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Oh hell yes!! I still listen to that album regularly 30-odd years after. Skyscraper was pretty good too, but I love the energy of Eat Em.

The Pineapple Thief's Where We Stood live cd/dvd pack. Yes, I'm one of those weirdoes that still buys CDs. 👽

For me, the novelty of Nevermind wore off pretty quick, especially after gigging 4 or 5 songs off it for a few months. Alice In Chains were probably the band of that era/genre that I liked most.

Back in the day it would have been 1 Badmotorfinger, 2 BSSM, 3 Nevermind…. but BSSM is the only one I still listen to regularly...

Have you ever discovered a band and thought Crikey, I could have written that or That dude plays like me? For some reason I had never listened to any Fates Warning until recently when I happened to be bit the worse for rum and rifling through various YouTube suggestions. I started watching a live gig from Athens and instantly liked it and found it very similar to stuff I've written over the years, and the bassist Joey Vera even looks and plays a bit like me, or indeed me like him! I've since bought a few albums. Not to be confused with 'This is the band I wished I was in', have any of you fine people discovered bands that are strangely familiar in playing style and/or material? Mmm... rum.... 😍

Amen to that... I always use the local luthier to deal with that sort of shenanigans...

Gary Glitter has been a bit quiet of late.... 😉

True... I guess many of us are optimistic that things might have improved even though experience might tell us otherwise. As my mum says, "You can live in hope even if you die in despair." Hopefully it wasn't directed at me! 😳

I've blown out the least number of rehearsals, so yeah, I rock!! 😎

If singer dude wants to gig as much as possible, and others in the band want to do one a month, this will happen, and in all honesty, singer might jump ship altogether. Such is band life....

Man, that is an absolute beast of a bass!! 😎

Bought a JM6 from a nice guy in the Netherlands. It arrived quicker than a lot of purchases I've made from here in Britain!

Well.... I'm quite happy with this album. I want to buy a cd but I'm jiggered if I'm paying for that all extra stuff.... Mind you, I'm no longer minded to analyse stuff to death - 20 years ago might have been different, but these days if I like it I listen to it.

I'm liking that! Good stuff, squire! 🙂

Played a gig during that really hot spell a month ago... hadn't played that venue in quite a few years and I had forgotten about all the wood, low ceilings and lack of ventilation etc.... and d*ckhead here turns up in his usual black jeans, t shirt and baseball cap combo. Jesus I nearly melted. Fortunately it was just a 45 minute support and 2 pints of ice water and a pint of Doom Bar just about got me through... had to wring my jeans out when I got back. Ugh..

I'm going with #5. Upset the least amount of people and play the good guy. Should bear fruit at a later date...

Great for exercise up the neck, but a bit of a ball-ache further down.....

Yeah, unfortunately, a significant number of the public expect musicians (and others) to be all things to all people and fulfil their expectations. Fulfilling expectations outside of music and performance isn't really a musician's job, outside of realistic limits. One could argue that 'if you don't want the attention, then don't seek the fame' but that just panders to the entitled fanboi. I guess you need the patience of a saint to be nice to every single person who wants a piece of you.... I ain't got it, and I wouldn't expect others to have it either. I'd make a crap rock star!! 😂

Right handed, right leg for bass, left leg for classical guitar...

I pretty much lost interest after Counterparts.... not that any of it was 'bad' as such, it just didn't move me the way earlier albums did...

Anybody else read Ghost Rider? All respect to Neil for coming back from the sort of devastation that he went through..

One of my all time favourites along with The Enemy Within. 😎

A couple of my mates needed a finger-style bassist and knew I played classical guitar. The rest is history... 30 years on I'm still loving the bass.

Why is it that the lady gets upset when I'm using her botty as a drum kit when she's saddled up?... I wonder if Mike Portnoy has this problem... 😟