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Ride The Lightning is definitely my favourite Metallica with Justice For All coming in second. But, I do have to say the new album is not bad. It's almost pretty good. It's a heck of an improvement from Load/Re-Load and St. Anger.
As for metal aw how come no one's mentioned Cannibal Corpse?
"It's not over I came back I brought my axe!"
One of the worst yet best metal bands.
mmm think id have to say ...and justice for all is the best!havent listened to any of their stuff since the black album, same goes for megadeath and countdown to extinsion. You also cant beat rage against the machine for some anger!
these days I listen to Bullet for my Valentine, System of a down, scars on broadway, Aiden, dragonforce, and I like what I heard so far of bring me the horizon
I like to branch off into some black metal (cradle of filth, immortal etc)
cannibal corpse were brilliant for a good laugh i wet myself when they appeared in ace venture with jim carey! quality
Mechanix owns all four horsemens' asses!
Still like Ride the Lightning/Kill em All the best and most of the tracks off Master n Justice...and then a few stray tracks from later.
Is M.S.I. metal? Dont really care about labels, just wanted to post this vid! Shiny, you got this one yet? "Issues" "Evening Wear" "Bomb This Track" "Money" ...man, the whole thing is really awesome! Lil Jimmy is speakin the truth when he says:
Everybody wants to join the club
Once you join the club, the innocence is gone
Everybody wants to be the bomb
But once you are the bomb, the innocence is gone
Everybody wants a big ol' slice
Of a little pie, the innocence is gone
The new Metallica (Death Magnetic) has some good ol' Metallica flavor...it doesn't have the god-awful snare-in-a-tin can with the snares turned off overly trying to be industrial sound of the last album, or the Bob cock-rock overproduced sound of the Bob rock era albums...I don't no who produced it but I wouldn't be surprised if it was just them, like on Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets with an engineer
|magdalena thiriet
|magdalena thiriet
I was talking about this, mastering the album louder and louder and ending up with reduced dynamic range and albums which tend to sound distorted and thin...which is kind of hard to understand as a stylistic choice unless you are Merzbow or one of those tr00kvlt black metal artists who do no-fi recordings in a forest (and they obviously wouldn't like such studio trickery).
Listener is no longer expected to turn that volume in their stereo up if they want to listen to an album, the music makers do it for them.
Also a reason why several music enthusiasts have started to swear by old CDs printed in 80's, they are often better-sounding than the modern ones, and not because of musical content.
|Guy Ladouceur
What a fabulous thread that I have overlooked while paying so much attention to the gaming aspects of these boards. I didn't read every single post but a couple other bands I din't see anyone mention are Manowar and Anvil. Anvil is one of my favorite bands especially their older albums, Metal on Metal, Forged in Fire as well as others. Early Megadeth has also always been one of my favorites choices, not to mention how good they sound live.
Its also great hearing as well as seeing some of the newer Metal bands out there, many of which have already been listed.
I was talking about this, mastering the album louder and louder and ending up with reduced dynamic range and albums which tend to sound distorted and thin...which is kind of hard to understand as a stylistic choice unless you are Merzbow or one of those tr00kvlt black metal artists who do no-fi recordings in a forest (and they obviously wouldn't like such studio trickery).
Listener is no longer expected to turn that volume in their stereo up if they want to listen to an album, the music makers do it for them.
Also a reason why several music enthusiasts have started to swear by old CDs printed in 80's, they are often better-sounding than the modern ones, and not because of musical content.
I agree completely. When I play CD's like th remastered version of Zappa's "We Only in it for the Money" you can't even hear it compared to most of the "modern" cd's although there is another culprit that I can point to-->
Let's see. Most memorable metal concert... Nuclear Assault in some dark warehouse called the Bayside Expo center in Dorchester MA, Boston, December 14th, 1988 (Holiday Thrash Bash). They put on a show with Manowar, Meliah Rage, and Hades. Awesome show! Anyone else here remember that one?
