RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

Mother of all hangovers till 9am. Better now Keeping up with younger people can be tiring. That woman at the bar , heard me telling my friend about les. and fretless bass. Her son was up the front . I could've mentioned. Basschat , but it was more out of my face chat . Reason for the mixture of drinks ??Hot day 1 pint cider. Stayed on Guinness . Friend got more cider in error, in venue - no cider! Crappy lager instead . And you're really gonna believe that .;)9

Guinness / lager/ cider. Normally drink sensibly .at home now . Green And blacks before sleep. Day off tomorrow to dry out. What a strange night

Get there early bump

Yeah . Trying to find out how many songs missed. 2? Help me ;)jm

Pa other bizarre thing; woman made b line for me ( according to friend). She hss 18 year son. Up for it . Tattoo on arm put me off. All this with my one and a half eyes

..saw them ca couple of times before. This time , half cut . Expected new stuff first .,, Sound was worse than crap. The videos meant nothing, as I haven't got new stuff . They played - song 3 times. Thankfully they played a lt of faves. Trying to workout hiw many songs I mussed. Got thete 3,songs before Johnny the fisherman . My friend went with an open mind and liked them . Could not hear les Vox , Did I enjoy it ?? Not so sure .

It went left at Berlin

It's the rapier name I dont like

What used to annoy me, is guitarists ( in your band) taking forever to sort out capos . Nothing worse than leavin huge gaps between songs. If they had 2 guitars , it probably would've been easier. Gave me a chance to play some tv themes while we were waiting . ( I know I shouldnt ...)

Hats off to the swift! She is everywhere , and I normally ignore her . On this occasion she is spot on. Much as I have lots of apple products , they are penny pinching bar stewards who refuse to acknowledge faulty products etc. and just want to Rip us off at every opportunity.

He looks like Eddie shoestring , but he can play,) funny thing is, people get excited when he states an opinion. He talks sense IMHO . Haven't got any of his stuff, but may try something ,)

Back to normal now. Headphones on this morning listening to jarre waiting for Cousteau trac 4 . Amazing how many of you listen to planet Rock . I haven't listened to that for at least2years. I think it needs some sort of rejuvenation . The doors/ led zep etc. have stopped years ago. Maybe someone should tell them . A bit of anthrax / king diamond / Celtic frost etc. played during the day would appeal much more . Radio stations are bottlers really

[quote name='Guinness21' timestamp='1434928458' post='2803970'] We played monkey wrench in drop d and the chain too but I thing those are the standard tunings. I don't think we've had to change key yet. Can you send me a youtube link to that song please ray? [/quote] Sorry , I don't know how to post links on this forum

Apparently , they were after Jeff Berlin who is awesome . Whether it would've worked is another thing

[quote name='blamelouis' timestamp='1434904972' post='2803741'] http://youtu.be/yXPM6d9IdiY Hehehehe ! [/quote] Painful!

I think VH are a spent force in the UK. They've been away too,long . They did their USA tour, obviously for cash. If it were serious, they would've at least had a complete, new album with at least 8 new songs- not rehash of oldest,stuff. I saw some footage on you pube , and it looks like they still don't gel ( Eddie/Dave). You can see eddies corner, and daves dance area . Different ends of the stage IMHO Roth v Hagar ? ( again;) I prefer material of DLR. I've seen DLR solo, 4 times ( forget the 4th gig )!. Seen billy Sheehan . Just haven't seen the van halen bros. Hagar stuff with VH doesn't do anything except for 3/4 songs which are good. However , chicken foot rocks big time !! And you Have Michael/Chad/ satch! Seen them twice .cant wait to see them again

Are you doing drop d for Mr. Vocal? If so, van halen, pant era etc. may be the way to go,or even thin lizzy. Normal tuning ; ufo , scorpions . Rivers of Babylon ,is a song I've always wanted to cover

A few months ago, I thought about getting a cheap guitar . Only because , I wanted to record something else instead of bass and apps. Then , I realised what a waste of time it would be . A guitar feels like a Chad valley kids toy in my hands . No feeling .

When I bought an amp off eBay a few years back, the ad said ' not using amp anymore going computer instead.' I was gigging at the time and thought no more about it. A few years( and a couple of amps later), I bought a gk combo incase I join another band. Almost 5 years later, and I havent . I'm wondering whether to offload it, as I have line 6 podfarm and studio monitors . Then again recently , I've been looking at the Roland cube/ micro cubes with built in drum machines / effects etc. I notice that guitarists always have an amp at home to match their axe . Maybe you should get one

Did you manage to chat to them ,and give them some input ?