| [spapad] Friday, May 01, 2009 8:07:25 PM | |
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Would love to see them do it! They thus far have a few sites they still need to go! Some of the Far eastern european counties, South Africa, New Zeland! (for you Becks!) They will hopefully get around to it in their time. Seriously, I hope they pause long enough to put out another album/CD! God, would love to hear some new stuff before they retire! I think we all talk about them retiring, but you have not heard a word out of them about it! We make them older than they feel! They are all still in great shape! Go Priest!!!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by joedraper from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:59:58 PM)| |  | joedraper wrote: | | I believe they will come here, as you say, they seem to want to our every corner of the world. We've had some amazing international acts (no, not Celine lol0 and I have faith in the Priest, they will bring the feast here!
(hey, Ozzy came here and survived so?? what's the risk? lol)
| | | spapad wrote: | | Priest have never played SA? Seems like they would, but there is alot of space between europe and there and maybe it's a logistics thing. For some reason I'm convinced Priest wish to play every corner of the world before retiring so, like you said, there's still hope.
Good to hear some local boys still go out and pull themselves up by their bootstraps same way Priest did so many years ago.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | There is this one local band: Hog Hoggidy Hog (yeah stoopid name but..) I got to know them through having to do interviews and wright ups etc.. They got together and decided to just go to Europe and wing it. So they managed to get onto some bills and toured Europe. They didn't make much money at all. They managed to pay for their transport and accomidation but they also got recognition. They did small venues and some had an audience of ten people some had in the very high hudreds. They went out on their own and now they're pretty popular in Europe.
I had a great time and on evenings like this, I have hope for South African musicians who deserve to be out there where they belong!
Still.... Waiting for this big metal band that are on this world tour thing and are going to come here so that I can say I saw Priest in my homeland??? ROFl
No, I never give up!
| | | spapad wrote: | | That's just crazy, you would think that Promotors would be all for promoting their own country's offerings to the world. Imagine all the music that get's missed because the band cant get to cash to go to England. Seems very narrow minded on the music industriy's behalf not to promote from within, sort of speak.
You should write a review on the band anyway, and freelance it to a mag or another paper. Someone is bound to want to listen.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | The thing is that (unbelievably lol) South Africa does have a huge multiculture of muscality.. We have everything from traditional, tribal music to pop, to jazz to metal and some very formidable rock. I don't think that promoters do the talent here any justice at all. That is why we've seen so many of our local artists leave our shores to seek recognition elsewhere. For instance: Dave Mathews (ok not very metal but anyways) is a South African.Seether. Now they've done so much for this country and had to achieve their status in the USA because they just couldn't get the backing here. We've also got an aspiring artist who could rival any international act.. A guy called Arno Carstens. That guy should be right at the top period. And he had to sign a deal with a UK record label and move to the UK so that he could produce music.
Those kind of things make me sick. We have a lot of really bad artist but we also have an elitist list of pure excellence in their field and nobody here seems to want to do a thing about it. They'd rather import mediocre acts like Celine Dion and The Pussycat Dolls than give our real guys any light of day.. (hey.. could this be why the don't want me to review those concerts?? lol)
| | | spapad wrote: | | I've been drug to a few events in my life that I honestly didn't think I would enjoy and ended having a lovely time! You just never know till you go! Would have been nice to write and article on that, how you could say you were very pleasantly suprised.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | I tell you Spa.. this guy is to reggae/dub what Snoop is to hiphop lol.
These guys were just so natural. I'm still totally in awe of the evening I had. I'm a tad dissapointed that I wasn't asked to do a review on this band for the local that I write for because I really enjoyed something that I went out hell bent on believing that I would hate (if that makes any sense?) I always get asked to write reviews or articles on bands that the editor knows I like and know so this would have been so cool to have such an open review about a genre that I am totally not familiar with. Hell, I think I'll just write a review anyway and give it to the mag and see if they feel like using it. The bands were that good!
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good to see you had a good evening Joe.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | Ok.. I"m back and you know what??? This was so cool! LK J was so cool and so were Dennis Boval and his band thingy.. I have a newfound respect for reggae/dub now.