Saw Pantera just one time too many in the early 80's as well. Them guys lived on the road for years.
Still like Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Whitesnake, Sammy Hagar, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, Ronnie James Dio, and Twisted Sister as well. Listened to Ministry and Front 242 in the early 80's as well, before they went mainstream.
All time favorite metal song...
Swords & Tequila from Riot. Narita 1979
Haven't listened to metal much over the last few years though. I liked a few songs off the XXX album.
Welcome to the forums DD!
Great music tastes, man!
Riot...wow havent thought about them in a while. I had a bud with a Ktel type cassette with them, Pretty Maids, Vinnie Vincent Invasion "Animal", Priests "Parental Guidance", and a buncha other great tunes on there. Maybe Suicidal Tendencies too.
Seems like metal dropped off the face of the earth in October! Thus, I bring some back. For beautiful symphonic metal, Kamelot is the #1 stop in my book. You can find many videos, both live and not live, on youtube. For thrash and death metal combo, try out some Light This City. Just listen to Beginning With Release and tell me that isn't awesome metal.
Seems like metal dropped off the face of the earth in October! Thus, I bring some back. For beautiful symphonic metal, Kamelot is the #1 stop in my book. You can find many videos, both live and not live, on youtube. For thrash and death metal combo, try out some Light This City. Just listen to Beginning With Release and tell me that isn't awesome metal.
I skipped to the last page, as I need to get this out and go...
But Savatage, Suicidal Tendencies, and of all things sacred, Manowar.
Thanks for not ever deleting threads, people. Excellent community builders of a thread if I ever saw it.
Just caught this thread and have to add my 2 cents. I listen to as much punk as I do metal, but by far the best show I was at had to be Slayer/archenemy/Hatebreed in Pittsburgh in a hockey rink that had carpet laid over the ice. It was BRUTAL! In State College, PA, we used to have a venue called the Crowbar that would get great bands every Tuesday. That was the greatest days of my youth as it was never crowded, because it was friggin TUESDAY! Seen Soulfly, DevilDriver, The Misfits (Michale Graves version), Henry Rollins, Mushroomhead, Static X, Henry Rollins, Dope, Cold, Type O Negative, and many many others there. God I miss that place.
|Beek Gwenders of Croodle
OMG don't forget about The Sword! They are awesome!
Also, young Sutter, I don't cut off good metal at the 80s.
I cut it off some time between 1991 (Metallica's Black Album) and 1992 (Megadeth's Countdown to Extinction).
The latter is even worse than the former, but they (mixed with lame albums from Anthrax and Danzig) effectively killed my interest in metal until I heard The Sword a couple years ago.
And Sutter, when in god's name did you see Metallica perform Master of Puppets live?
I am an assh*le grognard for Metal.
I became familiar with Metal with Mercyful Fate in mid '80s. I switched to thrash metal, punk/HC and crossover almost immediately (Carnivore, Slayer, Possessed, Sodom, Bathory, NME, Cryptic Slaughter, Ludichrist, Crumbsuckers, DRI, Sadus, Negative Approach, Minor Threat, Verbal Abuse, Poison blah blah blah). I became a big Death Metal and Grindcore addict all through late 80's up to 2000 and I did my good share of tapetrading dubbed cassettes with pals all over the world, but I generally cut away 99% of everything released after 1992. Not that there are no great bands playing today, and South America is pushing stronger than ever, but things are just not the same for me, and for the worse. I still buy Cds, all the time, and still enjoy good music which by my standards do not involve any bands with 3 word names or intellectual-grinders/postcore/metalcore/beardo/whatever bands or anything with a miscroscope still on the cover (Dillinger Escape Plan etc.).
As for Metallica, I can go up to Master of Puppets, and not all of it. But Ride the Lightning is still a solid album by all standards.
|James Sutter Creative Director, Starfinder Team
Hey, I had completely forgotten this thread. Nice thread neromancy there!
