Hey man, thanks for the reply.

Basically just a simple verse chorus verse chorus kinda thing, but a bit heavier, metalish kinda thing

Hey guys, been looking high and low for free (full) drumming backtracks to download. Preferably metal/hard rock.

Any ideas?

I swear by Sennheisers. I have 2 pairs(both wireless) and I wouldn't swap them for anything.

For recording, I have the big Phillips set(not sure on the model number) and it sounds fan-friggen-tastic

Please tell me you'd be interested in selling just the board with the power supply.

You have no idea how I've been searching for a case like board

One band that absolutely suck at playing live is Bullet For My Valentine.

Sure the wall of death rocks, but they sound like a band made up of 8 year olds gigging for the first time ever.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge bullet fan, but their live stuff sucks.

Adding to that, Muse, best live performance I have EVER seen.

I wish I could celebrate this day as well, alas, us Namibians are deprived from celebrating the great tradition that is braaing.

Isn't there some Brit band where the vocalist is 90 something?

Off to google

Yeah, Etosha's good, but they can only ship if the truck is full, so there will be a significant wait.

Can't hurt to phone though

Thank you Alan

Speed Services charge me R300 to send a DVD to South Africa, I REALLY don't want to see the costs of shipping an amp with them.

Ram doesn't come to Namibia and DHL is a little expensive, but might be the only option.

Thanks for the input though Alan, hugely appreciated

Still hunting around for that dream amp and I've thought about getting a 2nd hand one from SA(If I can find one eventually ??? )

I know there's a lot of you guys that courier and ship big cabs and more. Most places over here want 1k + to transport an amp here, I can just as well buy a brand new one then.

So who do you use?

P.S. If anyone knows of a nice Vox Valvetronix for sale second hand, I'm just a pm away ?

Right, as a Journo, I've had the chance to give this album a good polishing through.

Here's the good and the bad after a few spins:

Good:

Kirk is back. Solid riffs, solid rock, solid music

The sound is back. None of that prissy commercial *** of St. Anger. If you're not into rock, you won't like this album, and that's what I love.

The songs have been properly structured again ala "The black album"

James got his **** together and his singing can be compared that of "Reload" which is arguably his best vocal work to date.

The layout of the album is very well thought out.

"The day that never comes" is a ballad straight out of the book "How to make ballads blow your mind"

It rocks your ******* socks of.


Bad:

While the production values are much better than St. Anger, they are still a far cry off what is to be expected of these monsters of rock. Lars' snare is still pretty loud on some tracks and while it sounds like that is the sound they were going for, it just irritates the crap out of me.

Unforgiven 3 sounds like Don't cry for me Argentina compared to the first 2 instalments.

It's short.

If you've been listening to the old albums a lot this past time while awaiting for the new incarnation, stop right now. Yes, the new album is the old Metallica, but that means that it all sound just a tad too familiar.

Another one for Slash. The solo in November rain just grabs me by the balls

You really are a smart one.

Thanks for the advice Alan and yes, it is a damn rewarding experience

My 2 favourite solos that I've learned

The original unforgiven
November Rain.

Right, I tackled this the weekend. It took me 2 days, but I took my time and I'm super happy. Only did the bridge action and intonation. Will leave the truss rod and pickup height to a pro.

2 things I noticed though and they are slightly worrying.

When I worked on the bridge action, the bridge on the nez takes an allen key, but it feels like it doesn't. Once I got the bridge to the suggested height I encountered a problem(see #2) and wanted to raise the bridge slightly, but the allen key did not fit as it did previously. The hole looks more like circle than an allen key hole.

The second problem came when I lowered the bridge action(it was pretty damn high up, roughly 6-7mm) was that the bridge now sat very close to the body and hindered tremolo performance. I had to raise the bridge to get the tremolo to move semi freely. Is there anything one can do to keep the bridge action lowish and still have the freedom of using the tremolo as intended?

My very first electric guitar was a Phil "pro" edition. I loved it to pieces and it served me well for 10 years.

I really regret selling it.

As for your question, I'd say go for it

Have to agree. These lessons are fantastic and give my "improvisation" some meaning

cool. Thanks Alan

Ahhh, now it makes sense. So what if I only have 1 or 2 strings that are sitting to far away from the bridge?

Yeah, but I don't know which adjustments effect what :-[