I don't know if anyone even knows this artist but he's so cool! He's like this distinguished old british dinosaur who is more of a poet than a reggae artist. His percussionist is so old, I think he could have been Linton's dad (Linton is in his 70's now so imagine how old the percussionist is) and the drummer is this little british kid who looks like he's had the crap beaten out of him at school but is a really steady great drummer (no, not as great as Travolous but then who is? lol)
Linton is so old that instead of a promper board, he'd take out a neatly folded white piece of paper with a set list and presumably a refresher on the lyrics he was supposed to be singing on it.
I was pretty apprehensive when I first went out,but I'm glad I did!
Ok.. Ready for Priest now..
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I don't know the music but who knows it'll be fun. Doing things together is always fun, what men don't do for love ;)
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| [spapad] Friday, May 01, 2009 8:01:49 PM | |
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PM me what name to look for and I'll friend ya Paor! I warn you though, I only catch up on that site on the weekends. It's too much like work sometimes! LOL
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by paorcamp from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:54:06 PM)| | | paorcamp wrote: | | mmm...I don't know...some of my friends told me to start one on facebook because they were using it and I almost never check it because I have around 10 friends only(not even those who told me to open it)...and most of them don't have my space accounts...they prefer that hi5 shit...
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| [joedraper] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:59:58 PM | |
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I believe they will come here, as you say, they seem to want to our every corner of the world. We've had some amazing international acts (no, not Celine lol0 and I have faith in the Priest, they will bring the feast here!
(hey, Ozzy came here and survived so?? what's the risk? lol)
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:33:48 PM)| | | spapad wrote: | | Priest have never played SA? Seems like they would, but there is alot of space between europe and there and maybe it's a logistics thing. For some reason I'm convinced Priest wish to play every corner of the world before retiring so, like you said, there's still hope.
Good to hear some local boys still go out and pull themselves up by their bootstraps same way Priest did so many years ago.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | There is this one local band: Hog Hoggidy Hog (yeah stoopid name but..) I got to know them through having to do interviews and wright ups etc.. They got together and decided to just go to Europe and wing it. So they managed to get onto some bills and toured Europe. They didn't make much money at all. They managed to pay for their transport and accomidation but they also got recognition. They did small venues and some had an audience of ten people some had in the very high hudreds. They went out on their own and now they're pretty popular in Europe.
I had a great time and on evenings like this, I have hope for South African musicians who deserve to be out there where they belong!
Still.... Waiting for this big metal band that are on this world tour thing and are going to come here so that I can say I saw Priest in my homeland??? ROFl
No, I never give up!
| | | spapad wrote: | | That's just crazy, you would think that Promotors would be all for promoting their own country's offerings to the world. Imagine all the music that get's missed because the band cant get to cash to go to England. Seems very narrow minded on the music industriy's behalf not to promote from within, sort of speak.
You should write a review on the band anyway, and freelance it to a mag or another paper. Someone is bound to want to listen.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | The thing is that (unbelievably lol) South Africa does have a huge multiculture of muscality.. We have everything from traditional, tribal music to pop, to jazz to metal and some very formidable rock. I don't think that promoters do the talent here any justice at all. That is why we've seen so many of our local artists leave our shores to seek recognition elsewhere. For instance: Dave Mathews (ok not very metal but anyways) is a South African.Seether. Now they've done so much for this country and had to achieve their status in the USA because they just couldn't get the backing here. We've also got an aspiring artist who could rival any international act.. A guy called Arno Carstens. That guy should be right at the top period. And he had to sign a deal with a UK record label and move to the UK so that he could produce music.
Those kind of things make me sick. We have a lot of really bad artist but we also have an elitist list of pure excellence in their field and nobody here seems to want to do a thing about it. They'd rather import mediocre acts like Celine Dion and The Pussycat Dolls than give our real guys any light of day.. (hey.. could this be why the don't want me to review those concerts?? lol)
| | | spapad wrote: | | I've been drug to a few events in my life that I honestly didn't think I would enjoy and ended having a lovely time! You just never know till you go! Would have been nice to write and article on that, how you could say you were very pleasantly suprised.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | I tell you Spa.. this guy is to reggae/dub what Snoop is to hiphop lol.
