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Malice · 25-01-2009 1:19pm

So mike65, have you put money on Everton to win this afternoon?

mike65 · 25-01-2009 1:22pm

I'll bet 10c on Everton maybe it'll work this time (just hope there is no draw).

Karl Hungus · 25-01-2009 1:25pm

DeadSkin wrote: »

Hasn't he been seen in Neachtain's a few times in Galway over the years, or did I imagine it?

Hmm, can't say I've ran into him there, but it's possible.

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

big b · 26-01-2009 3:43pm

Grilled mature cheddar on batch loaf, with a sprinkle of black pepper.

The Led Zep 4 of snacks

bigbadcon · 26-01-2009 4:00pm

http://i44.tinypic.com/28aki86.jpg

GhostInTheRuins · 26-01-2009 4:06pm

big b wrote: »

Grilled mature cheddar on batch loaf, with a sprinkle of black pepper.

The Led Zep 4 of snacks

That's not bad. A personal favourite of mine: Sweet chille sauce spread on a slice of batch, get some chicken over that and then tons of cheddar cheese, top it off with some pepper and grill the life out of it. Feckin' yum

Karl Hungus · 26-01-2009 4:08pm

bigbadcon wrote: »

http://i44.tinypic.com/28aki86.jpg

I saw that earlier, it's quite just one of the most simple, yet absolutely genius things I've seen. Flat out broke my noise hole laughing.

damonjewel · 31-01-2009 2:33am

Since the dawn of time it was written in the stones that if you like Rock then you must also have a go at playing some instrument, I myself play Guitar and Bass and I am currently in a band. A quick glance at the instruments fora and you will see that the same names posting here are posting over there. it almost seems inherent that if you like rock you can at least pick out smoke on the water, albeit badly.

Or is it? I'd love to know are the Rock fans (metal fans in particular) that have absolutely no interest in playing whatsoever and couldn't give a stuff about beginning to try. Knowing a chord or two rules you out.

Fried egg sandwich for me by the way Big B!

Acacia · 31-01-2009 2:40am

Jaysus, this is random- a discussion about soccer on the rock&metal forum!

:pac:

Anyhoo, to answer the above post, I play bass but I'm terrible at it...well, out of practice, really.

Creature · 31-01-2009 3:05am

This thread makes me hungry but also makes me want to listen to Queen. An interesting connundrum.

DenMan · 01-02-2009 8:35pm

Been very impressed by what I have been hearing from the new Sirenia album, The 13th Floor. Has anybody any info as to their tour dates for this year as I am sure they will be touring for it. Morten's page or the myspace link don't have anything up yet. Would love to see them live. Supposed to have been brill at last year's Masters of Rock Festival in the Czech Rep.

DenMan · 01-02-2009 9:16pm

Going to Romania in August because of this:

http://www.last.fm/event/895245#lineup

:D:D

GLaDOS · 02-02-2009 1:45am

damonjewel wrote: »

Or is it? I'd love to know are the Rock fans (metal fans in particular) that have absolutely no interest in playing whatsoever and couldn't give a stuff about beginning to try. Knowing a chord or two rules you out.

I used to play piano, got my first 2 grades actually! But quit after I started secondary school. Tried to get back into it, but much like my attempts at learning guitar, I just didnt have the patience

So currently I have absolutely no musical talent whatsoever

Malice · 03-02-2009 12:37pm

damonjewel wrote: »

I'd love to know are the Rock fans (metal fans in particular) that have absolutely no interest in playing whatsoever and couldn't give a stuff about beginning to try. Knowing a chord or two rules you out.

I'd say that unless someone takes up an instrument as a child, it's very unlikely they'll pick one up as an adult and even if they do it's unlikely they'll master it to the degree that they would like. Jobs, relationships and other real-life things have a way of sucking up all your available free time

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DenMan wrote:

Going to Romania in August because of this:

http://www.last.fm/event/895245#lineup

That looks like a pretty sweet line-up (out of the bands I know anyway). Someone's mentioned Eluveitie on there as well but I've no idea what the context is. If they play I would highly recommend them!

