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Well that's true, Lombardo is only 56 and Slayer have been around longer than MA. Not sure why I thought David Vincent should be younger.
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Well that's true, Lombardo is only 56 and Slayer have been around longer than MA. Not sure why I thought David Vincent should be younger.
That's a lovely picture of what is to be
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Seems Anthrax might have finally got the memo that stated, 'in quiet times it pays to keep engaged with your fans".
For months other bands have been extremely active on social media, not everyone has a new album/song coming out but they still manage to post to the likes of FB to keep fans updates. The likes of Rob Halford do it pretty much every day! During the same time Anthrax were lucky to post one thing a week to social media.
Now they've ramped up their output to several times a week but the big difference between them and everyone else is that Anthrax is living in the past. Posts about their big selling albums and posts about past gigs and posts about the big 4 gigs. It's good they are positing but for fucks sake they need to move into the today because they way they are going it's like they don't see a tomorrow.
For months other bands have been extremely active on social media, not everyone has a new album/song coming out but they still manage to post to the likes of FB to keep fans updates. The likes of Rob Halford do it pretty much every day! During the same time Anthrax were lucky to post one thing a week to social media.
Now they've ramped up their output to several times a week but the big difference between them and everyone else is that Anthrax is living in the past. Posts about their big selling albums and posts about past gigs and posts about the big 4 gigs. It's good they are positing but for fucks sake they need to move into the today because they way they are going it's like they don't see a tomorrow.
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Lol. I can't get it outta my head!Well that's true, Lombardo is only 56 and Slayer have been around longer than MA. Not sure why I thought David Vincent should be younger.
That's a lovely picture of what is to be
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Well in my off the cuff opinion
that depends. Is Dave Mustaine the kind of guy who is going to sign up to be for lack of a better term, a trained monkey? Who is more important in this equation? Mustaine can get an endorsement deal from anyone.I think Just having him be seen with it is their business and certain appearances he agreed to. But I think he wold have to agree to play something before hand. He does have a rep to protect that is probably more valuable than this endorsement. Why would he sign up to be someones puppet? Especially if that's what they are telling him to play? At any rate that seemed like bad business for all involved. It made them both look bad. Plus that guitar is fugly.
I have no idea what it was for either lol. I think Jnr needs to explain Dave's deal because he seems to know everything about everything.
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Yeah they really do ride the glory days more than most bands. They were good days, great days! And I think they could still be there. But they are taking way too long and everything I see is..or past things they think are glories..cough cough, rap bullshit!
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Well in my off the cuff opinion
I think Just having him be seen with it is their business and certain appearances he agreed to. But I think he wold have to agree to play something before hand. He does have a rep to protect that is probably more valuable than this endorsement. Why would he sign up to be someones puppet? Especially if that's what they are telling him to play? At any rate that seemed like bad business for all involved. It made them both look bad. Plus that guitar is fugly.
I have no idea what it was for either lol. I think Jnr needs to explain Dave's deal because he seems to know everything about everything.
I presume whatever deal was signed it was signed for the benefit of both parties. I'd reckon there would be as much give and take on both sides. If he's promoting a guitar or range of them, I'd imagine they'd still have some push on him. He might be mega-successful and could promote any brand but not all brands would want him, just as he wouldn't want all other brands.
I don't really see him signing up to play a few riffs at a few Gibson organised events as him being a puppet. If they told him how to record music for his band fair enough but to me, a few little promos is not really that much different to the guitarists who have played the national anthem at baseball games. Whatever this deal is it's been lucrative enough for Dave to be seen without his signature V, it makes me wonder just what other things got over the line before signatures were penned.
I wonder if Jnr just opens his mouth and words fall out. I suppose in some ways it's good to see the guy talking about anything but the same old topics, but with everything he's talked about lately I wonder if he does know or is just making shit up and no one's reading.
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Nostalgia is a good thing, but too much often hampers growth. There is so much of Anthrax's history that is worth celebrating and no reasons why they shouldn't but I can't seen them returning to those days without looking forward (although I doubt we'll ever see Anthrax of old). We know they have done fuck all for the new album so they can't talk about that, but there is no reason why they can't just post pics/stories of what they are doing or what they are aiming toward. And I agree no more fucking rap!!
