** The Random Shred Chat Thread **

[Resiliance]

Heh, wonderfully illustrated I must add.

[paddyo]

^Lol after watching that video suddenly I can see where Sam Totman's point of view originated. :p:

[Righteous]

Haha, yeah I saw that video a few days back, pretty damn funny!

[Stratwizard]

:haha that was funny!

[Godly Moose]

I loved that! There should be more music mixed with comedy.

[mexican_shred]

so here has a CD called the Alchemist! it has 25 songs with 25 differnt "shred" artist like david martone,Bubmlefoot, Cooley, Stephen ross etc.
And who here has anymore stuff by mario Parga if they know of him..


oh and im back to ug shred forum after a ug break yay!

[Godly Moose]

I've found it many times looking for albums by Thal in the past. Thought of buying it but decided not to.

[pavan]

Merry Christmas shred forum !

[TheUltimateSin]

Merry Christmas shred forum !

Indeed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC3sZB-v7Q

[2112swartz]

haha

[paddyo]

Still an hour to go here but Happy Christmas/Saturnalia/Kwanza/o
ther midwinter festivel! :D

[hepzibahbaptist]

Indeed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC3sZB-v7Q
Dude I love tourniquet.

[Freepower]

Merry Christmas.

Deftones and Mount&Blade. Oh yeh.

[Righteous]

I still got 9 hours untill christmas day... drat! Just finished shopping though :)

[mr_clapton]

mmm a few more Frank Zappa cds to add to my collection

[hepzibahbaptist]

nice
how come the perfect circle avatar doesnt form a perfect circle?

[PooKoo]

yay g love, the shins, burn to shine dvds, garden state, donnie darko, bela fleck live, and it's not even christmas yet.
and of course, awesome shirts and money.

[Righteous]

nice
how come the perfect circle avatar doesnt form a perfect circle?
Because you touch yourself at night.

I got to open two presents early, I got a planet waves JS guitar strap (blue one...), and a good planet waves 10 foot chord.

[paddyo]

MMMmmmm Digitech whammy....MMmmmm Govan....Mmmmmm Christmas dinner. :)

Ahhh...

[Beckerism]

Kleenex?

[Freepower]

Jazz Theory Book, Reaching for the Uncommon Chord, Meshuggah's "Nothing" and The European Real Book (C version)!

+ Chocolate and book tokens and 50 quid. And PG album soon! :D :D :D

[NevermorePsalm]

Got the PG album! (hah, I BEAT FREEPOWER...DAMN HIS COPY OF EROTIC CAKES!) Sony Cybershot, Ipod Nano, Vai zip up, a random zip up, plaques, posters, razor and shaving cream, boxers. yeah. I had a good christmas.

[Resiliance]

Spoilt brats!

[Erc]

I got boxers, 2 jackets, a TSO shirt, a Wavemaster XXL standing bag (woot!), FF7, and my sister made me a marshmallow gun 0_o

EDIT --> And the book "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

[Godly Moose]

My sister got me a Esteban acoustic. Not the best acoustics, but it's my first acoustic so yay. And got $300 cash(USD).

[pavan]

Spoilt brats!

+1
:(

[Righteous]

I got a lot of stuff, but namely a garden gnome.

[pavan]

I got exams :(

[paddyo]

Spoilt brats!
Dude I get like, **** all during the year! And besides...the gift of music in any form is unmatched, wouldn't you agree?

[Resiliance]

Dude I get like, **** all during the year! And besides...the gift of music in any form is unmatched, wouldn't you agree?

Don't even try :p:

[Righteous]

What'd you get then? (to our mod fellow)

[paddyo]

But meestoh! Theenk of duh moosicul kihds! :p:

[SnowballofDoom]

Yellow Matter Custard DVD, Boss DD-3 Delay, Muse's Absolution, Elton John's Greatest Hits, and a replica of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story.

:D

Ed: And Twilight Princess for Gamecube.

/happy snow

[Resiliance]

What'd you get then? (to our mod fellow)

Nothing :(

Oh how disadvantaged I am :p:

[paddyo]

^Or atheist?(I'd use the tongue out smiley but its been used like 100 times on this page..mostly by me or Res)...


Only a joke by the way man, you know that. ;)

[Righteous]

I also got an opium scented incense, gotta love my hippiness :p:

My french exchange student got my mom a gay guy porn calender :liplick:

And I got a Steve Via t-shirt, along with much else still... yay for spoilidity!

[garden of grey]

^ lol those incense never smell like the real drug. That also would destroy the point of incense anyways if it did.

[Freepower]

Pah, i ain't spoilt. Speaking of which, still need to get the wife something... :eek:

[Righteous]

You have a wife?

[Beckerism]

Slang for the gee ef.

[Righteous]

More like slang for sister...
ooooo!
Yeah, I said it.

[insideac]

Hey guys! You have all probably forgotten me since i first joined in 2005, but I used to come to the shred forums alot. I left for a few months, and came back....but I didnt come back to this section of the forums, and stayed in the metal forum. Im back here now though, so hi to everyone!

[Resiliance]

Hey guys! You have all probably forgotten me since i first joined in 2005, but I used to come to the shred forums alot. I left for a few months, and came back....but I didnt come back to this section of the forums, and stayed in the metal forum. Im back here now though, so hi to everyone!

Traitor :(

[pavan]

Hey guys! You have all probably forgotten me since i first joined in 2005, but I used to come to the shred forums alot. I left for a few months, and came back....but I didnt come back to this section of the forums, and stayed in the metal forum. Im back here now though, so hi to everyone!


