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1 hour ago, jfk36 said:

How far apart are LA, San Francisco and Vegas? I've only ever been to Connecticut, New York and Vermont.

I've just had a look through the "Promote your band" section, people really don't get the hint do they? At least half of them have no replies whatsoever, and the views for most are only in double digits.

At least they're mostly posting in the correct section now. Getting all the spam promo out of the other sections was a pain in the dick. There are a couple of things in there I intend to check out at some point.

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Congrats BAN. Got a name picked out yet?

8 hours ago, jfk36 said:

How far apart are LA, San Francisco and Vegas? I've only ever been to Connecticut, New York and Vermont.

I've just had a look through the "Promote your band" section, people really don't get the hint do they? At least half of them have no replies whatsoever, and the views for most are only in double digits.

It's a six hour drive from LA to San Fran and 9 hours from SF to Vegas.

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Congrats BAN. Got a name picked out yet?

8 hours ago, jfk36 said: How far apart are LA, San Francisco and Vegas? I've only ever been to Connecticut, New York and Vermont.

I've just had a look through the "Promote your band" section, people really don't get the hint do they? At least half of them have no replies whatsoever, and the views for most are only in double digits.

It's a six hour drive from LA to San Fran and 9 hours from SF to Vegas.

Autumn Rain Smith.

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We had our second baby yesterday. I've been trying to post a photo, but Tapatalk crashes every time I try, and Photobucket has been giving me error messages when I try to upload to them as well. Hopefully I can figure it out so that you all can see my beautiful little girl, but I wanted to check in either way and keep you guys posted. She's happy and healthy, and we're doing pretty well, much better experience than last time overall.

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Congrats buddy. Great news. Hope mum and daughter (and dad!) are doing well.

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1 hour ago, BlutAusNerd said:

We had our second baby yesterday. I've been trying to post a photo, but Tapatalk crashes every time I try, and Photobucket has been giving me error messages when I try to upload to them as well. Hopefully I can figure it out so that you all can see my beautiful little girl, but I wanted to check in either way and keep you guys posted. She's happy and healthy, and we're doing pretty well, much better experience than last time overall.

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Excellent, dude, congrats to your family! 

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Just listening to Pull The Plug by Death to see how much more I have to learn. 2 riffs and the solo as it turns out. With that in mind and because I'm stuck between 3 choices for the next song to learn I'm putting it to you the good people of MetalForum. So will it be Chapel Of Ghouls by Morbid Angel, Turned Inside Out by Obituary, or Sacrificial Suicide by Deicide?

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9 hours ago, BlutAusNerd said:

We had our second baby yesterday. I've been trying to post a photo, but Tapatalk crashes every time I try, and Photobucket has been giving me error messages when I try to upload to them as well. Hopefully I can figure it out so that you all can see my beautiful little girl, but I wanted to check in either way and keep you guys posted. She's happy and healthy, and we're doing pretty well, much better experience than last time overall.

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Congratulations! :)

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11 hours ago, BlutAusNerd said:

We had our second baby yesterday. I've been trying to post a photo, but Tapatalk crashes every time I try, and Photobucket has been giving me error messages when I try to upload to them as well. Hopefully I can figure it out so that you all can see my beautiful little girl, but I wanted to check in either way and keep you guys posted. She's happy and healthy, and we're doing pretty well, much better experience than last time overall.

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Oh my God, congratulations! You must be so proud. I wish you and your family all the best.

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On 1/21/2016 at 5:41 AM, RelentlessOblivion said:

Just listening to Pull The Plug by Death to see how much more I have to learn. 2 riffs and the solo as it turns out. With that in mind and because I'm stuck between 3 choices for the next song to learn I'm putting it to you the good people of MetalForum. So will it be Chapel Of Ghouls by Morbid Angel, Turned Inside Out by Obituary, or Sacrificial Suicide by Deicide?

I'm going for Turned Inside Out.

 

Awesome news BAN! Congratulations.

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On 21-1-2016 at 1:30 AM, BlutAusNerd said:

We had our second baby yesterday. I've been trying to post a photo, but Tapatalk crashes every time I try, and Photobucket has been giving me error messages when I try to upload to them as well. Hopefully I can figure it out so that you all can see my beautiful little girl, but I wanted to check in either way and keep you guys posted. She's happy and healthy, and we're doing pretty well, much better experience than last time overall.

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Congratulations to you and the rest of your family! :D

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Get well soon Macabre

 

I REALLY didn't think this through. Today's FTP test (second-last before national titles) yielded a result of 243 watts. That's an increase of 27 on my previous test. I thought training at those levels was tough so this jump will be brutal for probably the first week. If I'd been smart I would have rode to my target of 230 watts and taken the jump of 16 watts. Oh well at least I'm still smashing it. That's an improvement of 58 watts from my first test.

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7 hours ago, True Belief said:

Getting sick + air travel + hotels = guaranteed horror.

To make it even better tomorrow I have a train journey to London followed by a tube trip into Head Office before the return trip and then more air travel on Tuesday.

 

I will be a dirty bomb on legs by Wednesday!

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I'd heard of the dude, but could not have named him for any of that, which is some of my favorite music. Thanks for the post JFK. I've been listening to lots of Dio recently. Especially Master of the Moon trying to play along on the bass. The Book of Heavy Metal tells me that he was not on that album, so perhaps not too relevant. Why are there not "Gods of Metal" trading cards, that could help with the who is who a little. No, "Masters of Metal", that's a better name for musician trading cards.

 

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