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Full on Iron Maiden tribute, wigs, sweatbands, guy dressed as Eddie - the works. Punter asks if we do any Metallica.

Jason Everman of Nirvana and then Soundgarden, joined the US military and is a highly decorated Special Forces type guy.

New York Dolls - one day it will please us. 30 years after their previous lp and still just as full of sassy swagger. Shame they went downhill after that.

Matlock played bass on Anarchy in the UK, I believe Jones did the bass on the rest of the album. You can tell the difference, Anarchy has a fluid bassline, all the other songs the bass more or less plays the root notes. If you listen to the sp$nk bootleg Matlock plays pretty tasty basslines on that. As for Sid...if you watch any of the live shows with him it's obvious he is playing, just very badly, however It's also obvious he's pretty high as well.

Donington Monsters of Rock T shirt from 1988. Dont stand a chance of it fitting me any more.

Robert Fripp, somewhere in Birmingham about 2005 - he sat at the back corner of the stage so out of view for most of the audience, we thought we were listening to some weird intro tape until after about 10 minutes someone shouted 'i can see him!'. The whole audience seemed distinctly unimpressed, the bar though was heaving. Dave Lee Roth early 90's. He spent most of the gig sat on a stool lecturing the audience about how he isn't Diamond Dave anymore. 90% of the show was poor acoustic versions of his stuff.

Why do girls love horses? is it because they are round? cos they're six feet off the ground Is it because they're on top? or the clippety-clop?

Played a pub gig and there was a wake going on in the bar. We opened with Highway to Hell!

We were booked to play a Xmas party for a local surf club. The party started at 9pm but the surfers had all gone out drinking at midday and none of them made it to the venue. We ended up playing to the bar staff and helping ourselves to the free food.

These two probably sum me up... Iron Maiden - Powerslave Dave Lee Roth - Eat em and smile. (Although I'm not suggesting I can play all of Billy's crazy stuff on this)

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1351704133' post='1854426'] Wow. Can you youngsters even imagine learning thousands of songs by constantly lifting and replacing a stylus on a record? Not to mention taking each record out of its sleeve and placing it on the turntable, or carrying armfuls of albums downstairs every day, to use your parents' decent record player (mine played a semitone fast!) [/quote] Yeah I remember the hassle of trying to replace the stylus at the start of a riff over and over again. Another trick I used to use is put a twin cassette deck (remember those?) into 'high speed dubbing' mode, would raise everything an octave making basslines easier to pick out!

Doing an Iron Maiden tribute thing....wigs, tight pants the whole 9 yards. Used to start by running out from backstage and straight into the Steve Harris patented 'foot on monitor' pose. One time I overshot, got my left foot on the monitor but my momentum carried me straight over and off the stage, at least my wig stayed on. Doing a 60's/70's club band thing, some random woman ran onstage and pulled my trousers down before I knew what was going on. One time I wasn't getting any sound from my rig during soundcheck, plenty of lights on but no sound. Frantically checked everything I could think of and was in the middle of taking apart my wireless receiver when guitarist gently pointed out that I had the volume knob at zero

It was Chuck's books that got me started back in the day, best wishes to him and his family.

Just bought a 1212L cab from Don. Great guy to deal with, super smooth transaction and he kept me informed every step of the way. As others have said, don't be put off by the shipping thing, this guy knows how to pack stuff properly.....thanks Don.

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1318347709' post='1400953'] The parmo has worked it's way up from Middlesborough (where rumour has it first appeared in the UK) to newcastle. They are impossibly vile. I'd rather a Donner... [/quote] The parmo is possibly the greatest culinary creation on Earth. You don't have to settle with chicken, the pork variety is just as common. But here on Teesside (yes I'm a local) we've moved on a bit, some establishments are now serving 'pizza parmo pie'. Essentially its a parmo (chicken or pork) on a pie crust base with a selection of pizza toppings - usually pepperoni. Watch out it's the future!