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darkwasthenight posted:Never heard a lick of music by Falling In Reverse but that guy seems to only exist to post Twitter beef with some of the worst people in the industry. Falling in Reverse resides in the “scene bands that are only notable because of one of the members crimes” bin. That guy went to jail because one of his friends killed some guy over MySpace beef and he like facilitated and was present at the murder. Edit: Here’s the Wikipedia section because it’s peak Stupid Music poo poo; I was slightly wrong as to why he as jailed: quote:Involvement in killing and prison sentence TheMightyBoops fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Jan 14, 2024 |
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Sanguisugabogg rules though. That guitar is stupid as gently caress. Twitter is cancer.
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I like that Eminem roasted Machine Gun Kelly so hard he stopped rapping and switched to pop punk. Basically all I know of him.
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stratdax posted:I like that Eminem roasted Machine Gun Kelly so hard he stopped rapping and switched to pop punk. Basically all I know of him. Ian MacKaye you know what you need to do
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stratdax posted:I like that Eminem roasted Machine Gun Kelly so hard he stopped rapping and switched to pop punk. Basically all I know of him. He also made that 8 Mile movie
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stratdax posted:I like that Eminem roasted Machine Gun Kelly so hard he stopped rapping and switched to pop punk. Basically all I know of him. I like Eminem a lot, but he needs to retire. He's in the stage of his career where he's damaging his own reputation. As for MGK, he's fine. Fine. He has seemed to straddle that weird line where he has lots of millennial fans as well as a healthy cohort of gen-z streaming his music. There's a nostalgia aspect to it for sure; seeing pre-teens pine for the awkward era of emo that even we didn't like going through is very funny.
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Mister Speaker posted:There's a nostalgia aspect to it for sure; seeing pre-teens pine for the awkward era of emo that even we didn't like going through is very funny. it's kind of fun seeing bands like static dress pop up that i would have absolutely loved at 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvDGnZDPA0g
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A lot of the emo stuff missed me at the time, tbh. Really wish I'd taken off to go to Warped Tour with some friends at the camp at least once, it would have solidified things a lot faster for me - now I dig a lot of it in retrospect but still feel like an outsider for a lot of the deeper cuts. The revival is weird as hell. I know musical and fashion trends are cyclical, but does it not feel like it's happening a little more rapidly than other revivals of old music scenes? We had a brief stint in the 00s/10s where a handful of bands tried 70s rock and 80s hair metal, and synthwave was a big return of 80s pop sounds but the emo revival (if you can even call it that) is barely one generation removed.
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sporklift posted:I blame August is Falling. They only released one EP in the 90s, like Texas is the Reason, kinda.
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sporklift posted:I blame August is Falling. Even on a Saturday noight?
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Hey, let's not demean any space wizards in this super serious thread.
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This sums up Vai, to me. He has this prodigious mastery of the quantifiable aspects of music but when it comes to matters of taste he just throws anything at the wall. What the gently caress is he wearing. It’s a nightmarish, crude version of David Lee Roth’s style which is already nightmarish and crude. He was like ok ok give me some twink rodeo clown shopping at Steinmart vibes. Make me look like I went fabric shopping at a Cracker Barrel if it was located inside Lisa Frank’s cocaine-melted septum. Imagine if this guy took a god damned artistic chance once in his life. Make a flute album you fuckin pussy. Faustus is cool as hell tho.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:twink rodeo clown shopping at Steinmart
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In ironic timing, I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today and took this picture, partly inspired by years of reading this thread:
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Whoa, a pre-alpha build monkey grip. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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fartknocker posted:In ironic timing, I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today and took this picture, partly inspired by years of reading this thread: New Ormsby just dropped.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:It’s a nightmarish, crude version of David Lee Roth’s style which is already nightmarish and crude. Is that pic from when Vai was playing for Roth? I mean the causation could go either way with that, like how Kenny Aronoff touring with The Smashing Pumpkins on Adore wasn't the reason he dressed like a divorced dad trying to date a goth girl.
