korn)? I dunno how to spell it.[/QUOTE]
As a teacher no, but I'm gonna for the jazz band and its Corn the only reason I'm not in the marching band is because I heard he's a prick, when I get my program changed I'm gonna have him though

[QUOTE=Seafroggys]Hmmm I got neg rep'd for a joke I made in an ahead thread. DBJ is there anyway you can find out who did it, it was unsigned? I'm not going on a manhunt or anything, just plain curious, and to wonder why would anybody say that about me?[/QUOTE]
If thats your setup as your avatar its pretty sweet you got specs?

Yeah hes a huge prick. Actually a small prick. :lol: Hes so short. He used to teach at my JHS i went to last year.

By that I mean he taught a long time ago. I graduated last year.

He stopped by though a couple of times. Oh man hes annoying. He thinks he knows drums. I had an emperor on the snare and there was no way I could get good rimclicks and hes like you have to work on that. It's a hard skill. And I'm like no its not. The head is just making it hard.

Also he was like you have to learn how to play the bass drum sticatto. And I'm like uhh no its tuned this way thats it. You cant play it sticatto. This is the way it is.

That jazz band practice sucked.

Dude were you the kid that was the tenor player in the marching band?
Edit: O nvm I thought you said you graduated from Fort last year what school did you go to, and oh yeah is he short, I'm short by genetics(my last name means shorty in greek im only like 5'7 5'8) and he is shorter then me

Oh okay.

I went to MArine Park I.S. 278. Now im in Brookyln Tech.

Hahaha, no its not my setup, but I could put my setup as my avatar, except it'd look to generic :P

Its my dream setup that I don't even hope to get for another 10 years or so. I'm halfway there cymbal wise, shouldn't be long til I get the rest of the cymbals, but I want to get Sonor Designers.

After I buy a car and build a nice little studio for practice and recording, so obviously the 10 years seems realistic :D

Anyway, this is the specs of the dream set:

14x6 snare (maybe deeper)
12x9 tom
14x11 tom
16x16 floor
18x16 floor
22x16 bass

14" Zildjian New Beats (already have)
22" Zildjian A Ping Ride
18" Paiste 2002 Classic Crash
18" Sabian AA Medium Crash (already have)
17" Istanbul Sultan Medium-Thin
12" Wuhan Splash (already have)

Wow, beautiful and realistic, I have that A ping ride and OMG is it great, the only bad thing is the bell isn't responsive so you really need to hit to get a good sound but you will get the metal sound, the bow is alot light so you can play jazz and it won't sound weird but my dream ride is a sabian dry ride forgot size and make either AA or AAX but I played it in greece and fell in love

[QUOTE=Massik Kretal]I went to MArine Park I.S. 278. Now im in Brookyln Tech.[/QUOTE]
Oh my friend goes there, its pretty crappy I hear, isn't Mizma held at your old school we played there and got third I'm the tuba player in the JR band well now concert, good luck in Tech. I know some kids who go there and they say all the teachers a gay, there was this one austrian gym teacher who talked like arnold the governator, that must have been a riot, I do a good arnold voice I would have been like "Good morning, it is a great day, I feel good, I feel like training, I feel like pumping up, I feel like working out, how is the situation in the gym room" then I would be like "EXUSE ME, what are you mockign me! you are stupid and you are weak!" yeah I'm a good mood not sure why get back to that tommorow short memory span im like a goldfish

[QUOTE=CombatWombat3]Alright, I asked a girl to homecoming today in a fairly clever way:

Before she got to school in the morning, I put a note in her locker that said (in collage, all of the notes were) "will you". The next note she found was 3rd period (our school has 9 periods a day). She has choir 3rd period, so I put a note that said "go to" in her choir folder, but our chior teacher was gone that day, so all thekids check in with our school secretary. Luckily, I had planned ahead and given another note to the secretrary to give to the girl (monika) when she checked, simply saying "monika, you ahve a message".

So that was the 2nd message she got. And then, 5th period, we both have English. So I taked to our English teacher a couple of days before, and he really wanted to help (he's an english teacher, a romantic/dreamy sort, possibly the favorite teacher in the school). He hands out a poem in class, but instead of giving her a poem, he slips from the bottom a piece of paper that said "homecoming with" on it.

And finally, at the end of the day, I walked down the hall with a t-shirt on that said, in big letters, "ME?" It was pretty sweet, especially because the ENTIRE school knew except for her. All day everyone was coming up to me and asking how it was going (our school is small, 270 kids), but noone let on at all to her.


(she said yes, by the way)[/QUOTE]

Haha, that's pretty sweet dude.

