Forum: Geeks' Lounge 4 Days Ago |
| Replies: 331 Views: 25,718 Listening to new riffs from the two guitarists in my band.....Now I've got to come up with some drum ideas and program/demo them with Cubase at lunchtime....Meh! :yawn: As if I don't have enough to... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge 11 Days Ago |
| Replies: 1,424 Views: 156,202 Currently drinking copious amounts of my own blood! blech! :icon_eek:
Don't worry, it's not some wierd satanic thing :icon_evil: and it's not one of those emo-style :icon_sad: self-mutilation... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge 25 Days Ago |
| Replies: 331 Views: 25,718 I've had a bit of a new album frenzy recently, so I've been listening to lots of new music...Those of you who know me will be unsurprised to know that they were all metal!
I picked up the recent... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 6th, 2009 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 1,031 Seeing as I'm paying for 2Meg broadband, I think I'm being ripped off!
494kbps down
227 kbps up
Pretty slow! |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 6th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 763 Being a filthy, foul, potty mouthed pirate, my life was rated Arrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Heh heh....Sorry, R!
I agree with the previous posters. That was a bit of a crap quiz! |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 30th, 2009 |
| Replies: 331 Views: 25,718 I'm currently listening to the unmistakable sound of tinnitus...
Everybody sing along if you know the words, come on you know how it goes. It goes:... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 413 hmm, I got 6 out of 10...
Score said 5-6 > Not too shabby..
So I guess what I've heard people saying about me is true...I am a bit of a bar-steward!
At least, that's what I think they've been... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 1,080 3 out of 3....Not dumb!
(Phew!) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 172 Views: 11,782 I was driving past a local special-needs school the other day and I noticed a sign facing the road that says 'SLOW CHILDREN'....And I thought, "Well, that can't do much for their self-esteem can it?"... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 1,560 Views: 209,444 I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That? |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 22nd, 2009 |
| Replies: 331 Views: 25,718 I'm having a bit of an industrial/electronica day today:
I loaded my industrial playlist and set it to random.
So I've had a mad mix of the likes of Ministry, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy,... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 21st, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 2,138 There are a handful of tracks uploaded to the Downfall myspace page. There's a link to it posted on my Daniweb user profile.
J. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 2,138 Heh heh, well...It's not ideal...It sounds a lot more long-winded than it actually is though...We meet up once a week for rehearsals (usually Sundays), but sometimes someone will come up with... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 2,138 Well, my own band use this unconventional songwriting method from time to time:
1. One of our guitarists comes up with a few riff ideas (or occasionally a whole song).
2. They record their parts... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 2,138 Yes, he's one of the lesser known session drummers. Lesser known in the sense that hardly anybody mentions him. He's not a household name or anything, not many drummers will cite him as an influence.... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 2,138 Hey, we've almost got enough people in this thread to start up an internet based all-geek band here on Daniweb!
Me 'n Crazzy Cat can share drum / percussion duties,
Serkan Sendur and Mosaic... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 2,138 See, I'm that bad with woodwind instruments I don't even know what they are!
Yeah sorry, I forgot about the reeds on 'em. Remember, I'm not infallible, I am only a metal drummer after all!
It was... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 2,138 Oops, before anybody says anything, yes I'm aware that trumpet and saxophone aren't woodwind they're brass!
What I should've said was:
I should be kept away from woodwind and brass instruments at... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 988 Wow, that was pretty amazing!
Nice find! |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 797 My favourite times of the day are:
Breakfast time, lunch time, dinner time and bed time!
Oh and lets not forget Miller time! heh heh! :D
No but seriously, being a perennial sun-dodger I love the... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 58 Views: 6,039 Outside of being a computer geek I'm mainly a
* Music Geek
* Martial Arts Geek
* Book Geek
* Food Geek |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 2,138 Drums and percussion are my main specialities, I play drums for an extreme/technical metal band called Downfall. I also teach drums at our guitarists studio.
I can play guitar and bass to a fairly... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 17th, 2009 |
| Replies: 331 Views: 25,718 I've been listening to rather a lot today...
Clutch (Blast Tyrant) on the drive to work, Tool all morning, a bit of Frederik Thorendals Special Defects (Sol Niger Within) and Naked City (Torture... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 17th, 2009 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 798 Personally, I wouldn't miss either of 'em!
The only reason I own a mobile phone is because my wife and my bandmates nagged me into it, so they can pester me incessantly....So if my phone should ever... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 14th, 2009 |
| Replies: 29 Views: 1,788 36.
You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 21st, 2009 |
| Replies: 172 Views: 11,782 Here are a few of my favourites:
Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it. - Marvin the paranoid android (Hitch Hikers Guide To the Galaxy).
I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 20th, 2009 |
| Replies: 331 Views: 25,718 Currently reliving my youth, listening to some classic UK Thrash (Slammer, Toranaga and Acid Reign) and some old UK Anarcho/Punk stuff (Crass, Conflict, Discharge, Disorder, Chaos UK, Exploited, MTA... |