What's on your mind?

[Frostaudn]

Tomorrow I'll leave to Germany for a 1,5 week. The first few days I'll stay with my parents and will probably visit some cities with them. Wednesday I'll travel to Summer Breeze, which I look pretty much forward to since they have a great line-up this year. Though it's kinda stupid I will be there on my own, but oh well. Still a lot of awesome bands to see

[RelentlessOblivion]

Copping it something awful from an ex-pat pom over Australia's performance first morning of the 4th Ashes test. Bowled out for 60 I've got no witty responses unfortunately it's very difficult to defend such a pathetically low score. No doubt if Strategos was still around he'd be laying in too.

[MacabreEternal]

Luckily I hate cricket

Had an unexpected 2 hours in the garden just now after finishing some work for a client early.  Actually getting to leave the house tomorrow for a change and have the pleasures of the entire Northern half of our UK customer base converging in Yorkshire for a meeting and I am presenting.  Practicing my tits n teeth routine now! 

[FatherAlabaster]

Good luck, Macabre! No vampire jokes this time. 

[Midi]

Wow, no one has ever asked me to chill for an evening while discussing (classical) music. This could be an interesting friendship.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Good luck Macabre, sounds pretty cool Midi.

 

Unison bends, I swear it should not be this tricky for me to get them right, don't know why my first instinct is to bend both strings.

[GorboGorboze]

Played the drummers kit a bit at practice tonight. The top drumming of my drumming career, I'm about an hour in so far.

[FatherAlabaster]

I love drumming. Not much good at it, but hitting things sure is fun.  

[RelentlessOblivion]

Used to play the drums, I'd be a little rusty these days, pretty fun hitting things.

[GorboGorboze]

It is so fun to hit things, but a little problematic as it takes at least 6 trips to get them into a car, you have to be hidden behind them in the back of the stage, need to afford a large practice space to leave them set up, have to pay over $200 for a nice sounding used symbol alone, and if your going to play metal need to purchase special mics to mic the kit. Bless the drummers of the world, theirs is a hard row to hoe.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Indeed it is Gorbo and few get the recognition they deserve. Just about every metalhead can name their favourite vocalists and guitarists but how many have favourite drummers?

[Iceni]

Indeed it is Gorbo and few get the recognition they deserve. Just about every metalhead can name their favourite vocalists and guitarists but how many have favourite drummers?

Specifically, how many metalheads can name a favorite drummer who's not Peart, Hellhammer, Hoglan, Jordison, Lopez, Duplantier, Vitek, Mounier or that one guy from Korn?

Edited August 8, 2015 by Iceni

[RelentlessOblivion]

You missed Lombardo...

[Iceni]

You missed Lombardo...

He's thrash, he doesn't count.

I did miss Kollias though, shame on me.

[FatherAlabaster]

Richard Christie, Sean Reinert, Rob Proctor, Dave Witte, Tomas Haake, Nick Barker, Adrian Erlandsson, Trym, Anders Jivarp, Danny Carey... < Bill fucking Bruford.

[RelentlessOblivion]

But drummers from bands which are not metal do?

[GorboGorboze]

You guys are doing great! I don't even know the name of that guy from Def Leopard who only has one arm.

[Iceni]

But drummers from bands which are not metal do?

Jordison drums for a metal band. Granted, he's not in it, but he's clearly playing for some hypothetical tech-death group whilst pretending to play for Slipknot. In the meantime, I thought Rush was ambiguous so I went ahead and included them.

[RelentlessOblivion]

And you explain korn how? I respect Jordison's drumming but do wish he were involved with a more interesting band.

[GratuitousTK]

Women.  As Always.

[FatherAlabaster]

Anybody counts if they're good enough, they don't have to be in a metal band to rip. Same holds true for any instrument. The guy from Korn gets a lot of respect from drummers I know. I think Iceni's point is that those guys are all high profile enough that they'd be likely picks even for people with a superficial knowledge of metal, as would Vinnie Paul, Abe Cunningham, even Raymond Herrera. It blows my mind that some people still say Lars, but whatever. Honestly I don't agree with you guys though, drummers get a lot of recognition from fans. 

Oops, forgot Marco Minneman. 

[RelentlessOblivion]

I dunno not many metalheads, or music fans in general, that I know really appreciate the drummers. I do have one friend who thinks guitarists and vocalists are just failed drummers but that's because he is a drummer.

[MacabreEternal]

Just spent an hour fighting with an overgrown bush (insert 70s porn references here) and now have a rash all over my arms and I am full of scratches.  I am sure some of the beer in the fridge has antihistamine properties, can't remember which one though so will just have to wade through them until I don't notice the irritation anymore. 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Emptied the fridge after a pretty rough day for both my sporting teams. Like I need a reason to drink...

[GorboGorboze]

Just spent an hour fighting with an overgrown bush (insert 70s porn references here) and now have a rash all over my arms and I am full of scratches.  I am sure some of the beer in the fridge has antihistamine properties, can't remember which one though so will just have to wade through them until I don't notice the irritation anymore. 

like a fucking knuckle-head I weeded my asparagus barehanded and got poison ivy rashes between my fingers. It has not burst and started weeping as yet, and I don't think it will. It never used to bother me, but I think that ones accumulates chemical toxins from diet and such that make one vulnerable. I should wear gloves when pulling out poison ivy, and perhaps you should get a stylish pair of sleeves for gardening with, they are super cool and would have helped.

How badassed is that?