These guys were just so natural. I'm still totally in awe of the evening I had. I'm a tad dissapointed that I wasn't asked to do a review on this band for the local that I write for because I really enjoyed something that I went out hell bent on believing that I would hate (if that makes any sense?) I always get asked to write reviews or articles on bands that the editor knows I like and know so this would have been so cool to have such an open review about a genre that I am totally not familiar with. Hell, I think I'll just write a review anyway and give it to the mag and see if they feel like using it. The bands were that good!
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good to see you had a good evening Joe.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | Ok.. I"m back and you know what??? This was so cool! LK J was so cool and so were Dennis Boval and his band thingy.. I have a newfound respect for reggae/dub now.
I don't know if anyone even knows this artist but he's so cool! He's like this distinguished old british dinosaur who is more of a poet than a reggae artist. His percussionist is so old, I think he could have been Linton's dad (Linton is in his 70's now so imagine how old the percussionist is) and the drummer is this little british kid who looks like he's had the crap beaten out of him at school but is a really steady great drummer (no, not as great as Travolous but then who is? lol)
Linton is so old that instead of a promper board, he'd take out a neatly folded white piece of paper with a set list and presumably a refresher on the lyrics he was supposed to be singing on it.
I was pretty apprehensive when I first went out,but I'm glad I did!
Ok.. Ready for Priest now..
| | | Ellieke wrote: | | Hey ,
I don't know the music but who knows it'll be fun. Doing things together is always fun, what men don't do for love ;)
Have fun tonight , I'm sure it'll be a great evening
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| [paorcamp] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:54:06 PM | |
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mmm...I don't know...some of my friends told me to start one on facebook because they were using it and I almost never check it because I have around 10 friends only(not even those who told me to open it)...and most of them don't have my space accounts...they prefer that hi5 shit...
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| [Maple Syrup] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:53:05 PM | |
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Yes we have style and very nice JP shots too, right? MpleSyrp
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| [~ MG_Metalgoddess~] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:49:31 PM | |
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You should get one.. its kinda fun...
Iam trying to get caught up on e-mails... I was gone for an Hour and I had over 20 new ones... LOL
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by paorcamp from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:46:26 PM)| | | paorcamp wrote: | | hello....how're ya doing???
too bad..I don't have an account on my space...
| | | MG_Metalgoddess wrote: | | HI Paorcamp!!!! Were around... Iam on the AC/DC noticeboard, and my myspace at the same time..lol
| | | paorcamp wrote: | | how is it going in the metal world???!!!!
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| [paorcamp] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:46:26 PM | |
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hello....how're ya doing???
too bad..I don't have an account on my space...
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:42:43 PM)| | | MG_Metalgoddess wrote: | | HI Paorcamp!!!! Were around... Iam on the AC/DC noticeboard, and my myspace at the same time..lol
| | | paorcamp wrote: | | how is it going in the metal world???!!!!
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| [~ MG_Metalgoddess~] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:42:43 PM | |
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HI Paorcamp!!!! Were around... Iam on the AC/DC noticeboard, and my myspace at the same time..lol
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by paorcamp from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:34:50 PM)| | | paorcamp wrote: | | how is it going in the metal world???!!!!
anybody around?? |
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| [paorcamp] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:34:50 PM | |
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how is it going in the metal world???!!!!
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| [spapad] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:33:48 PM | |
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Priest have never played SA? Seems like they would, but there is alot of space between europe and there and maybe it's a logistics thing. For some reason I'm convinced Priest wish to play every corner of the world before retiring so, like you said, there's still hope.
Good to hear some local boys still go out and pull themselves up by their bootstraps same way Priest did so many years ago.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by joedraper from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:23:00 PM)| | | joedraper wrote: | | There is this one local band: Hog Hoggidy Hog (yeah stoopid name but..) I got to know them through having to do interviews and wright ups etc.. They got together and decided to just go to Europe and wing it. So they managed to get onto some bills and toured Europe. They didn't make much money at all. They managed to pay for their transport and accomidation but they also got recognition. They did small venues and some had an audience of ten people some had in the very high hudreds. They went out on their own and now they're pretty popular in Europe.
