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[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1462274317' post='3041584']
You can put just about any word in front of metal and it's a genuine sub-genre...
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You can actually put another word in front of the word in front of metal, and that is too!

http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

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[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1462274693' post='3041592']
You can actually put another word in front of the word in front of metal, and that is too!

[url="http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html"]http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html[/url]
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Indeed... You can also pick a random word and put "core" after it.

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[quote name='NJE' timestamp='1462264512' post='3041474']
I don't think living in Gloucestershire is any different to anywhere else in the country with perhaps the exception of London. It depends a lot where you are looking for bands and musicians in my opinion. I wasn't in a band when I moved to Cheltenham a few years ago, I found one band on a muso-finder style website, joined them and through that band (who consequently didn't play music I loved particularly) I have met so many brilliant musicians and been in 2-4 bands at any one point since, playing good variety of music

[b]Judging by a few posts you have made I guess your into funky/jazz/fusion kinds stuff, Incognito and Brand New Heavies etc? I LOVE music like this, but sadly I don't think there is much of market for it venues up and down the county. Some of he busiest working bands I know and have seen, play crowd pleasing stuff, big 'cheesy' tunes that you can either sing along to in pubs or dance to at weddings.[/b]

I play in a tribute band, a wedding pop covers band, and up until recently two soul bands. I cant say I am a massive soul fan but I learned to almost remove myself from what I was playing and I just get a buzz playing any kind of music well with good musicians to people who enjoy it.

I think it is just abut what you want from music, if you cant find a band playing what you want, try and put one together.
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Maybe it is regional but the bands that get out of pubs round here tend to be blues/greasy funk bands doing stuff like Maceo, Meters, swampie stuff and long forgotten 70's funk.

In that respect a lot of the blues bands have been left behind altho there is always room for a classy blues band.
(The trick is being more that a one trick pony tho..??)

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[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1462273744' post='3041579']
Symphonic metal? Whatever next, lol.
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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1462274213' post='3041583']
Yeah, it's a thing apparently...
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It's been a thing for the last 15/20 years at least.
wouldn't knock it, some of it is pretty darn good

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[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1462278507' post='3041661']
It's been a thing for the last 15/20 years at least. Wouldn't knock it, some of it is pretty darn good
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Me, knock an established sub-genre? Never! I'm into Melodic Metalcore, me.

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[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1462273744' post='3041579']
Symphonic metal? Whatever next, lol.
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This is who we've been compared to most, though neither they or us are strictly symphonic metal in the traditional sense :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmo06CrXP4M

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[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1462274317' post='3041584'] You can put just about any word in front of metal and it's a genuine sub-genre... [/quote]

Precious Metal:

- "Daahling!! Mwaah! Mwaa!h "<air-kiss noises> "You were faabulous tonight. Gorgeous solo. That tone is just to die for! Looove the new axe by way, wherever did you find it?".
- "What this old thing? Oh I've had it for years. But I had it reliced by this wonderful little man I found....."

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[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1462260896' post='3041448']
That's cool when you're 25 but starts to wear a bit thin when you're in your 30s and trying to balance a gigging band with a full time job and maybe a family.
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Everyone has to make their own lifestyle choices. There's no rules to say that you have to have a career and a family once you are in your 30s.

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1462268331' post='3041513']
...the successful people in this industry aren't the ones who have had everything fall on their lap.
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Very much this.

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[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1462260896' post='3041448']
Cool when you're 25 but wears a bit thin when you're in your 30s and trying to balance a gigging band with a full time job and a family.
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I'm doing that in my 50s. I'm gigging way more than I ever have done in four decades of playing and loving it. Er, mostly.
The only thing wearing thin is my hair. Boom-tish!

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[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1462281927' post='3041710']
Is that the 5 minute contradiction or the full half hour?
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I just told you! No I didn't. And so on and so forth, etc...

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[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1462279735' post='3041674']
I'm partial to a bit of alternative symphonic grindshoegazecore myself. Having trouble finding a band.
[/quote] Thats what we play and we are looking for a 4th bassist but everything is tuned down 5 octaves and we only play in f flat but not E !

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1462281161' post='3041696']
I'm doing that in my 50s. I'm gigging way more than I ever have done in four decades of playing and loving it. Er, mostly.
The only thing wearing thin is my hair. Boom-tish!
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Me too. The last time I was in a band as busy as the Terrortones was back in the early 80s, although I probably would have been gigging more in the intervening years if I'd been in bands that were more popular...

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Where you are makes ALL the difference and informs you of some of the music you'll find. I used to live slap bang in the middle of Liverpool and Manchester and you couldn't throw a stone without hitting another musician.

Then Leeds which has a jazz college so there's TONS of musicians, and now I live in Cambridgeshire and there's..... frankly.... hardly a damn thing.

So yeah, it's far from "just London" but I suppose if you've never lived up near the Leeds/Liverpool belt you'd never know.

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[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1462284184' post='3041738']
Where you are makes ALL the difference and informs you of some of the music you'll find. I used to live slap bang in the middle of Liverpool and Manchester and you couldn't throw a stone without hitting another musician.

Then Leeds which has a jazz college so there's TONS of musicians, and now I live in Cambridgeshire and there's..... frankly.... hardly a damn thing.

So yeah, it's far from "just London" but I suppose if you've never lived up near the Leeds/Liverpool belt you'd never know.
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there are loads in cambridgeshrie.... most of them are either in bands, given up or lacking in certain skills or requirements

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