| [Becks] Saturday, January 23, 2010 2:07:34 PM | |
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| Morning everyone! Halfway through a long weekend here, yay! And every day that passes is another day closer to seeing AC/DC on thursday night! Can't wait! Hope everyone is having a great weekend. |
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| [Deep Freeze] Saturday, January 23, 2010 9:50:56 AM | |
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GOOOOOOOOOOD Saturday to one and all! Thanks to all of you for the kind wishes! There will be plenty of pictures taken as the Princess and her sister will have their cameras. I think our drummer's wife will have a video camera but I am not sure. In any event, this will all be recorded for posterity I assure you!!!!!! HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Picked up my new Shure SM58 microphone courtesy of my brother-in-law!! Very cool and FREE thanks to his "connections"!!! Have all I need and just waiting to leave for sound check. Slept fairly well last night given that I am so excited. Sure wish you all could be here but...well, I know you are here in spirit!!! LET'S ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| [ron h] Saturday, January 23, 2010 5:30:48 AM | |
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Morning fellow Metalheads 
Hope all is well with everyone!!
Kiamat, I wish I could have chimed in in time, I'm sure your essay will be awesome!!
Best of luck with your gig Freeze, you're gonna rock their asses off!!...any chance of it being recorded????????? |
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| [guidogodoy] Friday, January 22, 2010 10:22:47 PM | |
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| Best wishes from me too, compadre! Break a leg (not your back)! |
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| [spapad] Friday, January 22, 2010 10:01:09 PM | |
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Rock their Asses Off DF!!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Friday, January 22, 2010 8:39:06 PM)| |  | Deep Freeze wrote: | | ......You think it's all sex, drugs and rock and roll, do you? Well, you got the sex wrong, didn't you? And drugs..I never touch 'em! ..NOBODY does a gig like I do a gig half cut! Not even at your age!! You know what it takes?? In bed by eleven everynight before a gig! THAT'S what it takes!!
Ah yes! The night before a gig! I am sitting here, going over the show in my head over and over. Seriously! The entire show. In fact, I have been doing that everynight for over week!! HA!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot get to sleep until I run through the show from start to finish. Sing every song in my head. Good lord, I need help....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| [HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS] Friday, January 22, 2010 9:47:27 PM | |
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Good luck tomorrow Freeze!! I know you'll kick ass I wish we could be there to cheer you on - I could seriously use a trip to VEGAS along with my backstage pass!
 Can you hear me screaming from Michigan?? Videos.... I want to see some clips of the show. I wish you all the best tomorrow!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Friday, January 22, 2010 8:39:06 PM)| | | Deep Freeze wrote: | | ......You think it's all sex, drugs and rock and roll, do you? Well, you got the sex wrong, didn't you? And drugs..I never touch 'em! ..NOBODY does a gig like I do a gig half cut! Not even at your age!! You know what it takes?? In bed by eleven everynight before a gig! THAT'S what it takes!!
Ah yes! The night before a gig! I am sitting here, going over the show in my head over and over. Seriously! The entire show. In fact, I have been doing that everynight for over week!! HA!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot get to sleep until I run through the show from start to finish. Sing every song in my head. Good lord, I need help....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| [Deep Freeze] Friday, January 22, 2010 8:39:06 PM | |
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......You think it's all sex, drugs and rock and roll, do you? Well, you got the sex wrong, didn't you? And drugs..I never touch 'em! ..NOBODY does a gig like I do a gig half cut! Not even at your age!! You know what it takes?? In bed by eleven everynight before a gig! THAT'S what it takes!!
Ah yes! The night before a gig! I am sitting here, going over the show in my head over and over. Seriously! The entire show. In fact, I have been doing that everynight for over week!! HA!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot get to sleep until I run through the show from start to finish. Sing every song in my head. Good lord, I need help....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| [acolyte55] Friday, January 22, 2010 4:34:19 PM | |
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| tonight point the speakers at them and blast the priest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol |
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| [Becks] Friday, January 22, 2010 9:12:34 AM | |
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Good luck DF!
