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Here Scott just posted this  its from Last nite opening...

Heya everyone! A nothing day here, I have work this afternoon, then hockey practice tonight - I don't wanna go! LOL!

I will keep an eye out for that magazine Joe! It sounds cool!

		joedraper wrote:
		I sort of have the same problem as you do in regard to fills and solos. Those exercises (solo 1 2 &3) they help to sort of regulate that especially if you use a metronome whilst practicing. The notations on the net are horrid! I agree that writing them out in your own music book is much much better. I don't know if you get Drummer or Modern Drummer magazine where you are? They usually have some great exercises in the back and usually a song or two. I seriously recomend the Pearl kit if you are unsure.. you'll love it!      Becks wrote: Timing is my thing I always need to work on too! An earpiece metronome sounds cool. I admit when it comes to drumming hardware I am a novice, I just want a standard kit to start with and I'll take it from there haha. With timing, whenever I am playing a wee solo and a fill comes up, I almost get over excited and go through it a tiny bit too fast LOL! I'm finding it so hard to find any good notation too, what I am going to do is by music sheets and try to write some Priest notation myself by ear, and by using Rock Band (as strange as that sounds). On the expert level every drum note is used so that may help. Figuring out what time signature songs are may stuff me up though LOL!      joedraper wrote: I'm getting more practice with timing now that I've got a decent metronome. One that clips into my ear (anything else you just can't hear lol)  I can't wait for you to get an acoustic kit. I am very happy with the Pearl Vision series. It is excellent value for money although there are so many good kits out there. Noooo! You cannot banish it to the garage when it comes! What's wrong with the living room floor? lol j/k. If you very worried about upsetting neighbours/spouses with the volume you can get those rings that go on the drums to mute them? like studio rings? Or you can get those jazz type drum sticks the ones that have brushes on the ends. You just put a hair band around the brushes so you can still hit the drums and it sort of mutes the sound enough to keep the neigbourhood off your back lol. I am very fortunate that my neighbours are either very tolerant, very deaf or I just can't hear them when they bang on the door to complain.      Becks wrote: Heya Joe! Sounds like there's some bizarre albums at your house, LOL! How's your drumming coming along? Mine is ok, and I think I have worn Craig down enough that he will let me buy a normal drum kit if I get this job I'm waiting to hear about, YAY! As long as it lives in the garage is the only condition I think, LOL! Electronic is good, but I want something to bash on properly!      joedraper wrote: Becks, I have some simalarly tormenting/demented albums in my CD collection. I have a husband who likes to taunt me and sneaks in things like:  Pat Boone: In A Metal Mood (nearly chocked on my coffee first time that had a spin).  William Shatne: Has Been (ok so that title is so self explanetory in more ways than one lol) Strummin' With The Devil: The Southern Side Of Van Halen ( has anyone seen that clip of Diamond Dave performing this song with these guys on the Conan 'O Brian show? and if the answer is yes why the hell was he grinning like the Chesire cat on extremely good quality acid?) He's now threatening to get something he found on amazon called The Dub Side Of The Moon.. It's like deep reggae/dub version of some Pink Floyd songs.. Scary what's out there waiting to jump out of the closet!      Becks wrote: Very nice pics MG! Night, sleep well! Argh I was just looking up Judas Priest stuff on the main New Zealand auction website, and a copy of Hayseed Dixie - Weapons of Grass Destruction is for sale on there. LMAO yuck!!!!      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: LMAO  I was so mad I forgot the 2 nd pic... LOL Well Iam off to bed ... Long day... longer day tomorrow.. LOL Hugs to all... MG~

Becks, I have some simalarly tormenting/demented albums in my CD collection. I have a husband who likes to taunt me and sneaks in things like: 

Pat Boone: In A Metal Mood (nearly chocked on my coffee first time that had a spin). 

William Shatne: Has Been (ok so that title is so self explanetory in more ways than one lol)

Strummin' With The Devil: The Southern Side Of Van Halen ( has anyone seen that clip of Diamond Dave performing this song with these guys on the Conan 'O Brian show? and if the answer is yes why the hell was he grinning like the Chesire cat on extremely good quality acid?)

He's now threatening to get something he found on amazon called The Dub Side Of The Moon.. It's like deep reggae/dub version of some Pink Floyd songs.. Scary what's out there waiting to jump out of the closet!

		Becks wrote:
		Very nice pics MG! Night, sleep well! Argh I was just looking up Judas Priest stuff on the main New Zealand auction website, and a copy of Hayseed Dixie - Weapons of Grass Destruction is for sale on there. LMAO yuck!!!!      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: LMAO  I was so mad I forgot the 2 nd pic... LOL Well Iam off to bed ... Long day... longer day tomorrow.. LOL Hugs to all... MG~

Yup. Body parts that have a mind of their own take a lot of energy from the brain.