I am back here after a hiatus myself, nothing has changed here.

[Beckerism]

Hey guys! You have all probably forgotten me since i first joined in 2005, but I used to come to the shred forums alot. I left for a few months, and came back....but I didnt come back to this section of the forums, and stayed in the metal forum. Im back here now though, so hi to everyone!

I remember your avy. :p:

[PooKoo]

hah if anyone spoilt it's me, i've got like, 600 dollars now.
Noone in my family knows what to get me, so they all give me money, and my dad's trying to make up for leaving my mom, so he gave me a lot of money.
Anyways, besides that, burn to shine kicks ass. Anyone else heard of it?

[The Virtuoso]

^Lucky, I don't know how much money I'll get but its sure to be less than $100, on the bright side I got my first pedal, a Behringer Ultra Metal Um100, and a really nice smelling cologne.
Nope Haven't heard it, who plays it?

[insideac]

I remember your avy. :p:


Woot! Haha I remember you calling me Traitor, Resi :haha. Im back now folks dont worry ^_^. Whatd I miss? lol

[PooKoo]

It's a thing my uncles friend (drummer from fugazi) set up, he gets a bunch of bands from a city, finds a condemned house, and has each band play one song in the house. They film it all, and then the house gets burned down. It's really a work of art, I've met the guy too, he's pretty crazy.

No bands you guys'd like though, most likely.

[eviledge87]

i finally got Yngwie's first cd. i was kinda disappointed, not as fast as id hoped, the acoustic stuff on it is great. The really quiet recording makes me wanna kill something though.

[paddyo]

No bands you guys'd like though, most likely.


Oh really? Too good/bad for us mummy? :p:

[Resiliance]

Oh really? Too good/bad for us mummy? :p:

It's probably some punk band...

Humbug.

[Righteous]

So random shred chat... I was watching a home video from a while ago and I was just standing there and took off my pants then walked away... random. And one time I beat up my dad with sockembopems or something like them, I feel kinda bad about it now...

[paddyo]

Hookay then...





...:haha

[Resiliance]

You were watching a home video from a while ago?


Ahahahah. You weirdos and your narcissistic habits!

[Godly Moose]

I haven't seen home video of my self in ages.

[NevermorePsalm]

I know insideac. He did acoustic necrophagist covers. So I <3 him.

[Righteous]

You were watching a home video from a while ago?


Ahahahah. You weirdos and your narcissistic habits!

How is that a narcissistic habit? Just homely and showing our French exchange student our past.

[insideac]

I know insideac. He did acoustic necrophagist covers. So I <3 him.


Aww thanks <3 :cheers:

[PooKoo]

Oh really? Too good/bad for us mummy? :p:

Too mainstream/indie (odd combo, i know), for most of you probably.
umm, mostly local indie bands, a couple local punk bands, but usually very pretty stuff, some great dc based bands on the dc set, and great portland bands on the portland one.
Portland one's got a band made of 10-12 year old girls that are really good, as well as a rap group.
Only bands off it I've actually heard of before were Sleater Kinney, The shins, Wilco, Ted Leo, and The Decemberists (absolutely amazing performance, whether or not you like them).

[The Virtuoso]

^I've heard of The Decemberists, they are pretty good (granted I heard them a long time ago). I think I would like some of the bands that you listed.

[PooKoo]

The shins are pretty amazing on it, sounds like old school british pop. Great harmonies.
Decemberists had:
A violinist,
And Accordianist
A guitarist/singer
A standup bassist (bowed also)
A mandolinist
And a drummerist playing with them.
And it was amazing.
About 7-8 minute long song?

[mexican_shred]

^sounds great!

its pookoo. i havent seen you for a while

[Righteous]

Only bands off it I've actually heard of before were Sleater Kinney, The shins, Wilco, Ted Leo, and The Decemberists (absolutely amazing performance, whether or not you like them).
Sleater Kinney! I don't know their music but I know I live right near the street where they got their namesake. Olympia, WA is where it's at, yo!

[PooKoo]

yeah i know, i haven'tbeen on much.

and very cool ^

[insideac]

Werent you banned before, Pookoo? I was sad for that :(

[NevermorePsalm]

yesh he was. couldn't remember why. but yesh he was.

[insideac]

I dont remember you, Nevermore :(

[Righteous]

He's relatively knew. I'm not really new, but I'm not prevalent at all. Don't post much ya know...

[insideac]

Yeah..the only people I really remember are Pookoo, Resi (from before he became a mod), Freepower, and uh..Master of Shred.

[Righteous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZpLH2Gfj1U&NR
How does he do that???????

[Boghead]

Yeah..the only people I really remember are Pookoo, Resi (from before he became a mod), Freepower, and uh..Master of Shred.

I wonder what happened to old MOS...
Ive been browsing these forums since it came out but like righteous I'm not
prevalent at all. I just sit back and enjoy the discussions and I've learnt a lot over these past 5 years. I guess what I'm trying to say is thank-you people for being
so informative and for being kind enough to share it. I've grown a lot as a musician.
Man if only I could buy you people some beer :p:

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

[paddyo]

wonder what happened to old MOS...
....
...



...




OOOOHH REEEEESSSIIIIIIII! Care to elaborate on this gripping tale? :p:

[PooKoo]

I wonder what happened to old MOS...
Ive been browsing these forums since it came out but like righteous I'm not
prevalent at all. I just sit back and enjoy the discussions and I've learnt a lot over these past 5 years. I guess what I'm trying to say is thank-you people for being
so informative and for being kind enough to share it. I've grown a lot as a musician.
Man if only I could buy you people some beer :p:

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

ah i know you man, i've seen you around a lot, don't worry.

