SteveXFR

Draconian Times by Paradise Lost I hadn't listened to this for years. Great bit of 90's goth metal with some great bass and killer drum grooves in places. Highly recommended. As I write this the record has just finished and Tidal has gone on to Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses album so it's it's a good morning.

I do some backing shouting. With our particular style of punk / metal crossover I don't need to be able to hold perfect pitch or make the lyrics understandable. I just have to get the timing and general attitude right.

Band 1 Guitarist seemed like a decent bloke on the phone but never turned up on time, forgot about it completely twice possibly because he was a massive pot head. We all quit and went our separate ways. Band 2 Great music, thought I'd have no chance of getting the gig but did. The two guitarists were convinced we'd be full time pro within 6 months and spent a ton of cash on pro level gear then insisted I do the same. My response of "let's see where this goes before I drop £7k" did not go down well. I quit and so did the drummer shortly after. Band 3 Me and the drummer met at a jam session and got on well. He had a mate who plays guitar. Primary aim of the band is to enjoy what we're doing. We play loud, simple punk/metal crossover. It's going great.

Maybe she was dragged along to take her kids. At every gig there's at least one person who'd rather not be there.

Money - Pink Floyd

Is he underrated? I thought he's generally recognised as one of the all time greatest pop song writers.

I was mistaken. I seem to remember quite a few one hit wonders around that time. Stiltskin and Babylon Zoo were around the same time with huge hits then nothing.

I don't think he was a one hit winder was he? Didn't he have another big hit that no one remembers? I saw him play at the Radio 1 roadshow at Longleat but remember nothing about his performance.

Shedding Skin - Pantera

Frost hammer - High On Fire

Danger high voltage - Electric Six

White Cell - Cult Of Luna

Black Hole sun - Soundgarden

Supermassive black hole - Muse

2 sun's and one star - Down There's a star called Vega

This love - Pantera

Millionaire - QOTSA

Orgasmatron - Sepultura

In to the valley - The Skids

I don't care what my bass sounds like when I practice at home. I don't see the point of practicing with anything other than my live bass. I have a second bass which I use for playing non band stuff at home but only because the bands music requires tuning to drop A# which makes it useless for anything else.

I was once hit by someone who was in a band, does that count? We auditioned a drummer for our last band who played on a prog hit in the 70's. He may have mentioned it quite a few times just incase we forgot. He was decent but we all decided we didn't want to hear about his one hit every 5 minutes.

Airborne at the Cheese & Grain in Frome tonight, our local. Airborne were just brilliant as always. Simple hard rock played well and a very entertaining performance. They really know how to get a crowd going. Really great sound, I guess they have their own sound engineer. The venues PA is the old Glastonbury Westholts stage PA so it's got mega power and quality. Support band Florence Black were brilliant as well, I've not heard them before but really enjoyed them. Heavy rock occasionally breaking in to full on metal.

That's pretty much standard for them. Sometimes he has a can and breaks it open on his head while playing a solo one handed. They also do a tribute to Lemmy which involves wheeling a bar on stage and pouring them each a very large Jack Daniels and coke. The audience gets a good soaking with beer at various points in the performance. Last years show was their first in two years. They made a few mistakes and got a bit emotional about being back on stage.

They're always amazingly entertaining. I'd recommend making the trip down here next year to see them in a small venue with excellent sound. A mate of mine is stage manager at the venue and loves working with Airborne. They're the most professional band he works with, no egos, they love what they do and they come off stage absolutely exhausted. Disappointingly, most of their cabs are empty and just for show.

Tomorrow night we're going to see Airborne play our local, the Cheese And Grain in Frome. It seems to be a regular thing for Airborne to play Frome as the warmup show for the European tour. This is at least their fourth show here. Always a very entertaining show.