Is it just me, or does this sound ridiculous - we have 5 guitar players (more if you wanna count Paul Huge and Brian May), 3 drummers, 2 keyboard players, 3 french hens, 2 turtle doves.....

When I listen to a CD I like to know who I'm listening to playing which part - how the fuck am I ever gonna work it out with this lot?  You know when you hear a song or a few songs and you go "I really love how so and so plays that solo or does this on that song" etc.  That way you build up a respect and like for individual members abilities and techniques and sounds.  It ain't gonna happen for me with a large part of CD though at this rate.

But looking at it another way, I suppose this way it ensures that no one persons shines out and is a bigger star than the main man.

I  met my current girlfriend at the pub.  I have to say that generally pubs (2 in particular for me) have been a happy hunting ground.  But that said, it really depends on the individual bar because there are some pubs where I couldn't pick up no matter what I tried.  Whereas 2 of my regular haunts were highly successful.  Maybe that was due to the fact I was more relaxed at them (familir sourroudings, more condfident or relaxed, less concerned about meeting someone or something - I dunno).

I do know that chicks seem to be able to smell desperation.  It's weird.  If I was single for a bit and trying really hard to cut one from the herd, I would find that the girls seemed to have an uncanny sixth sense that would alert them.  Consequently, I found I met most girls when I really wasn't trying (either I was just out with my mates having a good time, or I was out with another girl).

A great example was at a wedding recently with my girlfriend and this really agressive girl came up to me on the dancefloor and bascailly kinda shoved my girlfriend out of the way to dance with me.  My girlfriend then stood next to my mates on the side and they all laughed at me fending off the maneater.  This bird then asked me if I wanted to go outside with her.   Same night I got the big come on from one of the waitreses there. 

My mates and I were discussing this and we all agreed "why does this sort of thing never happen when your single"? - we could only conclude that it's because of what I said earlier - somehow we must act differently when single - look too keen or desperate or something - and they sense it.  Maybe they see me looking around like a Meercat and it gives the game away - lol

For me going out with a few mates was the easiest way to meet people.  Although I'm 33 now and most of my mates are either married or right under the thumb so, it would be hard if I was single and wanting to go out all the time to meet girls because I would struggle for a wingman week in week out.

A single mate of mine used to meet heaps of girls over the net.  He never did much good with the ladies, but since he started using the net he has chopped a heap of girls!!!  But he did seem to attract a high proportion of bunny boilers from that method.  But then on the flip side, my sister met her husband online and he's a top bloke.

I think I prefer the face to face meetings myself - like at a bar etc.  I gotta also say alcohol was a great help for me too because it gave me the balls to go up to girls that I might not normally.  After a while it kinda became habit forming and I didn't need to be smashed before I was confident enough to just go up to a random girl - no matter how much I once would have thought she was out of my league.  I got to the point where I didn't care if the girl I approached blew me off, coz I didn't take it to mean anything, I would just move on.  In fact my current girlfriend tried to ignore me when I first went up to her - but I won that game in the end

Pick up lines never worked for me either, I would just go up and talk to them about anything normal.  My current girlfriend I went up to her and simply said "It was a great win by the Dockers wasn't it" - then started talking footy (turns out she was a Freo fan too so that was a bonus).

According to a poster over at HTGTH Matt Sorum just did a radio interview on INDIE 103.1.

"Feel the Burn" posted this after listening to the interview:

HE'S ON! So it begins!! Matt confirms it that they are over and they want to find someone else. In the US tour Scott just said I'm gonna do stuff with STP and they have dates till next year. He didn't talk about it just did it "non chalant". He does bring up Libertad not selling well , he discussing GN'R reunion lmao. Backstage they argued on the Galsgow gig. Said his blog was 'damage control". 

EDIT: Wonder what band they're talking about with no label etc..? It sounds pretty cool I think VR are gonna get some rock n roll riffs together. Its funny how they sound like teenagers in a band!

someone else asked if he mentioned anything in the interview about a new singer and another poster said:

Nothing on new singers. Said they're looking around, he even mentioned forum discussions about possible lead singers.

And he did hint at the fact that the band was contacted by a reality show, ala Rockstar INXS/Supernova, but I suppose they turned that down.

That's a classic pic Acekicken!

See if you can spot the guy in the photo that's stuck in the 80's?

But jokes aside - I aactually don't think that Baz is all that bad.  I don't think he is the right move for VR but in the abscence of anybody else he would be workable.

It must be bad news from a GN'R perspective because the thread about it on HTGTH was deleted.

How lame!

Edit - that's strange now it's back???