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>.......how anyone cannot totally dig AC/DC.
>
> Honest to bob, if their honest rockin' don't get your XXX
>awigglin', you're probably already dead. Damn that's some
>great rock 'n roll.

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> .......how anyone cannot totally dig AC/DC.
>
> Honest to bob, if their honest rockin' don't get your XXX
> awigglin', you're probably already dead. Damn that's some
> great rock 'n roll.

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> On 20 Oct 2005 10:42:34 GMT, Miracle wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Oh yes. What impressed me about them is that Angus Young doesn't do any
> double-tapping... and he's fast.

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> Double-whatnow? The only fast tapper I know of is Michael Flatley (whose
> Lord of the Dance, while looking moderately gay (leather pants), was
> impressive and entertaining).

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> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:23:56 +0200, Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Double-tapping. It's a style of playing the guitar...:
> http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/tr...p?trick_id=2861
>
> And if you want to hear it being done rather well, listen to Eddie
> Van-Halen's guitar solo called "Eruption".

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> On 20 Oct 2005 10:42:34 GMT, "Miracle" <GetLost@yourexpense.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Aw, hells bells, Miracle! Since you're back in black and about to
> rock, I salute you.

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> On 20 Oct 2005 10:42:34 GMT, Miracle wrote:
>
>
> Oh yes. What impressed me about them is that Angus Young doesn't do
> any double-tapping... and he's fast.
>
> Mind you, he is slowing down... but he isn't getting any younger, I
> guess.

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> Mr K wrote:
>
> Oddly, this makes him sound a bit like a NES video game. But
> impressive, to get that out of an instrument.
>
> As an aside:
> http://gprime.net/video.php/nintendothemesacappella
>
> Watch it all.

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>
> Okay...............I suppose if I had ever gotten a Nitendo unit
> more of it would have been familiar to me. Now, if it had been
> Atari themes.....

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> Miracle wrote:
>
> Don't tell me you didn't recognize Tetris?!

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
> That's the only one I DID recognize! LOL
> (Although I think another was one of the Mario Brothers?)

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> .......how anyone cannot totally dig AC/DC.
>
> Honest to bob, if their honest rockin' don't get your XXX
> awigglin', you're probably already dead. Damn that's some
> great rock 'n roll.

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> Slower, perhaps, but still capable. Mercy, I hope they stay in
> good shape for a good while longer

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> - kick-XXX rock is getting real hard to find these days.

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> Oddly, this makes him sound a bit like a NES video game.

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> But impressive, to get that out of an instrument.

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> As an aside:
> http://gprime.net/video.php/nintendothemesacappella
>
> Watch it all.

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> I only rock out to double tapping tremelo rallentando w/whammy et crunch.

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> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:10:13 +0000 (UTC), Adrian Ng wrote:
>
>
> ... with a guitar that's never been touched, nor has it even been
> unwrapped, so we can't point at it?
>

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> yeah!

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>
>"Miracle" <GetLost@yourexpense.com> wrote in message
>news:4357749a_2@news6.uncensored-news.com...
>
>I only rock out to double tapping tremelo rallentando w/whammy et crunch.

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>On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:56:02 +0000 (UTC), Adrian Ng wrote:
>
>
>So, are you wearing that t-shirt with the ribs that's anatomically
>correct, apart from the fact that the t-shirt print's green?

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> I like the diagramatic "Vagina" shirt.

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> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:10:13 +0000 (UTC), "Adrian Ng"
> <spam.ng@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> I like my metal percussive and crunchy! Palm-muting rules!

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>Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
>were:
>
>I like non muted, tad bit of distortion and tons of reverb.

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> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:38:11 GMT, Hellmark
> <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dick Dale rules!
>
>

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> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:59:36 GMT, Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> ... no, I don't remember that being in the film.
>

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> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:38:11 GMT, Hellmark
> <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote:
> Dick Dale rules!

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> "Mr K" <duffstuff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:9ridnQ0-l6HO6MTeRVnytA@pipex.net...
> okay - what film is this?

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> Adrian Ng's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
> were:
>
> Part of the references they were making were from the moving Spinal Tap

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> "Miracle" <GetLost@yourexpense.com> wrote in message
> news:4357749a_2@news6.uncensored-news.com...
>
> I only rock out to double tapping tremelo rallentando w/whammy et
> crunch.

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> Miracle wrote:
>
> Yes, in the beginning.

