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- Damageplan -- DeadMike, 14:03:32 04/06/04 Tue
Guess what everybody, we don't have to buy an import version of NEWFOUND POWER for the Damgeplan/Jerry Cantrell collaboration I talked about before on a previous post it's on the Punisher soundtrack. Also the show at the Drink POUNDED. Yeah that's right I said pounded. Take that loser in the guestbook.
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- CTG & MECHA All ages show -- DeadMike, 15:31:16 08/22/05 Mon
Well,well,well...that show had to be the most ridiculous outing of these two bands yet. I haven't seen such hilarious shit in a while so thanks for the fun.
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- MECHA and CTG -- DeadMike, 16:26:21 08/07/05 Sun
Well goddamn! Two Mecha and CTG shows! This should prove interesting.
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- DLP -- DeadMike, 15:44:38 08/02/05 Tue
You guys MUST do "Graveyard Disiples" next time man. Good show though, no complaints.
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- Tributes -- DeadMike, 13:17:14 08/03/05 Wed
Here is an interesting story and I hope it was recorded and will be released.DREAM THEATER were joined by special guests Dave Mustaine (MEGADETH), Burton C. Bell (FEAR FACTORY) and Russell Allen (SYMPHONY X) during the final song of their set — a cover of PANTERA's "Cemetary Gates", in honor of fallen hometown hero "Dimebag" Darrrell Abbott — Tuesday night (August 2) at Nokia Live in Dallas, Texas.
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- We shall Rock on -- Barlow, 15:32:08 06/07/05 Tue
First of all i want to say something. Adam, good luck with your future endevors. Don't be a stranger, keep in touch. I'm glad our talk was able to turn into a positive one. NOW. Things are moving forward. Mecha Messiah WILL return and will pound like we always have. Keep an eye on this site as we will (hopefully) be re-tweaking it in time for our glorious return. Stay tuned.
p.s. Hopefully the focus will now return to the music and not the bullshit.
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- Moving on... -- Adam Baldwin, 21:26:46 06/06/05 Mon
No two people see events the same way.
Everybody’s truth is different.
This is my truth.
Brian and I started Mecha Messiah back in the day and with the help of Jerad and Barlow we’ve worked our asses off to get where we are today. We all have a lot to proud of. Anyone who knows me at all knows that music has and will always be a huge part of my life plain and simple. I love drumming and I have ever since I started, nothing beats being up on stage and playing in front of people that are into your music. Nothing ever will. Anyone who’s ever been in a band and played in front of people know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s always been a personal goal of my bandmates and I to play at the Delta Lion and after months of fingers being crossed it happened with the luck of Devils Right Hand. The show at the Lion was mind blowing, not only did we get to play with amazing musicians that we our honored to call our friends but we made a shitload of money for cancer research. A sincere thank you to everyone that came to the show, and all the staff at the Delta Lion that helped make the night possible. We should all be proud of how successful that night turned out.
Now you ask yourself why the post in the forum? For two reasons: people need to know the truth and all of the truth. Secondly they need to be able to read this without it getting taken down right away at least not for a couple of days anyways. I’m sure everyone has heard rumors about my health condition, and why I didn’t play the show on the second. I’d like to say for the record that I’m a very open person but there are certain things that I like to keep private, and my health has always been one of them. Things have been said from people that claim to be my friends, and people that don’t know me at all, as well as people that I’ve stopped talking to because of these issues. You all know who you are. Due to certain animosities and accusations that have been presented to me recently and some not so recently I’ve had to take some drastic measures. My main course of action is to ultimately do what I haven’t wanted to do from the start, make my life an open book. The reason I was so against doing this in the first place is that I didn’t want the pity or the sympathetic looks and essentially I didn’t want people to feel sorry for me. But since my word isn’t good enough and since people don’t respect my wishes my life doesn’t get to stay private.
So here’s the whole story. I woke up one morning in a lot of pain, my left arm was aching, I didn’t think anything of it because at the time my tendons were acting up quite a bit. After I got out of the shower I noticed a bump near my veins in my left forearm, worried I called my doctors office immediately. I was unable to get into see him because he was booked solid. I went to a walk in clinic and was told by a doctor that it was a cyst nothing to worry about. I made an appointment to see my doctor based on advice of the walk in clinic doctor. No big deal. Two days later I saw my doctor, and he verified that it was a cyst also, that was the end of that or so I thought. Within weeks I started having slight pain in my chest, so I went back to my doctor to get checked out, worried that it was a blood clot I was put on an emergency list for a cat scan. Cat scans normally take months to get into unless you are on an emergency list. In my case it was every major hospital in Vancouver and even as far away as hospitals in Whistler. I received a phone call from doctor around eight thirty one night weeks after I was put on the waiting list. But because it was such short notice and no one was around, people were working etc. I had to go it alone, not so much fun when you’re scared to death but shit happens. I drove downtown to meet my doctor, at VGH hospital because it was the closest. I was then transported to Burnaby General by ambulance because the time issue was so important. I got the results within three hours of being at the hospital, it was discovered then that I three clots in total. The bump on my arm turned out to be a clot, the second one was in my left leg and the third was in one of the vein that leads to my heart. My doctor informed me that night that the clot in my arm and leg were not as serious as the one in my chest. His concern was the location of the third one, if it moved it would head straight for my heart, something that would be life threatening. So immediately that night my results were sent out to the top specialists for analysis. For those of you who don’t know there are different types of blood clots, some of them aren’t minor and some of them are life threatening. Normally when you deal with blood clots you’d go on blood thinners and you’d be fine in no time, unfortunately I’m deathly allergic to aspirin and all blood thinners are made with an aspirin base. If I took any blood thinners I’d be dead within minutes. My other two options to get rid of the clot in my chest were firstly to have blood filtration done. That involves being hooked up to a machine similar to kidney dialysis. One tube goes into your body taking the blood out pumping it through the machine, while the machine filters and thins my blood, another tube pumps my new blood back into my body. The problem with that option was that the new blood in my system would be free of any antibodies that I’ve developed over the years. I wouldn’t have an immune system left. Surgery wasn’t an option because of the location of the clot, they wouldn’t be able to go through my chest they would have to go through my back and they would more than likely cut through my central nervous system causing paralysis from the neck down. And if I chanced this surgery I would have to pay a total of 75,000 because the medical system doesn’t consider this a necessary surgery. Basically I was fucked there was nothing I could do to make this go away. I had another option open and that was a hospital procedure that sends electric volts to the clot to try and get it to break up in pieces. Causing it to pass through my bloodstream safely, because of the delicate area where my clot was located they would have to lower the voltage power or they might send me into cardiac arrest. I decided to take my chances, this procedure hurts so bad because it does feel like you’re getting shocked it’s horrible. Anyways it didn’t work, I decided to make another hospital appointment and try it a second time. I did and that didn’t work so in the same visit I made them do it a third time, they were against it I told them to do it anyways. Bad idea not only was my chest hurting so badly that I couldn’t stand up I threw up blood in the middle of the procedure and they had to stop, later that night I filled a toilet bowl. That was when I first threw/coughed up blood. It was around this time that certain people started saying things behind my back people I thought were my friends. There were comments such as “he should be at home with his parents”, “can he possibly milk it anymore”, “and I’m sick of always hearing about his traumas”. These are only some of the things that I’ve heard, and for the record I’ve stopped talking to these people.
