danswift
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Got my fingers on both hands inked today.
Let me introduce you to the family...
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Fantastic stuff ..thanks for posting this!
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True Punks never die ...
Fight War Not Wars ....
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On 8/17/2023 at 8:52 PM, djdiggla said:
I don't care what you say, Joe Walsh in the man.
Rick Wakeman has entered the chat ..
When Yes we're out on tour promoting Tales From Topographic Oceans during every show, a keyboard tech reclined underneath Wakeman’s Hammond organ, ready to fix broken hammers or ribbons and to “continually hand me my alcoholic beverages.” That night in Manchester, the tech asked the bored Wakeman what he wanted to eat after the show. Wakeman, the lone carnivore in Yes, ordered a curry. “Half the audience were in narcotic rapture on some far-off planet,” Wakeman wrote in his autobiography “and the other half were asleep, bored shitless.”
The reason Rick and half the audience were bored is Tales From Topographic Oceans is an album consisted of four songs that run over four sides of vinyl, for 83 minutes...I don't know if you've ever had the misfortune to hear it but it's beyond pretentious and the whole thing is utterly ridiculous, I really like some Yes stuff but that record sums up everything that represents the worst musical excesses of Prog Rock.
“There were a couple of pieces where I hadn’t got much to do,” Wakeman would recall, “and it was all a bit dull.
So the roadie went one step above and beyond and brought his boss's dinner to him on stage.
The order, Rick Wakeman remembers, was for chicken vindaloo, rice pilau, six papadums, bhindi bhaji, Bombay aloo, and a stuffed paratha. This was November 1973 and Yes had sold out the Manchester Free Trade Hall.
Wakeman kept on at the keyboards, adding gossamer organ melodies and ambient passages to the songs. And then, around 30 minutes later, his tech started handing up “little foil trays” of curry, and Wakeman began placing them on top of his keyboards. “I still didn’t have a lot to do,” he wrote, “so I thought I might as well tuck in.” The food was obscured by the instrument stacks, further obscured by Wakeman’s cape, but the aroma danced over to Yes’s lead singer, Jon Anderson. He took a good look at the culinary insult and just shrugged then walked off with a papadum in hand, he returned to his microphone to sing his next part.
Wakeman s time in Yes was effectively over obviously...😂
now that's the man ...
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4 hours ago, djdiggla said:
I don't care what you say, Joe Walsh in the man.
He's friends with Ron Newman ..Ron's also a good buddy of mine .
Are you learning Eagles songs on acoustic guitar?
PM me your address
I'll send them over to check your progress... 🦅
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FLOL.
Learn to play your Eagles songs with the correct chord voicings fellas otherwise Ron's coming around to your gaff to show you how to do it properly.
Anyone who actually wants to learn Eagles songs on an acoustic guitar or any other guitar or instrument quite frankly deserves to be walloped over the head with a fucking frying pan let alone a guitar .
The Eagles are a bunch of cunts and their music is absolutely lousy ... except for One Of These Nights which is fucking dope with a killer bass line .
Everything else they've done stinks ...
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16 hours ago, Steve said:
Maybe you guys all know this already, but I had no idea until yesterday that this song features Chas and Dave on bass and lead guitar: -
2:09 onwards being the sample for Eminem's "My Name Is".
It's just so weird to me that those guys played on that track, cos when I hear their names, I think of shit like this, lol: -
I was aware the Labi Siffre album Remember My Song features Chas and Dave cause it's got the killer drumbreak from a track called 'The Vulture' .
That's Ian Wallace ( RIP) on the skins,a shit hot drummer who was a member of King Crimson no less,he's featured on the Islands LP and Earthbound, which is a KC live recording from 1972 .
It's also pretty amazing how many session players don't get credited for records they've appeared on,there's a ton of them,absolutely loads on very famous tracks too.
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Yo Mike ..:)
There's also Green King Cuts .
Based in Bristol ,my boy Alecs has used their services in the past.
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Hello and welcome to the forum.
Good to have you onboard!
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My two youngest kids have those VR headsets.
They tell me it's very cool indeed .
I'm not going anywhere near it however just in case it somehow magnetizes my watch ..🤪
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On 1/14/2023 at 8:51 AM, Steve said:
Here's Dan's latest tat: -
Hahaha...holy shit lol .
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Gonna get this for my partner,I bought her a Switch for Xmas .
She's mad on Animal Crossing New Horizons at the moment but my 2 youngest kids played Breath Of The Wild and even though Id never play these games myself I know how good they are ..the new one looks amazing I must say.
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Fear Of A Black Planet is the one for me..its also the album that made me want to ditch playing with bands for good and start working with samplers.
Without trying to sound like an old miserable cunt Hip Hop now is mostly fucking garbage compared to what P.E. were doing both musically and culturally back then .
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Really sad to hear about this.
Rest In Peace Trugoy .
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Heard that Jeff Beck has died suddenly after contracting bacterial meningitis according to reports .
Damn, was he good ...the Wired LP is an absolute banger , tremendous stuff.
R.I.P.
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22 hours ago, djdiggla said:
Woah! That's an intense one, Dan! You're really on a tat streak!
I am indeed!
This is actually all the ink I've been planning for the last few years but haven't been able to have done due to all the other stuff that's been going on in my life.
Left arm for all the tats I've been getting recently as my right is pretty heavily inked already..I'll be having some more work done on the inside of the right over the next 12 months plus some blackout tattooing for the full sleeve and also get my chest piece finished off too ..just had the lettering done so far on that which took a few hours ..it was fucking painful at times lol ,I ain't gonna lie!
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Left and right hands done today, it took just under three hours .
Dead jesters from Killing Joke's 'Empire Song' .
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7 hour sitting today.
Angel Of Mercy ,based on a Peter Mohrbacher painting .
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1 hour ago, JHouse said:
Damn, that's f'n sick. Crazy detailed, too.
Thanks man .
Gaz ,who's the tattooist I go to is a seriously talented artist.
Dudes only been tattooing for just over 3 years now too but his work really is top notch .
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5 hour sitting for this today .
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Killing Joke was the last gig I attended on the latest tour.
I've seen them on many occasions since 1981 and they've never disappointed me once .they always deliver the goods .
Im going to the Albert Hall show in London next year where they'll be playing the first two albums in their entirety...can't wait for that one ,it should be an absolute barn burner !
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Akai MPC X
Roland SP 808 EX
Roland SP 404 OG
Roland Juno G
Technics SL 1200 LTD
KRK ROCKIT 7 Nearfield studio monitors
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It sounds absolutely amazing..I've got to admit its also a little intimidating with the sheer amount of stuff this thing can do, especially coming from the Roland SP series of samplers I've always used.
But I'll get stuck in with the manual and there's also a load of tutorials online plus the good folks over at MPC Forums are a font of knowledge if I need any questions answered or advice.
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I just bought...a fucking enormous cardboard box...
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GET YER TATS OOT!
in THE GALLERY
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