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Song For The Dead - Queens Of The Stone Age

I've recently discovered ISIS.

Autopilot - QOTSA with Mark Lanegan

Too Much - Spice Girls I could have chosen too much by Elvis or never too much by Luther Vandros. Feel free to judge my character

Surely the most punk bass would be something like a hollowbody Epiphone just because it's not the typical punk bass.

Flying Whales - Gojira

How About The Duck Pond? - Carl Schurtz Beaten too it but it still kind of works

Maybe Later - Dirty Art Club

Off to the pub - Raised By Owls

You've Been Mary Buried - Raised By Owls

Executioners Tax - Power Trip

Die on a Rope - The Distillers Top quality punk rock

BDSM - Scene Queen

Strictly Come Grinding - Raised By Owls

Scary Spice Has A Gangrenous Arm - Raised By Owls

I once saw legendary stoner metal band Kyuss live. Obviously all the band were high but drummer Brant Bjork had clearly had a lot of hallucinogenic and was out of his tree. He was definitely seeing something strange. He didn't miss a beat though. Absolutely solid for the whole show. At the end, he just sat there while the band left the stage, a tech had to come back on and get him.

Champs Elysees - NOFX

I wish I hadn't watched that video. Scotts bass lessons adverts everywhere I look now. I cannot escape the irritating gurning face and terrible jazz noodling

I'm impressed that Scott Devine found another presenter just as irritating as he is.

Yeah, I've given up playing for now. I found being in a band stressful and then after that I got bored playing at home.

Remember it's far more important to keep the timing tight than to play every note in the original song. To start with, keep it simple but tight with the drummer. Consider leaving out fills etc while you work on learning to follow the drums. Playing in a band isn't for everyone, it wasn't for me. You need to be totally committed. You can't skip practice to do something else and you have to make yourself available for gigs. Everyone in the band relies on everyone else being there. Get some decent earplugs, you'll spend a lot of time very close to a drum kit and something to take the edge off will make it much more comfortable. Final tip. Forget about YOUR tone. You need a tone which cuts through the mix and compliments it. My bass tone with a metal band was really horrible in isolation but what you'd hear with the guitar sounded perfect.

If you enjoy that, look up Julie Christmas's latest record, Rediculous And Full Of Blood

This is probably a better intro to post metal

That record is a masterpiece. Wreck Of The SS Needle is quite possibly my favourite song of all time. Julie Christmas's latest record has a similar feel to Mariner.

Last night Welsh punks Pizza Tramp played our local. They weren't amazing. The opening act were absolutely brilliant though. They were a grindcore band from Bristol called Priest Crippler. They were brutally heavy and absolutely hilarious. It was part extreme metal, part standup comedy.