My specialists and my doctor told me that I now had to go into a private clinic so they could do research on me so that they could formulate a blood thinner specially catered to me. The idea was to formulate a blood thinner that I wasn’t allergic to and to make sure that it didn’t work too fast for fear of making the blood clot move closer to my heart. Here I would get the tests and treatment to find this out as quickly and as soon as possible without the wait for a hospital bed. This clinic is basically a private hospital affiliated with VGH, it has the best staff working around the clock 24/7, and its own lab and testing facilities. I was assigned to a private room in a high stress ward; my room contained nothing but a plastic framed bed with white sheets, a plastic desk and a plastic chair. I wasn’t allowed to listen to music, I was not allowed to have any shirts with logos and most importantly I was not allowed to have any visitors. These rules were put into affect because when you’re put into a contained environment, the only thing on your mind is the tests that you are being given. The point is to stress you out mentally and physically to show the utmost results of your body. When I was in the clinic no one except the nurses and doctors would talk to me and even if people did talk to me there was no mention of anything happening in the real world. It was like these people were zombies. I found out the reason all the furniture was plastic was because some of these people had been in here for months and there was such a high suicide rate in the place. During my first stay in hell I had an encounter with a patient, who offered to help me commit suicide, he said that he saw what this place was doing to me and he informed me that he’s helped other people out as well. Some of the people that are at this hospital were in a worst state than me, and anytime that I tried to get some sleep I heard people screaming at the top of their lungs. That screaming never stopped it didn’t matter if it was day or night, I’ll never get those sounds out of my head ever.
I had a variety of tests done when I stayed at this place they usually want me there in the middle of the night and the tests go until morning. I sometimes am allowed to take a nap for a few hours until the next series of tests start.
The other shitty thing about this place is that they don’t like to feed you because it interferes with the test results they’re more effective when you don’t eat. One of the first things they do is they take vials of blood, then a chest x-ray, and then they do one of the most painful tests of all, the needle test. They insert about ten needles through various areas of my body, these needles measure the way my heart pumps blood and how strong my blood flow is. These needles are thicker than regular needles and they go through the body differently as well, instead of going into your vein they actually go through the vein and stick out the other side. They go through my neck, my lower back, through my thighs, pretty much through all the major veins in my body. After they put the needles in me I was injected with a different type of serum every time and told to try and sleep. They then measure my blood flow, pulse and heart rate; this tells them what serum works the best.
Another test I have done is a water test this is where you’re hooked up to machines and you go into a shower. They then turn the shower on, the water starts at freezing cold temperatures and then goes up a notch towards warm every minute. The point of this test is to determine how my body reacts to the temperature change, my heart rate etc. They always do a scope on top of these tests to see if there’s any sign of blood coming from my chest. The first time I stayed at this clinic was almost a full week, since then I’ve been in and out at least six or seven times for countless tests. I’m sure everyone has heard about private clinics, I had but until I stayed at this place I never knew that places this horrible ever existed. I’m sure this has to be worse than staying at even the most extreme mental hospitals I hate this place more than anything, I have nightmares about it constantly and I freak out so bad every time I have to go back in. This place is pure hell and I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy.
My results of my first stay showed that the blood clot in my chest was slowing the blood flow to my heart making it weaker and causing it to work twice as hard. They also noticed that every 100-135 beats my heart would double pump causing my chest to ache. It also showed that the clot in my chest had grown in size, but the clot in my leg had disintegrated back into my bloodstream. Another thing that I’m advised to do is to have a very strong cup of caffeine every day because caffeine is a stimulant and if there is anything wrong with my heart I’ll know within ten minutes. This has already happened to me once already and I was rushed to VGH where I was given a fluke cat scan showing that my clot had grown yet again and a new one had started this time in one of the main arteries to my heart. This one was more serious than the other one in my chest. Ironically after I found this out I was given the specially formulated blood thinners to start this was around mid March. For the first week and a half the blood in your body changes and you’re in major pain but after that time period the pain is supposed to ease up. Mine didn’t, unfortunately they worked too fast and after another stay on April 3 at the hospital I found out that the blood clot in my artery had moved towards my heart by 2mm. This news was given to me on April 4 they told me that I had to prepare to stay at the clinic indefinitely and that I was going in on April 8. I was told that my clot had 13 more cm to go before it hits my heart, I had no time to prepare for this and I was scared beyond belief. They only kept me in the shithole for about 24hrs, they then discovered that it moved again this time a whole cm. As of right now I’m waiting for a new formula of blood thinners to start, I get them within a couple of days and hopefully those will work.
People that have known me for a long time know that I’ve had a problem with my iron levels in my blood when I was little I almost died because of it. Ever since then I have had to get my iron checked every year and although it went back up again around august I was given pills to treat it, and it was almost normal until the blood clots started. Out of the dozen opinions from specialists that I’ve received only one has said that it might be to do with my iron. Blood clots are not a complication of high iron. No one can tell me why this is happening to me there are only theories, and that’s the most frustrating part. My specialist has told me that these clots are flukes there is no pattern to them, he’s seen people with less serious clots than me not make it, and he’s seen worst cases than me make it. If you’re asking yourself why I didn’t tell everyone every little thing that was going on with me it’s because I didn’t want sympathy and I didn’t want to bring needless attention to myself. I was told from the beginning that if my options didn’t work for me then I would have no longer than five months to live. In my defense that’s a lot for a person to deal with and besides, I didn’t know that there was a guide that you follow when you’re dealing with your mortality rate.
If I am guilty of one thing and one thing only it’s the fact that I told people on a need to know basis. I honestly thought that my word was good enough when it came to certain people that I thought were my friends, my mistake. At this point I would like to thank Rob from Devils for filling in for me on the Saturday March 12th at the Brickyard. I was unable to play because the blood thinners were making me to weak to hit my drums, thank you. I would have loved to come out and see that show but I was unable to get a car. I have been dealing with this clot problem for almost 5 months now. I only missed one show and this is what happens to me. As for Barlow, thanks for offering to be someone I can call and talk to but I can not stay affiliated with people who want to kick me out of my band for being a flake because of my condition. I found this post on Blood Red metal heads.com While web surfing a few nights before the Lion gig. I wonder when they were planning on telling me. When they found a new replacement?
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http://forum.bloodredmetalheads.com/viewtopic.php?t=943&highlight=mecha+messiah
Mecha Messiah
Hairmetal Hero
Joined: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 38
Location: North Delta
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:56 am Post subject: MECHA MESSIAH
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MM is looking for a dedicated drummer. Must have gear/transportation/pro attitude. Double-bass is a must.
Influences: AC/DC/BLS/Carcass/Death/Megadeth/Pantera
NO FLAKES!!!
_________________
"If you book them, they will come."
www.mechamessiah.com
www.infernalmajesty.ca
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How dedicated to I have to be? On that note: I am leaving Mecha Messiah to pursue other musical interests. I wish all of my band mates the best of luck. Thank you to all of you guys who have came out to support us. Playing on stage was the best time of my life.
Love and Respect,
Adam
The X- Drummer of Mecha Messiah.
P.S. I’d like to give thanks to Chris Barlow for being the only one to call me up. You know what I mean.
Below are some of the comments I have received against me. The first section is the Mecha guest book which was taken off line after someone stuck up for me and made a comment against someone else. So here is the whole truth to those of you who have heard about it. But funny how my “diss” was left up for the whole world for days and how someone’s comment against someone else was taken down immediately. Soon afterwards some one even found my live journal and started attacking me on there after I made a little post. Read the comments for yourself and judge them. And then ask yourself, what you would do if you where in my position. It is very obvious who posted those anonymous comments. And I have lost all respect for them as human beings.
never cared for what they say
never cared for games they play
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
and I know
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Thanks to anyone who cares about me. If you didn’t. Well…
Once again,
Love and Respect,
Adam Baldwin
What is your name?
a fan
Where are you from?
canada
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will adam be drumming for you guys on the 2nd?
What is your name?
Blah
Where are you from?
your head
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I guess it depends on what movies are playing at the theater...
Rob's as good if not better than adam anyways... so it's gonna be a good show no matter who drums
March 25th 2005
12:20:19 PM
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a fan
Where are you from?
from blahs head... beeatch
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Rob vs. Adam.
they both have different styles. Adam has a more technical style then Rob which makes him a BETTER drummer than Rob. But from the shows i've seen where MM and DRH played Rob has the beat down. Rob is on the path to becomeing a great drummer just like Adam.