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> On 21 Oct 2005 09:40:58 GMT, Miracle wrote:
>
>
> Going off their last album, "Stiff upper lip", there's life in the old
> outfit yet.

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>
> Damn right. Cue an anti-"Nu-metal" rant...:
> http://nexus.mmu.edu.my/index.php?s...ct=23&artid=291

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> Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm just going slapping some Motorhead on
> XMMS and whacking the amp up to 11. :D

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> "Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:v7mjl1pb53qd0lbu2hvm9o2ah1rprjcpvs@4ax.com...
>
> I am more of a lyrical guy I guess. And softer these days. My
> choices for listening on a daily basis are Leon Russell, Jerry Jeff
> Walker, Jim O'Rourke, to name a few.
>
> Quixote

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> LOL That's what I had in the CD player the other night. It's
> still in there, too, so after my weekly SG-1 fix, I'll switch the telly
> to CD mode and rock out. :D

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> "Rap and Turn Tables. Nauseating. DJs calling themselves musicians
> after scratching some black disc and holding half a headphone to their ears,
> bouncing up and down, turning some phony dials - laughable."

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> May the Music gods bless this fellow.

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> <happy sigh> Mmmmmmm, Motorhead.

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> Say, do you like speedmetal too? Some of it was awesome........

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> On 23 Oct 2005 08:43:08 GMT, Miracle wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Was that a swipe at those 'talented' boys called "Linkin Park"? ;)
>
>
> Heh.
>
>
> Oh yes. When "Ace of spades" was released, it made it into the UK
> record charts. Consequently, pop music followers attended Motorhead
> concerts...
>
> ... and ran off in fear, as soon as Motorhead appeared on stage and
> started up.
>
> Some people like their music loud. ;)
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_metal
> ... "Paranoid"???

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> No, I can't agree with that- it's not true speed metal to *me*.

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> Loved Judas Priest and Megadeth, and there's another band
> whose name escapes me.......just can't recall it tonight, but man,
> were they *fast*.

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> One ancient Kraftwerk cut had speed elements- but here again
> senility takes its toll. Dammit. It's the song which has the high-pitched
> screaming going on............

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> OH! The other band is/was Anthrax.

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> On 23 Oct 2005 10:16:03 GMT, Miracle wrote:
>
>
> That's what I thought.
>
>
> JP... sorry, not my style. Megadeth... I viewed them as
> wannabe-Metallica's.
>
> Ok, I was wrong about Megadeth.

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>
> Kraftwerk...? "high-pitched screaming"?

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> Rightly so! ;)

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> Damn. From their initial offering here in the US, "Autobahn".

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> I'd go get the vinyl and look, but new puppy is sleeping *right*
> at my feet. Gosh, I'd forgotten how totally cute these
> wee critters are.

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>On 23 Oct 2005 08:43:08 GMT, Miracle wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>Was that a swipe at those 'talented' boys called "Linkin Park"? ;)
>
>
>Heh.
>
>
>Oh yes. When "Ace of spades" was released, it made it into the UK record
>charts. Consequently, pop music followers attended Motorhead concerts...
>
>... and ran off in fear, as soon as Motorhead appeared on stage and
>started up.
>
>Some people like their music loud. ;)
>
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_metal
>... "Paranoid"???

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> I wouldn't classify Paranoid as a speed metal bit. This part is more
> of what I considered "speed metal".
>
> "Later speed-metal efforts that bear special mention include
> Helloween's Walls of Jericho (1985), Motörhead's live album No Sleep
> 'til Hammersmith (1981), and the band Megadeth, which considers itself
> the "World's State-of-the-Art Speed Metal Band". Prior to joining
> megadeth Marty Friedman colaborated with Jason Becker in perhaps the
> band that best represents this subgenre Cacophony."
>
> Cacophony was so technical as to not even really be music anymore.
> Running scales of 128th notes, to me, while impressive, technically,
> does not really define music anymore. That's just showing off. :D

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> Anyone remember Slade? Are they still going? Now those blokes knew how
> to lay down a jaunty bit of old school rock/metal and a Spectorish
> wall o' sound. Big drums, big guitar, big vocals.