[QUOTE=FockerTheLopper]Oh my friend goes there, its pretty crappy I hear, isn't Mizma held at your old school we played there and got third I'm the tuba player in the JR band well now concert, good luck in Tech. I know some kids who go there and they say all the teachers a gay, there was this one austrian gym teacher who talked like arnold the governator, that must have been a riot, I do a good arnold voice I would have been like "Good morning, it is a great day, I feel good, I feel like training, I feel like pumping up, I feel like working out, how is the situation in the gym room" then I would be like "EXUSE ME, what are you mockign me! you are stupid and you are weak!" yeah I'm a good mood not sure why get back to that tommorow short memory span im like a goldfish[/QUOTE]

The school wasnt too awesome. The jazz band last year was awesome though. I was in it. :p NYSMA is held there. Whos your friend I might know him.

[QUOTE=CombatWombat3]Alright, I asked a girl to homecoming today in a fairly clever way:

Before she got to school in the morning, I put a note in her locker that said (in collage, all of the notes were) "will you". The next note she found was 3rd period (our school has 9 periods a day). She has choir 3rd period, so I put a note that said "go to" in her choir folder, but our chior teacher was gone that day, so all thekids check in with our school secretary. Luckily, I had planned ahead and given another note to the secretrary to give to the girl (monika) when she checked, simply saying "monika, you ahve a message".

So that was the 2nd message she got. And then, 5th period, we both have English. So I taked to our English teacher a couple of days before, and he really wanted to help (he's an english teacher, a romantic/dreamy sort, possibly the favorite teacher in the school). He hands out a poem in class, but instead of giving her a poem, he slips from the bottom a piece of paper that said "homecoming with" on it.

And finally, at the end of the day, I walked down the hall with a t-shirt on that said, in big letters, "ME?" It was pretty sweet, especially because the ENTIRE school knew except for her. All day everyone was coming up to me and asking how it was going (our school is small, 270 kids), but noone let on at all to her.








(she said yes, by the way)[/QUOTE]


Aww.
Quite the Romantic, aren't you?...


I would find that kind of creepy.

That is kinda wierd, some guy walkin down the hallway with a shirt that says "me" on it. I think id take off in the opposite direction hahaha.

Incase you guys missed it :cool:
[url]http://elementweb.com/upload/uploads/Jim%20short%20solo.mp3[/url]
[url]http://elementweb.com/upload/uploads/Groove%2055.mp3[/url]

[url]http://elementweb.com/upload/uploads/Jim%20ending.mp3[/url]
^^
Old school style ending

Been awhile since I uploaded anything, so I can plug em twice!

[QUOTE=Double Bass Jim][url]http://elementweb.com/upload/uploads/Jim%20ending.mp3[/url]
^^
Old school style ending[/QUOTE]

That doesn't surprise me, what with your "dated" drumming and all.

:lol:

Surprised no ones mentioned it yet, but, never forget those brave souls who departed from the towers one year today.

Not cool man, if I see that image again your getting banned.

Show some respect.

Sorry

EDIT: Oh yeah forgot to mention, your recordings were pretty cool Jim

Glad I didn't see the image, but judging from the smiley it wasn't a serious one so glad it's gone.

I worked overnight last night, and at around 3AM I was making tea and printed off the little expiration sticker for it and noticed it said 9/11/05, I had completely lost track of time and days, so it really surprised me. Subtle, but I went around the store and anything that said the date on it for that day I underlined 9/11.





ANYWAYS.
Yeah man, check out Tub Ring, they're pretty awesomen and their vibe kinda reminds me of you guys. I didn't mean you SOUND like Primus, not really at all, but that's just the most obvious comparison.



SO yesterday I bought the following:
Donnybrook - Lions in this Game (LA Hardcore)
Madball - Legacy (Kings of NY Hardcore)
Between The Buried and Me - Alaska(Effed up but extremely awesome crazy metal)
Super Troopers DVD
Office Space DVD

Donnybrook is AWESOME, great stuff.
[url]http://www.myspace.com/donnybrook[/url]

Madball being one of the 3 "reigning kings" of NY Hardcore (along with Sick of it All and Agnostic Front), are of course amazing, this CD rocks.
[url]http://www.myspace.com/madball[/url] (heaven-hell is the first single and song, GREAT lyrics)

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME.

Wow.
I'm quickly tempted to say this might easily be one of the best metal releases of the year (and I'm including every single sub-genre of metal, basically anything heavy non-MTV), nay one of the best of the year period.

The promo sticker said something along the lines of "If you thought SYSTEM OF A DOWN were strange and amazing, THE MARS VOLTA technical and awe inspiring, TOOL atmospheric yet still heavy, check out a band you probably never heard of, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME."
Not those exact phrases but you get the idea from the bands the mentioned.


This band is CRAZY, but in a cool way.
Most of it is screaming and blasting metal, but then it switches quickly to a Power Metal riff, and then into a blastbeat layered with angelic chorus, etc.
[url]http://www.purevolume.com/betweentheburiedandme[/url]


THIS CD IS AMAZING.
And I've only gotten to track 2.

