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Dr. Faustus posted:Do tell, because I thought the be-all and end-all of LZ clones was Kingdom Come. I remember the backlash very well. just saying his entire career is based around ripping off robert plant
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comes along bort posted:just saying his entire career is based around ripping off robert plant I remember some minor pissing contest where Robert Plant thanked David Coverdale during a concert or something. But the Dr. is right... You can't talk about Led Zep wannabes without mentioning Kingdom Clone. Concert memories time... [wavy lines] I went to Monsters of Rock in '88 at Alpine Valley, WI (the very first show of that tour), and Kingdom Come opened the 5 band show. They started playing, everyone stood up, realized who was playing, and the whole place sat back down. People continued milling around and basically went back to waiting for the show to start. That's my Kingdom Come story. Noteable memories from that show: Metallica sounded GREAT. I wasn't a fan at the time, but their live sound was great during that show. My metallica-super-fan buddy complained that Kirk kept loving up his leads, but I didn't know the songs well enough to notice. Dokken was clearly in their pre-explosion, openly-fighting phase. Every time Don would start talking, George would start the next song stomping all over him. And their sound was horrible. I've heard less microphonic feedback at a no-cover bar show. Scorpions were polished and choreographed and sounded exactly like their live album. Van Halen took forever to take the stage, and by the time they did, we were in danger of missing our ride home and had to leave. I heard Eddie's solo from about half a mile away, and was a little bummed that it sounded the same as his solo on Live Without A Net. Oh, and the massive garbage fight that erupted out of nowhere, and quickly escalated into a sod fight until someone got on the PA and said Van Halen would just up and leave if we didn't stop. I mean they! THEY!
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i bet this takes years of practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR2NwYTjPW0 shamelessly stolen from PYF's cute thread
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Dr. Faustus posted:In TYOOL 2015 I was schooled that Def Leppard "owns." Please compare and contrast with other great bands from my High School years such as: Bon Jovi. Which owned harder? Scorpions? Ratt? Poison? Quiet Riot? That reminds me, the comments thread on this blog post about whether Jon Bon Jovi had really rocked a million faces by early 1986 (a point when they were not yet that big a name) is surprisingly entertaining: http://laaazlo.blogspot.com/2009/01/bon-jovis-faces-seen-vs-faces-rocked-ca.html Some true 80s scholars in the thread bring up Bon Jovi having opened for Ratt and ZZ Top and .38 Special at various points prior to 1986 as possible boosters for the faces-rocked metric.
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:That would be Slade, thank you very much. Or as my fellow retail workers in the UK would know, THE WORST loving PEOPLE ON EARTH... in December. I can never not interrupt Slade chat with this story - it sounds like a bullshit urban myth at first, but it's a story that Noddy Holder tells freely, I saw him tell it on the Frank Skinner show, and it might actually even be in Noddy's autobiography - Before Slade were big, possibly even before they were called Slade, like many young UK bands way back then (eg the Beatles) they were scraping out a living in Germany. Apparently their pervy German landlord said "I'll let you off with the rent if you poo poo on a glass coffee table while I'm underneath" Noddy said to himself, "well, I do not have the money to pay the rent... and I do actually need a poo"...
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Fair Hallion posted:I can never not interrupt Slade chat with this story - it sounds like a bullshit urban myth at first, but it's a story that Noddy Holder tells freely, I saw him tell it on the Frank Skinner show, and it might actually even be in Noddy's autobiography - That's the Danny Thomas urban legend lol
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That les paul thing on that other page looks loving stupid as poo poo. Romeo Rose's guitar would be an easy choice over that Les paul tribute thing
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fyodor posted:That's the Danny Thomas urban legend lol pretty sure it happened to barbara streisand too
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How the gently caress can all these starving artist types afford glass coffee tables?
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comes along bort posted:pretty sure it happened to barbara streisand too
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Fair Hallion posted:I can never not interrupt Slade chat with this story - it sounds like a bullshit urban myth at first, but it's a story that Noddy Holder tells freely, I saw him tell it on the Frank Skinner show, and it might actually even be in Noddy's autobiography - As far as dodgy British band stories go I particularly like the one about Quo taking a projector with a bunch of porn films with them on tour. They would set it up in a hotel room, sit on the bed cracking one out and try to ignore the other five or six musicians and roadies doing the same. Francis Rossi was totally unembarassed about telling the story. He claimed they were once joined by a groupie who tried to get them into a group thing, but got annoyed when they were more interested in watching the porn. "Do you mind love? I'm trying to have a wank."