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How does he keep up with himself?I presume whatever deal was signed it was signed for the benefit of both parties. I'd reckon there would be as much give and take on both sides. If he's promoting a guitar or range of them, I'd imagine they'd still have some push on him. He might be mega-successful and could promote any brand but not all brands would want him, just as he wouldn't want all other brands.
I don't really see him signing up to play a few riffs at a few Gibson organised events as him being a puppet. If they told him how to record music for his band fair enough but to me, a few little promos is not really that much different to the guitarists who have played the national anthem at baseball games. Whatever this deal is it's been lucrative enough for Dave to be seen without his signature V, it makes me wonder just what other things got over the line before signatures were penned.
I wonder if Jnr just opens his mouth and words fall out. I suppose in some ways it's good to see the guy talking about anything but the same old topics, but with everything he's talked about lately I wonder if he does know or is just making shit up and no one's reading.
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No more rap and no more orchestrated 20 second tracks. Just rock it!
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Yeah that would be nice, but sadly I don't see them doing that given what they've been up to for the last 18 months. I've no doubt it will have some heaviness and maybe even some thrashy moments but I'm loosing faith in it being a 60 min thrashfest.
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I've seen this advertised on Blabber and the like and figured it wasn't going to be much but since they are only 8 min episodes I figured I'd give it a go anyway. It's not the funniest shit I've ever seen but it's also not the dumbest. There's four eps already posted and another 4 to come I think.
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I was watching a doco on the Melbourne music scene last night. The doco was actually a story where a local guitar manufacturer (Maton Guitars) has taken wood from the bars of 6 iconic Melbourne music venues and used that timber to make a guitar. It was impressive work but equally impressive was some of the stats that has made Melbourne the iconic music scene that it is today.
By the end of the 80's Melbourne had just reached a population of 3 million people, yet per capita they had more live venues than anywhere else in the world. From the mid 80's to the early 00's Melbourne would average over 300 separate live gigs a night (all genres). Most weeks on average could see more than 3000 local gigs, a lot of this was due to multiple roomed venues where different bands could play at the same time and 5am closing where several bands could play the same stage in a night. One of the venues (closed down in '09) said in the busiest part of the rush they would host more than 1100 individual bands a year. Other places would do similar because many of the pubs and clubs were like the school system, you start small, get your education in the small pub, then as you learn more you move into the bigger ones with larger audiences. By 2010 liquor licensing rules nearly killed the live music scene. A government who thought music was an easy tax grab, because drunk punters would keep paying when venues had to raise the costs of everything or stop paying bands, ignored casinos breaking the laws and started to curfew music venues. While they did succeed in lowering numbers, and covid helped recently, Melbourne music scene still refused to die and even now post covid and up to 85% attendance (moving to 100 soon) there is still more than 1500 gigs a week.
By the end of the 80's Melbourne had just reached a population of 3 million people, yet per capita they had more live venues than anywhere else in the world. From the mid 80's to the early 00's Melbourne would average over 300 separate live gigs a night (all genres). Most weeks on average could see more than 3000 local gigs, a lot of this was due to multiple roomed venues where different bands could play at the same time and 5am closing where several bands could play the same stage in a night. One of the venues (closed down in '09) said in the busiest part of the rush they would host more than 1100 individual bands a year. Other places would do similar because many of the pubs and clubs were like the school system, you start small, get your education in the small pub, then as you learn more you move into the bigger ones with larger audiences. By 2010 liquor licensing rules nearly killed the live music scene. A government who thought music was an easy tax grab, because drunk punters would keep paying when venues had to raise the costs of everything or stop paying bands, ignored casinos breaking the laws and started to curfew music venues. While they did succeed in lowering numbers, and covid helped recently, Melbourne music scene still refused to die and even now post covid and up to 85% attendance (moving to 100 soon) there is still more than 1500 gigs a week.
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April 25 1960 Paul Baloff was born
April 25 1985 Bonded By Blood was released
Great day in history of Exodus.
April 25 1985 Bonded By Blood was released
Great day in history of Exodus.
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Yeah same here. Aggression is only lost over time.
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Did you see Ian say Bonded is the best debut of any Big 5?
He's such a fucking ass kisser. All these years he's said Killing Is My Business. But now that Exodus is the "IT" band he's changed his tune.
And there is no Big 5! Asshole. If there was and since it's sales. Exodus would be near the bottom of the list.
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