Listen to "Selkies: The Endless Obsession"
Long song, but listen to the entire thing, it's such a masterpiece.

[QUOTE=CombatWombat3]Alright, I asked a girl to homecoming today in a fairly clever way:

Before she got to school in the morning, I put a note in her locker that said (in collage, all of the notes were) "will you". The next note she found was 3rd period (our school has 9 periods a day). She has choir 3rd period, so I put a note that said "go to" in her choir folder, but our chior teacher was gone that day, so all thekids check in with our school secretary. Luckily, I had planned ahead and given another note to the secretrary to give to the girl (monika) when she checked, simply saying "monika, you ahve a message".

So that was the 2nd message she got. And then, 5th period, we both have English. So I taked to our English teacher a couple of days before, and he really wanted to help (he's an english teacher, a romantic/dreamy sort, possibly the favorite teacher in the school). He hands out a poem in class, but instead of giving her a poem, he slips from the bottom a piece of paper that said "homecoming with" on it.

And finally, at the end of the day, I walked down the hall with a t-shirt on that said, in big letters, "ME?" It was pretty sweet, especially because the ENTIRE school knew except for her. All day everyone was coming up to me and asking how it was going (our school is small, 270 kids), but noone let on at all to her.

(she said yes, by the way)[/QUOTE]
Pretty funny and awsome, can't imagine that happening in my school, theres about 5000 kids there and its supposed to have 3000. It would be funny though because if your wearing a "Me" shirt you'll probably have complements from random kids in the hallway.

[QUOTE=CombatWombat3]Alright, I asked a girl to homecoming today in a fairly clever way:

Before she got to school in the morning, I put a note in her locker that said (in collage, all of the notes were) "will you". The next note she found was 3rd period (our school has 9 periods a day). She has choir 3rd period, so I put a note that said "go to" in her choir folder, but our chior teacher was gone that day, so all thekids check in with our school secretary. Luckily, I had planned ahead and given another note to the secretrary to give to the girl (monika) when she checked, simply saying "monika, you ahve a message".

So that was the 2nd message she got. And then, 5th period, we both have English. So I taked to our English teacher a couple of days before, and he really wanted to help (he's an english teacher, a romantic/dreamy sort, possibly the favorite teacher in the school). He hands out a poem in class, but instead of giving her a poem, he slips from the bottom a piece of paper that said "homecoming with" on it.

And finally, at the end of the day, I walked down the hall with a t-shirt on that said, in big letters, "ME?" It was pretty sweet, especially because the ENTIRE school knew except for her. All day everyone was coming up to me and asking how it was going (our school is small, 270 kids), but noone let on at all to her.

(she said yes, by the way)[/QUOTE]
Pretty funny and awsome, can't imagine that happening in my school, theres about 5000 kids there and its supposed to have 3000. It would be funny though because if your wearing a "Me" shirt you'll probably have complements from random kids in the hallway.

[QUOTE=Double Bass Jim]
[url]http://elementweb.com/upload/uploads/Jim%20short%20solo.mp3[/url]
[/QUOTE]



That's some rocking percussion use there!

Nice...

last night i went to a local show. i missed the first band, but i heard they sucked, so no big loss. the first band i saw a emo, so they werent too good eather.

the next band was really good, it was their drummers last show. [URL]http://www1.bandspace.com/bands/14086/music.php[/URL] for those of you who want to hear them.

then was another decent band that ive seen a few time before. their guitarest blew a tube in his amp after the first song. then after the next song, they did something else wrong. they had something like 15min. of them figuring out what they were doing after the first song and 3min. of playing.

then, last, was the whole reason i was there, [URL=www.thesuburbansound.com]the suburban sound[/URL]. unfortunatly, they blew out the PA after 2 and 1/2 songs and didnt have working mics. so they played for a good 10min. of their songs, then a 10min. improv thing whail they tried to get the mics. working. and that ended the show.

[QUOTE=Double Bass Jim]That is kinda wierd, some guy walkin down the hallway with a shirt that says "me" on it. I think id take off in the opposite direction hahaha.

Incase you guys missed it :cool:
[url]http://elementweb.com/upload/uploads/Jim%20short%20solo.mp3[/url]
[url]http://elementweb.com/upload/uploads/Groove%2055.mp3[/url]

[url]http://elementweb.com/upload/uploads/Jim%20ending.mp3[/url]
^^
Old school style ending

Been awhile since I uploaded anything, so I can plug em twice![/QUOTE]

Haha, she didnt find it creepy at all. She absolutely loved it. She kind of expected/wanted me to ask her, and since homecoming is approaching, the words "will you go to homecoming with" aren't really that out of place. Since our school is so small, everyone knew that I was doing it. She caught on that someone was asking her in the morning, so she wasn't wondering what the hell was going on.

That's a cool way to ask someone out... It's very clever.