Gibbo

Dude, you ain't far ahead of me, just turned 33 recently, and Geoff is around 34 I guess, don't know who else around 30-35 here ? Yeah I noticed most of the members on here are older, it's probably because of the music, ya know, most fans of our music are right in that age demo, the younger you find on here the more rare it is, obviously because when this kind of music was at it's peak, we were still playing with our pp's and going to daycare, think about it bro, we are basically the cut off, as this music was killed off when we were babys, so anyone younger then us, is merely a fan of music that was from a time they werent even born yet, they really have some catching up to do, but yeah I think that is the reason for such the varying age discrepancy on here. Sounds like we've got a few around fifty, a few in early forties, a few in mid-thirties and Karpet, who's about seven. Kylie? I don't think rifling through her bins counts as "a gig"... Don't knock it until you've tried it Stoopid Restraining Order .... Didn't say I haven't tried it. Why do you think Kelly Brook keeps finding little 'presents' in her garden...? You're a classy fella, I've always said so ...

BOYS Will Be BOYS: Emergency

I LOVE You: Warrior Soul

Good? I had 'A Sultan's Ransom' back in the day, which was very good. Yup. Well, I like it ... whether or not you see that as a recommendation is another thing ....

Falling In LOVE (Is Hard On The Knees) - Aerosmith

TALES Of Mystery & Imagination - The Alan Parsons Project

WE CAME TO Dance - Ultravox

Kylie? I don't think rifling through her bins counts as "a gig"... Don't knock it until you've tried it Stoopid Restraining Order ....

Heart: Heart Cloven Hoof: Cloven Hoof

44 ... and 6' 2" ... weighing in at more than I should ... didn't manage my first gig until I was 17 ...

DANCE The Night Away - Van Halen

The SOUND Of Perseverance - Death

Blood And Feathers - Lou Morgan

Break Point - First Serving

What a cop out! It's not down to the vocals, surely? We've discussed the band before and established that we both hate them. It's only personal taste of course and I know loads of people love DT, but I find the music massively boring and self-indulgent. I'm no prog fan, although I do love some Fates Warning and Pallas. DT are really not for me though. Nope, I've always stuck up for their debut album ... but I just can't get into anything else they've done ... it doesn't help that they're all 'musos musos' (I'm a man of simple tastes.) I have a mate who LOVES them, but then he IS a huge 'prog' fan, and listens to the most bizarre prog stuff I've heard in many a year I'll stick with Grey Lady Down, Pallas, IQ, Galahad, Arena, Marillion, Porcupine Tree .... etc.

You've had at least one Audrey Horne disc from darkest Rochford, you know ...

Interesting view. Sounds like a challenge (to someone) and you're probably right. Until recently, I was an avid reader of Terrorizer and still rate it as the best metal publication, but they seem to have fewer reviews in there these days and the articles are a bit samey, so I only buy it when there are bands featured that I really like. It does lead me to wonder what a magazine could do to make me (for example) want to read it. I find these days that I enjoy the 'fun' articles, such as bands scoring points for guessing what tracks are from brief samples, naming their ideal mixtape, etc, far more entertaining than the usual interviews about the latest album. They all end being the same, i.e. "this is our best album yet", "we really feel we've matured as a band", blah blah blah. Maybe getting band members playing games, answering 'silly' questions, etc is the way to go... You'd buy anything that published naked photos of Tarja ... job done ...

Let's Go ALL THE WAY - Sly Fox

Pet SOUNDs - The Beach Boys

Aah, yes ... the days when KERRPIIIING! used to be good ... I remember them I used to LOVE Shades ...

Are you embarrassed about that one or something? Stoopid formatting keeps changing the font size!

LOVE Me Two Times: The Doors

TAKEn By Force: Scorpions

Aside from being influenced by reviews, I also blame the late, great Tommy Vance and his Friday Rock Show on Radio 1 for introducing me to Metallica, Warrior Soul, Manowar, Slayer and Magnum ... among others ... one song by each of 'em and that was it, I was hooked!

*snigger!*