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Graham

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  1. No, it's now a Smith & Western - an American Cowboy themed chain restaurant The Blue Anchor was there for a long time though, but closed up maybe 20 years ago
  2. I'd assume it's the red Stingray he had, but I don't actually know
  3. EBS pre-amp/DI box for sale/trade, I bought it to have a go at IEM, but in-ears never really worked out for that band. Get the EBS tone from your pedalboard - 2 channels, drive with valve sim, EBS EQ, FX loop and cab sim on the DI Ideally I'd like to trade for a Sansamp V2, as I quite fancy giving one of those a try, but cash works too. Price includes shipping in GB
  4. @MichaelDean I think my top three post-rock picks would be We Lost The Sea - Challenger This Will Destroy You - A Three Legged Workhorse Mono - Ashes In The Snow
  5. Mathcore The Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt Botch - Transitions From Persona To Object Converge - Concubine
  6. Auditioning a guitarist for an original death metal band, guy turns up - seems friendly, have decent gear and plenty of confidence. I realise we're about to waste the entire session when his opening gambit is "what tuning do you guys play in?" His face fell, but not as much as his strings, when I said "drop B" and he had to slacken them right off. Not really knowing what to do as the guy had clearly not learned any of these fairly technical songs, we ran through a couple and said join in when you can, so he strummed along with his valve amp on standby........
  7. You're a scholar and a gent, hope you have a great time in the band. Hopefully I'll be able to pop along to the odd local show and say hi 😀
  8. Glad you had a good show, are you taking over full time now?
  9. I've left my band now, been thinking about it for the past year and decided to knock it on the head for now. With three challenging, neurodiverse children, now is not the right time to be in a band and I'm less reliant on the money than I once was. Got one more gig booked to end things properly - a private party at a big house we've played a few times - and then done. Hopefully I'll look at getting back into it in 2026-ish, when the youngest will be 9, but for now it'll be home playing and maybe some composition.
  10. All my cables are Cleartone, been using them for years so this is a shame, but glad the owner is able to retire on his own terms.
  11. The thing about Metallica in the 21st century is that they keep releasing albums that should have been EPs If the last four albums had been cut back to about 20 minutes, they'd have been fantastic. Well, so long as they didn't ruin them when mixing/mastering them
  12. Jeff Caxide (ISIS) Flea Bernie Edwards Caleb Scofield (Cave In/Old Man Gloom/Zozobra) Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan/Azusa) Mike Flores (Origin) And these guys, not to knock their bass playing, because it's very good, but I like them more as song writers Shane Embury (Napalm Death) Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse)
  13. Without seeing the map, I thought it's got to be Finland 😁 The only downside about Finland is that if you find a black metal band from there, it's best to assume they're Nazis first and then be pleasantly surprised, rather than hope for the best and then be inevitably disappointed later.
  14. I would love to hear Opeth songs in the style of ABBA 😁
  15. I've heard nothing but good stuff about Lankum, must check them out
  16. Now that depends which side of the Medway you're from 😁 And bravo, I do love a dangling modifier joke
  17. Allfather - more riffs than you can shake a stick at from Kent Really good stuff, was number four of my albums of the year list https://youtu.be/o4R1yXSraIs?si=SWkfg0cM48peuJ7P Edit: am I doing something wrong to imbed the YouTube link?
  18. I really like playing the Mariah Carey, it's a really fun song to play
  19. Next one I have booked is Botch in March, I'm hoping to see Greg Puciato a couple of weeks before too, just need to sort out if I'm going to the London or Brighton date
  20. I record my own listing stats, as I mostly use Bandcamp these days, but:
  21. I was at Damnation Festival in Manchester this weekend, two days of music from various parts of the extreme metal end, so to answer the eternal question of "is this good for metal?" In a slightly tongue in cheek way, I thought I'd catalogue all the basses and amps I saw across the weekend. I was working the festival and saw a couple of pedalboards, so mentioned pre-amps if I saw them; everyone used House Ampeg 8x10 classics except for Bossk and Electric Wizard augmented with a second bass amp Friday The Sun's Journey Through The Night (Black metal) - Fender P/J,(VVT), House SVT 3-Pro Deadguy (hardcore) - Precision, House SVT II-Non Pro Celestial Sanctuary (death metal) - Deluxe Jazz, SVT III-Pro, B7K Ultra, Sansamp Viking Skull (Motorhead like heavy rock/punk)- Jazz, Marshall VBA400 Inhuman Nature (thrash) - Thunderbird, an old Peavey head I think Ninkharsag (black metal)- Warwick Streamer Stage II, Peavey TNT head Bossk (post-metal) - Fender Marcus Miller, Darkglass M900, unknown cab (8x10 with an omega badge) Din Of Celestial Birds (post-rock) - Ibanez EHB1005, House SVT II, Origin Super Vintage, Darkglass Alpha Omega Ultra Heriot (industrial/hardcore/metal) - Jackson(?) RIc like bass, House SVT II Katatonia (doom/prog metal) - Schecter, Kemper (I think) Sat Electric Wizard (doom) - Ric, SVT Classic + Orange head & cab Anaal Nathrakh (black/death/grind) - Dingwall Combustion 3/4, SVT III (house) Coffin Mulch (death metal) - jazz (Geddy Lee?), house SVT III Crepitation (brutal/slam death metal) - Traben 5 string, Darkglass Alpha Omega head Khemmis (doom) - Spector LX(?)4, House SVT Classic High Command (thrash) - Ric, Orange AD200 Unearth (metalcore)- Stingray HH, house SVT Classic, Darkglass B7K Julie Christmas - Precision, Orange OB1 (mic'd cab only, no DI) Undeath (death metal) - Warwick Fortress, house SVT III, Sansamp Rotten Sound (grind) - Jazz, house SVT III For my money, Unearth, Bossk, Julie Christmas and Electric Wizard had the best bass tones and as is par for the course at metal gigs and in big arenas, the bass was often inaudible or at least inarticulate. Also the bands with the best bass sound tended to be the ones where (no surprise) there was sonic room for the bass frequencies, the full on death metal bands were more likely to have rumble, bottom heavy tone
  22. I generally use two, but I have Alex Webster's (Cannibal Corpse) book and I've been working on using three as well. Takes a lot of practice to get it right, even and not mess my head up, but getting there
  23. I'd fancied swapping from a fuzz to more of a distortion for a while and a Rat was quite high up my list of pedals to try. So when I saw a Rat clone for £40 new it seemed to be worth a punt I haven't got the real thing to compare it to, but I'm liking the results. Sadly not got any gigs until December though, so a while before I can try it out in anger.
  24. I've been hearing about one in development called Ampwall, early days yet though
  25. Yesterday the sale to Songtradr was finalised and half the staff at Bandcamp were laid off. I'm now looking at options for downloading and storing my library - American labour laws suck and capitalism ruins everything.
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