Are you ready to rock? Are you ready for a good time? Let's make some noise!!!
Today marks not an end to the FNGT, but marks a new chapter. There may be laughter and joy, or there may be tears and sorrow. For some, it could be both - and that's okay.
Let us huddle around the final embers that was the fire of Voat - but let us not go out silently. Let us leave this place with ruckus and merriment. Let us not just make enough noise to be heard 'round the fire, but let us make enough noise to be heard for miles around - so that others may appreciate our gifts.
Today it is the last guitar thread on Voat. If Voat goes down during the thread, look for us on Preview Voat
Like a Phoenix, we shall rise from the ashes and be enjoined anew on Poal.
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TheGook ago
Hey guys and gals. Its me Cheese. Thanks for all the enjoyment you all gave me. I loved listening to all of you and wir probry catch you on other website sum time long time.
This is a jam from 1994. We were partying and even cooked out this day. Just me and the guys having fun. RIP to drummer & singer.
Van Halen - Women In Love https://soundcloud.com/user-330953087/womeninluv
TheBuddha ago
Nice! It's great to see you and I know damned well you know we're moving to Poal. I expect you to join us!
Also, it'd be nice if you got off your ass (and privacy kick) and signed up to the forum. I'd make an exception for you with email requirements but I already have a HUGE history of not sharing private information. Sign the fuck up!
Also, merry Christmas! I'm so glad you made it to the last (Voat) FNGT! The thread is gonna keep going, Voat dying ain't gonna stop us.
Also, when did you start using SoundCloud?!? And, who is that on vocals?!? It sounds kinda like you doing the harmony but not on lead.
TheGook ago
heh heh I will, man.
Merry Christmas to you & yours. I'm happy you guys are carrying the torch to another rock. I would expect nothing less from you.
well I went to Clyp and now they want money? I had an old SoundCloud account so used it. I can't believe I could remember the sign-in info but I did. I had a copyright strike against me there for when I played over the Don Henley Dirty Laundry solo. kek. I thought they benned meh but they didn't.
The guy singing was an incredible vocalist. I was in a band with him years ago and I also did some cancer benefit concerts with him over the years. His wife is also a helluva singer. We used to cover shit like Heart and other chic bands with her then her hubby would jump on the mic and we'd do all kinds of stuff, from Ozzy, Metallica to you name it. He passed a few years ago from a heart aneurysm. He was young and healthy until that. Me & bass player WAS singing back-up vocals. You have a good ear. He can sing just like Michael Anthony and play bass far better than Billy Sheehan. That was actually his fav bassist. and Geddy, I guess. He was into The Police so we did a lot of that music, too.
TheBuddha ago
Yeah, Clyp isn't any good anymore. We had an announcement and everything. In fact, I think it may still be stickied?
And, of course I have a good ear! LOL I get (or got) paid 'cause I've got a good ear. You can't really be a guitarist without a good ear! ;-)
does a smooth criminal type dance
Family okay this season?
TheGook ago
I remember the announcement, now that you mention it. I forgot.
Everything is excellent. Got my new grandbaby girl. So awesome. Everything good on your end?
TheBuddha ago
Sweet!
Everything here is golden. We're doing the social distancing thing 'cause I'm old. I'm okay with that. Hell, a few times I've called the kids on a satellite phone and wished 'em happy holidays while I was stomping somewhere off the grid.
I'll see part of the family tomorrow morning, albeit briefly.
TheGook ago
I'm 50 and it worries me just catching regular flu. I don't want any part of any of it!
TheBuddha ago
I turn 63 in a few days. Goddamnit, I suck at retiring. I really do.
I need to learn how to do nothing.
TheGook ago
Happy birthday. We aren't spring chickens anymore.
TheBuddha ago
LOL I already broke my goddamned hip!
TheGook ago
Did you??? WTF are we gonna do with you? I just did heal up from my great fall. 8 months in a leg cast. 1 year 8 months total to heal but its still sore. Getting injections now every 3 months.
TheBuddha ago
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Yes, big giant car smashing that resulted in my femur being broken...
How the hell do you forget that?!? I was in the hospital for a long time, on my back for even longer, etc...
We spoke frequently during this!
TheGook ago
Oh I remember that!! I thought you meant a new injury.
TheBuddha ago
Oh, fuck no... No, I'd be whining like a little girl if I broke my femur again.
That seriously fucking sucked. I broke a bunch of bones in that episode, but the femur was the worst. I'm still on painkilers - but I'm on Suboxone instead of regular opiates.
TheGook ago
Never, and I mean NEVER, break your heel bone. Biggest bone in your body. Excruciating. I walk with a limp but seems more like swag.
TheBuddha ago
LOL I did. I broke my heel and several other bones in my right foot. It was kinda crushed but I was able to pull it out before they got there with the Jaws of Life. It was bad enough that my shoe was cut off that foot.
You're right! Don't break it!
Worse, it was the left femur that broke and the right foot that got a bit mangled.
All together, I mostly only bitched about the femur - and the ribs. The ribs sucked. The ribs really sucked. Laying down, I got a bit of a chest cold.
Fortunately, I was on strong opiates for a long, long time.
TheGook ago
Ribs hurt like hell. We need to try and not break anything else other than drinking records or things like that!
TheBuddha ago
I'm getting too old to break bones. At my age, they take way too long to heal.
TheGook ago
I rode my dirt bike through the snow in the yard a couple weeks ago showing off in front of my young sons and almost busted my ass. I'm fuckin stupid and will never learn.
TheBuddha ago
LOL Back in November I was on the track in a real BMW M6 GT3. It was actually pretty safe. I was wearing all my PPE. Even the wife spent some time on the track, albeit in a different car.
Hell, I'll even share some pics:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/RW3QXXw/1f7e08cc
TheGook ago
She's beautiful. I don't go to the track like I used to. I'll have to dig some pics out sometime and show you. You & I would get along just fine, round eye.
TheBuddha ago
She's lovely. She's such a treat on the track. She's also brand new - or was. She's a bit scuffed from curb hopping (rules only require one wheel on the pavement) but otherwise fine.
She wasn't all that expensive, actually. People think they're seven figures just to buy them, but they're not even half that. I could drive her at the next IMSA event, if I wanted to pay the entry fee. I already have the requisite licensing.
I'm still spending the money I made from selling the beach house. I think she was a worthy purchase.
Also, if you check the number, it's a part of the Fibonacci sequence. ;-) That's how you know it's really mine.
Well, that and the fact that the pics aren't anywhere else on the web and they showed up the day I returned and have my timestamps on 'em, but yeah....
TheGook ago
shit I have to go. Got Santa things to do---wife is staring at me. I'll catch ya'll soon.
TheBuddha ago
Rock on! If you get a minute, look in on Poal tomorrow night. If not, I'll see you there on a Friday.