MoominPapa · 03-02-2009 12:57pm

F*@K?*G W0&K!!!!!!

GhostInTheRuins · 03-02-2009 3:00pm

Lads, anyone know any good sites for buying CDs from? I usually get my stuff from either play.com or ebay, but ebay are a ripoff and play don't have some stuff I've been looking for lately.

Any ideas/alternatives?

Malice · 03-02-2009 3:18pm

MoominPapa wrote: »

F*@K?*G W0&K!!!!!!

Are you upset because your wok is broken or something?

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Lads, anyone know any good sites for buying CDs from? I usually get my stuff from either play.com or ebay, but ebay are a ripoff and play don't have some stuff I've been looking for lately.

Any ideas/alternatives?

I use CDON (it's great for Scandinavian stuff) and EMP Online quite a lot. Often though, especially for more obscure stuff, your best bet is the band's own website or MySpace page.

GhostInTheRuins · 03-02-2009 5:36pm

malice_ wrote: »

I use CDON (it's great for Scandinavian stuff) and EMP Online quite a lot. Often though, especially for more obscure stuff, your best bet is the band's own website or MySpace page.

Cheers! I used to use CDON a lot but I couldn't remember their name today (I could remember the CD part but could only think of cdwow

). The thing about them is you need to buy loads of stuff at once because of their shipping costs.

Never used EMP before, will check it out!

damonjewel · 03-02-2009 7:59pm

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Lads, anyone know any good sites for buying CDs from? I usually get my stuff from either play.com or ebay, but ebay are a ripoff and play don't have some stuff I've been looking for lately.

Any ideas/alternatives?

I always use Ebay, but I search worldwide, with the euro strong against both Dollar and sterling I have found it very good value. I have never had any issues finding stuff and believe me I search for very obscure 70's prog.

Going to the bands website is usually a good idea as most bands will have a 'merchandise' section but you'll pay the full whack (at least it goes to the band! and not Richard Branson etc). Failing that I have found being part of a band fan-usergroup has helped. Just bang a post out to the user group and someone should be able to come up with at least a second hand copy for you.

damonjewel · 03-02-2009 8:01pm

MoominPapa wrote: »

F*@K?*G W0&K!!!!!!

Is that a statement or an order!

fecking snow more like, god its miserable oul slush

GhostInTheRuins · 03-02-2009 8:19pm

damonjewel wrote: »

I always use Ebay, but I search worldwide, with the euro strong against both Dollar and sterling I have found it very good value. I have never had any issues finding stuff and believe me I search for very obscure 70's prog.

Yeah I know what you mean, I've bought a good few bits and pieces from ebay in the last few months due to the exchange rate. You'll always find some great bargains but 90% of the time when you think you've found a little gem they try to rape you with ridiculous shipping costs. That's why I'm really getting sick of buying stuff from it.

Passenger · 03-02-2009 8:53pm

Who's planning on moseying over to HELLFEST in France this year?

Line-up looks good.

DenMan · 03-02-2009 9:38pm

Maybe we should organise a Boards Metalfest. The Hellfest and Rock City gigs look brilliant. I'd be up for that.

MoominPapa · 03-02-2009 11:47pm

Heres a great way of working through your work related anger management issues - go home at 3 avoiding gridlock and build a snowman, then drink a bottle of half decent wine - works a treat

OK-Cancel-Apply · 04-02-2009 12:56am

+1 here for Hellfest. Let us definitely organise a boards thing.