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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slade
>
> Nevermind. Answer found. :D
>
> "Slade's attempts at cracking the American market were largely
> unsuccessful, although they obviously left their mark on a large
> number of US bands who cite Slade as an influence. A cover of the
> single "Cum on Feel the Noize" by Metal group Quiet Riot was a smash
> Top 5 hit in America in 1983. Slade's sound and image influenced a
> number of American rock groups in the 1970s, particularly KISS, whose
> bassist Gene Simmons readily admitted that their whole early
> songwriting ethos as regards singles was loaned from Slade's good-time
> approach."

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> Having known of Slade here in the US and having to really hunt for
> vinyl from them, I always thought Quiet Riot were a build-a-band
> created by Slade in a kind of "If you can't get into us because we're
> British, here's us as American's." I guess they were just covering a
> tune.

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>On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:26:53 GMT, Smeghead wrote:
>
>
>Ala "Yngwie Malmsteen".

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>
>Yup. Noddy currently can be seen in the UK advertising foodstuffs, fwiw.
>He also did a stint as being a radio DJ.

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>
>That does surprise me, tbh. I would never have regarded Slade as being
>influential.

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>
>Also, there's...:
>http://www.sladealive.theredtoolbox.com/index
>+----
>| The Slade memory still lives on with Don and Dave touring with Slade 11
>+----

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> That's a laugh! "Drink PG Tips, it's Rock-a-licious!"

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>On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:34:26 GMT, Smeghead wrote:
>
>
>http://www.rushes.co.uk/nobbys_nuts/mainframe.htm

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> Even funnier than I expected.

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> I'll have to put Noddy's Nuts...er, Nobby's Nuts on my "things to
> nibble" list when I visit the UK later this year.

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> On 23 Oct 2005 11:17:47 GMT, Miracle wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Ah... that one. The godfathers of electronic music... hardly speed
> metal, is it? ;)

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>
> Oh no, don't go going all girlie now.

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> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:34:26 GMT, Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> http://www.rushes.co.uk/nobbys_nuts/mainframe.htm

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> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:26:34 +0100, Mr K <duffstuff@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Even funnier than I expected.
>
> I'll have to put Noddy's Nuts...er, Nobby's Nuts on my "things to
> nibble" list when I visit the UK later this year.

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>On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:32:13 GMT, Smeghead wrote:
>
>
>That's the first time I've seen it as well, and it fits in with the
>current trend of "Insult viewers intelligence". :/

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>
>Well, bear in mind that we've also had "Beer nuts", here in the UK. They
>slowly vanished, as people realised that they were just... nuts.

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> Can I be a mouse in your pocket? :o}

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>Anyone remember Slade? Are they still going? Now those blokes knew how
>to lay down a jaunty bit of old school rock/metal and a Spectorish
>wall o' sound. Big drums, big guitar, big vocals.

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> On 24 Oct 2005 08:27:46 GMT, "Miracle" <GetLost@yourexpense.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Sure!
>
> I really wanted to go to Edinburgh to see the Military Tattoo, live
> and in person. But circumstances didn't allow me to go over the
> summer. So I've had to push it back to this spring. Maybe late winter.
>

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>
>"Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:9cqpl1dusuro65dj30i1b7vnet8tmv0dt5@4ax.com...
>
>Is it a nice looking tattoo?

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> Ah, yes, its very nice! Now, go away you silly King and your
> Ka-niggits!

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> On 24 Oct 2005 08:27:46 GMT, "Miracle" <GetLost@yourexpense.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Sure!
>
> I really wanted to go to Edinburgh to see the Military Tattoo, live
> and in person. But circumstances didn't allow me to go over the
> summer. So I've had to push it back to this spring. Maybe late winter.

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> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:26:53 GMT, Smeghead <tribesfan@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Kinda funny how you mention someone and then they turn up like a bad
> penny.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4370806.stm

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> Me- "Say honey, you remember Smeggy, the fellow whose family
>was in hurricane Katrina? Well he said I could go to the UK with
>him when he goes in a few months. Will you help me save up for
>the trip?"
>
> Ross- "Wait a minute- didn't you want to go to Las Vegas this
>December? I told you how much that will cost......"
>
> Me- "Never mind."

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>
> Huh. By the time I got there, the page was all about that
>whacked mofo Phil Spector.

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> Frank van Schie wrote, snipped all to whiz:
> Aha! AnnieMae used to be a total *fiend* for the Mario
> Brothers games, so that's the only reason I thought it looked
> familiar. I just never saw the attraction. Although I used to
> battle Q-bert often at 3 games for fifty cents. :D