Well it's 4:10am here, I am exhausted, I have had about 3 hours sleep maximum thanks to our arsehole neighbours deciding to party it up tonight (something they have done many times since moving in in december). I have already been awake for an hour and couldn't get back to sleep, just when I think the music is stopping, it starts up again. I need a lot of sleep, so I am severely hacked off to say the least.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Friday, January 22, 2010 8:16:26 AM)| | | Deep Freeze wrote: | | Well, you are far more likely to get that car before idiots die out......
Thanks, HB! I am pretty excited!! ONE day left....
| | | Head banger wrote: | | well, the work week draws to a close (thank goodness) and another idiot has departed our midst. since the tooth fairy or whoever it is that controls these wishes hasnt seen fit to bring me a Ferrari, perhaps they could cure idiocy world wide? nah didnt thing so.
DF, Good luck at your gig this weekend!!! |
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| [Deep Freeze] Friday, January 22, 2010 8:16:26 AM | |
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Well, you are far more likely to get that car before idiots die out......
Thanks, HB! I am pretty excited!! ONE day left....
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Head banger from Friday, January 22, 2010 7:22:47 AM)| | | Head banger wrote: | | well, the work week draws to a close (thank goodness) and another idiot has departed our midst. since the tooth fairy or whoever it is that controls these wishes hasnt seen fit to bring me a Ferrari, perhaps they could cure idiocy world wide? nah didnt thing so.
DF, Good luck at your gig this weekend!!! |
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| [Head banger] Friday, January 22, 2010 7:22:47 AM | |
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well, the work week draws to a close (thank goodness) and another idiot has departed our midst. since the tooth fairy or whoever it is that controls these wishes hasnt seen fit to bring me a Ferrari, perhaps they could cure idiocy world wide? nah didnt thing so.
DF, Good luck at your gig this weekend!!! |
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| [Deep Freeze] Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:44:41 AM | |
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A very Happy Thursday to all from a very, very SOGGY Las Vegas! Just raining like crazy here and rather chilly. Makes for a very uncomfortable life for yours truly as my back is just aching! Nonetheless, had a FANTASTIC practice last night!! Oh man, we were just on the money with every song! I think we have a chance at a really good show this weekend!!!
Woke up this morning with a very slight sore throat but that is completely normal after practice. I am staying by the fire as much as possible. Have an appointment this morning with the trainer and I am DREADING it but, I shall sally forth! That clock is still ticking!!! |
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| [Deep Freeze] Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:58:47 AM | |
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| You know, for a guy like me that watches as much television as I do, this is terribly embarrassing to admit but....I am fascinated by a show called "Overhaulin' "..It is a reality series where these folks steal someone's car and turn it into a show car (kiind of like "Pimp My Ride", only way better.) ANYWAY, it is pretty embarrassing considering I only recently started watching and found out that it is NOT a "new show" but has been on the air for like, FIVE years!! |
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| [joedraper] Monday, January 18, 2010 2:11:17 AM | |
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Hi Kiamat! I didn't add anything to what the other members said because, well they said it so well, I just had nothing else to add... Oh except that they have the best looking/sounding/photographic drummer of course lol.
Best of luck for your essay. Take your time, do as many drafts as you need and once you've writtten it, don't read it straight away. If possible, go for a walk, do something totally different and a few hours later get back to it to proof read it with a fresh mind. You'll do great though!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by kiamat from Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:37:09 PM)| | | kiamat wrote: | | Hey, I just want to thank everyone who gave me a reply, it has really really helped me to form ideas. I'd also like to say a huge thankyou for all your encouraging messages, because I have actually been really struggling to write this essay- I didn't really know where to start (the brief is really vague, that doesn't help) and obviously I want to do the band justice, and just as importantly, you guys as fans justice.
I'm planning to do more work on Heavy metal as a genre, because it generally gets as bad a press in academic music journals etc as it does in the mainstream media, perhaps worse, which I've found really annoying, as people who are meant to be a serious authority on popular music shouldn't be so narrow minded- the idea still prevails that it 'isn't real music' and those few who have written about it favourably are very much rooted in the late 80s MTV stuff.