Passenger · 04-02-2009 12:59am

HELLFEST

Bands confirmed so far

Manowar, Heaven & Hell Anthrax, Amon Amarth, Stratovarius, Sacred Reich, The Misfits, Destruction, Devil Driver, Epica, Gorgoroth, Enslaved, Napalm Death, Cathedral, Backyards Babies,
Entombed, Kylesa, Aura Noir, Parkway Drive, Heaven Shall Burn, God
Forbid, All Shall Perish, Suicide Silence, Mad Sin, The Business,
Electric Wizard, Outlaw Order, Grand Magus, Torche, Orange Goblin,
Wolves In The Throne Room, Melechesch, Holyhell, Gama Bomb, Misery
Index, Whitechapel

And apparently these are too but yet to be confirmed:

Keep Of Kalessin, Taake, Moonsorrow, Deicide, Girlschool, Kataklysm, Motley Crue, Megadeth, Dream Theater, Nightwish, Down, WASP, Pestilence, Aborted.

DenMan · 04-02-2009 6:09pm

Looks like we are all in agreement.

Hellfest looks fantastic and I hope Nightwish perform as I desperately want to see them live.

GhostInTheRuins · 04-02-2009 11:42pm

Passenger wrote: »

HELLFEST

Bands confirmed so far

Manowar, Heaven & Hell, Anthrax, Amon Amarth, Stratovarius, Sacred Reich, The Misfits, Destruction, Devil Driver, Epica, Gorgoroth, Enslaved, Napalm Death, Cathedral, Backyards Babies,
Entombed, Kylesa, Aura Noir, Parkway Drive, Heaven Shall Burn, God
Forbid, All Shall Perish, Suicide Silence, Mad Sin, The Business,
Electric Wizard, Outlaw Order, Grand Magus, Torche, Orange Goblin,
Wolves In The Throne Room, Melechesch, Holyhell, Gama Bomb, Misery
Index, Whitechapel

And apparently these are too but yet to be confirmed:

Keep Of Kalessin, Taake, Moonsorrow, Deicide, Girlschool, Kataklysm, Motley Crue, Megadeth, Dream Theater, Nightwish, Down, WASP, Pestilence, Aborted.

Nobody can deny that that is a simply brilliant line up.

Karl Hungus · 05-02-2009 12:36am

Nightwish · 05-02-2009 11:40pm

I just want to say that one of my favourite bands split up today. After Forever are no more...I'll be in mourning for about a day

DenMan · 05-02-2009 11:56pm

And twenty minutes ago I was only listening to Two Sides. Why would that happen I wonder? They have (had) a huge deal with Nuclear Blast Records. Doro Pesch performed with them too. A sad day indeed.

GLaDOS · 06-02-2009 9:17pm

For those who havent seen, Blind Guardian featured in the game sacred 2, pretty decent song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fakNlghOJY

Passenger · 06-02-2009 11:51pm

What're yiz up to for the weekend? Any exciting metal-related shenanigans planned?

Malice · 07-02-2009 10:13am

Passenger wrote: »

What're yiz up to for the weekend? Any exciting metal-related shenanigans planned?

The strings on a couple of my guitars need changing. If I get really bored I might get around to doing that, otherwise it's like doing laundry. I avoid it until there's no choice but to get it done

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OK-Cancel-Apply · 07-02-2009 1:37pm

malice_ wrote: »

The strings on a couple of my guitars need changing. If I get really bored I might get around to doing that, otherwise it's like doing laundry. I avoid it until there's no choice but to get it done .

You wild and crazy thing! :P

Passenger · 07-02-2009 4:27pm

OK-Cancel-Apply wrote: »

You wild and crazy thing! :P

Hey Metalhead's clothes need washing too y'know.

Malice_ wrote: »

The strings on a couple of my guitars need changing.

What kind of guitars you got Malice??

Malice · 07-02-2009 4:40pm

Damn right we need our clothes washed every so often! As it turns out I'm off to the pub shortly to divide my attention between the rugby and the Portsmouth v Liverpool game.

Passenger wrote:

What kind of guitars you got Malice??