I can't see Rob drumming for MM anymore. Because its just not right.
ps. **** you BLAH. what do movies have to do with it?.your dumb.
What is your name?
Derek - DRH
Where are you from?
Delta
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www.drinkdrh.com
What is your favorite Mecha song?
Drama Queen
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Leave my drummer out of this. This drama is not needed or appreciated. Adam is a great guy and I am sure he is just as pumped as we are to play the DLP.
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Johnny Bukkake
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Field
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This arguement is unjust and uncalled for.
What is your name?
Adam Baldwin
Where are you from?
IN THE BAND
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Your on it.
How did you find this website?
IN THE BAND
What is your favorite Mecha song?
ALL of them
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Who the hell is posting this ******* ****? I hate this bull ****.
Rob is the man. I am the Man. No more questions. I am playing the show at the DELTA LION April the 2nd with my band MECHA MESSIAH. And Rob will be playing with his band DEVIL’S RIGHT HAND.
And by the way. If you guys still don't know and can not read the main page. Rob filled in for me at the last show at brickyard. I’m dealing with a medical condition and could not play that show. He stepped up to the plate and apparently kicked ass. He should be congratulated when you see him next (probably at the next show) for having the balls to step and play our ****.
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Brian
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DLP
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This is ridiculous. I wish people would take an intrest in our music as opposed to hearsay and gossip about us. Furthermore, this **** has no place in the guestbook, move it to the Forum that 3 people post in.
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Jenn
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Me or Him
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Thanx Brian! Your right it is all about the music and not the gossip... but on the other hand I congratulate Blah on their coment... they said what alot of people have been thinking lately...
Adam... I appreciate that you have a medical condition that needs tending to... but while you are doing that you need to also think about the other 3 people in the band... Jerad, Chris and Brian don't need to be stressing out about whether or not you are going to be able to do a show... and NO 3 days notice is not enough time to find a replacement for you no matter how talented you think you are. THey are on a need to know basis and if you cant do a show, thats fine... but thell them ASAP!!!
BTW... I'm curious... what movie did you see at Strawberryhill while you were supposed to be in the hospital and your band played a show??? Use your head Adam.
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Wow. That is smart! Insulting other band members???
Why don't you guys shut the **** up and let the dudes play their tunes.
P.S Spell Check Is Your Friend.
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Lexi-The Goth Grrl
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Well well well..seems as though our young Miss Ono has spoken.Im honestly getting sick and ******* tired of you. You walk around and act like youre something special because you date the lead singer of the band. I do not appreciate words being flung at my friend for an illness he CANNOT control. Have you taken more than 2 mins out of your pathetic life to even know whats going on? Have you been there when he has coughed blood up into his hands and 20mins later gotten up on stage and played a show? Oh wait, no , your head was so far up Brian's ass you probably didnt notice. You strut around on your high horse, btw, who the hell placed you up there anyways, and expect respect. Sweetheart , if you dont give it, youre not going to get it in return. By no means am i being put up to this by anyone,i have not said anything in the past because i respect Adam and Chris entirely too much. But you crossed the line my sweet and if youd like to play with the big kids,im waiting.For starters, I do not appreciate you looking down your snout at me like im something youd step over. You have no place speaking to me or my friends like we are trash. Those in nasty stilletto boots should not through rocks. I know i am being petty and whatnot, but i honestly dont give a rat's ass. You brought this rant upon yourself my dear.
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BTW
I know that he went and saw, “Hostage” after he found out bad news at the hospital. He went and saw it with his parents and with his girlfriend, just so you know.
Adam is in a band. He is in a band because he likes playing music with his friends. Do you think he wanted to miss a show? Stop brown nosing your man and get a reality check. Wheres your man going to be this summer? not with Mecha..good on Brian,im happy for him and all, but dont you DARE say my friend does not want to play when hes the one staying around.
To my knowledge he has never missed a show, and I know he would have played it if he could. I also know that he has played hurt, sick and bruised tendons for the other boys in MECHA because he does care. Who the **** do you think you are accusing him, you ******
It disgust me how ignorant you seem to be. Its honestly quite revolting. Next time you see me, dont even smile and nod. You best bet is to just walk away, because if you think im vulgar and opinionated here, you aint seen nothing yet darling.
Happy Easter !
adam_dammit ( adam_dammit) wrote,
@ 2005-04-09 19:00:00
Current mood: I don't know...
Current music: Metallica - live in vancouver 2004/03/26
Are you motherfuckerz ready for a new post??
First off, I apologize for not posting as much as a should/could. But I have been kinda tired.
First things first.
The show at the Delta Lion. Holy fucking shit. This show was a land mark in Mecha’s career. It was also a personal goal at that. When, Bangley and started this shit with the clubbing and all and just fucking playing some METAL we have always wanted to play this show. And played we did. Tight ass set. With a mistake in “No more tears” our set was flawless. 400 + people at the lion will agree with you.
Funny, how everyone was coming up to me after the show and telling me how much of a wicked drummer I was. I had the “twins” watching me the whole time. I gave them both autographed sticks of mine. I made there night an unforgettable one.
There was some drama that night. My girlfriend kicked a certain lady ass that has been making fun of my heath condition. I would like to go off, on this cunt because of what she has done but I can’t for a fear that I might get kicked out of my band. You know, how stupid is that?. I helped make this thing called Mecha Messiah but they don’t see that. All they see is me being “self-centered” and only thinking about my self and not the group. Well I have played hurt, sick, bruised and they have not been there after we played a show, and I went home to have a shower and coughed blood in to my hands for playing so hard. I give all I have into playing live with them. And if you or them call that being flakey, FUCK YOU.
I only want to play my drums with some of the best musicians I know. But, isn’t it funny how they post all this shit behind my back? How do I know that they still don’t want me out? That hurtful post is still up. And well. That still hurts. You know, If have be come “flakey” why was I still getting the props after the show. And for the record I have never missed a band practice, pre heart condition (I can’t speak of anyone else in my band besides Jar-head because well, we do jam at his house so he does have to be there). Hell I don’t think I missed a practice because of my clot. Just because I don’t drink and hang out at the bar with them doesn’t make me a flake. I would tell them about my clot updates and shit if they asked. I hate talking about my clot but as of right now, its part of me and I can’t get rid of it. I’m not going to bring up something I hate talking about. Plain and simple.
In some ironic news:
After everyone got hammered at the lion after the show people made there way to that bar behind “Cheers” to have a few more drinks. Well a certain someone who I have had some drama with before started calling me some names and bashing me in front of others. A good friend of mine, stood up for me that night and I thank her.
As for the person who talked about me. Thanks for making fun of my heart condition. I thought we had made peace. But, I guess not. Well I tell you this. Blood is thicker than water, and I seem to have so much blood in my system that it is causing me to clot. So watch your back. **and no. this is not a THREAT… She knows who she is and I know she reads my journal because I read hers just as well. I just can’t believe she would do this after I gave her praise about her new website. I did mean it because the content on her new site is good. It just seems the people you try to help just stab you in the back.**
In other news:
I have lost my job at the PHASE ONE. Oh god. What the fuck am I going to do now? Well. I lost my job at the phase because the company is going bankrupt. So, I have been laid off. The phase is going bankrupt because someone had the bright idea not to implement late charges. Well because of that we have lost $9000 in 3 months. Not a very good idea now was it.
So my plan is to ride EI for a little bit, depending on how much I get paid. I might start helping on of my ex-customers paint. Hopefully I’ll get paid under the table so I can make some extra money to pay my parents back. And find something I like doing as well as the phase. But, this will give me more time to work on my remixes and my fat beats from the hood as well as maybe some MECHA stuff depending on what is going on.
I was the last one to keep the phase legacy alive. And I think I did. I loved that placed and it will be missed. Nothing could ever compare to that.
Love and Respect.