Did any other Paizonistas catch the recent Exodus/Testament/Megadeth tour? Man, what a show that was.
My old band once got offered the chance to open for Exodus and had to turn it down, 'cause I knew we wouldn't be able to do the booker justice (considering tickets were something insane like $40 a pop, and he would have expected us to bring our normal number of folks, which would be impossible at those prices).
Talk about a tough decision... my conscience only barely won that one. :P
Yeah, you missed out. I'd happily pony up $40 to see Exodus. Their problem has always been that none of their albums are all that great (Tempo Of The Damned comes closest, though Bonded By Blood is up there as well) - however, when they go onstage and play their best material, they are quite possibly the best thrash act out there. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
BTW, I just saw the Mastodon/Between The Buried And Me tour, and it was flat-out nuts. Though Mastodon was fantastic (they had a 'good vocals day' in Tucson. Apparently the fans in California were less lucky), BTBAM blew me completely away.
|Erik Mona Publisher, Chief Creative Officer
|Beek Gwenders of Croodle
|James Sutter Creative Director, Starfinder Team
Yeah, you missed out. I'd happily pony up $40 to see Exodus. Their problem has always been that none of their albums are all that great (Tempo Of The Damned comes closest, though Bonded By Blood is up there as well) - however, when they go onstage and play their best material, they are quite possibly the best thrash act out there. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
BTW, I just saw the Mastodon/Between The Buried And Me tour, and it was flat-out nuts. Though Mastodon was fantastic (they had a 'good vocals day' in Tucson. Apparently the fans in California were less lucky), BTBAM blew me completely away.
I've heard that BTBAM are insane live. I've never gotten as into them as my bandmates, but I have tremendous respect for their abilities. I feel similarly about Dream Theater (though Systematic Chaos is the only album I really listen to)... gotta respect the prog.
I enjoyed the new Mastodon album when it first came out, though lately Stephen King audiobooks have dropped my new music intake to almost zero. I will, however, say that my favorite Mastodon song will always be Cut You Up With A Linoleum Knife.
I will, however, say that my favorite Mastodon song will always be Cut You Up With A Linoleum Knife.
"This is a copyrighted movie for Time Warner,
If I find you have sold it on Ebay,
I will break into your house AND TEAR YOUR WIFE IN HALF!"
Sadly, Mastodon didn't play "Cut You Up..." on this tour (or any tour, probably). As for BTBAM, they are...odd onstage. No fan interaction, no talking between songs, and the vocalist is so shy he looks away from the crowd most of the time. But they sound insanely good.
They get too proggy for my tastes at times, though. I don't listen to the ragtime parts of the "Colors" album...
|James Sutter Creative Director, Starfinder Team
Good metal acts I've seen in the last year or two:
Opeth (a couple times. Great band)
Killswitch Engage
In Flames
Fireball Ministry
All good stuff.
Other great bands:
Celtic Frost
Amon Amarth (If you want viking metal, get Oden on Our Side).
Blind Guardian
Iced Earth
Iron Maiden (of course)
Arch Enemy
Dimmu Borgir
At the Gates
Theatre of Tragedy (first two CDs)
Good stuff that is more prog than metal:
Dream Theatre
Spock's Beard
Porcupine Tree
Good list... I would add these bands and make it a playlist (random youtube videos with each listed):
I have to add this video with all the others, this being my favorite cover ever..
Madder Mortem,
Swallow the Sun,
Thought I'd post a band that has been around for awhile but I just recently discovered
The link is a performance of Coffin Ships, great song. Anyways check the band out their stuff is on Itunes I've got The Gathering Wilderness and to the Nameless Dead and have been impressed with both.
Thought I'd post a band that has been around for awhile but I just recently discovered
The link is a performance of Coffin Ships, great song. Anyways check the band out their stuff is on Itunes I've got The Gathering Wilderness and to the Nameless Dead and have been impressed with both.
