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This is my favourite Tom Petty song.

 
The Wipers - Over the Edge
 
Apparently Tom's death was mistakenly reported a few hours before he actually died. He's gone now. Heart attack. RIP, Tom.

I usually don't care about celebrities, but losing Tom Petty is like finding out an old roommate just died.
 
Feeling a bit down? World seems to be spinning out of control?

Have some epic guitar:



You're welcome. ;)
 
I can't stop listening to this:



The guitar solo...man, that's good.
 
I'm not a big Dragonforce guy. But you want some guitar solo?

Now think about this. What if you took Dick Dale, and tuned his guitar down to D, then slapped a distortion pedal in the mix. Epic fucking metal!!!
 
Ronin said:
I'm not a big Dragonforce guy. But you want some guitar solo?
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Just discovered them. It's like finding a ten dollar bill behind the sofa.

Ronin said:
Now think about this. What if you took Dick Dale, and tuned his guitar down to D, then slapped a distortion pedal in the mix. Epic fucking metal!!!
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My feeble noman mind isn't capable of fully processing the epicness of what you propose. :smile:
 
I have a bunch of old rock and roll that I listen to on my old iPod quite regularly.
 
Today I discovered this. Looking for some power metal to go with your Ravenloft or Solomon Kane? Look no further.

 
Going to see these guys two weeks from today. At a local rock club! Oh how the mighty have fallen. Still, it's too good an opportunity to pass up on. They're playing the Crimson Idol album from start to finish, from what I understand. But this will always be their finest moment for me. That opening speech, the cartoonishly offensive lyrics. And all over some quality hair metal.

 
Stevethulhu said:
I find it goes on and on and on a bit too much. Those overly long guitar solos seem cool at first, but after a bit, they just get tiresome.
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I like In My Darkest Hour, but for me, Rust in Peace isn't just Megadeth's best album, its possibly the best metal album ever made.
 
I'm currently listening to the LA Woman. I seem to be on a thing where I am going back to the stuff that I acquired an interest in through my dad's old record collection when I was a kid. The Doors were the first band I really got into in a big way.
 
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I like In My Darkest Hour, but for me, Rust in Peace isn't just Megadeth's best album, its possibly the best metal album ever made.
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In a world that has albums like Ride the Lightning, Among the Living, Operation Mindcrime and the first Rage Against The machine album, Rust in Peace stands high. Butfor me, it's three songs. Holy Wars, Tornado of Souls and Rust in Peace/Polaris.

I much prefer Peace Sell and So Far, So Good... So What? That's my Megadeth
 
Stevethulhu said:
In a world that has albums like Ride the Lightning, Among the Living, Operation Mindcrime and the first Rage Against The machine album, Rust in Peace stands high. Butfor me, it's three songs. Holy Wars, Tornado of Souls and Rust in Peace/Polaris.

I much prefer Peace Sell and So Far, So Good... So What? That's my Megadeth
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Well, you won't hear me complain about Ride the Lightning or So Far, So Good. Different strokes though. I really liked So Far, So Good...So What? Mary Jane was one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar from beginning to end. And I learned a lot about guitar playing emulating the sound of So Far, So Good. There is something not incredibly obvious about the guitar composition on Mary Jane that has always impressed me. And the whole album has this nice haunting and gritty sound. But Rust in Peace is one of the albums I found I could keep going back to again and again, and liked every song from beginning to end (and the tone on the guitars just works for me). Also Friedman's playing on that one complimented Dave's songwriting tremendously.
 
BedrockBrendan said:
Well, you won't hear me complain about Ride the Lightning or So Far, So Good. Different strokes though. I really liked So Far, So Good...So What? Mary Jane was one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar from beginning to end. And I learned a lot about guitar playing emulating the sound of So Far, So Good. There is something not incredibly obvious about the guitar composition on Mary Jane that has always impressed me. And the whole album has this nice haunting and gritty sound. But Rust in Peace is one of the albums I found I could keep going back to again and again, and liked every song from beginning to end (and the tone on the guitars just works for me). Also Friedman's playing on that one complimented Dave's songwriting tremendously.
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Oddly enough, I never learned to play much Megadeth. Into the Lungs of Hell, Peace Sells, In My Darkest Hour and maybe a couple of others. I was always more into your Sabbath, Zeppelin, Maiden kind of first and second generation British metal. I think for me, Rust in Peace came along just as I was drifting into less face punching music. More Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa less of the full on thrash. Though I still like me some Sabbat. And I've recently been rediscovering just how good a rhythm player Scott Ian is.
 