I had a great time and on evenings like this, I have hope for South African musicians who deserve to be out there where they belong!
Still.... Waiting for this big metal band that are on this world tour thing and are going to come here so that I can say I saw Priest in my homeland??? ROFl
No, I never give up!
| | | spapad wrote: | | That's just crazy, you would think that Promotors would be all for promoting their own country's offerings to the world. Imagine all the music that get's missed because the band cant get to cash to go to England. Seems very narrow minded on the music industriy's behalf not to promote from within, sort of speak.
You should write a review on the band anyway, and freelance it to a mag or another paper. Someone is bound to want to listen.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | The thing is that (unbelievably lol) South Africa does have a huge multiculture of muscality.. We have everything from traditional, tribal music to pop, to jazz to metal and some very formidable rock. I don't think that promoters do the talent here any justice at all. That is why we've seen so many of our local artists leave our shores to seek recognition elsewhere. For instance: Dave Mathews (ok not very metal but anyways) is a South African.Seether. Now they've done so much for this country and had to achieve their status in the USA because they just couldn't get the backing here. We've also got an aspiring artist who could rival any international act.. A guy called Arno Carstens. That guy should be right at the top period. And he had to sign a deal with a UK record label and move to the UK so that he could produce music.
Those kind of things make me sick. We have a lot of really bad artist but we also have an elitist list of pure excellence in their field and nobody here seems to want to do a thing about it. They'd rather import mediocre acts like Celine Dion and The Pussycat Dolls than give our real guys any light of day.. (hey.. could this be why the don't want me to review those concerts?? lol)
| | | spapad wrote: | | I've been drug to a few events in my life that I honestly didn't think I would enjoy and ended having a lovely time! You just never know till you go! Would have been nice to write and article on that, how you could say you were very pleasantly suprised.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | I tell you Spa.. this guy is to reggae/dub what Snoop is to hiphop lol.
These guys were just so natural. I'm still totally in awe of the evening I had. I'm a tad dissapointed that I wasn't asked to do a review on this band for the local that I write for because I really enjoyed something that I went out hell bent on believing that I would hate (if that makes any sense?) I always get asked to write reviews or articles on bands that the editor knows I like and know so this would have been so cool to have such an open review about a genre that I am totally not familiar with. Hell, I think I'll just write a review anyway and give it to the mag and see if they feel like using it. The bands were that good!
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good to see you had a good evening Joe.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | Ok.. I"m back and you know what??? This was so cool! LK J was so cool and so were Dennis Boval and his band thingy.. I have a newfound respect for reggae/dub now.
I don't know if anyone even knows this artist but he's so cool! He's like this distinguished old british dinosaur who is more of a poet than a reggae artist. His percussionist is so old, I think he could have been Linton's dad (Linton is in his 70's now so imagine how old the percussionist is) and the drummer is this little british kid who looks like he's had the crap beaten out of him at school but is a really steady great drummer (no, not as great as Travolous but then who is? lol)
Linton is so old that instead of a promper board, he'd take out a neatly folded white piece of paper with a set list and presumably a refresher on the lyrics he was supposed to be singing on it.
I was pretty apprehensive when I first went out,but I'm glad I did!
Ok.. Ready for Priest now..
| | | Ellieke wrote: | | Hey ,
I don't know the music but who knows it'll be fun. Doing things together is always fun, what men don't do for love ;)
Have fun tonight , I'm sure it'll be a great evening
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| [spapad] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:29:52 PM | |
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No since in counting the days yet, it's that far off. LOL
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:21:33 PM)| | | MG_Metalgoddess wrote: | | 61 days 9 hours and 36 minutes for me.... then I will get to see them ROFL..... not that Iam anxious or anything..LOL
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good evening Maple! Cant wait to go see them myself although I will be waiting a good while longer it will be worth it!  (Quoting Message by Maple Syrup from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:09:27 PM)
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Evening Joe & Spapad. Priest is heading our way in 2 Months!! Cannot wait.. MpleSyrp
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| [spapad] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:29:03 PM | |
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I haven't checked mine in over a week and my mail inbox is full of facebook stuff, but I usually save till the weekend, that site is like work sometimes! LOL
I'll check in tomorrow.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:20:10 PM)| | | MG_Metalgoddess wrote: | | LOL I finally went out to check my Facebook.... Geesh I keep neglecting the damm thing..