Thats my theory, anyway. I will be checking my mail for a Nobel Prize from now on.

		guidogodoy wrote:
		Ahhhh! Perfect! Simple answer to a simple question! Thanks!      _strat_ wrote: One word Guido, one word... Puberty.      guidogodoy wrote: I am curious to know when all these kids have the "dumb gene" kick in? I swear, everyone I know has children that are in advanced classes, read at a college level and are of stellar good looks.  Not picking on anyone here rather I am thinking of my own sister who says the exact same things about my nephews. I wonder, then, why aren't we smarter as a whole? Quite the contrary, people are getting dumber as proven by general aptitude tests. I guarantee the generations who came before us thought the same about our own "dumbing down" of society. Perhaps we are lowering standards? Anything above mediocre is now "excellent?" You are hearing this from someone who chose not to have kids? Nah! Couldn't be! HAAA!

Well If I had to Listen to this song....  I will watch this man do it!!!   OOOOOlalalalalalal

LMAO

Madoff sentenced to 150 years

Hi DF

Yep, our kids and grandkids are on the up and up it seems! Congrats on your newest chess club member lol.. he sounds like a smart little guy. Gramps must be proud huh?

		Deep Freeze wrote:
		So, I am sitting here reading all the wonderful posts about kids and grandkids. Riding bikes, going to the park....and what do I have to add???? MY wonderful ten year old grandson , Michael joined a chess club at a nearby school!! A CHESS club!! HAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!  That apple sure don't fall far from the tree, do it??? HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aww--Joe--just the thrills of motherhood--they grow up so fast don't they ??
But it's worth every minute of it !!

		joedraper wrote:
		Hi Ron xx This may sound lame but I was so happy for him. He loves his bike and is a little introvert. As soon as he took off he was whooping with joy. I had the camcorder going and you can hear him saying to his dad 'you can let go now'.  Everytime he fell off (mostly when he wanted to come to a stop) he'd just get up and get right back on again. He rode past me and said 'mama I'm a big boy now'. I started crying because of a mixture of realizing how fast he's growing up and being very happy at the same time. Oh crap.. I've turned into such a mom lol.      ronhartsell wrote: Good morning Metalians!!  Ok, NO DYING TODAY!!!! Hellrider, it is a little unnerving  the news the last couple of weeks.  Kind'a makes you wonder!! Joe, these are the day's why we have kids!!  I remember teaching Kevin and Brianna to ride their bikes, those are the memories we hold dearest to us!!  Congrat's!!!

Hi Ron xx

This may sound lame but I was so happy for him. He loves his bike and is a little introvert. As soon as he took off he was whooping with joy. I had the camcorder going and you can hear him saying to his dad 'you can let go now'.  Everytime he fell off (mostly when he wanted to come to a stop) he'd just get up and get right back on again. He rode past me and said 'mama I'm a big boy now'. I started crying because of a mixture of realizing how fast he's growing up and being very happy at the same time.

Oh crap.. I've turned into such a mom lol.

		ronhartsell wrote:
		Good morning Metalians!!  Ok, NO DYING TODAY!!!! Hellrider, it is a little unnerving  the news the last couple of weeks.  Kind'a makes you wonder!! Joe, these are the day's why we have kids!!  I remember teaching Kevin and Brianna to ride their bikes, those are the memories we hold dearest to us!!  Congrat's!!!

Monday, Monday
So good to me.. NOT!!
lol

Ok so I'm starting to take these 'mishaps' a wee bit personally now. On a good note, it's not thursday so maybe the 'thursday curse' has passed but last night our washing machine decided to stop working. So with a load full of wet washing we needed to manually drain the machine, hand rinse and do the last bit of washing by hand. Zakk had to go to school with no socks on today because the boy seems to enjoy changing socks multiple times during the day. He goes through a minimum of two pairs and he's a toddler? At least he has good foot hygiene lol.

On a very proud note.. my little angel was finally confident enough to lose the side wheels on his bicycle yesterday. He was so excited that he could ride without falling. He just needs to perfect stopping and starting now lol. Once he's going though he's unstoppable. Now his little sister wants her wheels off but seeing as she's only three I think she'll have to wait a few months first. Amazing how they always want to do what the older one is doing?

Night MG!

Well I'm home from work and I'm pretty sure I'm getting an eye infection damnit! Blimmin sore and red, and I have no chance in hell of seeing my doctor this late in the day. Damnit.

