DawnPatroller

Absolutely 👍 I just want to learn the 3 fingers technique, I want to see if it makes life easier with the Maiden stuff. I started with very heavy Alice Picks but I use the Petrucci Jazz Dunlops now and it's really helped, being more lightweight.

I play nothing but metal. Mostly Maiden and Megadeth, which I use a pick for but lately I’ve been getting hung up on my wrist position and picking technique to the point of overthinking it and probably making it worse. Sometimes I have a crack at whatever metal track tab gets suggested on YT. Kreator tabs seem very hard to come by online, I find. I warm up to 80’s (guilty pleasure) rock like Whitesnake, Def Leppard etc which I play using finger picking. Am currently trying to develop my finger picking to three fingers so I can switch with the Maiden tunes but it’s going to take some time and practice to build up the finger strength (all things I am often short on). With the pick I've got the attack but with the fingers I've got the speed so it's a work in progress ... I bought the JS2 Spectra last summer but really, have no gear to speak of. I have a little practise amp and a second hand Boss tuning pedal. I do have a virtually soundproof room for practising in though. The background photo on my profile of the Jackson is a picture I took myself at a David Ellefson gig in London a couple of years ago. I went out for a drink with him afterwards.

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Samboat Music on YouTube is very good for beginner bass players.

I was just about to say the same! Birmingham was so great back then. Tempest especially was really great for underground metal cd's, they even used to stock Christian metal on vinyl. Underage drinking and dodging the bouncers in Costers on a Saturday afternoon was like a sport. Up and down the stairs ... 🤣

There used to be so many music shops in Birmingham (and everywhere, I suppose). I remember that guitar shop on the corner, (next to the drum shop?) Whenever we got off the bus to go to Edwards on a Saturday night, it always involved a 10 minute diversion for the boys to stop and drool at the guitars in the window while I stood around bored and thirsty. Every bloody week.

Do you remember that young guy Jason who was always giving stuff away? He was a metalhead who worked on the till. He was nuts. I got tonnes and tonnes of free stuff from that shop! 😂

Ah amazing! Nostalgia and Comics, right?? Scott Ian was reading 2000AD all those times we were sitting at home reading it too. God, I nearly got a Judge Dredd badge tattooed on my upper right arm when I was 17, imagine that now on a grown woman. Fail. 🤣 A few years ago, I used to work for an antiques restoration company and it wasn't far from Ozzy's UK house in Jordans. Previously, the company had done a lot of work in their home. Sometimes I'd come into work and there'd be some damaged item plonked on my desk that the removal crew had picked up after a party at their house. Rock and roll, eh. My boss told me that in their bedroom, Sharon and Ozzy had two seperate bathrooms coming off it so they didn't have to share. Good for Sharon, I wouldn't want to use the same bathroom as Ozzy either! Anyway, I digress ..

I saw that Dave Mustaine post on FB yesterday ... Ozzy has suprisingly legible handwriting 😂

It was a bloodbath alright.

I saw them in Wolverhampton on that tour. I'd been in the pub a week before and got chatting to some guy, and when I walked into the venue on the night of that gig, he was playing in the support band before Anthrax came on. During the break, I went looking for him in the bar and saw him chatting to some girl so I left it. The next time I saw him down the pub, he explained that the girl in question was a relative and if I'd only come and said hello then I could have watched the Anthrax set from side stage. One of many 'nearly made it' moments that my life seems to be sprinkled with ....

Nooooo. Heretic! Seriously though, I have seen Anthrax several times, both Belladonna and Bush eras (and Belladonna again obvs). Much prefer Joey, it's not Anthrax without him. I was so pleased when he came back!

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I follow Scott Ian on Facebook. Did you know his father in law is the one and only Mr Meatloaf?

Thank you fba.

Yes I believe that's correct 😁 I was trying to recall but I cba to go searching for it. Can you remember who it was?

Be careful what you wish for .. Who remembers this unfortunate incident involving Anthrax: During the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States the band changed its website, providing information about the disease after people began searching "anthrax.com" on internet search engines. Amid a potential PR nightmare, Anthrax issued a press release on October 10, 2001, joking that the band's name would be changed to "something more friendly, like 'Basket Full of Puppies'." Anthrax dispelled any name-change rumors derived from the press release at the November 2001 New York Steel 9/11 benefit concert, when they took the stage in boiler suits with a different word on each one which ultimately read "We're not changing our name". Bello has stated they did so after receiving support from members of the NYPD and FDNY, who believed that changing the name of the band would send the wrong message. A picture of the band in the suits is on the inner tray card of We've Come for You All. I also recall reading an interview at the time in Kerrang or some other metal mag, when one of the guys in Anthrax stated that in the event of being targeted in an actual Anthrax attack, he refused to die an ironic death. We can laugh about it now 😁

😂 I have heard of Pestilence and Gorefest, yes.

Have a day off, will you!

Snap! Although I have never heard of Dead Head (Dutch band? - thanks Google) Also, I cannot stand Bobby Blitz's voice so sorry, no Overkill for me either.

I remember that documentary!

Outstanding choices there, sir 👍

Tenuous at best ...

The ultimate insult! 😂

Yeah, I can't get on with their synthyness ... It was very much a case of "How long have I been out for??" and "Come back, Judas Priest. All is forgiven." 😆