Anyway, big big hugs all round and I'll get back to everyone when I've finished it- but now I have to go start packing for going back to Uni.  xx
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| [Becks] Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:45:47 PM | |
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Best of luck with the essay writing Kiamat!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by kiamat from Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:37:09 PM)| | | kiamat wrote: | | Hey, I just want to thank everyone who gave me a reply, it has really really helped me to form ideas. I'd also like to say a huge thankyou for all your encouraging messages, because I have actually been really struggling to write this essay- I didn't really know where to start (the brief is really vague, that doesn't help) and obviously I want to do the band justice, and just as importantly, you guys as fans justice.
I'm planning to do more work on Heavy metal as a genre, because it generally gets as bad a press in academic music journals etc as it does in the mainstream media, perhaps worse, which I've found really annoying, as people who are meant to be a serious authority on popular music shouldn't be so narrow minded- the idea still prevails that it 'isn't real music' and those few who have written about it favourably are very much rooted in the late 80s MTV stuff.
Anyway, big big hugs all round and I'll get back to everyone when I've finished it- but now I have to go start packing for going back to Uni. xx
Edited at: Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:38:05 PM |
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| [kiamat] Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:37:09 PM | |
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Hey, I just want to thank everyone who gave me a reply, it has really really helped me to form ideas. I'd also like to say a huge thankyou for all your encouraging messages, because I have actually been really struggling to write this essay- I didn't really know where to start (the brief is really vague, that doesn't help) and obviously I want to do the band justice, and just as importantly, you guys as fans justice.
I'm planning to do more work on Heavy metal as a genre, because it generally gets as bad a press in academic music journals etc as it does in the mainstream media, perhaps worse, which I've found really annoying, as people who are meant to be a serious authority on popular music shouldn't be so narrow minded- the idea still prevails that it 'isn't real music' and those few who have written about it favourably are very much rooted in the late 80s MTV stuff.
Anyway, big big hugs all round and I'll get back to everyone when I've finished it- but now I have to go start packing for going back to Uni. xx
Edited at: Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:38:05 PM |
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| [spapad] Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:41:29 AM | |
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I think I could not come up with the words to describe exactly why I love Priest so I'll just use imagry.
Priest is like lightning in a jar. When you open the jar such a rush of power and electricity comes out that every hair on your body stands at attention, that's how it feels to hear a priest song for the first time ever, and with many of the songs I still get that feeling even after hearing them thousands of times over.
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| [Deep Freeze] Sunday, January 17, 2010 6:10:31 AM | |
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| Such wonderful responses!! (responsae??) So many people sharing nearly the same views. I should think that writing an essay will be rather easy! Heck, I feel like writing one myself! HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| [HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS] Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:31:58 PM | |
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Hi Kiamat, I don't believe we have ever spoken before, so I just wanted to say HI and wish you well on your essay. I've been a Priest fan since I heard the album SFV in '82. I completely agree with everything Guido, Freeze and Becks said. I'd just like to add that the harmony between KK and Glenn is like no other duo in music. They are so different in their styles and yet they blend together so incredibly well. Rob's vocal ability is like no other singer - he can sing ANYTHING. He changes his voice to suit the song and when you listen to any one album, he sings differently on every song. That in itself keeps things fresh. When a singer can only sing one way, after awhile every song starts to sound the same. I have never had that deja vu moment when listening to Priest like I do with new Maiden or other bands. Some how, and I honestly don't know how they do it, but they are able to come up with new riffs and new melodies - nothing ever sounds like another song to me. The lyrics of Priest's music is also unlike other bands. I have found so much truth and insight into my own life listening to Priest. They pour their hearts and souls into every note and word and you can FEEL it. And as Becks said so well, they always make me feel better when I am down, they give me strength when I feel weak and they take me soaring even higher when I already feel on top of the world. They have a song for every mood and feeling.
Good luck with your essay! I'd LOVE to read it when you are done! When you write about something you love, the words just seem to come. I'm sure you will do very well
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by kiamat from Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:23:25 PM)| | | kiamat wrote: | | Hey everyone- apologies for my lack of presence this last week- one of our rabbits got very sick and it seems like I've spent the whole time trying to force feed him liquid food with a dropper (very messy!) but he's much better now, fingers crossed.
Anyhow, my main problem tonight as a certain essay for my uni course that I believe I mentioned to a few of you ages back on online music fan communities and since the time to write it has finally come (because the deadline is next week- eeek..!)- and I wondered if any of you guys could possibly help with this?