[Freepower]

Man if only I could buy you people some beer...

Mail order me some whisky, i'll accept that.

And resi, is there a tale to relate? I thought he just generally buggered off after posting a few pics of him with his suhr (and wedding ring?) and people stopped taking him seriously...

[Beckerism]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZpLH2Gfj1U&NR
How does he do that???????

I think the real question is how did he do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d5ac-cD0L4

[Prophet of Page]

And resi, is there a tale to relate? I thought he just generally buggered off after posting a few pics of him with his suhr (and wedding ring?) and people stopped taking him seriously...

The hands on his pics with the Suhr looked entirely different from the hands in his pic with the Vigier, just as a little more information.

Multiple accounts, that's why he's permabanned.

[Resiliance]

OOOOHH REEEEESSSIIIIIIII! Care to elaborate on this gripping tale? :p:

And resi, is there a tale to relate? I thought he just generally buggered off after posting a few pics of him with his suhr (and wedding ring?) and people stopped taking him seriously...

Aaaaaaaah, well... No, not really.

The fake Suhr pics really had nothing to do with it, I had long known he was a little plagiarising asshole, I just didn't have the mod powers to enforce anything until some six months ago, so I promptly permabanned his little pathetic ass...

And surprise, surprise... Never heard from him since, not on MSN, not on SU, not anywhere.

Ahh, I love the smell of confession in the morning.

Oh yeah, and as Tom said, he had a host of multiple accounts I found using my nifty mod tools.

Besides, he looks like some gaylord pimp.

[PooKoo]

i'm still curious as to where he stole his songs from.

[Freepower]

Yeh, a few were nifty.

[pavan]

i'm still curious as to where he stole his songs from.

Probably from some Dutch forums?

[Resiliance]

I've discovered quite a few of "his" recordings on various forums - mostly dutch.

Funny thing is... I didn't like any of them anyway.

[insideac]

Yeah...Its a shame. I always thought he was cooler than that.

[Stratwizard]

Yeah, and his latest jazz tune was stolen from a guy on DMusic.

[pavan]

Bah
Lets forget him
Move on

[Righteous]

Did he even play guitar?

[pavan]

Fretless

[Godly Moose]

Fretless

Oh I remember that... like every week he would say he's getting either some new Suhr, or Vigier. :angry:

[The Virtuoso]

Whoa, I remember when you guys used to be all buds and stuff and just now do I find this about MOS, crazy!

[Resiliance]

I doubt anyone was "buds" with him.

[paddyo]

^Yeah I was about to say that...

[Righteous]

I'm not really buds with any of you guys :-/ Oh well...

[SnowballofDoom]

Ew! A hippy!

[insideac]

I'm not really buds with any of you guys :-/ Oh well...


:( Aw

[Godly Moose]

I'm not really buds with any of you guys :-/ Oh well...

It's cause' I'm too cool for ya' right? :cool:

[Righteous]

Ew! A hippy!
:grrr:

:( Aw
:sad:

It's cause' I'm too cool for ya' right? :cool:
:haha

[insideac]

WHY RIGHTEOUS, WHY!?!?? :cry:

[Prophet of Page]

I'm not really buds with any of you guys :-/ Oh well...

You could be if you didn't live on the other side of the world....

And I only remember MOS being a ****, I don't think anybody liked him.

[paddyo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2DZGZ9AYA&mode=related&search=

The similarity to Yng is amazing. His picking hand is even remarkably similar!

[Resiliance]

Pretty ridiculous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWU8sp6Xd4&mode=related&search=

This guy smokes him.

[paddyo]

Mmhm He was the only one I thought was decent... The rest are terribly unoriginal.

[Resiliance]

What about the winner? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYNjlsGEPg&mode=related&search=

[paddyo]

Oh. I thought I'd seen them all. Watching now. :)

EDIT: :haha I stand corrected. Very much him too.

[The Virtuoso]

Thought was pretty cool, and the comments say he is similar to Guthrie Govan. Is that true? If so, I have to check out Govan some more.

[public property]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlITKPhPmsY#GU5U2spHI_4
this is a clip of a show I saw him at...be warned the video gets drastically out of time with the music.

[PooKoo]

He's actually really good. wow. Even the entire song is ripped from gg.

haha scratch that, i hate it when he tries to play fast. Sounds so bad.

[Freepower]

Hey, Resi, why not enter this year?

I have a feeling the prize would outweigh the price of a plane ticket. ;)

[garden of grey]

lol, why is insideac banned now?

Also, check out godly mooses thread in the pit. There are some pretty awesome comics there.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j73/gnr5999/comic10ag5.gif

[Resiliance]

Hey, Resi, why not enter this year?

I have a feeling the prize would outweigh the price of a plane ticket. ;)

I wouldn't like being judged by people who I think suck ass. :p:

[Stratwizard]

What about the winner? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYNjlsGEPg&mode=related&search=

He plays a JEM, of course he won! Duh...

[Freepower]

lol, why is insideac banned now?

Yeah, how come, resi?

As for Godly Moose...

(OVER NINE THOUSAND!)

[Scorzerci]

For having a warning from a while back and spamming (6 posts) in a reported thread.
I did the dirty. I didnt want to ban him but he posted SIX times in a reported thread, SIXX!! ...and he already had a warning from way back

And it was all "lol butzezcks ghey uR gna get pwnddd" kinda stuff which makes me want to push my finger through my eye, into my brain and put my face on a hob.