Adam
tweak23
2005-04-09 20:10 (link) Select
I plead whichever amendment involves being somewhat drunk, but also pretty upset about other things. I'm sorry that I shittalked you behind your back, that's the worst thing to do. I was immediately put in my place by that friend of yours, which was definitely the right thing for her to do, and I immediately regretted talking shit about things I really know nothing about, aside from hearsay and convoluted opinions.I don't believe I did make fun of your heart condition, as I make a point of not joking about real health problems. I think my statement could be paraphrased as referring to you as a "drama queen " or a variant of flake, with expletives thrown in. I think it's right for me to acknowledge this here, because there was some provocation and I think you'd prefer if I said something.
-The set was wicked. This is true.
I thank you for your praise on the website and the pictures. I worked really hard on them.
I don't have many details on your condition whatsoever. I don't know the severity, what the diagnosis is, the treatment, anything. The fact is that I don't need to know. We're never going to be close friends, but we should have mutual respect, something we've had problems with in the past and came out recently after a very mixed-up evening, and in the worst way possible. I called you names; I shouldn't have. Very simply. Even if you exemplified the very definition of flake, I shouldn't say shit about you behind your back. Ever. Period. It's not something business partners and acquaintences should ever do, let alone ones that have been friends before.
You're a good guy, Adam, and I think for the most part, I'm a pretty good gal. I fucked up, I'm atoning. While I don't think we'll ever be super close, that doesn't give me the right to slag you.
That being said, I really think you should remove the 'cunt' comment above that which is directed at me. It could cause way more trouble than it's worth.
We have our difficulties, but I do respect you, and I feel shitty that you've lost your job on top of the other problems you're having. Some job sites to check out that have helped me in the past:
http://jb-ge.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/Intro_en.asp
http://www.hcareers.ca/
I do hope we can go back to a state of quiet acceptance of one another, because we have absolutely no reason for continued animosity.
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2005-04-10 01:00 (link) Select
Very well written entry Adam.
Btw, the word " cunt " doesnt look like it was intended for you, Ms. Tweak :)
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2005-04-10 03:04 (link) Select
Nope it was directed to a girl that got her hair pulled from behind by an actual CUNT.... and Adam's water buffalo of a g/f threw a drink on her..... speaking of talking shit behind peoples backs. So Mr. B.... Oct. 15. the first Shake your Foundation show. Remember your post? you've been talking shit behind your "Best friend's" back For the last 6 months. Maybe he should be told about this. I'm sure he won't appreciate you calling his girl a "cunt". She wasn't making fun of your condition either, she was talking about you being extremely shady with your "brothers" that you wanted to kill. Didn't I see her giving you water at the Delta Lion show when you guys went up to play? Seems like a nice thing for someone to do even after getting jumped from behind by 2 swamp sows. But I guess you still feel that your being wronged... your "best friend" is so whipped too.
I don't see him jobless or damn near bandless. I'd say his doing very well for himself. You on the otherhand... Well you know what happens when you get led astray, you end up with nothing. Keep up your stupidity my friend because I'd say you are well on your way.
Am I alone in the belief that Adam needs Psychiatric help?
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On a lighter note...
mothos
2005-04-10 16:05 (link) Select
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Phase One: 19??-2005
RIP
You will be missed.
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Holy Crap! I had an idea!
mothos
2005-04-10 16:08 (link) Select
Gather all the former employees and friends o' the Phase and hold a Wake! To remenice over the glory days and say goodbye to a dear friend. And drink booze.
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lovitz
2005-04-11 08:45 (link) Select
Say good bye to the classic gay porn " Stiff Latinos "
Man we sure had some laughs in that room.
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(Anonymous)
2005-04-11 19:15 (link) Select
Well, if I see your girl friend team up on Brian's girl again, I'll beat the shit out of her. I may not be as "large" as your girl, but I sure as hell can hold my own (that means without using one of my girl friends as back-up to pick on a girl when she is all alone).
And you failed to mention that she used her other friend to "team up" on Brian's small framed girl. I would say that was mighty cowardly of her.
But since I am on the subject of being "pathetic", I'll continue to tell you how much you sound like a grade school goth whining about all the misery's in life...
Seriously, this stuff is so lame. Try using the "friends only" feature so you can at least pretend you have some balls in public.
And don't quit your day job. Not only do you look like a retard in play, but you really need to practice your chops. Hence why MM is dropping you like a negro in a cotton field.
:)
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- Sounds of the Underground -- DeadMike, 12:36:36 05/19/05 Thu
What does everybody think of how this show is being done.It starts in the morning and the bands are separated into 3 tiers, rotating order within each tier for each performance. SYL are in tier 2 and are scheduled to play somewhere between 3 & 6 pm. Somewhere between tier 2 & 3 we are told there is a special "half time show" performance by Gwar.This info is from HevyDevy.com.Different eh?
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- Combat Records -- DeadMike, 16:48:47 05/18/05 Wed
This is a kind of cool item,so check it out.COMBAT Records,the birthing place of hard rock and hardcore titans like VENOM, EXODUS, MEGADETH, POSSESSED, C.O.C., NUCLEAR ASSAULT, DEATH, DARK ANGEL and many more is restarting and is saying it will focus on developing new bands and providing them with a home that is both artist friendly yet aggressive in its pursuit to rebuild a brand name that established itself as one of the most forward thinking labels in metal and hardcore. This is good news for bands trying make a bigger name for themselves. There isn't really many metal labels other than Sanctuary,Century Media, or Nuclear Blast so this is good news for up and coming metal acts.This is also good because they're signing new bands and not washed up acts(Sanctuary cough...cough...)and it looks like they're sticking to their classic metal roots.Just want to see what mainly people in Mecha or anyone in bands reading this thinks.
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- STRAPPING YOUNG LAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- DeadMike, 12:08:02 05/17/05 Tue
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD was a fuckin' kick ass show but the hatebreed jr. and At The Gates rip off were out of place and didn't fit the bill.Oh well I guarantee nobody went there to see them anyway.
SYL=KINGS OF METAL!!!
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- Black Label Society @ Commodore -- Barlow, 17:05:58 05/03/05 Tue
What a fucking show!!! If you happened to miss this show then shame on you!!! It was a religeous experience for me as I actually shed tears a couple of times watching Zakk do what only he can do. No words can do it justice so thats the end of this post. Bleed Black Label for fucking ever!!!!
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- BLACK SABBATH/LED ZEPPELIN!!!!!!!! -- DEADMIKE, 15:34:00 05/02/05 Mon
In a head-to-head Sirius Satellite Radio interview with "Sound of the Beast" author Ian Christe, BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi exclusively reveals this week that he has studio tapes of BLACK SABBATH jamming with LED ZEPPELIN during the mid-1970s. OHMYGOD!!!! UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!OOHHHHH YEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!
THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME NEWS EVER!!!
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- Fight -- DeadMike, 14:16:39 04/26/05 Tue
Umm, this is a kind of weird post but... I'd like to ask what people think of Halford's first post Judas Priest band Fight. I have only heard one song of it called "A Little Crazy" which sounded good but at the time I didn't know that it was Halford at all. Just trying to find general opinions of the metal masses who frequent this fine site. I know,I know, it's from like 1993 it's a little late but it sounded promising.
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- Slayer -- DeadMike, 11:10:15 04/20/05 Wed
Ok everyone, get a load of this.This guy down in LA(of course)killed this girl who rejected him and her family and even raped and drowned one of them.Terrible story in its own right correct?Well the "esteemed"LA Times just had to mention that he was wearing a SLAYER shirt when he did this and bring up the fact that : SLAYER is a heavy metal band "known for lyrics about violence and death." Typical media eh? Just like the Robert Ramirez "Nightstalker" murders, the only thing they (the media) focused on was that he was wearing an AC/DC hat. Just want to see what people think of this bullshit.
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- No pix? -- Steve, 12:13:20 04/16/05 Sat
No pictures from the show at the lion. What is going on?