Great band.
The best song for me is Autumn's Ablaze.
Here I am late to the party as usual. I just saw this thread and wanted to add a little. As a fellow gamer and musician, I hope you forgive my shameless "self" promotion. I don't get to share these stories very often.
I was on the audio/design team for Guitar Hero from GH3 until its demise (insert sad face). I even moved to New York to help redesign GH for the GH7 edition that was sadly cancelled, so I moved back to Cali.
Those of you who have played GH know we love/d our metal. I thought I would share a couple of metal stories here. First, Guitar Hero: Metallica. Arguably my favorite of all the GH's to work on. The entire band showed up for motion capture and hammed it up with us. They even invited the entire team up to San Francisco for a private concert. It was amazing. They were preparing for their tour and were doing dress rehearsals but opened the doors and let all of us in. Then they bought drinks...after which I don't remember much.
Some other mentionables:
Motorhead: Lemmy was amazing and kept hitting on the girls.
Zakk Wylde: Embarrassed a fellow designer in the bathroom...no I won't say more, haha
Ozzy: Came in for his mo-cap and for the first time invited the entire company to watch. He wanted as many people as possible so that he could feel like he was performing a live concert. He even invited a couple guys to sit in as the rest of his band. During mo-cap the artist is instructed to act out their unique reaction to the player playing the song correctly as well as badly. For anyone who has seen Ozzy you know that he likes to throw buckets of water on the front row. Well, for the mo-cap, while he was acting out the player failing the song, he picked up the bucket and heaved it at my friend "bunny" (or it might have been BMarvs) sitting in as the bass player and hit him square in the head, haha. He then turned toward the drummer and kicked a roll of gaffer tape at him. The tape split the cymbals , like a football through the uprights and also hit him in the face. True story!
And then there's the Ted Nugent story...wait is Sweaty Teddy metal? Oh well, I can't tell the story then...
Erik mentioned The Sword, another favorite of mine from GH. Definitely check them out. His post is from 2008, so i'm sure you already have.
Kyle Johnson
MoonTech Studios
I'm still mad at Ozzy for the way Sharon, Zakk and the others treated Maiden at Ozzfest a couple of years back.
I'm still mad at ozzy and Sharon for them ruining Blizzard of OZ and Diary of a Mad Man by adding new drums and base. Simple greed. They didn't want to pay the original bassist and drummer.
Great bands (not in any special order):
- Led Zeppelin - They are still the best. John Bonham, the first funky white drummer on earth.
- Black Sabbath (Both with ozzy and Dio)
- AC/DC (fantastic group. Love both singers)
- Motörhead ("Bastards" is their best album, not Ace of Spades)
- Rammstein (first 4 albums)
- Deep Purple - (Some of it)
- Rainbow (Early stuff was great, including Down to earth)
- Dio (Early albums)
- Ozzy
- Gillan (Magic is Magic)
- Uriah Heep
- Judas priest
- Saxon
- Girlschool (they rocked)
- The Runaways (they actually made some good songs)
- Iron Maiden (Early stuff)
- Queensryche (First EP is still the best.)
- Thin Lizzy (Rip, Phil and Gary)
- Whitesnake (English version of Slide it in was better)
- Gary Moore (Yes: everything before the blues stuff)
- Krokus (Headhunter is a great album)
- Alcatrazz (both the Yngwie and Steve albums were good, but I like Disturbing the Peace better)
- The Cult ("Electric", a good album)
- Soundgarden (love them)
- Audioslave (also good)
- Y&T / Yesterday and Today (Before the kicked Leonard Haze.)
- Michael Schenker Group
- David Lee Roth (Eat them and smile is still one of the best albums ever)
- Van Halen (Great!)