Spa I got your request.... LOL
And I sent one to Meltdown... LOL Since he is on my page allready in photos... Ididnt know he had a account..LOL
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| [joedraper] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:23:00 PM | |
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There is this one local band: Hog Hoggidy Hog (yeah stoopid name but..) I got to know them through having to do interviews and wright ups etc.. They got together and decided to just go to Europe and wing it. So they managed to get onto some bills and toured Europe. They didn't make much money at all. They managed to pay for their transport and accomidation but they also got recognition. They did small venues and some had an audience of ten people some had in the very high hudreds. They went out on their own and now they're pretty popular in Europe.
I had a great time and on evenings like this, I have hope for South African musicians who deserve to be out there where they belong!
Still.... Waiting for this big metal band that are on this world tour thing and are going to come here so that I can say I saw Priest in my homeland??? ROFl
No, I never give up!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:04:14 PM)| | | spapad wrote: | | That's just crazy, you would think that Promotors would be all for promoting their own country's offerings to the world. Imagine all the music that get's missed because the band cant get to cash to go to England. Seems very narrow minded on the music industriy's behalf not to promote from within, sort of speak.
You should write a review on the band anyway, and freelance it to a mag or another paper. Someone is bound to want to listen.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | The thing is that (unbelievably lol) South Africa does have a huge multiculture of muscality.. We have everything from traditional, tribal music to pop, to jazz to metal and some very formidable rock. I don't think that promoters do the talent here any justice at all. That is why we've seen so many of our local artists leave our shores to seek recognition elsewhere. For instance: Dave Mathews (ok not very metal but anyways) is a South African.Seether. Now they've done so much for this country and had to achieve their status in the USA because they just couldn't get the backing here. We've also got an aspiring artist who could rival any international act.. A guy called Arno Carstens. That guy should be right at the top period. And he had to sign a deal with a UK record label and move to the UK so that he could produce music.
Those kind of things make me sick. We have a lot of really bad artist but we also have an elitist list of pure excellence in their field and nobody here seems to want to do a thing about it. They'd rather import mediocre acts like Celine Dion and The Pussycat Dolls than give our real guys any light of day.. (hey.. could this be why the don't want me to review those concerts?? lol)
| | | spapad wrote: | | I've been drug to a few events in my life that I honestly didn't think I would enjoy and ended having a lovely time! You just never know till you go! Would have been nice to write and article on that, how you could say you were very pleasantly suprised.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | I tell you Spa.. this guy is to reggae/dub what Snoop is to hiphop lol.
These guys were just so natural. I'm still totally in awe of the evening I had. I'm a tad dissapointed that I wasn't asked to do a review on this band for the local that I write for because I really enjoyed something that I went out hell bent on believing that I would hate (if that makes any sense?) I always get asked to write reviews or articles on bands that the editor knows I like and know so this would have been so cool to have such an open review about a genre that I am totally not familiar with. Hell, I think I'll just write a review anyway and give it to the mag and see if they feel like using it. The bands were that good!
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good to see you had a good evening Joe.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | Ok.. I"m back and you know what??? This was so cool! LK J was so cool and so were Dennis Boval and his band thingy.. I have a newfound respect for reggae/dub now.
I don't know if anyone even knows this artist but he's so cool! He's like this distinguished old british dinosaur who is more of a poet than a reggae artist. His percussionist is so old, I think he could have been Linton's dad (Linton is in his 70's now so imagine how old the percussionist is) and the drummer is this little british kid who looks like he's had the crap beaten out of him at school but is a really steady great drummer (no, not as great as Travolous but then who is? lol)
Linton is so old that instead of a promper board, he'd take out a neatly folded white piece of paper with a set list and presumably a refresher on the lyrics he was supposed to be singing on it.
I was pretty apprehensive when I first went out,but I'm glad I did!
