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Q2: Where in the world/country are you? Northampton.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? Not sure I have much in the way of ambition these days, I just like to play live (and be creatively "musical" when I do)
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Either of my self-built basses.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Trio - Da Da Da
It's the old Chillidog here! My real name is Ian, I'm 54 years old. I've been married to my missus, who's my best friend and supporter, for 32 years. I don't have any pets, but I love cats, and I have a 24 year old son.
1. It came about when we were members of a local sailing club, and members used to make rolls at lunchtime on a roster basis. Some members' rolls were not exactly brilliant, and so some bright spark started up a Yahoo group to rate the club lunch rolls on a 1-10 scale, incognito. I wanted hotdog as a user name, but ended up with chillidoggy. I've stuck with it ever since, although it sounds pretty stupid to me.
2. I was originally born and bred in Folkestone, but I've been living in Margate since 1999.
3. My main musical ambition is to keep going with my current band, gigging about once a month. Any other musical ambitions are pointless because I'm never going to achieve those which are simply pipe dreams.
4. Oh, that's a hard one, because there are two; My 2002, 1967 Reissue Flying V. Undeniably road-worn, and a bit bashed around, I know I look like some ageing twat rocker with it, but it just feels so right to me. The other guitars are nowhere near as nice. The other is my Cornford Hurricane head I've just made.
Another tricky one. But I'm going for Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' album. Totally reprogrammed my life when I was given it by a mate of mine, aged 13. It's the root cause of the lifetime love of rock.2) Live near the Mourne mountains roughly half way between Belfast & Dublin.
3) To keep playing out as long as I can - been playing in bands (mostly covers but recorded some originals too) since I was 17/8 - I'm 45 now. Want to do a bit more recording/writing too.
4) My 'D' clone amp - Ceriatone Bluesmaster HRM 100
5) Jimi's Voodoo Chile - it kept me at the guitar until I could jam out a decent version of it.
2. Live in Dorchester, Dorset. A beautiful part of the country until the summer when we get besieged by bloody holiday makers on their way to Weymouth
3. I'd like to start another band at some point when time away from work and fatherhood allow. Something in the vein of QOSTA or old school grunge a la soundgarden, sonic youth, mudhoney etc. I've played in my current band for the last 12 years and sometimes yearn for something else other than wedding crap.
4. I suppose if the house was burning and I had to grab one piece it would be my '81 Burny Supergrade with wolftone pAFs. Pedals and amps are all replaceable - that's not
5. It's hard in world of so many good songs to pick just one, so instead of picking my favourite, the one that inspired me to pick up the guitar and play was the delicate sound of thunder versions of Comfortably Numb and Sorrow.
Q1: Where did you username come from? The early days of the Intermusic forums - Fret [as in guitar and wired as in online]
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? London born now living in Herts
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? I'd love to write the soundtrack to something - game, indie film or something
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Probably a battered old erly 90's Mexican Strat that's been upgraded over the years - it's like an old friend.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Answers questions, questions answers by Focus
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Q1: Where did you username come from? - nick-name at work based on my last name !!!
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? - the wild west, debbun born and bred, now reside in south glos. near Brizzle
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? - absolutely none.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? - define best
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? really have too many to say
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
1: My jobbing username. I figure if I use that and let everyone know I work for FXpansion Audio UK Ltd, that'll encourage me to perhaps be less of an ass!
2. Lahhhhnndaaahhhhnnn!! Although originally from t'Midlands
3. Hmmm. In a perfect world, TNBD would be able to pay my bills, but that isn't likely, so I'll settle for just playing music I love!
4. Probably my amp. JVM410HJS Satriani version. Those who know me know I have been through a lot of amps. But this really is the one!
5. I couldn't really pick a single track, but for the sake of answering the question, Parabola by Tool.
Q1: Where did you username come from? A track on Vai's Flex-Able album
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? Litherland, Scouseshire.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? To keep playing, despite the tendonitis.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? My Ibanez JS1000
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Watermelon in Easter Hay - FZ
Q1: Where did you username come from?
