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Hey all! Been a while since I have posted. I was in a band called Parasomnia for about a year back around 2006-2007. I have been out of "the biz" for a while and now live in State College. I am looking to play again. I play virtually all styles but I think it would be pretty bad-ass to get...

Who has the time and such a lack of lack of a social life or intellectual pursuit to write all of that crap? I'm thinking that someone needs a nap here! Or maybe just a hug... :-( Please dont talk about my child. And BTW, not every girl wants to fuck a guy because he plays guitar. you just have issu...

Hey Haqwk, I have always had a theory about drumming... If you learn play jazz and funk at least moderately well, you will be a better rock drummer. I actually started listening to what I now call "jizz" (that stufff that Nelson Rangell or Kenny G would play), then I moved into real fusion...

Well at least the Nirvana was a bunch of kids. I just feel bad for the parents sitting in the audience. Hey! That's my girl up there! Ouch.

BTW What was that drummer sitting on, a chorus riser?

metalchurch wrote:Holy hell you weren't lying! These keep getting worse.

For solid punk (not even close to emo lest one confuse the two!) check out The Thermals The Body, The Blood and the Machine. Lyrically superb with great production and writing. Solid effort from up north in Canada where the best indie music seems to be coming from at the moment (Metric, Broken Socia...

Good comparison. It more or less fits in with the new prog movement with bands like Mew and Porcupine Tree. They still have an edginess and keep their song length to a something concise and not self-indulgent, while pushing things sonically and structurally enough that it is not the most MTV friendl...

I thought it was great. But it is a natural evolution from Moreno's Team Sleep project which is a lot more ambient and trip-hoppy. But I tend towards the ambient side of the music spectrum anyway. Even the metal bands I like are a little on the fringe. Much better than the eponymous album since it s...

It sounds like a swell idea but I get concerned over two things: 1) they will change your tone a bit since they will absorb some of the frequencies that make your drums "sing"; 2) If you have the bottom head on your toms, which I would recommend, then I get worried of something getting loo...

Dig it Rob. That's straight core all the way. Dude is no doubt on the Wisconsin snare battery and probably has done a summer or two with DCI. You are right. That's like 6 hours a day or more for two weeks straight and your chops can get close to that as well. But who has that much time anymore? Just...

This is a clip of Tony Royster Jr. at age 12. Umm... 'Nuff said. Nothing beats nature and a lot of practice on compound cans to create drumming genius. and yes...he got much better as he got older...! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMzX67yPrZU Here is is a little older and denonstrates spped that ma...

I think this is Ben's first year as a true starting rookie QB and he is fianlyl going through the growing pains most 1st round rookie QB's go through when a team is being built around them. Other than Hines the receivers are totally unreliable with Wilson still performing as a decent 3rd receiver. T...

Tool and Meshuggah...thats kicks ass! I Saw Tool and Fantomas at Madison Square Garden a couple of weeks after 9/11. Talk about eerie... It was a wild performance and they did the extended version of Pushit (of course). But the crowd was really kind of subdued and Maynard came out of the silhouette ...

The pic lugs are nice. Will give better resonance I am sure. I have never played acrylic - but it seems that since Ludwig re-released the Bonham kit, it is coming back. I like brass or coated brass for a 14 x 5 or 6 and maple for pic snares to give it warmth. Although, the oak snares have a really f...

Just thought I would keep the theme a runnin'... http://www.drummerworld.com/Videos/buddyrichmuppet.html Has anyone even come close to Buddy Rich? Seriously, evey time I hear something cool and new - even the crazy stuff that Dom Famularo does - somehow it's all just a footnote on the master himself...

That drives me nuts too. They are called electronic tuners... use em. If both instruments are tuned correctly, you should not have to tune to each other every time. Just work on improving that ear folks! What drives me nuts is when the drums are not tuned up and sound like paper loosely wrapped on a...

The problem with our D and team like Cinci is what I always say... Look at the protection rather than the QB. If the QB is not rushed out of the pocket I always say "crap someone is open" because of the blitzing schemes. Forget Carson Palmer, this is all about the O-Line. If the backs pick...

Yep... At least for us chaps in the rhythm section!

MeYatch wrote:

dtatusko wrote:This makes sense bass man...

I always say, play as if you are the best in the room.

damn straight. Because you are in fact the best person on stage at that time.

Pretty sweet. 30 bucks eh? I would imagine getting everything aligned from scratch would be tough. But I have never done it from scratch before so I'm an idiot anyway. http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showthread.php?p=1851576149#post1851576149 I found a guy to build this for me at $30 over the cost...

This makes sense bass man... I always say, play as if you are the best in the room. Just keep that as your little secret and never mention it to anyone - even your bandmates. You can always suck on any given night, but if your standards are high enough, maybe only you will have noticed it. The point...

Check em out on http://www.wsou.net They have an internet steam of the boradcast and the playlists. Just be warned, the format changed about 3 years ago just slightly to be more reflective of Seton Hall's "Catholic identity". What that means is less stuff from bands like Slayer, Six Feet U...

The problem with the running game is that they called the entire game just like Mike Mularkey used to call them... So they put it all on a guy who essentially was in week 3 pre-season after missing the last two weeks of camp kind of condition, and was also sick and injured. So rather than challenge ...

Form my experience a lot of what all of you have been saying is also true in NJ. Metal - or at least real metal - is right now an underground phenomenon with a few in your face exceptions. In NJ, these bands all attend each other shows and book multiple bands on the same stage. Covers bands are in a...

I tend to be a fan of music not many have heard of yet (I spend a lot of time listening to new shit when I should be sleeping)... So I have been listening to two this week that are worth checking out. The first is a group from all over England called Editors http://www.editorsofficial.co.uk/ . They ...

Motor City Bowl? Haha... I think that game was a prime example of what happens when a team that has a lot of new faces makes mistakes against one that doesn't. If Penn St. made the plays that they should have made (like dropped interceptions, dropping a snap on field goal) and the refs make the corr...

Hey Rob. If this was a church you be preachin' it with that post brudder! Dead on. Screw the what ifs... If we did that, we would be saying and probably should still be saying, "what if they called an incomplete pass on the Immaculate Reception?". The Steelers are steeped in a tradition of...