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17 minutes ago, Depraved said:

Should I just say fuck it and wear whatever the fuck I want even if it's like half Katatonia and half every thing else? Lol

Yep.

Only time I ever got odd looks was when I wore my old maintenance uniform to a show years back. Had to hit the road right after work. No one really cared tho. We all just went to see the show, I assume. But idk, I’ve been insane recently so you may want a second opinion. But my vote is wear what you want as long as you’re comfortable.

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Of course it does.  In this day and age intent must be explicit let someone think I am walking around with my old fella hanging out for the sake of it.

 

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On a serious note, I've worn business suits to gigs on occasions I couldn't get home between work and the gig.  Nothing like a drunk corporate looking type headbanging away at the front of the pit.  And the tie stays on until the suit comes off....

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Hang on, so walking around with it hanging out is only okay if you give someone instructions on what they can do with it?

One is no longer allowed to just let the old fella catch the breeze? Damn these rule changes!

 

I've turned up to gigs in work clothes and prayed the gig finished before I had to be at work. Mine you I was also praying I didn't stink of booze and the walk back to the depot sobered me up.

 

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46 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Hang on, so walking around with it hanging out is only okay if you give someone instructions on what they can do with it?

One is no longer allowed to just let the old fella catch the breeze? Damn these rule changes!

 

I've turned up to gigs in work clothes and prayed the gig finished before I had to be at work. Mine you I was also praying I didn't stink of booze and the walk back to the depot sobered me up.

 

 

You can still let it hang out but you just need to provide consent if you want people to do things with it.

 

Back when I was a wee young stockbroker then a wee young health bureaucrat  I used to not go home  at all and then go to work in those same clothes with nothing save a shower in a can.  Worst one was after a strip show and I'd been up on stage with some of the ladies.  Crashed on a mate's couch and then went to work in those same clothes.

 

Now I drink tea at night and occasionally have a glass of sparkling wine or a single whiskey....I have become so fucking boring 🤓

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21 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Last time I let it hang out it got bitten by a dog, it was a chihuahua....standing in hole...with no legs!!

Some look at it as boring, some look at it as relaxed, I relate to the relaxed life better now that I'm also a grumpy old fart

 

 

You shouldn't be lying over a legless chihuahua in a hole.

 

I just watched a show called My Mad Fat Diary set in the 1990s.  The soundtrack played a big part of the show but it sucked cause it was crap like Weezer, Babylon Zoo and fucking Oasis!  Was surprised there was no Nine Inch Nails or Tool given the protagonist of the show was totally depressed and all the local depressive types were into them.

 

Anyhow this horrid indie shit was played alongside Aussie rock like silverchair, Living End and Grinspoon at various parties back when I was a yoof drinking too much Fruity Lexia boxy and Stones Mac alcoholic ginger "wine".

 

So feeling a bit nostalgic and old and very middle aged.

 

 

 

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I was on stilts!

I hated Silverchair and Living End, although that song of theirs about 'Society' was fucking catchy as hell and I refuse to listen to it now because of the ear worm it is. Never did any gigs with Silverchair but LE were fucking diva's. Something For Kate were also fairly popular at the time amongst the same crowds but they were all gigs for younger kids, I think even then in my 30's I was considered an old fart!

 

 

 

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As just a punter I thought some  of the Aussie bands were reasonable live, though Grinspoon lost the plot pretty early on because they or at least their singer was a massive alcoholic and drug addict who couldn't keep it together on stage.

Living End were good live the two times I saw them.  I can still listen to them occassionally

 

I did hate Something for Kate, Jebediah and Regurgitator,  Spiderbait's  pop era and had no time for You Am I.   

And none of them had any kind of consistency.

Indeed save AC/DC (who are mainly Brits) Australian rock bands generally take all of 1 semi-successful album to fully sell out and turn to commercial shit   Though stuff like the Vines and rip off merchant Jet was sellout from the start.

 

I think Powderfinger were the only ones to get heavier and more rock over time - at least for 1 album  (and their early stuff is dead shit boring).

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I wasn't into enough of that type of music to be a 'fan' and I certainly don't own any of their albums.

Damn, if we have to give the Poms AC/DC because they were born there we have to give just about every band that came out of Adelaide in the late 60's and 70's to the Poms as well given they were nearly all "two pound poms". Although I don't listen to them much any more I prefer to think of AC/DC as ex-pat Aussies because they grew up and learnt their craft here :)

I was never into Jet, or Wolfmother or those types of bands that got heaps of airplay on MMM. But I was a fan of earlier stuff from bands like the Tatts, The Angels, etc. I also don't mind Airbourne but they seem to be the Aussie band to hate these days,

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I hated the whole mid-late 1990s scene really but feel nostalgic when I hear it cause it was music that was played everywhere.

People thought I was odd for still listening to metal.  Then shitty nu-metal came and people thought I was odd for listening to old school metal and this "new" Swedish stuff.  

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Yeah back in the day when I couldn't afford or justify a car with a CD player in it and the portable one that connected to the tape deck was more hassle that it was worth so the soundtrack to anything but a long drive was commercial radio. All those bands that got hammered on the likes of MMM etc just got too much to listen to. I doubt I'd have been a fan anyway but I certainly wasn't when everytime the radio came on in the car or at some workplace it was the same shitty songs.

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Was just thinking, while listening to No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith at lunchtime:

"what are the bands of musicians where EVERYONE is now dead" like, from the classic line up.

The ones that spring to mind are Motörhead and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Both power trios. All dead.

Any others?

Legends are dropping dead all the time but usually not everyone is gone. There are still two Beatles left. Christ, all of Black Sabbath is somehow still alive. 

 

 

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14 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Finally got my patches for my vest this past week and so today learned how to use the sewing machine in the fiancée's lair and am now sat stroking my Demigod, Adramelech, Iron Maiden, Gorguts, Gaerea and Nuclear Assault patches like I have given birth to them.

I'm anxiously awaiting mine to arrive in the mail. Mayhem, Darkthrone, Mercyful Fate, and Paradise Lost. But I sew by hand and on leather, no less. I like to make things difficult.

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1 minute ago, Depraved said:

I'm anxiously awaiting mine to arrive in the mail. Mayhem, Darkthrone, Mercyful Fate, and Paradise Lost. But I sew by hand and on leather, no less. I like to make things difficult.

My patience levels don't stretch to doing it by hand although I am sure I would find the process more cathartic doing it that way.

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