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hintz said:
From what I understand, there aren't too many clubs for this style up there anymore and my friends all tell me the scene is pretty dried up...

Station 4( or the Lab or Ryan's) was the main metal club in st Paul and has been closed for a years or more and the staff there wouldn't put up with a clown like this(I used to live in my practice space above it)

The quest has been closed awhile(this guy would be *lucky* to play the Ascot room upstairs), I've played the "quest for metal" shows there that Earl set up(this was when they did the "quest for mayhem"93X shows on Fridays)

1st Ave is still kicking, but given his (lack of)reputation, I don't see this clown even getting in the 7th St entry...

So for clubs that host original heavy music that leaves the rock in Maplewood, the triple rock in between st paul/Minneapolis, Star Bar in northeast Minneapolis, and I'm not sure if these last 3 even exist anymore...

Where does Gigadead fit in this?? Well, they DON'T, AT ALL, and none of the better players I know up there would put up with the crap this guy seems to get off on....
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The metal scene is totally dead in the Cities now.
I was talking to some friends about even if this guy did put a band together where would he book it?
The good news is that punk is making a big comeback with a lot of great young bands.
 
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I left in 2010 so I guess I got to experience a good thing up there while it lasted, apparently it was a much better scene waaaay back, even the hardcore scene, bands like husker du, that was before my time though, but I did play with some older guys in a band called God Awful in the early 2000's(they were named Disturbed from the mid 80's until the early 90's when they broke up), I still talk to Jim the singer, he has never heard of this guy either, he got a kick out of that CL ad too:) same with the guys in Impaler(who were on Combat records way back)who played with everybody, never heard of him...
 
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This bucket smells like someone... Get it off! Get it off now!
 
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hintz said:
I left in 2010 so I guess I got to experience a good thing up there while it lasted, apparently it was a much better scene waaaay back, even the hardcore scene, bands like husker du, that was before my time though, but I did play with some older guys in a band called God Awful in the early 2000's(they were named Disturbed from the mid 80's until the early 90's when they broke up), I still talk to Jim the singer, he has never heard of this guy either, he got a kick out of that CL ad too:) same with the guys in Impaler(who were on Combat records way back)who played with everybody, never heard of him...
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Have actually played some shows with impaler as well as their side projects the last couple years. Really nice dudes.
 
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Bill and tom are class acts!! They were always great to open up for(you never wanna follow them), my buddy Kyle was playing with them, not sure if he still is or not...but Impaler always knew how to treat other bands and fans right...i can't say enough good about them...

Powermad reunited a few years back then disappeared again, really too bad as they were phenomenal
 
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I'm assuming that he picked the name gigadead to use the Tufnel philosophy of being "one more than" megadeth. Since he is such a control freak, let's form a band called "teradead" to be one more than gigadead. Make it a acoustic communist hippie jam band doing folk covers just to pee in his cornflakes.
 
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Eschaton said:
I noticed the troll is gone. Hooray! I think I solved the mystery. I'm taking credit for it. >.<
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I don't think it's fair to call her a troll. It seems to me that she was just swimming against the tide of the thread, and when people gave her s**** she gave back. She was just arguing that it has been pretty unseemly of all of us to devote a 15-page thread to making fun of some poor tool on the internet, however much he might seem to deserve it. And as someone who contributed to the pile-on, I'm willing to admit that she's got a point. I don't think that makes her a troll: It might just make her less of an a**hole than the rest of us.

That said, I'm not quite willing to go all-in to defend her (or the target of the thread) either. Maybe you could argue that she hasn't been a member here long enough to be telling people what they ought or ought not to post, and the guy we've been beating up on really does seem like he deserves it. But let's not label someone a troll just because they go against the tide of a thread and then stick to their guns.
 
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2.6kHz said:
I'm assuming that he picked the name gigadead to use the Tufnel philosophy of being "one more than" megadeth. Since he is such a control freak, let's form a band called "teradead" to be one more than gigadead. Make it a acoustic communist hippie jam band doing folk covers just to pee in his cornflakes.
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It pees in the bucket or it gets the hose!


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