Ok.. Ready for Priest now..
| | | Ellieke wrote: | | Hey ,
I don't know the music but who knows it'll be fun. Doing things together is always fun, what men don't do for love ;)
Have fun tonight , I'm sure it'll be a great evening
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| [~ MG_Metalgoddess~] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:21:33 PM | |
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61 days 9 hours and 36 minutes for me.... then I will get to see them ROFL..... not that Iam anxious or anything..LOL
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:19:46 PM)| | | spapad wrote: | | Good evening Maple! Cant wait to go see them myself although I will be waiting a good while longer it will be worth it! (Quoting Message by Maple Syrup from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:09:27 PM)
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Evening Joe & Spapad. Priest is heading our way in 2 Months!! Cannot wait.. MpleSyrp
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| [~ MG_Metalgoddess~] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:20:10 PM | |
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LOL I finally went out to check my Facebook.... Geesh I keep neglecting the damm thing..
Spa I got your request.... LOL
And I sent one to Meltdown... LOL Since he is on my page allready in photos... Ididnt know he had a account..LOL
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| [spapad] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:19:46 PM | |
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Good evening Maple! Cant wait to go see them myself although I will be waiting a good while longer it will be worth it! [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Maple Syrup from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:09:27 PM)
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Evening Joe & Spapad. Priest is heading our way in 2 Months!! Cannot wait.. MpleSyrp
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| [~ MG_Metalgoddess~] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:13:38 PM | |
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LOL... Gawd .. Yeah I suppose hd to change it to Jones/johnson.lol
So you sound like you had a good time tonight! That is great!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by joedraper from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:06:29 PM)| | | joedraper wrote: | | Sean Morgan (from Seether is actually Shaun Welgemoed) had to change his name because nobody in America could pronounce that lol. They won last year's SAMA award that is the South AFrican Music Awards. And would you believe that some local assclowns actually complained and said that Seether deserted us and became an American band. The truth is that since those boys were teenagers they used to be called Saron Gas, they changed their name to Seether and were forced to go oversees to sign a worthwhile contract. When they were here, they struggled to get on bills and worked their butts off and then when they're finally recognized the assclowns who claim to be diehard fans wonder why they had to go elswhere to do what they were ment to do.
Never was I prouder than on the 15 June last year, I stood front row and winked at Shaun as Seether came home as a headlining act and not one of many insigniicant wannabe's who were in line to take the stage.
| | | MG_Metalgoddess wrote: | | Hi Girls... Joe I like Seether,, They have been here to Winnipeg.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | The thing is that (unbelievably lol) South Africa does have a huge multiculture of muscality.. We have everything from traditional, tribal music to pop, to jazz to metal and some very formidable rock. I don't think that promoters do the talent here any justice at all. That is why we've seen so many of our local artists leave our shores to seek recognition elsewhere. For instance: Dave Mathews (ok not very metal but anyways) is a South African.Seether. Now they've done so much for this country and had to achieve their status in the USA because they just couldn't get the backing here. We've also got an aspiring artist who could rival any international act.. A guy called Arno Carstens. That guy should be right at the top period. And he had to sign a deal with a UK record label and move to the UK so that he could produce music.
Those kind of things make me sick. We have a lot of really bad artist but we also have an elitist list of pure excellence in their field and nobody here seems to want to do a thing about it. They'd rather import mediocre acts like Celine Dion and The Pussycat Dolls than give our real guys any light of day.. (hey.. could this be why the don't want me to review those concerts?? lol)
| | | spapad wrote: | | I've been drug to a few events in my life that I honestly didn't think I would enjoy and ended having a lovely time! You just never know till you go! Would have been nice to write and article on that, how you could say you were very pleasantly suprised.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | I tell you Spa.. this guy is to reggae/dub what Snoop is to hiphop lol.
These guys were just so natural. I'm still totally in awe of the evening I had. I'm a tad dissapointed that I wasn't asked to do a review on this band for the local that I write for because I really enjoyed something that I went out hell bent on believing that I would hate (if that makes any sense?) I always get asked to write reviews or articles on bands that the editor knows I like and know so this would have been so cool to have such an open review about a genre that I am totally not familiar with. Hell, I think I'll just write a review anyway and give it to the mag and see if they feel like using it. The bands were that good!