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Krustic posted:https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/namm-2024-tamagotchi-guitar-pedal-121241404.html I am the stupid music poo poo because I totally want this. Also not as expensive as I thought it would be. Also as to Steve Vai, I think I put nail polish on an old pair of jeans once too, but it was for a Halloween costume.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:oh man, it looks so much better under blacklight It does
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Baron von Eevl posted:Is that pic from when Vai was playing for Roth? DLR band's second album was called Skyscraper and it came out in January 1988 before Van Halen's OU812 came out, the second album with Sammy Hagar (and, to me, the beginning of the end of my interest in Van Halen). 1988 is the same year I started my senior year of high school. The JEM series debuted in 1987, and there was a JEM77FP (floral print) sitting in the local music store in Raleigh from 1988 until mid 1989 when I put money down on it at the beginning of the summer of 1989 and paid it off that August, just before I went off to NCSU with it and played it to death instead of, like, doing my coursework. Only paid $999 for it, compared the like $1,675 it listed at in 1988. By that point the store was dying to get rid of it, and I was dying to own it. That photo shoot with Vai, the JEM77FP, and the solder-covered jeans was from the May 1988 issue of Guitar World when Vai was doing the magazine round (Guitar Player, Guitar World, Guitar For The Practicing Musician were the big three back then) promoting Skyscraper and the new JEM guitars. I still have that magazine. Despite what Bhabhi said above, there was no one else sporting a look like that at the time, it was absolutely unique to Vai. Van Halen was in, basically, pajama pants and t-shirts for their 5150 tour which came out on VHS in Live Without A Net around that time, and the other bands were all doing the skin-tight leather, denim, poet shirts, or lycra neon color looks. Vai's solder-covered jeans were unique and awesome.  Look at this issue! It was 100% my poo poo back in the day and look who and what was in it: Vai "The High Priest of guitar", Paul Gilbert in Racer X with a Racer X transcription if you could handle that, Michael goddamn Hedges AND a transcription of one of his tunes (RIP), Bob Bradshaw of the rich and famous Bradshaw guitar rigs played by Clapton, Frampton, Van Halen, Lukather, Prince, Andy Summers, Malmsteen, Gilmour and Vai among others). That issue was on-point you have to keep that costume in the context of 1988. That's the Vai I remember worshipping, the guy who was in the Crossroads movie as the devil's shredder. The guy on Eat 'Em And Smile, which has some of the coolest and craziest hard rock tunes over put to record. In hindsight, sure it's stupid music poo poo, but in the day it was ground-breaking stuff. That was when the Vai vs. EVH arguments really got heated, and most of us just adored both of 'em. Now, after 1989, after Whitesnake, things really fall off the cliff for awhile. Sex and Religion is pure garbage like much of his solo catalog after leaving Whitesnake, but after that horrible mistake he started putting out very interesting and original stuff that I don't just listen to. Including the tour he did with like a violinist which I've never actually heard. I still listen to Eat 'Em and Smile and Skyscraper, though. That poo poo was epic. /Faust post
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I will take that Vai look over Tim Henson's $10k hype beast sweaters any day
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Dr. Faustus posted:... Speaking of Stupid Music poo poo and Whitesnake, a Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ previously owned by Whitesnake guitar player John Sykes is being sold in LA right now on craigslist for $12,000, just in case anybody has any extra cash burning a hole in their pocket, lol.  https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/msg/d/tarzana-john-sykes-owned-mesa-boogie/7708271377.html The funny thing about this listing is that amp would probably sell for about that much even if it wasn't claimed to have been owned by some big shot guitar player. People *really* like those things. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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GreatGreen posted:The funny thing about this listing is that amp would probably sell for about that much even if it wasn't claimed to have been owned by some big shot guitar player. People *really* like those things. they still make a mark iic today that's the same price as the used ones i mean you gotta put up with the dream theater association, but whatever
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Dr. Faustus posted:Sex and Religion is pure garbage i honestly really like that record, even though it's a bit cheeseball
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I thought it was Tim Henson's Polyphia and it was a Muppet band but it runs out I was wrong. Then I got more confused as to why people seem to have VERY strong feelings about Polyphia when we've done this a million times with other "virtuoso" and "music for musicians" bands. Like a lot of other instrumental virtuoso style music they usually have some licks I want to steal but I am not going to listen to, like, an album. Just like Steve Vai. Also as a person I've grown to like Vai more and more even tho his music is still a bit whatever to me. I am glad he found success tho, he seems like a cool dude (please don't come out as a chud or something).
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insane clown pussy posted:they still make a mark iic today that's the same price as the used ones The JP2C is in the ballpark but I don't think it's quite the same. I wish it was but it's not. Mesa has been trying to reproduce the real IIC+ for years in a bunch of different amps but they've never quite gotten there, mostly due to parts they used in the real amp no longer being made. Funny enough I think the IIC+ mode in the new Mark VII is the closest they've come to actually reproducing it though. Also I feel like I should apologize to the thread for the derail but then again, getting weirdly meticulous and obsessive about music gear definitely fits the theme here. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Not sure where to post this but I need to share with someone. This thread is appropriate due to my obnoxious history in its first iteration: Today I celebrate three years since my last drink of alcohol, and I celebrate by gathering my work clothes (the ones that are not too baggy since I lost 90 lbs. after getting sober, and am at 179 today heading back down to 165 after the holidays) for my orientation day tomorrow at my new job. It pays better than my last job, is hybrid office/remote, and has good benefits including bonuses. Even though the last two years since I left my last job have been dark at times, I've avoided being the rear end in a top hat I used to be when I was drunk every day. You can do anything you set your mind to, if you want it enough and learn from your mistakes. I'm still learning, but I have a new lease on life. Stupid Music Chat: That MESA/Boogie looks incredible, and I love John Sykes, he is a terrifying guitarist. Cheers!
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Congrats on both counts, Faust. You're the only poster I've ever bothered taking off Ignore for good behaviour.
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