- Rush (yes, they did make some good records)
- Badlands (first album was great)
- Ranging Slab (don't know if they are metal but they made one good album)
- Slayer (Reign in blood, still one of best albums ever)
- Accept (early stuff)
- Scorpions (yes they have made some good albums)
- DAD (fun band)
- King's X (First two albums)
- Kiss - (Last decent album was Creatures of the Night)
- Legs Diamond ("waiting" is still a great song)
- Mahogany Rush (last good record was Juggernaut)
- Mama's Boys (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia)
- Nazareth (Early stuff Like "Loud 'N' Proud" and Hair of the Dog)
- Nirvana
- Rage against the Machine (Some good songs)
- Alice in chains
- Faith no more
- Red hot chili peppers (some of the Early stuff)
- Def Leppard
- Mercyful Fate (acquired taste, but I like them)
- King Diamond (Early stuff, acquired taste, but I like them)
- Manowar (Perhaps not so great but made some good songs)
- Montrose (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia)
- Budgie (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia)
- Triumph (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia)
Oh my god. I forgot:
- Ministry
- Slipknot
Some obscure bands:
- Trouble (Trouble is still a great album).
- Masters of reality (Their first album is REALLY great)
- Savatage (Hall of the Mountain King, a great album)
- Demon (One or two good records)
- Chateaux (chained and desperate, anyone remember this record?)
- Lucifer's Friend (one great album!)
- Ursa Major (one great album!)
- Captain Beyond. (one great album!)
- Sir Lord Baltimore (one great album!)
- Manilla Road (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia)
- Gordi (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia)
- More (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia)
- Rose Tattoo (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia)
- Tygers of pan Tang (Perhaps not great, but nostalgia. John Sykes first band)
Edit 3, From Sweden:
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Mustasch
- Entombed (great)
- Meshuggah (More than Great)
- Candlemass
- In Flames
- At The Gates
- The Hellacopters
- Backyard Babies
I agree completely. When I play CD's like th remastered version of Zappa's "We Only in it for the Money" you can't even hear it compared to most of the "modern" cd's although there is another culprit that I can point to-->** spoiler omitted **
Zappa Live in NY and Roxy also sounds like Sh*t.Live in NY has no attack what so ever when it comes to the bas and the drums.
But the EMI CD versions (from the 80s) of the Zappa albums sound great (YAWYI and TTRB, etc).
Early mastering = good, late CD mastering = sh*t.
What do Paizonian metalheads think of Feistodon?
Black Tongue
A Commotion
I completely dig it, but then I like both bands anyway.
Zark wrote:I wish there was a way to favorite individual bands on your list!dmchucky69 wrote:
I'm still mad at Ozzy for the way Sharon, Zakk and the others treated Maiden at Ozzfest a couple of years back.
Edit:Great bands (not in any special order):
OK, I'll do it later next week and post them in a spoiler :-)Fine by you?
@DungeonmasterCal: OK here it is.
I couldn't bother making a top 100, but with the other lists its more than 100 bands/solo acts.
What I listen to is dependent on mood, company, situation and other factors. Also what I listen to doesn't have to be my favorite bands. Led Zeppelin is indeed my favorite band, but I spend more time listening to AC/DC, Van Halen, Nickelback, Rammstein than Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, Slayers or Black Sabbath.
My favorite groups are always in shuffle depending on who's more recently released something, whether or not I liked it in comparison with their older stuff, If my girlfriend can put up with the noise, and other factors.
One such factor is that a lot of my Metal music is on Vinyl. I got some on CD and some on Mp3.
My Vinyl player is broken and my amplifier is also broken so for the last year or so my computer has been my Music Box. This mean I now mostly use youtube, Spotify or the MP3 I got in my computer.
So how should I rate them? My favorite bands according to how they have influenced me or should it be based on what I'm currently is listening to? I have use mix of both.
If I were to list the bands that have meant most to me (and/or that gave me some kind of eye opener) the list would be short and easy to compile. Top two on that list would be Kiss and The Runaways, whereas band like Led Zeppelin and AC/DC would have a far lower ranking (LZ 6 or 7 and AC/DC 15 or 16) and groups like Magnus would fair higher than AC/DC but not as high as LZ. I listened to Kiss long before I got hocked on Led Zeppelin or AC/DC.
