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Mick Wall "Appetite for Destruction" - book I got in the sale at a record store today.  Lots of beers (see Beer Appreciation thread), latest copy of Zero Tolerance magazine and Mogwai "Les Revenants".  The Mogwai CD was available twice in the same store, same CD, same issue, not an import, one was £5.99 and the other £7.99.  Do the math dickhead.

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Who the fuck steals a jacket? That's really lame. Sorry to hear it. 

It isn't worth anything to anyone trying to sell it  ,it's scruffy and is  really only worth something to me ,i suspect it was dumped in a bin after they realised my wallet and phone weren't in the pockets .

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I miss playing the drums, it's so much fun. 

I've got the whole of my friends kit now, with seven pieces including really nice brass, Sabian high hat, and Zildgian ride and crash cymbals. I felt a little bad since his teenage boys had at one time been playing them a bit, and it seemed a little like taking candy from a baby. But no one has been using them at all. I offered to purchase them, as I was planning to invest in new heads a some point, and my friend said, "someone just left them at my house, so don't give me your money". I take that to mean that he has given them to me. Also, just saying, he delivered them in the back of his wife's pickup and remarked that they had sounded like a crazy jazz drummer as they bounced around freely in the back, so I'm going to make the claim that they have gone to a better home.

Alabaster, you deserve to have a kit and the space in which to keep it set up. Are you still looking for a drummer? hope that search Leeds you to a someone who can afford to maintain a good practice space which is one of the responsibilities of a drummer, to be rich and to have plenty of space.

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I've got the whole of my friends kit now, with seven pieces including really nice brass, Sabian high hat, and Zildgian ride and crash cymbals. I felt a little bad since his teenage boys had at one time been playing them a bit, and it seemed a little like taking candy from a baby. But no one has been using them at all. I offered to purchase them, as I was planning to invest in new heads a some point, and my friend said, "someone just left them at my house, so don't give me your money". I take that to mean that he has given them to me. Also, just saying, he delivered them in the back of his wife's pickup and remarked that they had sounded like a crazy jazz drummer as they bounced around freely in the back, so I'm going to make the claim that they have gone to a better home.

Alabaster, you deserve to have a kit and the space in which to keep it set up. Are you still looking for a drummer? hope that search Leeds you to a someone who can afford to maintain a good practice space which is one of the responsibilities of a drummer, to be rich and to have plenty of space.

I'm gonna take a page from Chuck Schuldiner - not really looking for full-time members now. As far as live shows go, I'm in touch with a couple of pro drummers, and I know a couple of guitarists who could hack the parts. Hopefully I'll have money to hire the people I need. For recording, with some regret, I'm going to continue programming, since hiring a drummer and a studio for recording is well beyond my means. Regarding your criticism from the other thread, I agree with you, and much prefer the sound of real drums, but I'm not going to let that stop me from making music. Eventually, I plan to get a kit, and do my best on my own. 

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