[Boghead]

I wouldn't like being judged by people who I think suck ass. :p:

bahh you're too modest, what do they judge you on anyway?

Ive always wanted to be in one of those :( , I suck atm so hopefully in 2009 :D

[Resiliance]

bahh you're too modest, what do they judge you on anyway?^

Their own ****ed up standards - exactly the reason I refuse to take part in so vile a competition.

It's a competition. About music.

What?

[Boghead]

Ahh I see...

[NevermorePsalm]

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/mattdigsmusic/blankrlyfffsfsfsfs.gif

[Resiliance]

I didn't have to see it to know that.

Anyway, thanks to Pavan's last.fm personal radio, I've found a new cool artist... One that was born 20km from where I live! Belgians rule!

Ahem... Nicholas Lens. Weird operatic rock stuff... But I like.

[Erc]

^ you should link =)

[Resiliance]

Well ****, sorry for assuming people here have even the tiniest speckle of initiative, it's not like you're doing me a favour by listening to it therefore I should supply everything... http://www.nicholaslens.com/

Listen to the Flamma Flamma samples. Bunch of babies. :p:

[Erc]

pfft you know we're all lazy here ^_^

[Resiliance]

pfft you know we're all lazy here ^_^

Seriously though, I've been noticing the absolute incredibly DISGUSTING laziness people tend to display... It pisses me off.

And it's also a lack of respect and a real bigass fluorescent sign of immaturity. :peace:

I'm speaking in general, by the way.

[insideac]

I'm back! Thanks bo <3

[TheUltimateSin]

and a real bigass fluorescent sign of immaturity.

You noticed too huh?

[waylay00]

*Random*

Well, after a very long vacation, I'm back, and hope to be posting frequently here again.

Anything happen here from now back to July?

[splice]

same here


im dippin snuff. you yankee bastards probably don even know what that is

[metalmaster362]

im just wondering, has any1 here ever tried to make a sweeping arrangment of get out of my yard

[splice]

im just wondering, has any1 here ever tried to make a sweeping arrangment of get out of my yard



no :(


but ive tried snuff and its ****ing brilliant

[Righteous]

So my friend bought a PS3 today for some reason while we were out shopping for pants (hellz yeah!) and it's tight.

[eviledge87]

you bought a PS3 while shopping for pants? that's amazing, that's even better than me trying to find a cd for my (ex)ladyfriend and instead oredering a megadeth and yngwie cd. cause im an asshole like that

[metalmaster362]

you bought a PS3 while shopping for pants? that's amazing, that's even better than me trying to find a cd for my (ex)ladyfriend and instead oredering a megadeth and yngwie cd. cause im an asshole like that

no wonder shes your ex

[insideac]

im just wondering, has any1 here ever tried to make a sweeping arrangment of get out of my yard


I made a sweeping shred arrangement of Stairway to Heaven :haha

[metalmaster362]

hahaha id like to see the tab for that one

[Righteous]

you bought a PS3 while shopping for pants? that's amazing, that's even better than me trying to find a cd for my (ex)ladyfriend and instead oredering a megadeth and yngwie cd. cause im an asshole like that
I didn't, my friend bought it. It has amazing graphics and the games we were playing were the early games, the graphics can only get better! Resistance is the sweetest game since Halo, maybe even better than Halo.

[Stratwizard]

Well ****, sorry for assuming people here have even the tiniest speckle of initiative, it's not like you're doing me a favour by listening to it therefore I should supply everything... http://www.nicholaslens.com/

Listen to the Flamma Flamma samples. Bunch of babies. :p:

He's got actually some really good music. Especially the stuff on Amor Aeternus.

[Resiliance]

He's got actually some really good music. Especially the stuff on Amor Aeternus.

What's that supposed to mean :mad:

[Stratwizard]

Nothing... :angel:

[Resiliance]

saxaxe has turned into an emo pitmonkey metalhead.

RIP.

[bigfatbassman]

What do you guys make of shredding on bass? i.e Billy Sheehan. This may have been covered already, if so, i'm sorry, but im lazy and could severely not be assed trawling through loads of posts. Cheers.

[PooKoo]

It can be incredibly inane (sheehan,imo), or it can be incredibly great, as many many fusion players (i'll let resi take this one, i really don't many bassists outside wooten and pastorious.)

[paddyo]

What do you guys make of shredding on bass? i.e Billy Sheehan. This may have been covered already, if so, i'm sorry, but im lazy and could severely not be assed trawling through loads of posts. Cheers.
Then there's no point in you being here. It doesn't take long. Go on now..

[Ben Jammin]

It can be incredibly inane (sheehan,imo), or it can be incredibly great, as many many fusion players (i'll let resi take this one, i really don't many bassists outside wooten and pastorious.)

Billy Sheehan is a great musician.

Really, music boils down to personal taste, evaluated on a piece by piece basis. For example, I don't absolutely adore everything I've heard by Pastorius or Coltrane or Holdsworth, yet they are among my favorites.

One has to make a commitment to cultivating a personalized style based on what one wants to express as an individual. In my opinion, preconceptions of what any given style or instrument should do only hinder the process.

[pavan]

What do you guys make of shredding on bass? i.e Billy Sheehan. This may have been covered already, if so, i'm sorry, but im lazy and could severely not be assed trawling through loads of posts. Cheers.

I dont like just shredding, I like it when bassists use the bass in more harmonical context, like what Jaco was famous for. I personally love the bass myself, there are lots of amazing players out there - Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke, Thierry Mineau, Kai Eckhardt to name a few.

