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Love it Brady! Like kitty says, work in progress stuff is always interesting.
I used to record a few guitar covers and put on YouTube, but last time was like three years ago. Here's one of my favorites (if you like 'Guns', that is).
These days, I mostly play my acoustic to relax :)
And, indeed, retrokitty, congratulations! Actually, I recognized January Jones in your work and it looks better than in the real photo!!
Now, let me ask you this... Have you noticed whether or not, on a guitar-playing night, more chicks swoon for you than usual?
If I may say so from experience, whether I was on stage or playing just for a woman after making her a gourmet dinner by candlelight, the swoon factor was always ratcheted up a few more notches than usual :)
Wow Henry... I so envy you on so many levels now. Appetite tour? Backstage pass, hanging out with them all? Conversate with Axl? It's so friggin' amazing! GnR has been my favorite band for many years now, but since I was born in '88, I never got the chance to witness them live in their glory days. I've seen "new GnR" live thrice, and Slash on his own, so I got them both but not together.. And of course you can't compare neither experience to the true thing, but still very good memories for me.
And kitty, I'm afraid I don't really play in public in front of other people, kind of shy when it comes to that. But when I find the true Mrs. Disco, she'll be in for a treat ;)
Slash with Myles Kennedy was real good, saw them live last summer. I love Alter Bridge and can't wait for the new record.
When AFD came out, I was working for a large record distributor as my day gig. I knew who they were because a friend turned me on to their 4 song "Live Like A Suicide" they made while still in the LA clubs, and then one day I noticed they had something new and on a big label no less. Was blown away to say the least, they were so much more polished and their street attitude was up a few notches and came through in a big way. Anyway, all the major and indie label sales reps came in weekly to the warehouse to get their orders, including the Geffen/Warner Bros sales rep, so they had access to local shows as an employee. Now you have to remember here that if an act was huge then sometimes I couldn't even get free tickets let alone backstage passes through a mere sales rep, and had to use other connections I had in the biz like BonJovi's engineer and best pal Obie O'Brien (how me, my wife, my Mom who was really Obie's friend and a business partner, my best friend and second brother and his girl at the time got the same thing for Ozzy back in the mid 90's), but GNR wasn't that big yet. So when I heard they were coming, I asked the rep if he could do something for the Troc show and as always, no problem. They knew my company sold lots of their product and was good business so they were usually happy to oblige. The week of the show, he came in and said no prob, you got 2 tickets and passes for you and a guest. Done.
Through this, opening for signed bands on the way up, working for Tower, managing the hottest rock shop on Philly's South Street, and later as a part time A&R rep for Capitol/EMI, I met a lot of people and made a lot of friends. It was nothing for my phone to ring and have a rock star like the guys from Savatage, Living Colour, the Crue, Tesla, Winger, etc, etc on the other end letting me know they left tix and passes for me at the old Spectrum, Tower, etc will calls, where they were staying at, "I miss ya, I got some girls and good drugs for us, let's party dude" type of call. I know how you feel though, you can't help when you were born. I missed the Beatles and other early metal pioneers, twice had Zep tickets and then tragedies cancelled those, we all have our regrets. I was never pals with GNR like that, I had passes again in 1991 for me and three other girls including the one I was giving the business to, and there were so many passes given out that we couldn't get backstage at all. So only the one time. Again, pretty cool guys, even Axl until he took a spazz.
You do? Then here's a diorama I did you might like:
Some rather poor snapshots to show what I do although it's been about 2 years since I actually did something physically on paper which is a bit sad:
And with apologies for the camerphone snapshots of these drawings - they're all around A3 in size. Some of these are getting on for 15 years old now:
Andrew
About the best I can provide atm. Not the best of my drumming unfortunately.
A Tribute to the Legendary Charles Bronson.
My Skyfall Poster.
Shrink Ray prop used in a High School Short film.
Remote Mine replicas. (Work in Progress.)
Nice stuff there!
Thanks Chrisisall, There's no better experience than DIY projects. :D
@Murdock, great designs there, but then I've known you for that since you first showed us something. ;-)
People, this thread is a serious lesson in modesty for little old me. I would never be able to pull something like that off.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=troll+wall&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:IE-Address&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=XyU0UtDvNJPe7AaFv4DABw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1138&bih=518&dpr=1
I also play drums but not professionally or anything.
I'm in the same boat as you here (although I'm a bit older). Great cover by the way.
@SirHenryLeeChaChing Cool stories like that are why you're one of my favourite members on here.
@Disco some pretty good playin'there! As you know I love G&R! @SirHenry rhanks for those stories! You definately live life!
@Kitty some fantastic drawings! I'm impressed! Same goes for @andmcit! I used to draw and paint a lot, but haven't done it for years now. When I move to my new home at the end of this month I might start doing it again. You guys are inspirational!
@Crisisisall and @Murdock some impressive propmaking there! One more hobby I used to have, but I got nowhere near to the quality you guys get to.. just... wow!
What talent is to be found over here!
Darth, I thought that too but once I realized that, for the most part, even great pro artists spend hours and hours on their work, I let go of the feeling that I needed to have something done in an hour. My mind has to work so differently when I'm doing the black and white drawing that it feels like some sort of mental vacation. And then when I go back to my usual way of thinking - literal and such - it's another vacation.
Um... I would think that living after that takes some extreme talent. And to try it takes extreme ballz. Yikenheimers. Well done!
Ludovico.... you're on. :)
Troll wall, eh...we sure could use one of those. I'm way too afraid of heights to try anything like that, though.
I get a nose bleed just climbing the stairs ;-)
I've been watching these jumps on youtube since you mentioned it. Unbelievable. GAH! Seriously... you are so close to that jagged rock. This is not like skydiving, where it seems safe enough as long as the chute works. I can't stop watching these even though I feel like fainting each time someone jumps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjdqGZdzUDU
BASE jumping, the easiest thing I can think of to compare it to is a big rollercoaster where you're going up a really steep bit of track very slowly, leading to a massive drop.
When you're nearly at the top, you realise how high up you are and it can be pretty terrifying. Then you go over the edge. It's still scary but the rush you're getting means you're enjoying it.
We'd better hope that we do not have former candidate forMayor of New York Anthony Wiener on this site it might be asking for trouble. :D