Its my xbox username and came from a long list of Microsoft suggested names when I first created my xbox live account. Its unique and easy to remember so I use it in various places
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Born and brought up in East Yorks but moved south for work and lurve 20 years ago. Lived in Worthing, Truro and now Poole in Dorset where i have been for the past 15 years. I Work for a charity and several of the jobs were fixed term or insecure funding. The one at Poole seems to be a keeper.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
To be good enough to enjoy the noise i make. I have been in a couple of bands and learnt more playing with other than on my own but nothing for a long time. Would be nice to play again but the people I have met have either been too ambitious or far too talented for me to feel comfortable. I just want to have a bit of fun
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
70s fender strat reissue. Bought from Hartnols a few yeas ago. It came sublimely set up and plays like a dream.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Almost impossible to answer. I love Marillion so currently id have to say The Sky Above the Rain
Hi one and all.
Props & Kudos to our new non MR overlords for making a shiny and I am sure a lovely new home. Looking forward to it becoming a valuable resource and of course much silliness.
I have been a GAS fiend since the late 70's and 80's and have been playing since age 14 but graduated to having 6 strings mostly all the time on my guitar a bit later (16). Now aged 49 and glad to report I have 6 strings on my guitars nearly always.
Been gigging on and off seriously since the early 80's with the usual community centre gigs prior to this.
Q1: Where did you username come from?
My first name and a contraction of my surname so John Urquhart and hence Johnnyurq, Used it online from several years back and cannot be arsed to change it.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Inverness in the not so sunny Highlands of Scotland.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
To get back gigging after having to pack it in due to bad health and being my wife's carer plus to get back to writing original material like back in the 80's and 90's.
Going from 40 to 50 gigs per year to none is very shitty and no fun.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
As per the piccie top left my 1971/72 Les Paul Recording which I have owned for eons which feels like a favourite pair of shoes and is home for me.
Also this side of modelling shizzle it has the most flexible tone palette of any of the many guitars I have owned, especially when I fit a spare Roland GK3 to it on occasion.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Like most folks it changes from time to time but Down in the Sewer by The Stranglers is an all time favourite. Huge Stranglers fan me.
Honourable mention for Floyd, Marillion/Fish too.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
Q2 - I'm Irish, but live in Wolviston, Teesside.
Q3 - To write enough songs called "Something Wrong" to make an album. I've got 5 or 6 at the moment. That's all I've got left; I mean, I've already been onstage with Chuck Berry.
Q4 - Gibson J-45
Q5 - "You Got The Silver", the Rolling Stones.
Q1: Where did you username come from? I made it up when I was 15/16, use it all over the internet because there are no other holnrews, and if there ever is one, I highly doubt their originality.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? Gateshead at the moment, North East for the foreseeable. I hail from Somerset though.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? Acoustic covers of non-acoustic songs.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? I only have one guitar, a tanglewood spruce top with action on the high side.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Tastes change daily, can't narrow it down.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
To write music that I would want to listen to, even if it wasn't mine.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Hi, I'm Lorne, very nearly 45 and happily married with 4 kids, a cat, a pond, and tons of fish tanks
Q1: It's my name, I have no imagination
Q2: Plymouth, Devon
Q3: To stop the kids from bashing the basses
Q4: The 1978 USA B.C.Rich Mockingbird bass that Phil Lynott used in the Thin Lizzy "Do What You Want To" Video
Q5: I don't believe in love by Queensryche
Basses - USA BC Rich, Euro Spector, Yamaha and Kramer
Guitars - USA BC Rich and Shadow
Hello everyone, another refugee from that other forum.
Q1 My user name is an anagram of my MR user name.
Q2 I am in Gloucester
Q3 I have absolutely no musical ambition, gone way past that stage.
Q4 Best bit of gear? Possibly my Matchless DC30 but that will soon be going up for sale, so I will say me Telecaster.
Q5 #1 track? Impossible to choose as my tastes constantly shift..
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Hi, I'm Jon, 41 and Forum-Dizzy.
Q1 The name is just a pun of "Telecaster" and not the 3D Body sculpting procedure (like in my forum photo).
Q2 I'm from Sheffield "OOP North"
Q3 Musical Ambition, Hmmmm...Activity wise, at my age now I'd be glad to get established in a good Covers/Function Band. Ability wise I look forward to when I can improvise fluently over ANY Chord Progression.
Q4 My Bogner Rig(The whole thing has to count as 1 item). Goldfinger 45 Head and Goldfinger 2x12 Closed Back Cab (1xG12H-30 and 1x G12M-25)
Q5 Can't narrow it down to 1 track, there are just toooooooo many. I can tell you one tune I have never ever tired of is Isaac Hayes "Theme From Shaft". If one tune ever made you want to pick up a guitar, it's that one.