Cheers.

[Erc]

Bass shredding (just like all things in music) has its place.

[flyingVai]

I learn a lot of guitar stuff from reading online articles and stuff, I was wondering if anyone knew of any sites that gave lessons on 80's style rock/metal including writing riffs similar to that era's. Anyone know of any?

[PooKoo]

Billy Sheehan is great musician.

Really, music boils down to personal taste, evaluated on a piece by piece basis. For example, I don't absolutely adore everything I've heard by Pastorius or Coltrane or Holdsworth, yet they are among my favorites.

One has to make a commitment to cultivating a personalized style based on what one wants to express as an individual. In my opinion, preconceptions of what any given style or instrument should do only hinder the process.
Oh i know, I love a lot of his solo work, but i find a lot of his "shred" solos, especially with vai, quite useless, to listen to at least. Lots of fun to watch, and I'm sure it's hella cool to see live.

[Righteous]

I've always liked bass being played the way Sheehan does, it's always interesting to hear solos on instruments other than guitar in a band, like piano or drum solos too.

[Erc]

The soundtrack to shadow of the colossus is brilliant.

http://bluelaguna.net/music/shadow-of-colossus-ost-soundtrack/mp3s.php

^ Give some of the battle themes a listen, it's quite enjoyable.

[The Virtuoso]

^Yeah it is, I just recently bought it :), and I'm at the sixth colossi. Good buy if you are into games.

[bigfatbassman]

I dont like just [I]shredding[/I


Nor, do I. I like all aspects of bass playing, its just shredding on bass is often condemned by many musicians, not me it must be said, and i was just interested to see what the folks on here's opinions on the topic are. I have a lot of time for it, but I also have a lot of time for the likes of Stu Hamm's melodic/chordal work, Jaco's general ownage and Victor Wootens superb technique. Thanks.

[pavan]

Nor, do I. I like all aspects of bass playing, its just shredding on bass is often condemned by many musicians, not me it must be said, and i was just interested to see what the folks on here's opinions on the topic are. I have a lot of time for it, but I also have a lot of time for the likes of Stu Hamm's melodic/chordal work, Jaco's general ownage and Victor Wootens superb technique. Thanks.

Anything done with taste, I like.

I've been wanting to acquire a fretless bass myself

[bigfatbassman]

^^Yeh man, i tried a standard series fender jazz bass fretless and it was well good. And i agree, tastefullness is essential. Though i make an exception in Billy Sheehans case because he was the first of the "virtuoso" bassists (i.e Jaco, Wooten, Marcus Miller etc), that i was introduced to, so i have a bit of a soft spot for him, however i will admit he occasionally sacrifices musicality for sheer crowd pleasing antics. But hey, can't blame the guy! Anyway, yeah fretless adds a whole new dimension to my bass playing. Totally different sound and adds an extra challenge in playing.

[Godly Moose]

Since this is the random chat I just heard a Muse song called, "Knights of Cydonia" and really liked it, could anybody recommend any of their albums to me?

[Resiliance]

Hit up Freepower, he likes them, for some reason...

[SnowballofDoom]

Absolution or Origins of Symmetry, imo. But yeah, FP's your best bet as far as recommendations.

[The Virtuoso]

Definitely Absolution, that is a must buy, FOR SERIOUS!

[insideac]

I remember when I first signed up to UG, the Shred forum was the place to be...the thriving populous :(

[The Virtuoso]

^Yeah its been slow lately :(

[Freepower]

Since this is the random chat I just heard a Muse song called, "Knights of Cydonia" and really liked it, could anybody recommend any of their albums to me?

Um, well... That song's completely different from most of their output, it's much more transparent rock. I think Origin of Symmetry is far and away their best album, but then again, it's nothing like Knights of Cydonia. Showbiz is brilliant if you dig relatively quiet, but intense songs - although it's not bereft of stompers either.

Absolution is so-so, imo. The start down the line of blunt lyrics and OTTnes at the expense of believability. But as you can see, plenty of opinion divided on that one. I'd reccomend, tbh, checking out some more of their stuff before doing anything!

http://www.muse.mu

Go down to media (bottom left) and click up some albumage. :) Enjoy!

[Resiliance]

^Yeah its been slow lately :(

Are you serious?

[The Virtuoso]

Well I mean yeah, back when I first signed up, well my brother, I would come in here all the time but I had dial-up so I couldn't just browse freely and all because well dial-up sucks . You, freepower, apoc, sgrocker, and a bunch of other people I would see regularly, and I would read through everything. Now that I have DSL, I come and hardly see you guys when I can finally start to, and well to me its been sort of slow imo. You say otherwise I assume?

[paddyo]

^Well...yeah. :)

[Resiliance]

Yeah... Sounds like a case of dial-up - DSL illusion of slowness :p:

[Freepower]

We do seem to have very few cool threads in the informative, educative, or just innovative sense. :(

[Resiliance]

We do seem to have very few cool threads in the informative, educative, or just innovative sense. :(

Just like it's always been...

[Freepower]

Pah, its no excuse. The cleverest, most educated, brilliantist forum here, and the closest we can come to a great thread is the "technique thread".

Which, tbh, could probably be distilled into 10 pages of basic info.

Theres nothing around to learn any more. :( I like learning. :(

[Resiliance]

Pah, its no excuse. The cleverest, most educated, brilliantist forum here, and the closest we can come to a great thread is the "technique thread".

Which, tbh, could probably be distilled into 10 pages of basic info.

Theres nothing around to learn any more. :( I like learning. :(

Then provide teh newbies with things to learn :)

[Freepower]

*irritated mutters*

Fine.