Wooden ones

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Seriously though, I have the following:

Yamaha Spanish Acoustic
Mitchell Steel Stringed Acoustic
Squier Precision 4 String Bass
Peavey Predator (Dodgy 7 string guitar)
Fender Deluxe American Series Strat
Ibanez K7
Ibanez K5

I spend most of my time playing the last two. I fell in love with the sonic possibilities of 5 string basses and 7 string guitars a few years ago so I made sure to get myself one of each

.

There are pics buried in the Instruments forum somewhere.

Passenger · 09-02-2009 12:48am

Nice, big KoRn fan though I see.

Malice · 09-02-2009 9:19am

Passenger wrote: »

Nice, big KoRn fan though I see.

The funny thing is, I'm not really much of a Korn fan. Sure I have a bunch of their albums but I wouldn't go out of my way to see them in concert or anything like that.

I happened to play a K7 a couple of years ago courtesy of Mr. Hungus when I was about to take the plunge on another guitar and I loved it so it was a no-brainer when one became available. The K5 was purely a GAS-attack. I had been giving the idea of picking up a 5 string bass some serious thought and when I saw the K5 on Ishibashi I had to pick it up. Rent and electricity bills be damned!

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DenMan · 15-02-2009 6:09pm

Just to let everyone know that the official Tristania website will be up and running tomorrow (February 16). Can't wait.

http://www.tristania.com/

Malice · 15-02-2009 7:58pm

DenMan wrote: »

Just to let everyone know that the official Tristania website will be up and running tomorrow (February 16). Can't wait.

http://www.tristania.com/

Are they revamping it to promote a new album or something? Also, I see that Vibeke Stene left the band after the release of their last album in 2007. Have you heard the new singer?

Nightwish · 15-02-2009 8:08pm

I've heard the new singer (Mary) and she's ok. I dont like her singing the old songs. IMO she butchered Angina and Beyond the Veil. She's good when singing the stuff from Ashes and Illumination.

DenMan · 15-02-2009 8:21pm

Yep, bang on there Nightwish. She is good, but she is no Vibeke. Had wanted to make the Wacken gig this year as they will be performing but tickets went in no time. Let's hope they will have other dates lined up in the near future.

Malice · 16-02-2009 11:02am

Nightwish wrote: »

I've heard the new singer (Mary) and she's ok. I dont like her singing the old songs. IMO she butchered Angina and Beyond the Veil. She's good when singing the stuff from Ashes and Illumination.

That's good to hear, thanks for that. Hopefully there won't be a schism among Tristania fans the same way there was with Nightwish when Anette replaced Tarja

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Pollythene Pam · 22-02-2009 3:13pm

I like the mosh pit.

Pollythene Pam · 22-02-2009 3:16pm

great website. Kept me amused for hours. Keep up the good work.

GhostInTheRuins · 23-02-2009 11:59pm

Anyone get any nice new albums lately?

I'm just after getting a huge big pile of cds from a guy I haven't seen in a long time, mostly Nightwish and Dream Theater stuff. I've wanted to get into Nightwish properly for a while now. More importantly, I hope I'll be able to rekindle my interest in Dream Theater again :cool:

Nightwish · 24-02-2009 12:45am

I got Sirenia's new album the 13th Floor. The token new singer is pathetic. Good music though, if a little formulaic.

GhostInTheRuins · 24-02-2009 1:03am

Nightwish wrote: »

I got Sirenia's new album the 13th Floor. The token new singer is pathetic. Good music though, if a little formulaic.

That's unfortunate. I don't know a lot of their stuff but the one or two of their songs I've heard were good.

I was just checking out their wiki page, the new singer was a contestant on xfactor, that can't be a good sign.

Nightwish · 24-02-2009 1:07am

She was on the Spanish xfactor. I wouldnt mind all that stuff, if she were a good singer, but true to Morten Velands recent form, he wouldnt know a good singer if she vomited on him.

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