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- Mecha/DRH @the DLP -- Barlow, 14:32:32 04/05/05 Tue
Words cannot express how fucking awesome this night was. six years I have been going to this place and I finally get to play there. Just an incredible night for both bands as well as a wonderfull personal thrill for me. So thanks to the DLP,DRH, as well as family, friends, and fans of both bands for making this a night I will remember for the rest of my life. We love you.
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- Good news -- DeadMike, 11:20:17 04/11/05 Mon
Launch Radio Networks reports: AC/DC leaders Angus and Malcolm Young have been working on the band's new record for quite a while, and now we know why — it might be a double album! Singer Brian Johnson said the Youngs are "ensconced" in a U.K. studio, and that they just keep writing new material. "I think, and I might be speaking out of turn, but I think they're doing a double, with the amount of songs — I've been over a couple of times with the boys and added ideas on 46 tunes we had, and they've been working since then!"
Johnson isn't sure whether the album will come out this year or next, but he did say the band will tour when it comes out. Now if that don't qualify as good news I don't know what does.AC/DC!!!
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- DLP -- DeadMike, 16:39:34 04/07/05 Thu
Hey dudes,the show kicked ass and hopefully it can happen again. Dirty Deeds was awesome and the show overall was good.Good burgers too.
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- April 2 @ the DLP -- Brian Langley, 18:12:14 03/31/05 Thu
2 days away... This show will be a landmark for both Mecha and DRH! Who else can boast having played @ THE DLP? 225+ tickets sold! The Lion is going to be a madhouse on Saturday night. This show will be talked about for a long time after the fact. Be sure your there!
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- How come no one ever posts anything in here anymore??? -- Jenn, 23:26:24 03/16/05 Wed
I mean come on guys! These are our boys... our friends and the only real metal band in North Delta... isn't that something to support with enthousiasm? (sp?)
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- OZZFEST -- DeadMike, 12:47:18 02/28/05 Mon
Hey has anyone heard if OzzFest is coming to Vancouver? If it is that would be the best concert ever in a long time.Sabbath,Maiden,Megadeth(maybe and hopefully)Among the Living line up ANTHRAX,and BLACK LABEL SOCIETY. Rob Zombie is rumored as well but maybe his new movie will conflict with him appearing. Killswitch Engage and all those similar bands are supposed to be on second stage. Where would it take place though?
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- SYL -- DeadMike, 21:31:05 03/04/05 Fri
Hey Brian, did you see the easter eggs on SYL's "For Those Aboot to Rock" DVD? You and Barlow are in there as well. Hilarious easter eggs on that dvd.
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- Breakups,quitting,and finding religion? -- DeadMike, 23:52:50 02/27/05 Sun
This post ain't about some boyfriend and girlfriend shit, nope it's about some good and rather strange news.
First up:good news...
Blink 182 have apparently quit, aboot freakin' time!
AND...Strange News:
Korn's "guitarist" Head has apparently gave his life to Jesus and is quitting Korn. But...This Korn BS might be just that... BULLSHIT.
Some believe it's all a hoax to hype the new album which is suposed to about around APRIL 1st. Though Jonathon Fuckface or whatever his name is sounds pretty serious about this and there is even testimonial from Head at a church of course. Guitarist is in quotations for obvious reasons but if this is true,Head is brave to openly say this as religion can be detrimental to a music career and also his health since he has recieved death threats after announcing this.
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- Megadeth maybe -- DeadMike, 10:40:22 02/23/05 Wed
MEGADETH frontman DAVE MUSTAINE has posted the following update in the fan forum at the band's official website. It's not surprising to learn that the touring line-up of EIDOLON members Glen Drover (guitars) and Shawn Drover (drums), and ex-ICED EARTH bassist James MacDonough (bass) will be helping Mustaine record his next album. Mustaine quotes: "We have actually started playing the music I wrote for my next record, and it is starting to sound like we have our own new music now. In other words, MEGADETH or whatever I call my solo-next venture, it will be with these three young stars. Unless they have too much fun and explode. . . or sue me." Just want to see what everyone thinks about this.Should be interesting to say the least and also it is good to see that Dave is keeping busy.Some people are bitching about that they miss Ellefson.Screw that get Friedman back!
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- Mecha concert -- DeadMike, 14:03:13 02/25/05 Fri
Hey dudes, about the Shake Your Foundation 2,who is on the sampler besides you guys and DRH?
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- Adam -- Tabitha, 18:55:33 01/28/05 Fri
Adam is one of the koolest guys in the world he is my third idol after Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson but he is sooo kool and he is the father of our plastic love child haha Adam but Adam is the koolest guy ever and hes leavin the Phase that bum
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- DRH New Years photo -- DeadMike, 08:23:53 01/28/05 Fri
Hilarious New Years photo Brian, where did you get those ridiculous hats man?
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- Ozzy -- Cass Gregg, 15:13:07 01/10/05 Mon
Get a load of this: Ozzy was going to hire Buckethead to fill in for/replace Zakk on this years Ozzfest under the condition that he lose the bucket and mask. WTF? Why hire Buckethead to not be Buckethead? He should keep Zakk anyway since this is the tenth anniversary of the fest.
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- Cool little prop -- Brian Langley, 17:59:45 01/02/05 Sun
Hey whatsup everybody? Check out www.darksun.tk/ go to the bios section and read Cam K's bio. It made my day.... Check out the influences section and favorite quote. Look for Mecha to eventually do a show with these guys. If your a bass player between 15-17 head over to their site. You may be the next member of Dark Sun.
Stay safe, but stay metal
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- Dimebag and Buckethead -- Cass Gregg, 12:05:17 12/21/04 Tue
I was reading the Bucketheadland forums when I came across the link to some cool pictures of Dime and Buckethead with Bootsy Collins and Vinnie as well. Very cool and sad at the same time. The site is www.whenpigsareangels.com/bucket.html
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- Dimebag -- Bullet That Smiles Inside Your Head, 01:13:39 12/09/04 Thu
RIP Dimebag. One of the last True Guitar Heros You''l be missed, but never forgotten
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- King Dime -- Cass Gregg, 15:53:09 12/09/04 Thu
Normally I go under the pseudonym DeadMike but after yesterday's fucking senseless events the word is hard for me to even fucking type let alone say.Dimebag Darrell didn't deserve to die, and I can't believe he's gone.The man was my hero.I breaking up right now as I type,and unlike the line in Cemetery Gates,I have to cry.Dimebag was and is the reason I wanted to play guitar.Pantera is the only band I ever really connected with. I stayed up all night listening to Pantera but after awhile it was too much.Admiration eternal,KING DIME.
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- Derek Sherinian -- DeadMike, 10:12:27 11/20/04 Sat
Hey Brian, I don't if you have the new Sherinian cd called "Mythology" yet but Zakk is on it again and no Yngwie so you shouldn't have any complaints this time. It should be pretty good since it has Allan Holdsworth and other guitar playin' sons a bitches like that playing on it.
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- Mecha Concert -- DeadMike, 14:31:58 10/02/04 Sat
If all goes according to plan dudes,I will be at your next motherfukkin' show and also:SPEAKING OF "WHAT THE FUCK!?!"I can't believe that supposedly Mutt Lange is going to produce the next DARKNESS album!!! In the name of the unholy spirit of Satan,WHY???
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- Fuck the Beastie Boys... -- Animosity, 15:21:27 06/25/04 Fri
The new Beastie Boys' CD called "To the Five Boroughs" (Capitol Records), is raising hackles around the Web for reputedly infecting computers with a virus.
According to a recent thread at BugTraq, an executable file is automatically and silently installed on the user's machine when the CD is loaded. The file is said to be a driver that prevents users from ripping the CD (and perhaps others), and attacks both Windows boxen and Macs.
The infected CD is being distributed worldwide except in the USA and UK, which prevents us from giving a firsthand report. However, according to hearsay, we gather that the Windows version exploits the 'autorun' option, and that the Mac version affects the auto play option.