[paddyo]

^It's either keep it like this and wait for a cool thread to come along, or...



and this isn't an option btw...I'm just being polite..








Sex/"hot chicks"/gay/funny story thread....




Someone try it. Go on. I ****ing dare ya. ;)

[Freepower]

Well this one time i was having sex with two hot chicks and then i realised i was actually gay. Funny, huh?


Unlike the direct approach which i just took.

Btw, paddyo, next time i'm going to be in Dublin, i'll talk to the gf and see if i can get us a meet up and from there convince your parents i am not a pedo freak from the intrawebz.

[paddyo]

:haha Sounds endeering.

[Freepower]

Quality. I'll give you a shout soon as something organised. This should all be PM, but it's busted for me.

Other forumites, please remove memory of this post and the two preceding.

[PooKoo]

yessir captain fp!

<3<3<3<3

[Freepower]

Jeez, I wonder what post Pookoo is referring to, seeing as the last thing i said was

*irritated mutters*

Fine.

Anyway, does captain outrank moderator or what? Does that make me a superadmin?

[PooKoo]

Hm, that's odd. I can't seem to remember?
And no, ofcourse it doesn't outrank mod. Mods are living breathing Gods of this earth. Mods, I worship thee.

[paddyo]

Quality. I'll give you a shout soon as something organised. This should all be PM, but it's busted for me.

Other forumites, please remove memory of this post and the two preceding.
Again, don't go ahead and assume this will happen..Like I do want it to but convicing my parents(or even talking to them about a ****ing forum) will be hella tough, seeing as my mother was once convinced I was on a "chatroom" when I vaguely described what a forum is.. :p: Feckin parents!

[Scorzerci]

Pah, its no excuse. The cleverest, most educated, brilliantist forum here, and the closest we can come to a great thread is the "technique thread".

Which, tbh, could probably be distilled into 10 pages of basic info.

Theres nothing around to learn any more. :( I like learning. :(
Foshizzle, I'm tring to hang around MT more cus I can actually learn alot more things there than in the shred forum.

[Freepower]

My sister affirmed for me today that symphony x are emo - a fact i have suspected for a long time. :p:

[Resiliance]

Don't tell Michael Romeo... That wouldn't be a pretty sight.

Besides, shush Museboy.

[SnowballofDoom]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c292/Gilbert_Pwns/romemo.jpg

"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. Now cut my wrists and black my eyes, O thunder dragons of the cursed skies."

[Godly Moose]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c292/Gilbert_Pwns/romemo.jpg

"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. Now cut my wrists and black my eyes, O thunder dragons of the cursed skies."

zomg My friend listens to what ever band that is. I remember him singing those lyrics, while listening to his iPod.

[Resiliance]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c292/Gilbert_Pwns/romemo.jpg

"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. Now cut my wrists and black my eyes, O thunder dragons of the cursed skies."

:haha

[The Virtuoso]

^ :haha :haha That was great!

[Resiliance]

http://resi.coudeville.com/Gwan.JPG

You know you wanna...

[PooKoo]

Erykah badu is awesome, i got a song with her and the roots.

[SnowballofDoom]

Resi doesn't have Effortless Mastery? Shame shame..

[hepzibahbaptist]

http://resi.coudeville.com/Gwan.JPG

You know you wanna...
I can see a couple photo shoppedpics spawning off that pic right there man.

[Righteous]

Is Kenney Werner's book really that useful? I'm thinking about getting it and that one book by Jamie Andreas, worth the money?

[SnowballofDoom]

Werner's isn't applied to the guitar, it's more of advice on practicing/playing/composing... being a master musician, really.

Andreas' is more specific, but they're both good in their own right.

[Resiliance]

Resi doesn't have Effortless Mastery? Shame shame..

I've read it, though, just want it myself for lookup purposes.

I can see a couple photo shoppedpics spawning off that pic right there man.

Go wild :p:

And zomg, Paul Gilbert is a member of Mattiosology!

http://sarapetitchat.chez-alice.fr/mattiasology.htm

[Godly Moose]

I've read it, though, just want it myself for lookup purposes.



Go wild :p:

And zomg, Paul Gilbert is a member of Mattiosology!

http://sarapetitchat.chez-alice.fr/mattiasology.htm

It needs more then 212 members. :(

[SnowballofDoom]

213 now :)

Although the number hasn't updated...

[Resiliance]

213 now :)

Although the number hasn't updated...

You gotta click the link in the mail ;)

[SnowballofDoom]

...

:o

[Righteous]

I like this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HC60XNiS-MQ

But I especially like the comment for it: "nice pants faggot, wow he can play really fast i am sooo impressed *sarcasm* shreding music from the 80's blows and has no emotion behind it, by the way if this music was so great it would have some lyrics. if you can call it music, more like high pitched noises."

So smart...

[garden of grey]

Make that 215

[The Virtuoso]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVFa2iuKmFw

Oh yeah good ol' PG, we covered this song for my school concert to! :)

[pavan]

Youtube comments are mostly for entertainment.

[The Virtuoso]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tubhsRTFZAQ

I don't remember if I showed this to you guys but what do think?

[Erc]

by the way if this music was so great it would have some lyrics.

:haha

....

:haha

[Boghead]

Hey does anyone know where I can find tabs of 'Not Again' by Shawn Lane??

Thanks

[Freepower]

http://online-discussion.dhenderson.com/GuthrieGovan/viewtopic.php?t=32

[Boghead]

^ Thanks Free. Now to the hard part of getting it down... :(

[Freepower]

I met a guy at IGF had all that stuff down and could do any of lanes picking examples from power licks. ****ing bastard.

