i'll quote stephen king "I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams or childhood trauma- that becoming a writer is a direst result of conscious will. Of course there has to be some talent involved, but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What s...

Pyromania... I bought it as soon as I heard Rock of Ages - The place Chip heard it and was a fan of it, when he was only 18months old. But I couldnt warm up to it. It was too lightweight. I was into the heaviest of metal. Iron maiden and Ozzy. I mean, it was never gonna get heavier than that. Was i...

we have a kelvinator stand up freezer in the basement...still going strong...nobody remembers how old it is but we're sure it's older than i am...d.m.

he was really good in stir of echoes...d.m.

And what about California falling into the ocean? That's been about to happen for 4-5 or more decades... or... the BIG ONE, that will surely topple every sky scraper in the 213. StEvil Oh yes! I have been hearing about California falling into the ocean since I can remember! They never mention that ...

just to add a note...if humans have invented it, it can't be perfect because humans as a species are imperfect and wildly varying in the ways they think...d.m.

"Uniform printout reads end of line Protected code intact leaves little time Erratic surveys, free thinking not allowed My hands shake, my push buttons silence the outside crowd... One world government has outlawed war among nations. Now, 'social control' requires population...termination. Hav...

i've actually never heard the entire album...i liked asylum well enough but i guess that was around the time i lost interest so i never bought hot in the shade...d.m.

dmbrocker wrote: ↑Sun May 18, 2025 4:28 pm Went with "You See Me Crying" just barely over "What It Takes". Steven just sings the shit outta that one, and the orchestral instrumentation is just perfect.

the solo in ysmc also has one of the greatest guitar tones aerosmith ever recorded...man is it smooth...d.m.

first time i've seen it...that's actually a cool guitar part...d.m.

please god no 8 tracks...i hated when the song would fade out in the middle so it could switch tracks...d.m.

m3 is still going on?...wow...d.m.

MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:05 pm Night Ranger

$tEvil

first name that popped in my head...d.m.

i do...but it's mostly classic rock stations around atlanta...d.m.

Earl Skakel wrote: ↑Wed Apr 23, 2025 7:53 pm Didn't The Egyptian Warrior Vinnie Vincent open most of this tour or was it the previous? I will not be able to sleep until I find out this information in 2025.

vvi was the opening act in atlanta...the stage was very...pink lol...d.m.

2nd row atlanta civic center the day after christmas...the dvd is good, seeing it that close was better...d.m.

haven't bought a cd since priest firepower...i will be ordering this though...d.m.

there's a few tricky things in his solos..yeah he was a good guitar player imho...so was scotti hill...d.m.

say what you will but rachel was nicer in his response than i would hve been...i would've said "YOU try being in a band with him for a while" lol...d.m.

Earl Skakel wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:21 pm

inextrem wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:38 pm

Earl Skakel wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:14 pm Could it be something along the lines of what Mark St John had?

Heroin?

The hand disease that allegedly was the reason he got booted?

reiter's syndrome...i may have mis-spelled it...d.m.

RaceFan3 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:08 pm Does Feldog qualify for both the best AND the worst? Or just the worst?

i'm not sure what universe that would be the best in, but it's a universe i don't want to live in...d.m.

i nominate slayer for both...on their albums i thought it was random noise...then i saw them live and they did the solos note for note...i'm still scratching my head over what to make of that..d.m.

sirthx2 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:32 am If you want a guy that can channel EVH playing in his style, tone etc., your two choices are Phil X and/or Pete Thorn.

i prefer thorn myself but phil x is an amazing player...d.m.

the second t-ride album demos were very weird but pretty cool....d.m.

Hot take: British Steel kinda sucks. Zero amazing Rob vocals, boring drums and mostly elementary solos. Hot take indeed. I get where that's coming from, BS isn't the band that gave us SWOD and SC but I still love it. Yeah. To me, Priest is like the Scorpions, in that they both had their seventies r...

1st 3 albums? yeah...i don't think i've heard any of the rest of them...d.m. Speak sense. eat em and smile, skyscraper and a lil ain't enough...anything after i am unfamiliar with...i've heard of your filthy little mouth and heard about some john 5 record (on here) but i just lost interest after al...

1st 3 albums? yeah...i don't think i've heard any of the rest of them...d.m.

i had a dr660 lol...had an alesis hr16b before that...d.m.

reaper, slate drums, garritan personal orchestra...as for guitars? i mic and run a direct out for amp sims including but not limited to neural dsp soldano, amped roots etc...d.m. Amped Roots sounds really good. That company has several good ones. indeed as does neural...even the little 30 watt 200 ...

reaper, slate drums, garritan personal orchestra...as for guitars? i mic and run a direct out for amp sims including but not limited to neural dsp soldano, amped roots etc...d.m.