On Windows, when a CD is loaded, a text file called autorun.inf is read, and any instructions within it are executed. In this case, the machine is instructed to install some manner of DRM driver that prevents copying. We haven't seen either the .inf file or any of the executables, so we can't say how or at what level it accomplishes this - or if indeed it actually does accomplish this.
But assuming that the unconfirmed reports are accurate, we have here a media company infecting users' machines silently with a file that affects a computer's functionality, without first obtaining informed consent: a likely violation of pretty much every jurisdiction's anti-hacking laws. It's possible to foresee criminal charges being brought at some point: after all, having a good reason for spreading malware has never been much of a defence in court. And a file that alters a computer's functioning without the owner's informed consent is the very definition of malware. Because this malware can be transferred from machine to machine on a removable disk, and requires user interaction to spread, it is, quite simply, a computer virus. (A worm, on the other hand, is distinguished by its ability to spread without user interaction.)
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- Megadeth(again) -- DeadMike, 09:15:35 06/24/04 Thu
The new Megadeth album,"The System Has Failed" is slated for a September 14th release(supposedly). If anybody knows or has an idea of who is on lead guitar please help me out cuz I need to know.
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- Beatallica -- DeadMike, 13:50:47 06/15/04 Tue
EVERYONE MUST CHECK OUT BEATALLICA NOW!!! THEY'RE A CROSS BETWEEN THE BEATLES AND METALLICA!!!THE VOCALS ARE SPOT ON HETFIELD!!! IT'S TOO MUCH!
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- MEGADETH!!! -- DeadMike, 10:47:50 05/10/04 Mon
Hey Adam I know how you feel about the way it seems that you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders and it seems like you're the only person who seems to realize how shitty everything is but there is one thing to look forward to:NEW MEGADETH!!!It's on their site and it kicks ass!It's old school MEGADETH and it fuckin' kills!!!
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- Death To Full Screen DVDS -- Sparky McMullet, 19:34:21 05/27/04 Thu
Even though I drive a bitchin Camaro, and have broads hanging off my shoulders every second of every day, something has started to irk me more than usual lately.
FULL SCREEN DVDS!
Now for you techno-nerds out there that probably agree with me, isn't this ironic? DVD is the superior format offering the Best Picture and Sound but then studios produce Full Screen versions of films for Joe Six-Pack living in his trailer with his $49 Canadian Tire dvd player. Hardly the best picture quality. These people aren't worthy of the DVD format, in fact they should be demoted to back to VHS.
I'm really hoping when HD-DVD comes next year ( and it will, Fuck Off Blu-ray ), that they supply the players with DVI/Component outputs only so they don't work with 4x3 sets. Now I do realize that there are some newer 4x3 tv's that come with Component inputs. Oh well.
Let's hope the industry doesn't shit on HD-DVD like they already have with regular DVD.
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- Battle of the bands -- DeadMike, 07:30:23 06/07/04 Mon
Way to kick some ass Mecha,wish I was there but I know you guys must put on a hell of a show. Keep pounding mutha fukkerz!(Hey!Look!I took the Jamez Hetfield spelling course!)
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- Iced Earth, Children of Bodom and Evergrey -- Brian Langley, 13:23:34 05/15/04 Sat
Hey all I just wanted to say that The Iced Earth show kicked some ass. All 3 bands were actually good which is rare these days. Iced Earth played for 2 1/2 hours. Definately worth checking them out again live. Cannibal Corpse is coming July 15!!!!!!!!! with Decapitated and some other band.
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- Sparky's got a brand new bag.... -- Sparky McMullet, 14:51:35 03/09/04 Tue
It's been awhile since I last posted my misadventures of pinheads who in Vancouver, but I'm back with a new topic.
What's the topic this time? BROADS & RELATIONSHIPS.
That's right, the root of all evil.
So your best friend thinks he's soo tough huh? Does he remind you of " Hulk Hogan " or " Randy Macho Man Savage "? Incredibly fearless? Just wait till he gets a girlfriend. Then he starts to make Ric Flair look good. That's right:
Your best friend has just sold you out. Over some tits and a piece of pussy. Pretty pathetic isn't it?
Now, I'm not saying that all guys do this. Some really manage their time very well. Hats off to them! They deserve it. They didn't fall into the clutches super-uber evil bitches.
But what is it that makes some guys go whipped? Is it the attachment? Someone to love? Ahhhh spit up my ass!!!
Oh fuck, you know what REALLY pisses me off? Clingy broads. These are the broads that are on their phone to their boyfriends' none stop, must know where they are at every fucking second. " Hey Joe-Bob, lets go to the 7-11 to get some eats ". " Hold on Billy, I have to call the gf and make sure that's ok ".
Like what kind of shit is that? Really.
Now, Ol' Sparky might be a little bitter I guess you could say. I've been given the cold shoulder a few times. Most recently, when the 2nd Matrix movie came out...I thought it was a shoe in. I guess not. But that one was crazy anyways.
She didn't dig the Camaro.
So what I'm saying is that the key word in a relationship is TIME MANAGEMENT! I'm fucking serious.
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- The Darkness -- DeadMike, 14:35:05 02/02/04 Mon
What the HELL is up with this Darkness!?! I wish I could find the suits in marketing who decided to give these clowns a fuckin' push and beat them repeatedly with heavy mining equipment in front of their families.Every place you turn the Darkness is in some book or on tv. What did humanity do to deserve this? I mean come on man, how did a AC/DC/Queen/Thin Lizzy/ferret with its nuts in a vice grip/ rip-off get the chance to unload this shit upon the masses?
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- Mecha concert -- DeadMike, 14:36:45 03/02/04 Tue
Hey dudes,DeadMike is going to make it to your next show on the 24th.Just one question, what are these Cradle 2 Grave like?
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- Megadeth -- DeadMike, 10:00:40 02/18/04 Wed
I just want to see what everybody thinks of the new, very interesting developements out of the Megadeth camp. If you don't know about it check out their site.
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- Ozzfest -- DeadMike, 15:05:16 02/02/04 Mon
Two things here:
1.) The big rumor is that Ozzy will be headlining with get this...Judas Priest. What does anybody think of that and
2.) On Ozzfest's poll they ask you what was the best concert you went to last year and I said Mecha was, just to let you guys know.
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- The "PLAN" -- Bullet That Smiles Inside Your Head, 17:20:14 02/10/04 Tue
Today is Febuary 10, Damageplan's album is out. I just finished giving it a spin. I must say It was worth the $15.99. I strongly encourage anybody who enjoys music of the heavy variety to pick it up. Dime's solo on "reborn" is out of this world.
Join the "Plan"
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- radio interview -- DeadMike, 08:16:10 02/13/04 Fri
Great interview guys,the Mecha songs sounded awesome on the radio.I would have called in but I couldn't think of anything constructive to ask.
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- Thy Kingdom Burn -- Brian Langley, 18:07:31 02/04/04 Wed
Hmmmmm.... Where to start. Updates are good and unfortunately our webmaster is out of town for the next few days, so for those of you that check out the messageboard you'll have the inside scoop days before those that don't.
New Mecha material
I have more or less locked myself up for the past few months writing lyrics and riffs for myself as well as for Mecha Messiah tunes. I am happy to report that the band has 3 new songs : "Living Hell" Which is Chris's first full song contribution to the band, "Anymore" and the ever popular "You've got to feel it." We've also got several other songs currently in the developmental stage. (almost ready for the studio again lol)
Live Shows
We are currently working on getting shows at The Roxy, The Media Club, The Brickyard and The Ozone. Most of these places are booked up until late March so we'll see what
happens. We do have a confirmed show at Minnesota's. If my memory is right I think it's around May 8th?
Radio Interview
Alright this is confirmed just not up on the site yet. Mecha Messiah has a radio interview at 102.7 CFRO FM Feb.12/04 Thursday night @ midnight. We'll be on there for about an hour taking calls answering questions and getting our songs played. It'll be good times.
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- Common Sense When Requesting Mecha Tunes -- Sparky McMullet, 01:55:28 02/01/04 Sun
Ok people,
It has come to the attention that someone reportly bitched out CFOX's " Danger " for not playing the requested Mecha tunes.