[Beckerism]

Was going to bump the JB album thread but it contains more so here:


Hey Peeps,

Thank you for all your sweet wishes. I say again my "fans" are the coolest ever, man. Apparently you guys wrote to Guitar World Magazine about my song Altitudes, so sometime in the future they are going to put it on a CD that will come with the magazine and include the transcription. You all are special.

Peavey just told me they want to be the ones to make my JB numbered guitar. They are really gung ho. They want to make a hundred availble for people who want one. They want to make it exactly how I want it. They plan to debut it at the summer NAMM show. This is much better than the uncertainty of Jackson. Jackson did say they got many calls about it. Thank you guys. The Peavey will be a lot easier to get.

I am hoping my new CD will be finished in three months. I had been waiting for "stars" but pshaw. We are getting some awesome singers now. Dave Lopez, you are right, you have the coolest friends.
My autobiography is now moving thanks to Mike B. and Lyla. Lyla is now working on a book proposal for major publishers, from what I have written so far.

I had a great Christmas and New Year. I hope you all had good holidays. My favorite part of Christmas is hanging out with young kids; it can be magical. I gave each of my 5-year old twin neices their first little guitars with nylon strings. They loved them. They are the same age as I was when I got my first guitar.
My neice, Emma, really warmed up to me. She often rubbed my shoulder and pet me with a big smile. Sarah wanted to but she is really shy.
My 6-year old buddy, James, had a blast. I got him some legos and the first season of Pimp My Ride; he loves that show. Also the DVD "Cars" which we watched on Christmas Eve with the whole family. On New Year's Eve day, Serrana's 3-year old grand neice Alyssa, came and got a bunch of princess stuff from our family. Fun.

Hey, thanks for all the "goosebump" songs. I have heard about half of them before. I love Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Roy Buchanan, Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan, and others that you mentioned.

Peace and love,
Jason

[TheUltimateSin]

Awesome :)

[paddyo]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PQuhDSxYB1o

Also awesome. :D "You know my middle name is "where the **** is a guitar pick" :haha

[pinkzeppelin21]

:D gigidy gigidy gigidy

[priest.fan.]

Hey - posted something in cover recordings, & would be much obliged for any constructive criticism =)

[PooKoo]

it has been a LONG time since i saw you around.

[priest.fan.]

heh, its been a long time since I've been around :p:

[pavan]

fellow april 13ther........

[Nelsean]

Im april 13th as well. Just wanted to say that. :p

Carry on...

[Righteous]

School is cancelled today! Hell yeah man! Gotta love one inch of snow...

[Scorzerci]

^One INCH???? There has only been one day that my school has been due to cancelled to snow and that day it had literally snowed a meter (a little more than 3 feet) in one day!

[Righteous]

Haha, yup, 2.5 cms only! (I really do hate using inches, stupidest measuring system of all time...) It only snows like twice a year here, and I think the most snow we've had at any given point was about 15 cm.

[Prophet of Page]

Tom's got a special birthday bash planned.....

On the Wednesday after my birthday (end of February) I will get a good 40 people to come out into town with me, spend the night out, and close the show with a huge game of cowboys and indians in the public park in the center of town.

That's right. It's so insane that it just has to work.

[paddyo]

^You're plans remind me of a mate of mine...Not for content, just sheer randomness. :)

[Prophet of Page]

Actually, I originally devised this as a way of cancelling favours that friends owed me. This is how they were going to have to pay me back, a really silly game of cowboys and indians in town.

Then I found out that some people wanted to join in, so I'm making it my way of celebrating my birthday. Which is EVEN BETTER for guilting people into it.

[Scorzerci]

THat sounds awesome!
Once me and my friends had an hour long ballon fight in a park outside Macdonalds and literally every 10 minutes we'd go in and get new ballons. Towards the end the Macdonalds workers were pretty sick of us.
So Tom, you got your cornford yet?

[Prophet of Page]

THat sounds awesome!
Once me and my friends had an hour long ballon fight in a park outside Macdonalds and literally every 10 minutes we'd go in and get new ballons. Towards the end the Macdonalds workers were pretty sick of us.
So Tom, you got your cornford yet?

Could have it at the end of next week, or the start of the week after.

[Freepower]

^ MG! I can hardly wait for you...

After my new guitar, a cornford is next on the list. I played a hellcat once for about 20 mins on an ubershite guitar, but the amp still more than came up with the goods (even to my death metal ravaged ears)!

[5150)Ed(5150]

How old is Resi? (Man-years that is) :p:

[Scorzerci]

According to his profile on SU, 6.

[Boghead]

^He must be a prodigy then :p:

[Night_Lights]

age 38 on his last.fm


metal chats been closed, so i moved here.

[Righteous]

Why was it closed???

[insideac]

Resi is 38!?!? I thought he was like 19!??!!? :eek:

[Godly Moose]

Resi is 38!?!? I thought he was like 19!??!!? :eek:
:p:

[Beckerism]

Resi is 38!?!? I thought he was like 19!??!!? :eek:

If you're lucky he'll use lube.

|\/| 0 L 3 5 + 3 R

[insideac]

Whew. Well that makes me feel alot better. All this time I was like, Man I have no hope in making anything outta myself, if there are kids my age (Resi, allegedly), that know tons and tons of theory, and are technical masters :(. But I guess I was wrong lol, still got a chance (I think). I know its not competition, but I feel left behind if kids my age everywhere knew tons and tons of things that I havent even heard of.