I'd like to know what it is you feel is most important about Priest's music and what sets them apart from other bands?
I don't want to take up anybody's time, I would have put this in a separate thread but its not really important enough for that (its just a 1000 word essay); I know that this website is a great example of a place where people from everywhere can come together and share their love of music without prejudice, so this is a kind of tribute, if you see what I mean.
Hope you're all having a great weekend and it's warming up some. All our snow suddenly melted, though we may be due some more..
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| [Becks] Saturday, January 16, 2010 7:43:21 PM | |
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I'll chime in on this too, as best I can anyways LOL!
For me the importance of Priests music lies in the fact that in many ways, they are heavy metal revolutionaries. The twin axe attack, the soaring vocals, the leather and chains. The thing that sets them apart from other bands is the fact they are unabashedly a heavy metal band - they have never had any qualms about saying they are a metal band, where other groups may shy away from the association due to the supposed social connotations. They have never compromised themselves, and have lasted a lot longer than most bands of any genre. Their music uplifts me when I am down, empowers me when I feel weak, and most of all, makes me incredibly happy. No other band has touched me in that way.
That's a short way of putting it anyways LOL!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by kiamat from Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:23:25 PM)| | | kiamat wrote: | | Hey everyone- apologies for my lack of presence this last week- one of our rabbits got very sick and it seems like I've spent the whole time trying to force feed him liquid food with a dropper (very messy!) but he's much better now, fingers crossed.
Anyhow, my main problem tonight as a certain essay for my uni course that I believe I mentioned to a few of you ages back on online music fan communities and since the time to write it has finally come (because the deadline is next week- eeek..!)- and I wondered if any of you guys could possibly help with this?
I'd like to know what it is you feel is most important about Priest's music and what sets them apart from other bands?
I don't want to take up anybody's time, I would have put this in a separate thread but its not really important enough for that (its just a 1000 word essay); I know that this website is a great example of a place where people from everywhere can come together and share their love of music without prejudice, so this is a kind of tribute, if you see what I mean.
Hope you're all having a great weekend and it's warming up some. All our snow suddenly melted, though we may be due some more..
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| [guidogodoy] Saturday, January 16, 2010 7:24:51 PM | |
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I'll chime in here too, Kia, so long as I am properly cited and given royalty checks when this essay goes gold! HAAAA!!
For me, it was the blend of image and sheer musical talent. The dual guitars and harmony between them was one thing but put a singer with such a range into the mix and you had ultimate gold. My musical tastes range from the classics to the modern and ANYONE who can do what Priest have done for decades still amazes me. It isn't a Charlie Daniels' "Devil Went Down to Georgia" one-off, rather a lifetime of innovation. As many have said here, they do NOT grow stale having followed a formula for years. Not a simple 4/4 verse, hook, chorus. No gimmicks. Play Bach against Priest and you'll find more of a "formula" in Bach, I guarantee it.
Yes, their ability to do it again and again without being profane is huge. As they themselves have said, their look is as important as are their musical abilities. For me, if you put that much raw talent (guitars and vox) together with such insight in terms of image and you can only have the monster that is Priest.
Feel free to edit what is truly raw emotion at will.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by kiamat from Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:23:25 PM)| | | kiamat wrote: | | Hey everyone- apologies for my lack of presence this last week- one of our rabbits got very sick and it seems like I've spent the whole time trying to force feed him liquid food with a dropper (very messy!) but he's much better now, fingers crossed.
Anyhow, my main problem tonight as a certain essay for my uni course that I believe I mentioned to a few of you ages back on online music fan communities and since the time to write it has finally come (because the deadline is next week- eeek..!)- and I wondered if any of you guys could possibly help with this?
I'd like to know what it is you feel is most important about Priest's music and what sets them apart from other bands?
I don't want to take up anybody's time, I would have put this in a separate thread but its not really important enough for that (its just a 1000 word essay); I know that this website is a great example of a place where people from everywhere can come together and share their love of music without prejudice, so this is a kind of tribute, if you see what I mean.
Hope you're all having a great weekend and it's warming up some. All our snow suddenly melted, though we may be due some more..
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