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Well as its a festival I try to get into the spirit by drinking cider :-)
Somehow with it being outside, it doesn't seem anywhere near as loud as an indoor concert - my ears hurt for 24 hours after seeing Rammstien indoors, but I was fine after metallica 
(have got a ticket for Rammstein in march too!)
Yeah - really looking forwards to it, can't believe I'll be seeing them 2 years running :-)
Apparently Black Sabbath are reforming to headline on the Sunday night...
Well done :-)
Not too sure about the jogging bit though, that sounds far too strenuous 
Brilliant - it has an oriental feel, but def some blues in there too, thank you for sharing it 
Guess who is off to Download next year
I've booked a hotel already
They're going to play the Black Album in its entirety, although I'm hoping they'll be able to squeeze in Master of Puppets and a few others too...
Nice one! that is a result
PS - its in our DNA to spend any saved money,,,
Thanks John,
I've not ridden for a few weeks, I've got 2 horses, one's retired and the other one (Apache) had been lame, just about to bring him back into work but the weather's been awful! he doesn't like to be ridden in the rain - and it seems to rain a lot here (specially when I have time to ride LOL)
But Apache is happy munching through his hay - he eats about 35lbs of hay every day, plus his bucket feed..
How's the man cave coming along?
Eek!
I know someone with a Vox AC15, who thinks its wonderful, and as far as I know hasn't had any problems with it.
Out of interest why didn't you like the orange one? I'd been looking at them (hadn't tried one) just want something smaller than the 30w Spider IV hulking in the corner of my lounge....
Nice one John! very c&w
Sorry I've only used Spider IV's - so can't help.
Have you tried any marshall ones - seems to be a classic paring with the Tele's?
No not for geriatrics.....
I kept getting told I really needed to play along with a metronome, but I hated the annoying beep sound that they made, and then managed to conveniently loose it..
I kept seeing the "pacemaker" by sonic ventures advertised, and this makes a drum noise!
So much more fun to play along too
I much prefer it to the normal metronome, and its got all the usual functionality you would expect, the customer service was really good too, as the the first one get lost in the postal system for a couple of weeks, and I got sent another without any problem - ironically they both arrived on the same day!
Nice one, sounds like you found your perfect guitar.
Well when I wanted to get a new guitar to replace my rather awful cheap starter one, being a metal fan, I know I wanted something with double humbuckers, and started to look at the guitars metal bands used.
I decided I liked the look of the ESP guitars, but was struggling to find any local dealers that stocked them, and I didn't want to use mail order without trying them. So went to a guitar shop in Kendal (Mad Monks Music), who had a couple of ESP's on their site.
I tried an Ibanez guitar, and my lovely ESP KH202 (which is a Kirk Hammett signature guitar) when I played it, I loved it, I liked the sound, and having small hands I found the slim profile neck made it a lot easier to play.
So it came home with me, and I played it constantly, I like the deep sound that it gives, it sounds great with distortion, (the humbuckers are EMG's), and sounds good clean too.
As you would probably guess the guitar is black, and the fret board has skull and crossbone inlays. the body is mahogany, which I find gives a good tone, and the fretboard is rosewood.
The only draw back was that the floyd rose made it a nightmare to quickly go into Drop D, and restringing a lot more difficult.
So I then bought a Schecter to keep in drop D, and as lovely a guitar as it is, I still preferred the ESP, so did some research and hardtailed it, which is now brilliant, as I can easily change tunings, and restringing is much more straightforwards.
Now if only it made me play like Kirk Hammett....
Well it has arrived, I'm liking what I've seen so far, and it is impressive how it adjusts the difficulty when it think you are getting the hang of it.
Most songs have got 2 options, single note or chords, and it monitors how well you play, and then adds in more and more notes / chords.
The criticisms I have are that it keeps wanting you to check your guitar is in tune about every 5 mins - which is a bit irritating. And when on the chord mode, it introduces more chords on the fly, but sometimes if you don't know (or can't remember) what F7 is for example, it takes a few times of seeing it come up to work out your finger positions, as they aren't on screen for that long.
I've probably only put in about 90 mins since I've got it, but can see me using it, its nice to play along with the rest of the instruments, it also gives you points for timing, and monitors your accuracy.
How it actually works is beyond me, but it knows when you play bum notes!
Nice one!
Although I have to say that I think the world has well and truly gone mad....
well I've had an email from Amazon to say its been dispatched (from the states) today, so I'll let you know what I think as soon as it arrives :-)
He's very cool - when I'm in he has free run of downstairs, although if I'm out and over night, he stays in the kitchen.
He's really good, although he does have a thing for live electrical cables, and after he chewed through the freezer cable (and miraculously survived!), and 2 laptop cables, I've learnt to keep these out of reach...
Mind you he often nips my toe when I'm playing guitar, perhaps he'd prefer me to play acoustic :-)
Yeah - you get a special lead so you can connect any electric straight into the playstation (or XBox - although apparently the Xbox version isn't region free like the ps3 one)
Its meant to adjust the difficulty every 15 secs and when you are getting good, it adds in more notes etc.
Its not available in Europe until March next year, but luckily I have a PS3 and the PS3 version (fingers crossed!) is the only one that will play worldwide, although we won't have access to the downloadable content until its made available in europe.
I've read that the XBox version released in the states won't play in European units...
LOL I'm afraid its "sad but true"....
At the risk of sounding controversial...
I've picked up a couple of fenders, and didn't like them.... I found the neck too thick after the ESP, so my list would probably read:-
ESP KH2
ESP Snakebyte
ESP RZK2
:-)
http://www.amazon.com/Rocksmith-Playsta … amp;sr=8-1
I've been reading a lot of reviews on this, and decided to give it a go..
The reviews by people who play guitar seem really positive, and I like the idea that it adjusts the difficulty on the fly..
Hopefully it will be here is a few weeks, so I'll let you know what I think :-)
I admire people that can do it, but would imagine you need a lot of time, and also patience...
just trying out how to post a picture
yes, she loves cats
Cute :-)
My wife loves her cat to.
I think she is just an evil bitch, the cat that is.
Very funny :-)
I don't have cat, but have a house rabbit, this is him snoozing in front of the fire:-
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