While CFOX should be focusing on other bands instead of playing shit off Seeds 2003, like " Winston ", please don't bitch out the DJ's for not playing the requested Mecha tunes. If they get angry enough, they won't play it at all, and at this point in the game, CFOX is the only station likely to give Mecha some air time, it being a rock station.
So please, pretty please, with sugar on top, use your fucking head.
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- cfox -- DeadMike, 12:53:52 01/28/04 Wed
Hey guys, I called CFOX on their all request weekend stuff and I asked them to play WHAT and those suckas said they didn't have it. I thought I'd tell you the 411.
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- File Swapping -- Topic Starter, 18:07:10 01/06/04 Tue
SHARING IS CARING-FUCK THE RIAA.. Thats all I need to say about that... What do ya all think..
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- Overrated artists -- DeadMike, 11:25:29 01/07/04 Wed
This post will mainly petain to those who play guitar but as well to those who don't.
I just want to see who people think is the most overated band or musical performers are. Personally I think it's a four way tie between System of a Down, Staind, Coldplay, and Linkin Park.The reason I dislike System,Staind,Linkin Park, is because as a guitar player I read alot of guitar magazines and they're always making out like these three bands are hot shit when it comes to their "guitar wizardry."
(Coldplay excluded since they're not known for guitar.)
Starting with System's Daron Malakian,to quote Andrew "Dice" Clay,"I've heard cats fuck with better rhythm." And what innovation we get from Staind's Mike Mushok. Hey, let's get a barritone guitar, tune down and play chords we first learned when we started to play guitar.Man he's awesome,guitar wouldn't be the same without him.Linkin Park man, wow such complete mastery of an instrument by Brad Delson.They make out how he practically invented natural harmonics and he seems to think so to. He said that you don't hear many people use them. What does he think those high pitched squeals that Dimebag uses? Even Puddle of Mudd use harmonics, but he makes out like he's some kind of progenitor of these techniques. As for Coldplay, to use another quote(this time Triumph the Insult Comic Dog)"Coldplay I liked you better when you were still U2." U2 though,as another person called Mike(who used to be in Mecha) said,"They're the MOST overated band of the eighties" I can't believe I left out U2, they're another bunch of inoperable tumors on the base of music's spine. What I can't figure out is why people make out like Bono is sort of new messiah and the Edge is real great guitar player too. He plays the same thing EVERY time! But that's my opinion and you know what they say," Opinions and asshole are the same, everybody has one."
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- In Response To " Mad Max " -- Sparky McMullet, 04:05:25 12/07/03 Sun
Since this is a message board, and the Guestbook is not a message board, I shall use this space wisely.
This is in response to " Mad Max "'s comment in the guest book. If you are too lazy to go there, here's the gist of it:
" if you guys would only fire jared you might actually make it somewhere but as it stands you guys... well ... pound but still the bass in all of your songs suck. i mean if he even put a little bit of effort into playing but nooooooooo. and can you guys sign my boob. "
Now, a joke or not. I think Jared would be offended by that. If the exposure that " Mad Max " had of Mecha was from the last 2 live performances, you need your head examined.
The sound mix at Minnesota's was horrible to say the least. Simply because the mixer was in the WRONG place.
The sound at Tasty Bite was too loud. WAY too loud. Yes, heavy metal is a music style that is meant to be played loud. But this was excessive. I don't know what the setup entailed, whether it was just vocals that were being amplified or it was the whole rig, but Jared shouldn't be blamed for sound levels that are out of his control.
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- Fred Durst -- DeadMike, 14:05:50 12/16/03 Tue
So,recently,I was watching the show "Ultimate Albums". On this paticular episode they were talking about Kiss's Alive album.A certain asshole,Fred Durst,complained about how he now mad at Kiss for having over dubs on the album that touched up the album's sound and that the album was not completely live.Who the hell is he to question the credibilty of anyone,let alone Kiss? I just wanted to vent my frustrations here since Limp Bizkit is especially despised here at this fine website. Oh yeah,MECHA RULES!!!
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- BC Ferries Strike -- Sparky McMullet, 20:01:20 12/11/03 Thu
If you haven't turned on the 6 0'clock news or picked up the paper recently, you might be in the dark on what's going on with the strike currently with BC Ferries.
It's the same old story of the company trying to screw the workers out of a living. Why pay someone $20/hr when you can get the same thing for $8/hr? Right? Wrong!.
The dockhands and terminal attendents do alot that really doesn't get noticed by the passengers or in this case, Mr.David Hahn, the CEO of the recently privatized Ferry service.
Companies fucking over their employees seems to be the rage these days. They blame " the hard economic times " for all the lay offs and downsizing. What a bunch of bullshit. You know what the real problem is? These people that come from their ultra-preppy business school with a piece of paper with a gold seal that is supposed to make them credible for running a successful business.
Just look at Darren Entwhistle, ( or Fuckwhistle as I like to call him ) the head cheesedick that runs Telus. When he was oppointed the position he holds now, Telus made this HUGE press release stating how this will be good for all the customers, employees, etc etc. But there was one BIG group of people that they left off that list, and they are the most important ones too. The stockholders. In fact, the stockholders and upper management of Telus are the ONLY people who have benefitted from this ass-clown running the company. " Oh yes, we have increased Telus' profits ". Yeah, but they have damaged their reputation as a good company, by laying off senior cablemen, phone call personel and the others in the liking.
I could go on and on about corperate greed and how it's destroying everything, but I'll save that for another rainy day.
The point is that all these " poor stranded people " that missed the boat are fucking idiots to begin with. With the exception of the guys driving the big rigs back and forth to the island as part of their run, all these people should have known better, as job action at the ferry terminal is old news since they began talking about it in middle of October. It's playing russian roulette with the service.
Bottom Line: Public is always the victim in a transportation service strike, so blame the company, not the workers union.
RANT OFF
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- Heya!! The New CD is NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Joedy Greenhalgh, 10:30:49 12/07/03 Sun
Hey guys!!! It's Di's Lil' Bro!! Yea She let me listen to you're CD and i luv it!!! Sweet #10 Track!!!*Hint**Hint**Wink*
anyways hope u guys hav another one and get my Sis to do it again so I'll get to hear it!! Hehehe!
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- Minnesotas -- Nicki Brouwer, 02:07:39 11/29/03 Sat
Hey!
Well, my hands are raw, my ears are ringing and i have no voice - it was an AWSOME show!
I've never seen you guys play so well (even with bit of a dead house). Every time you play i hear a difference and it's so cool.
Oh, and save me a cd! i'll get it soon!
luv
Nicki
PS. What happend to "the quest???" i was waiting all night for that song!
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- Old School Mecha -- Brian Langley, 11:31:33 06/25/03 Wed
new topic.... alright, so Adam and I watched the second Mecha show (AS2) last night. It was alot of fun to watch it again. Seeing Jerad tripping over stairs and Krazy Katie singing Seek and Destroy. And other such classic moments. At the time we did AS2 I thought the show kicked ass. I still think it kicked ass, but not in the same way. When we did it I thought it kicked ass because we kicked ass. Now I think it kicked ass because we did it and nobody told us how horribly off the band was. It's great. Watching the Fromo-vision. Haven't enjoyed watching any other Mecha show quite like this one. There's even a cameo with Kim of Superchild (Now the drummer for Lillix)
I want to read the peoples memories of AS2 and Old School Mecha in general.
Laterzah, Brian
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- Results May Vary -- Gemini Side, 12:21:21 09/26/03 Fri
The new Limp Bizkit album is out and about, i'd like to hear what people think about it. I think it's one of there best so far, kind of a mix of significant other and chocolate star fish.
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- The best, the coolest, the weirdest, the most memorable -- P5 of the ediS inimeG, 17:26:32 09/17/03 Wed
there's been all this talk of taking the forum down so figured I would use some of my time to post something.
I was just wondering about peoples favorite concerts and such, what made them so good? Mabye it wasn't your favorite band, but just a concert that stuck out a-mun-ga-lung the rest.
One of my most memorable concerts was seeing Swollen Members at Snowjam, or whatever it was at False Creek. I'm not really into the hip hop, or rap scene very much, but those guys really knew how to put on a show and get the crowd moving.
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- What It Should Have Been -- Brian Langley, 12:17:10 10/30/03 Thu
Alright, so as most of you know Mecha's first original full-length cd is done. We are looking for it to do well. A release date has not been set. Indications are that it will most likely be available for sale sometime in the last 2 weeks of November. You can help Mecha get on step closer to world domination by requesting Mecha Messiah on 104.9Xfm and 99.3 the Fox. Not yet though, there will be an announcement on the site letting you know when the radio stations have a copy of "What It Should Have Been" If you have any questions surrounding the album or it's content, this is the place to post. Please do you're part to keep metal alive.
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- Artists against bush -- Adam Baldwin, 15:31:15 10/01/03 Wed
Hmmmmm. Artists against bush.
Who the fuck do you think you are fighting against bush. Well for starters. Anyone whom works with government is not to be trusted. But that is the way it works.
Standing up against bush. Well. Sure he does a lot of stupid things. BUT, we are only human. We can't do everything right. We would love too, but it just doesn't happen.
Think of all this shit bush keeps in order. Sure he does stupid things, but he believes he is doing the best for his country.
Who the fuck are you to say, who and what bush should do. You probably have a very little knowledge of what the hell is going on anyways. So... just keep out of other peoples business… Because I guarantee that you could not to a better job.
And. Gemini Side. The new Limp Bizkit disc sucks dick.
Adam
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- What would you do.. -- Adam Baldwin, 03:10:13 08/19/03 Tue
So. Rather than having another diary/rant. I thought I would share this will all of you people.
And hopefully you will tell me what you would have done.
Now. Story time.
So. I am like working at my video store. And this chick comes in to tell me her problems?.. Now I’m asking myself why? And I have come up with this answer. Because I am a people person and I guess, a good listener.
Now. She tells me her problem. And that problem was, that she wanted to break up with her boyfriend, because apparently he treats her like shit?
So. I stand behind her on her decision. **Which I gather she has already made, or has been thinking about for a long time** BUT, she has second thoughts **chicks**. NOW, I tell her that: If you don't do it now, you will never do it.
Done and done. Sealed deal. She breaks up with her boyfriend with the intent to do so already, just needed someone else’s opinion.
Ok. Now. I run in to the boyfriend whom just got dumped about a week later. He doesn’t say much? So I figure, he hasn’t jacked off yet. But, after he serves me. He starts bitching.
"Now, I don't interfere in your business". "You only know one side of the story". "Why did you do that??". "You told her to break up with me". "You dragged her by the hand, and you told her to break up with me"**and the clincher** "I thought you were my friend".
NOW... I really didn’t say much. Cause I couldn’t. He stormed off like he just caught his nuts in his zipper.
So, I know you will read this sooner or later.
And I say to you. "FUCK YOU Buddy. If someone comes in with a problem, I will listen to what they have to say. Just like I did for you. But this time the problem was about you. I hear you treat her like shit. Now this could mean a multitude of things. You could be beating her? You be controlling her?. etc... So, I told her what I thought. I gave her my advice, on what I would do if I were in her shoes. If my girlfriend made me cry, I would ditch the bitch.. OH. And like I can leave my job, to FORCE your girlfriend to break up with you. If she can trust someone she barely knows to tell him her problems, you got some serious issues with girls my friend. Get over it. Grab whatever you need to grab, write a fucking song about "he told her she should break up with me".
And go out and find a new girlfriend to be with **after all you claim you are the shit and everything..**
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- Could it be.... underage band members!!!!? -- Emperor Scott, 22:03:05 07/02/03 Wed
Well someone's got to post something. Illegal for Mecha to pound in clubs!? The only reason could be that Jar-head's a minor, that's my theory and I'm stickin' to it. Anyone else?
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- Maybe an answer for METALLICA Fans? -- Topic Starter, 02:15:43 06/14/03 Sat
No other contemporary chart-topping rock album sounds remotely like Metallica's St. Anger. Never mind the whirlwind tempos, multiple rhythm changes and seven-minute songs. What's really unusual are the lo-fi tones and unconventional constructions.
The drums don't crack, they clang, and cymbals cut out abruptly. There are no guitar solos. Once in a while a guitar lick lags behind the beat, and frontman James Hetfield's vocals occasionally veer off key.
Stranger still, that's exactly the way Metallica and producer Bob Rock wanted it to sound.
"I wanted to do something to shake up radio and the way everything else sounds," said Rock, who helped write the music and lyrics and played basslines on the album. "To me, this album sounds like four guys in a garage getting together and writing rock songs."
The genesis of Metallica's raw new sound had as much to do with art as with anger. Shortly after Metallica hired Rock —, who had worked on their last three studio records, including the pristine, polished Metallica (a.k.a. "the black album") — the producer told drummer Lars Ulrich that he was tired of clean, by-the-book production. He proposed recording in a way that made a statement like some of Ulrich's favorite artists, including Dutch primitivism painter Karel Appel, the Danish experimentalists CoBrA and various groundbreaking jazz musicians. From word one, Lars was on board.
Metallica achieved the primitive sound and schizophrenic vibe of St. Anger by combining old recording technology with cutting-edge editing software. While Rock had previously rigged Lars' kit with multiple modern microphones and dampened the bass drum with pillows, spending as much as a week perfecting a snare sound, this time Rock spent five minutes setting up the drums and recorded the rest of the band with a combination of cheap PA mics and vintage microphones.
With the bare-bones recording equipment in place, Metallica started coming up with riffs together and rocked them out like a group of friends hooking up just to mess around. Once they'd concocted rhythms they liked, they'd combine them and record long jam sessions. Lyrics were written by the entire band moments before a song was recorded, and Hetfield's vocals were recorded in one or two takes to capture the immediacy of the moment, glitches and all.
"There was really no time to get amazing performances out of James," Rock said. "We liked the raw performances. And we didn't do what everyone does and what I've been guilty of for a long time, which is tuning vocals. We just did it, boom, and that was it."
After the basic recordings were done, Metallica tried to add guitar solos. Kirk Hammett recorded a bunch of leads ranging from slow and evocative to lightning-fast and aggressive, but Rock and the band ultimately decided to leave them all out.
"We made a promise to ourselves that we'd only keep stuff that had integrity," Rock said. "We didn't want to make a theatrical statement by adding overdubs. If we added something and it helped the mood or what we were trying to convey, that stayed. But if it distracted from that ... then we killed it. Every time we tried to do a solo, either it dated it slightly or took away from what we were trying to accomplish in some other way. I think we wanted all the aggression to come from the band rather than one player."
Once the band packed up its gear, it was time to unpack the computers. They used the computer program ProTools to reconstruct the songs in sometimes drastically different ways.
"A lot of the songs were done in William Burroughs cut-and-paste fashion," said Rock, referring to a style in which a piece of writing is cut into pieces and reassembled at random. "There are movements in moviemaking and in music where you take technology as an art and you actually abuse it. Some people use ProTools to trick and fool the listener, but we used it more as a creative tool to do something interesting and stretch boundaries.
"Technically, you'll hear cymbals go away and you'll hear bad edits. We wanted to disregard what everybody assumes records should be and throw out all the rules. I've spent 25 years learning how to do it the so-called right way. I didn't want to do that anymore."
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- Artists who can’t top there last work… -- Topic Starter, 14:38:47 06/06/03 Fri
The message says it all, does'nt it??
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- MECHA HAS A FORUM!! -- Webmaster, 02:33:05 06/05/03 Thu
Hello. I just set this all up. So, the colours and shit are not final, but hey, its a fucking start!!..
MECHA
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