I haven't listened to Magnum or The Runaways more than a few times during the last 10 years and when I did I felt the music was dated. They are not bands that I would put on any to 50 list of best metal bands, but they once were important and I have most of their records (on vinyl). Thin Lizzy is similar in that the music, with some exceptions , is a bit dated, but some of the music is still great (Live and Dangerous, Thunder and Lightning, etc). Queen on the other hand still is one of my favorite bands and "Jazz", "A day" and "A night" are great, rock solid albums. And I still think their sound is great.
Some will probably be surprised that I don't rate Deep Purple, Nirvana, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Van Halen higher than I do. I do like these groups, especially Van Halen, but I never was very impressed by any of them (with the exception on Van Halen).
I have added some additional lists. I like to have Rush, Saga and stuff like that on a list but I know it is controversial to call them heavy metal, so I filed them under progressive metal :-). Then I created some more lists.
I might have forgotten some bands/artists. My music collection is extensive and it's hard to remember every artist/group.
Honorable mentions, Groups/artists/Record Companies that are not heavy metal or associated with Metal but that have greatly influenced heavy metal:
Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Yardbirds, The Kinks, Cream, Jim Marshal, Leo Fender, Les Paul, Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Albert King, Blind Willie Johnson, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Umm Kulthum, Frédéric Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccolò Paganini, Beatles, Beach Boys, The Doors, The Spencer Davis Group, Elvis, Little Richard, Sex Pistols. Record Companies: Stax, Chess, Sun, Motown.
1. Led Zeppelin - They are still the best. John Bonham, the first funky white drummer on earth.
2. AC/DC - Love both singers. Most days prefer Bon Scott. FINNALY, they are now on Spotify.
3. Rammstein - First 4 albums are the best. The made some really great/fun videos too.
4. Black Sabbath - I prefer the Ozzy and Dio line ups but even like some of the later stuff.
5. Motörhead - Lemmy is Mr. Rock. You got to have them on the top 5. Another perfect day is underrated and Bastards is their best. But I love the stuff with Eddie to.
6. Ozzy - I love the original version of "Blizzard" and "Madman". Bark at the Moon is another great album.
7. Dio - Early albums.
8. David Lee Roth - it was actually Eat them and smile that opened my eyes to Van Halen. I had some records with VH, but it was DLR first solo record that made me really listen to them
9. Van Halen - Prefer line up with DLR.
10. Soundgarden / Audioslave - I love them both.
11. Whitesnake
12. Nickelback - Some say they are the musak of HM, I don't care. I like them.
13. Kiss
14. Rainbow - Early stuff was great, including Down to earth
15. Judas priest - Can't decide if they should be on 14 or 15 place, Today 15.
16. Slayer - Reign in blood, still one of best albums ever
17. Thin Lizzy - Don't actually listen to them that much, but they were a great band.
18. Deep Purple - I like most of their stuff (Gillan and Coverdale), but only love some of it.
19. Ministry - I like them, but like Rammstein more ;-)
20. Monster magnet - Powertrip is still their best album.
21. WASP - Highly underrated.
22. Alcatrazz - Made two great albums.
23. Foo fighters - Yes I prefer them to Nirvana.
24. Queensryche (First EP is still the best.)
25. Y&T / Yesterday and Today - Before the kicked Leonard Haze.
26. Badlands - Their first album is a classic.
27. Saxon - Great band. I even like later stuff like " I've Got To Rock"
28. Krokus - Headhunter is a great album
29. DAD - Made one great album and some OK albums.
30. Gillan - Many great albums. Some are Metal some are not. Great regardless.
31. Trouble - Yes, they are on the Old list too. Only made one really great album.
32. Accept - Fast as a shark. Still a great track.
33. