Recent content by thomas

That tour seemed really ironic to me 'cause the first time I saw Blink 182 they were opening for Bad Religion.

Why can't people listen to punk and be happy with it? If it isn't 3 chord bam bam bam they complain that its new school and not really punk. No one wants to admit that musically punk is rather stagnant. In twenty five years jazz changes its ideas on meter, key, chord structure, etc... Punk has...

One of the funniest first impressions I ever made was at a local club. I was in the bathroom putting on my make up and this older biker type guy came in to urinate and he was talking to me ranting about how there is no "real rock and roll" anymore. Then he turned and saw what I was doing and...

I broke all four strings on my bass Saturday night and burnt all the hair off my right arm. Ha.

palm mutes sound funny on bass

Go straight up black metal. Dress (and makeup) like Dimmu Borgir and just stand at the front of the stage looking evil.

Now I understand your user tag. My initial response was somewhat sarcastic, my follow up was simply to expain my point regarding the Sex Pistols, and for what its worth, although quite counter culture and such in its feeling and lifestyle most modern punk bores me. The hardcore scene is a...

What was wrong with what I said? Sex Pistols were the most obvious sign of the decline of the punk ethos. Therefor, punk has been dead since the Sex Pistols. My point was that Malcolm (MacLaren?) pretty much killed the spirit of the music.

I know the resonance frequency of the "hood".

For those of us whose job it is to punk elite punk's been dead since the Sex Pistols. As far keeping the punk ethos alive I think that some of the wierd hillbilly type bands do a much better job of it than anything you'll see at Warped Tour.

I wanna be a f'ing rock star already!!!! We've already figured out the lack of booking due to playing original music, to not being southern rock or rap core or jam music or country, but we can live with that. The problem is the seemingly random booking some places do, why can the band that...

What bugs me is that we can't even get the "cool" clubs to talk to us. You know the ones that all the 'fans' think mean you're good but the ones that treat bands like ****. Yet at the same time we have clubs contacting us out of the blue to play there, people we haven't sent press kits or demos...

What does it mean when you get seriously depressed after getting turned down for a gig? I had three high profile shows that I was trying to get my band on and all three bookers turned us down.

Ric -> Shure wireless-> Peavey Max preamp-> Alesis compressore-> Peavey CS800 poweramp-> bastardized old school Peavey 2x15 cabinet now containing 2 Carvin 10s and 1 Carvin 15.