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good to see you had a good evening Joe.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | Ok.. I"m back and you know what??? This was so cool! LK J was so cool and so were Dennis Boval and his band thingy.. I have a newfound respect for reggae/dub now.
I don't know if anyone even knows this artist but he's so cool! He's like this distinguished old british dinosaur who is more of a poet than a reggae artist. His percussionist is so old, I think he could have been Linton's dad (Linton is in his 70's now so imagine how old the percussionist is) and the drummer is this little british kid who looks like he's had the crap beaten out of him at school but is a really steady great drummer (no, not as great as Travolous but then who is? lol)
Linton is so old that instead of a promper board, he'd take out a neatly folded white piece of paper with a set list and presumably a refresher on the lyrics he was supposed to be singing on it.
I was pretty apprehensive when I first went out,but I'm glad I did!
Ok.. Ready for Priest now..
| | | Ellieke wrote: | | Hey ,
I don't know the music but who knows it'll be fun. Doing things together is always fun, what men don't do for love ;)
Have fun tonight , I'm sure it'll be a great evening
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| [Maple Syrup] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:09:27 PM | |
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Evening Joe & Spapad. Priest is heading our way in 2 Months!! Cannot wait.. MpleSyrp
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| [joedraper] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:06:29 PM | |
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Sean Morgan (from Seether is actually Shaun Welgemoed) had to change his name because nobody in America could pronounce that lol. They won last year's SAMA award that is the South AFrican Music Awards. And would you believe that some local assclowns actually complained and said that Seether deserted us and became an American band. The truth is that since those boys were teenagers they used to be called Saron Gas, they changed their name to Seether and were forced to go oversees to sign a worthwhile contract. When they were here, they struggled to get on bills and worked their butts off and then when they're finally recognized the assclowns who claim to be diehard fans wonder why they had to go elswhere to do what they were ment to do.
Never was I prouder than on the 15 June last year, I stood front row and winked at Shaun as Seether came home as a headlining act and not one of many insigniicant wannabe's who were in line to take the stage.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Friday, May 01, 2009 6:59:17 PM)| | | MG_Metalgoddess wrote: | | Hi Girls... Joe I like Seether,, They have been here to Winnipeg.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | The thing is that (unbelievably lol) South Africa does have a huge multiculture of muscality.. We have everything from traditional, tribal music to pop, to jazz to metal and some very formidable rock. I don't think that promoters do the talent here any justice at all. That is why we've seen so many of our local artists leave our shores to seek recognition elsewhere. For instance: Dave Mathews (ok not very metal but anyways) is a South African.Seether. Now they've done so much for this country and had to achieve their status in the USA because they just couldn't get the backing here. We've also got an aspiring artist who could rival any international act.. A guy called Arno Carstens. That guy should be right at the top period. And he had to sign a deal with a UK record label and move to the UK so that he could produce music.
Those kind of things make me sick. We have a lot of really bad artist but we also have an elitist list of pure excellence in their field and nobody here seems to want to do a thing about it. They'd rather import mediocre acts like Celine Dion and The Pussycat Dolls than give our real guys any light of day.. (hey.. could this be why the don't want me to review those concerts?? lol)
| | | spapad wrote: | | I've been drug to a few events in my life that I honestly didn't think I would enjoy and ended having a lovely time! You just never know till you go! Would have been nice to write and article on that, how you could say you were very pleasantly suprised.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | I tell you Spa.. this guy is to reggae/dub what Snoop is to hiphop lol.
These guys were just so natural. I'm still totally in awe of the evening I had. I'm a tad dissapointed that I wasn't asked to do a review on this band for the local that I write for because I really enjoyed something that I went out hell bent on believing that I would hate (if that makes any sense?) I always get asked to write reviews or articles on bands that the editor knows I like and know so this would have been so cool to have such an open review about a genre that I am totally not familiar with. Hell, I think I'll just write a review anyway and give it to the mag and see if they feel like using it. The bands were that good!
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good to see you had a good evening Joe.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | Ok.. I"m back and you know what??? This was so cool! LK J was so cool and so were Dennis Boval and his band thingy.. I have a newfound respect for reggae/dub now.