		~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote:
		AGHHH  I got bit in in the corner of my eye by one of those ugly little nats, at my moms house, hen they lived in Florida, they are attracted to sweat...  I still wonder to this day,, what the purpose of Mosquitos, and woodticks are on earth??????  Bees we need!!!  But some of the other bugs can go extinct for all I care,,,, ( shhhhh Dont tell PETA)  LOL!! Well Iam off for the Nite,, didnt get much sleep about 3 hours or so last nite from all the fun weather activity, outside,,  Ahhhh The sound of chainsaws at 12:30am,,,, I thought my neighbor turned into Jeffrey Dahmer, or the power company was outside,,, Lucky it was the power company,,,, LOL Good  Nite Metal Family....  Have a good Monday!  Hugs MG~    (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:41:42 PM)   guidogodoy wrote:   Also known as the "no see 'em / ums" in the southern states. I'm tellin' y'all. They gots all sorts o' weird stuff round these here parts!      Becks wrote:   See me nots? LOL sound weird! Right, I'm off to work, I will be back later.      guidogodoy wrote:   That and the bugs. Plenty of mosquitos and "see me nots" here (had to figure out what THOSE suckers were when I moved here...damn things are, well, hard to see! HAAA!). Of course, the tree has to fall in a thicket of poison ivy too. That goes without saying...      Becks wrote:   Blegh, humidity is the killer (so to speak lol) I reckon. Dry heat is easy enough to deal with, not sticky yucky heat.      guidogodoy wrote:   Ha...well, a "cord" (can't cut it into a chord! LOL!) is a unit of measure. I suppose to answer the question...yes. I'll have multiple cords. However, for a bonfire as I have some 8 more in storage for the fireplaces. Most of the trees on my property are blasted "gumball" trees..."sweetgum," iow. Burns with a ton of smoke and throws off very little heat. Here I have to burn every couple of weeks out of need. I'd be swamped with wood otherwise. Yeah, Becks, it is freakin' HOT!!! 7pm and still nasty hot and humid.      J.D. DIAMOND wrote:   Are ya going to cut it up into a chord? I used to do that all the time with my neighbor years ago...      guidogodoy wrote:   Funny that falling trees should be the topic of the minute. I am just coming in from chainsawing up a massive tree that just fell over! No storm or anything. Just a monster whose number came up. Almost took me with it as my damn chainsaw konked out at the end and I had the stupidity to try to finish it up by hand. Nope, not in this 100 degree weather. As you have all noted, too many people dropping dead lately...      ronhartsell wrote:   Well now, you ladies be carefull taking out your trash with all them trees blowing over...I think it would kind'a suck to get nailed by one of them buggars as they fell!!! Edited at: Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:46:46 PM

Do you live in Tennessee Guido? I thought you lived in Detroit? My bad.

		guidogodoy wrote:
		Nope. Not here. NW TN. Here it is currently 92 outside (7:30pm). Easily 100F with humidity.      J.D. DIAMOND wrote: Oh,...yeah thats what I meant,I suppose you would have multiple chords the way it sounds. It must be around 83 degrees there I just read but with the humidity it probably seems like 90.      guidogodoy wrote: Ha...well, a "cord" (can't cut it into a chord! LOL!) is a unit of measure. I suppose to answer the question...yes. I'll have multiple cords. However, for a bonfire as I have some 8 more in storage for the fireplaces. Most of the trees on my property are blasted "gumball" trees..."sweetgum," iow. Burns with a ton of smoke and throws off very little heat. Here I have to burn every couple of weeks out of need. I'd be swamped with wood otherwise. Yeah, Becks, it is freakin' HOT!!! 7pm and still nasty hot and humid.      J.D. DIAMOND wrote: Are ya going to cut it up into a chord? I used to do that all the time with my neighbor years ago...      guidogodoy wrote: Funny that falling trees should be the topic of the minute. I am just coming in from chainsawing up a massive tree that just fell over! No storm or anything. Just a monster whose number came up. Almost took me with it as my damn chainsaw konked out at the end and I had the stupidity to try to finish it up by hand. Nope, not in this 100 degree weather. As you have all noted, too many people dropping dead lately...      ronhartsell wrote: Well now, you ladies be carefull taking out your trash with all them trees blowing over...I think it would kind'a suck to get nailed by one of them buggars as they fell!!!

OH, do not despair MG! They will have a new annoying guy to pitch the "as seen on TV" products in no time flat!

		~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote:
		are you serious????  I wont have to listen to his annoying commercials anymore.. ?????   He was young too.... Gesh  what the heck is there something water or what??? Well Thats sad,  Even thought he was a bit overboard on his commercials,,   MG~      ronhartsell wrote: TV pitchman Billy Mays died this morning, he was 50.

Well now maybe cnn/foxnews can do a 24/7 cover story on him, and  talk about his info-mercials for the next 40 days every 10 seconds...  and then Interview everyone he chatted with his entire life including chilhood,  and everyone that knew those people too,,,, Geezus,,,,, LOL   and wait lets not forget... where was his doctor??  what pills was he taking..  

Cause you know.,... We all really need to know this information.. Gawd!!!!

RIP... B mays.

		ronhartsell wrote:
		TV pitchman Billy Mays died this morning, he was 50.