Stevethulhu said:
Oddly enough, I never learned to play much Megadeth. Into the Lungs of Hell, Peace Sells, In My Darkest Hour and maybe a couple of others. I was always more into your Sabbath, Zeppelin, Maiden kind of first and second generation British metal. I think for me, Rust in Peace came along just as I was drifting into less face punching music. More Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa less of the full on thrash. Though I still like me some Sabbat. And I've recently been rediscovering just how good a rhythm player Scott Ian is.
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No complaints about British Heavy Metal from me. I like stuff with a good melody and you get that in spades with bands like Maiden and Priest. The first Black Sabbath album was the one that pulled me from hard rock into metal (though I came to it years after it came out in like 1988). I could never quite get into Anthrax though. I might have just not given them enough of a chance though (I think the only album I seriously tried listening to of theirs was Persistence of Time).
 
BedrockBrendan said:
No complaints about British Heavy Metal from me. I like stuff with a good melody and you get that in spades with bands like Maiden and Priest. The first Black Sabbath album was the one that pulled me from hard rock into metal (though I came to it years after it came out in like 1988). I could never quite get into Anthrax though. I might have just not given them enough of a chance though (I think the only album I seriously tried listening to of theirs was Persistence of Time).
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Among the Living was my first Anthrax album. That and Spreading the Disease are my favourites. Though for a solid primer, The Greater of Two Evils is a good selection. And all played live in the studio by the lineup at that time, IIRC.

I think learning to play guitar in the late 80s had a massive effect on my taste in music. It was a great time, with the hair and pop rock stuff at one end of the spectrum, and the all out thrash acts raging against all the good time bands. And plenty of non excluded middle ground, too.
 
I can relate to a lot about what you fellas are discussing. I personally started off in hair bands, and hard rock. Then moved to metal. Thrash metal more specifically. Course back then to us, it was just metal! So Kiss, Motley Crue, Van Halen, and Ratt. Then getting slowly harder, Iron Maiden I'm looking at you.:smile: Ending up Metallica, Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, and Pantera. Course during high school there was a heavy influx of punk rock and Industrial as well. Dead Kennedys, Ministry, New Bomb Turks, and Nine Inch Nails. The list of all could go on and on. I was fortunate as to be exposed to a lot of stuff. I had friends that were hard core punk rock, hard core metal, and so on. It was all pretty much rock. But it was everything. Especially if it was hard and/or fast.
 
A lesser known Otis record that benefits from the fact that none of the tracks have been overplayed.

 
In honor of my first outing of this year
 
Cause this is the mood I'm in right now at this moment.
 
Not my normal music (country? sort of?) ...but having grown up in a small East Texas town, this song really resonates.
Southern Gothic - by Tyminski
 
Paul Gilbert, so delightfully weird such an amazing musician.



And the kind of thing that he made his name doing back in the day

 
I watched the 2015 Man from U.N.C.L.E. movie this past weekend. It is a seriously underrated film with one of the best movie soundtracks I've ever had the pleasure to listen to. I've listened to the soundtrack three times today alone.

This is one of the best tracks, IMO:

 
Totally agree, I'm a bit of a soundtrack nerd and instantly noted the retro-futuristic 60s soundtrack. Also agree that the film itself is underrated. I found it clever and exciting. Everything the Kingsman film tried to be but failed at.
 
Well I've been listening to some cool stuff to try and conjure up a funky smoky scenes for my contemporary Action Flick game (was considering using Spycraft 2.0, then BRP, but will probably go with FATE Core due to simplicity, flexibility, and sheer hand waviness).
I'm going for a comedy action mix, kinda a Starksy & Hutch- Transporter-A Team-Die Hard-John Wick-Mission Impossible-Lethal Weapon-Burn Notice vibe




Then I stumbled back across Bustamento and it all kinda went very Sam Axe on me
 
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Check out Marvin Gaye's Troubleman soundtrack which recently appeared at the end of Captain America: Winter Solider of all things! When I heard it in the theatre I almost squealed like a little girl in delight.
 
Yeah I have that, its cool, but I never knew it was on the Winter Soldier soundtrack. I should keep an ear out for the Black Panther soundtrack, I reckon it will be pretty cool.
I should also add some Bobby Womack to the list. I want to set the game vaguely in the present, but with a varied funky soundtrack with tunes from the 60s to now, like something Tarrantino would do. It's got to have 'attitude' heh heh
 
At the moment, Subway Radio, courtesy of the cafe next door, whose radio can be heard throughout my house. :mad:
 
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