I don't know if anyone even knows this artist but he's so cool! He's like this distinguished old british dinosaur who is more of a poet than a reggae artist. His percussionist is so old, I think he could have been Linton's dad (Linton is in his 70's now so imagine how old the percussionist is) and the drummer is this little british kid who looks like he's had the crap beaten out of him at school but is a really steady great drummer (no, not as great as Travolous but then who is? lol)
Linton is so old that instead of a promper board, he'd take out a neatly folded white piece of paper with a set list and presumably a refresher on the lyrics he was supposed to be singing on it.
I was pretty apprehensive when I first went out,but I'm glad I did!
Ok.. Ready for Priest now..
| | | Ellieke wrote: | | Hey ,
I don't know the music but who knows it'll be fun. Doing things together is always fun, what men don't do for love ;)
Have fun tonight , I'm sure it'll be a great evening
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| [spapad] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:04:14 PM | |
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That's just crazy, you would think that Promotors would be all for promoting their own country's offerings to the world. Imagine all the music that get's missed because the band cant get to cash to go to England. Seems very narrow minded on the music industriy's behalf not to promote from within, sort of speak.
You should write a review on the band anyway, and freelance it to a mag or another paper. Someone is bound to want to listen.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by joedraper from Friday, May 01, 2009 6:56:02 PM)| | | joedraper wrote: | | The thing is that (unbelievably lol) South Africa does have a huge multiculture of muscality.. We have everything from traditional, tribal music to pop, to jazz to metal and some very formidable rock. I don't think that promoters do the talent here any justice at all. That is why we've seen so many of our local artists leave our shores to seek recognition elsewhere. For instance: Dave Mathews (ok not very metal but anyways) is a South African.Seether. Now they've done so much for this country and had to achieve their status in the USA because they just couldn't get the backing here. We've also got an aspiring artist who could rival any international act.. A guy called Arno Carstens. That guy should be right at the top period. And he had to sign a deal with a UK record label and move to the UK so that he could produce music.
Those kind of things make me sick. We have a lot of really bad artist but we also have an elitist list of pure excellence in their field and nobody here seems to want to do a thing about it. They'd rather import mediocre acts like Celine Dion and The Pussycat Dolls than give our real guys any light of day.. (hey.. could this be why the don't want me to review those concerts?? lol)
| | | spapad wrote: | | I've been drug to a few events in my life that I honestly didn't think I would enjoy and ended having a lovely time! You just never know till you go! Would have been nice to write and article on that, how you could say you were very pleasantly suprised.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | I tell you Spa.. this guy is to reggae/dub what Snoop is to hiphop lol.
These guys were just so natural. I'm still totally in awe of the evening I had. I'm a tad dissapointed that I wasn't asked to do a review on this band for the local that I write for because I really enjoyed something that I went out hell bent on believing that I would hate (if that makes any sense?) I always get asked to write reviews or articles on bands that the editor knows I like and know so this would have been so cool to have such an open review about a genre that I am totally not familiar with. Hell, I think I'll just write a review anyway and give it to the mag and see if they feel like using it. The bands were that good!
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good to see you had a good evening Joe.
| | | joedraper wrote: | | Ok.. I"m back and you know what??? This was so cool! LK J was so cool and so were Dennis Boval and his band thingy.. I have a newfound respect for reggae/dub now.
I don't know if anyone even knows this artist but he's so cool! He's like this distinguished old british dinosaur who is more of a poet than a reggae artist. His percussionist is so old, I think he could have been Linton's dad (Linton is in his 70's now so imagine how old the percussionist is) and the drummer is this little british kid who looks like he's had the crap beaten out of him at school but is a really steady great drummer (no, not as great as Travolous but then who is? lol)
Linton is so old that instead of a promper board, he'd take out a neatly folded white piece of paper with a set list and presumably a refresher on the lyrics he was supposed to be singing on it.
I was pretty apprehensive when I first went out,but I'm glad I did!
Ok.. Ready for Priest now..
| | | Ellieke wrote: | | Hey ,
I don't know the music but who knows it'll be fun. Doing things together is always fun, what men don't do for love ;)
Have fun tonight , I'm sure it'll be a great evening
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