[Freepower]

*cough* They do. Believe me, i've met 13 year olds play me under the table and are almost as comfortable with music theory. Let alone that guy who was just 20 and could keep up with lane's picking on power solos...

[insideac]

Yeah, I know. But alot of those child prodegies end up losing it, I dont know why. Like those countless youtube prodegies that play vivaldi at age 6 or something, and the piano kids and what not. But its ok, Im learning at my own pace, and thats fine with me as long as Im not too behind.

[Stratwizard]

Yeah, I know. But alot of those child prodegies end up losing it, I dont know why. Like those countless youtube prodegies that play vivaldi at age 6 or something, and the piano kids and what not. But its ok, Im learning at my own pace, and thats fine with me as long as Im not too behind.

That's because they usually get a lot of pressure from their parents and lose the fun in playing the instrument. Whereas those who start playing later do it from their own will and are inspired by some guitarist that makes them to carry on with the instrument.

[Freepower]

Do those child prodigies "lose it"? I doubt it very much...

Even so, once something's learnt to a certain degree, physical ability is the main limiting factor in reachieving that level of ability. Give them 3 weeks and they could be kicking your ass all over again.

[insideac]

I think they lose it, the fire dies out. Itll be like a robot playing, me thinks. The few ones that keep going are the ones that become greats, but at that age, it would be hard for them to keep doing the same thing since 6 or 7, till they die. Specially with everything that changes people, like pubery, high school, middle school, peer pressure, parental pressure, and just changes in interest. But yes, if they do persist, they eventually get what they deserve.

[Freepower]

Yesh, but do you know any child prodigies who burn out? I know we're only really going to hear of the ones that don't burn out, as they leave more traces of their existance, but tbh, i honestly think this idea of yours comes from nothing. I cannot think of any child prodigies who burnt out, and i can think of a few hundred who didn't.

Where did you get this idea?

[Righteous]

So Resi is 38??? I thought he has like 18... :(

[Freepower]

Are you joking? He's a big hairy euro pedo from hell. :p:

And a mod - the day will come when we have to post a nude pic of ourselves before posting or else we'll get banned... :(

[insideac]

Yesh, but do you know any child prodigies who burn out? I know we're only really going to hear of the ones that don't burn out, as they leave more traces of their existance, but tbh, i honestly think this idea of yours comes from nothing. I cannot think of any child prodigies who burnt out, and i can think of a few hundred who didn't.

Where did you get this idea?


I got it cuz well. Alot of the kids I heard when i was little, havent been heard of ever since.

And how come you guys keep saying Resi is a pedo? :haha Is he really?

[Freepower]

Which kids? Fiver says they're touring solo spots for orchestras now if they're classical.

And of course Resi's a pedo. What if i like gay porn?

That sound like a healthy 18 year old boy to you? Lol. And you should hear him leer over msn, it's sick. Why do you think i'm never online?

[insideac]

Which kids? Fiver says they're touring solo spots for orchestras now if they're classical.

And of course Resi's a pedo.

That sound like a healthy 18 year old boy to you? Lol. And you should hear him leer over msn, it's sick. Why do you think i'm never online?


LOL! :haha Man Im taking my midterm in class laughing like an idiot.

[Resiliance]

Y'all gullible fools.

[insideac]

SHH He's here!

[Scorzerci]

Regarding the child prodigy deal, I think that it depends on if their parents keep pressuring them to play or not and if they actually like the instrument itself. I have 2 friends that started playing instruments at a very young age, one was constantly playing piano and was writing pretty good music (well it was to my ears when I heard it at least) in 4th grade or something. Her parents stopped pressuring her and now she has simply stopped playing piano. The other friend, had some of the most pressuring parents ever, they installed a camera in his room so that they could make sure that he practiced at least 2-3 hours of violin a day. Now he still plays violin, taking lessons a few times a week (including friday after school), playing a lot in his free time and he's in an orchestra. His parents are still pressuring him. However I think that he still has a personal interest in playing violin, for example once me and some friends including him were going to the mountains to go snowboarding on a friday after school. He had violin lessons and therefore couldn't take the same train as us. He ended up taking a night bus up and came to the train station at 2 in the morning, and he didn't even consider asking his teacher if he could miss this one practice. That, I think was personal will and interest, not parents pressuring. So basically I think child "prodigies" burning out or not, depends very much on parents pressuring, but there still has to be an element of personal will to play for the prodigies not to burn out.
(Sorry about drifting off about it times)

[Boghead]

I doubt the allmighty Jason Becker was pressured by his parents.
And yea like insideac I get bummed out seeing all these kids play me under the table :p:

I went to an audition for a music college and lets just say I hate the air of competition. I don't know but it seems that guitarists are a competitive breed, there's some kind of underlying ego factor :peace:

[Scorzerci]

^Yeah good point, it's not very often that parents pressure kids to play guitar.

[sheumack111]

Is anyone else here a major fan of "Steve Stevens" guitar work???? I bought one of his albums with Tony Levin (LTE and King Crimson) and Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa)... Stevens guitar work is insane, I didnt realise how versitile he was, like i was always a fan of Billy Idol, but i thought Steve was just that sorta guitarist, not versitile....... Anyone else with me???

[Righteous]

Y'all gullible fools.
So you're not a 38 year old Bellgian pedofile? And WTF your avator isn't your avator, that's not right...

[Johnljones7443]

And WTF your avator isn't your avator, that's not right...

Blame elvenkindje. :haha

[Godly Moose]

Resi's avatar! =o