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darkwasthenight posted:As far as dodgy British band stories go I particularly like the one about Quo taking a projector with a bunch of porn films with them on tour. They would set it up in a hotel room, sit on the bed cracking one out and try to ignore the other five or six musicians and roadies doing the same. The man irritably points at a biscuit lying in the center of the rug. "This is why we don't take you to the football, either!"
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Allen Wren posted:How the gently caress can all these starving artist types afford glass coffee tables? they got paid to poo poo on someone else's glass coffee table how do you think they're distributed so widely
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comes along bort posted:they got paid to poo poo on someone else's glass coffee table I am not making this up. He actually sold it. People are nucking futs. VV Bort, this actually happened. VV Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 10:15 on May 1, 2015 |
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May 1, 2015 10:06
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sounds plausible enough
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May 1, 2015 10:08
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I just played a song so well it scared me - it's about to trigger a mid-life crisis in fact
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ZombieParts posted:I just played a song so well it scared me - it's about to trigger a mid-life crisis in fact smoke on the water is a challenging piece
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How I wish... how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year Running over the same old ground What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
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thanks dude now i've got ptsd flashbacks from freshman year i once walked by no fewer than three people attempting to play that one afternoon
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Sorry, man. I just don't feel like it's fair to bring up "Smoke on The Water" without "Wish You Were Here." Look on the bright side. I didn't go all "Closer to Fine" on y'all. Also: Guys/Girls with acoustics sitting in the stairwell of your dormitory at "State College ABCD." And no, I was never that guy.
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So anyway, here's Wonderwall!
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wonderwall is great because liam can't sing and noel can't play guitar so you just wail away while hitting the right chords and everyone thinks it's great
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People playing smoke on the water are the worst because nobody plays it in the right key. The original song starts on a G and everyone plays it starting on the low E. I like going up to people playing it wrong and play the bass line in the right key until they stop.
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Stux posted:wonderwall is great because liam can't sing and noel can't play guitar so you just wail away while hitting the right chords and everyone thinks it's great Weird BIAS posted:People playing smoke on the water are the worst because nobody plays it in the right key. The original song starts on a G and everyone plays it starting on the low E. I like going up to people playing it wrong and play the bass line in the right key until they stop.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Sorry, man. I remember there was a girl in high school that walked around with an acoustic at all times and the punk rock guys just worshiped her. One time they invited me to come out with them because she was going to do a show and I was like "oh poo poo, she must be good or something" and we ended up going to an old empty grain silo and people were lighting small fires and lanterns for light and this girl starts playing...really badly and singing even worse and the guys were like "It sounds so good in here!" After about an hour I noticed the air inside was pretty foul so I decided to leave because she sucked anyway. Someone told me the next day that she passed out while playing.
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Dr. Faustus posted:This is a thing I have witnessed but never understood. You are a fine person, WB. I think it's because an E power cord is (ever so slightly) easier to play than a G power chord. I know because I was that guy in high school. Anyway, content! I found this thing in a music store in South Korea: 
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Weird BIAS posted:People playing smoke on the water are the worst because nobody plays it in the right key. The original song starts on a G and everyone plays it starting on the low E. I like going up to people playing it wrong and play the bass line in the right key until they stop. Smoke is one of those songs everybody knows about but has probably never listened to all the way through so they just have an idea what it sounds like and approximate it. I've never heard the whole thing. They were playing it at one of the G3 shows as a finale and I left as soon as it started. I'm not destined for that song.
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wait, people don't play smoke on the water on the d and g strings? i thought that was the whole point- you can play that riff with one finger
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comes along bort posted:wait, people don't play smoke on the water on the d and g strings? I do (I mean, when I bother to play that old poo poo). But I think that's because I have ears.
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I think one of the metal bands in our building is using some sorta wireless setup for their singer, cause when I've got single coils and stand by the nearest wall to them my amp starts growling.
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Stux posted:wonderwall is great because liam can't sing and noel can't play guitar so you just wail away while hitting the right chords and everyone thinks it's great this is why Cracker covers are awesome because you don't have to worry about the right chords either just scream YOU LIKE BEING STONED a lot at the audience
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...did they just snap the trem arm off?
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http://amazon.com/gp/product/B009GOL276/ "GUITARLET Natural Toilet Seat"
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SaNChEzZ posted:http://amazon.com/gp/product/B009GOL276/ This hurts me more than it hurts you: 
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Dr. Faustus posted:This hurts me more than it hurts you: lol
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Dr. Faustus posted:This hurts me more than it hurts you: a+, you're alright Faustus.
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Dr. Faustus posted:This hurts me more than it hurts you:
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I feel like it should work like that guitar-doorbell posted earlier in the thread.
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Dr. Faustus posted:This hurts me more than it hurts you: King of thread. 
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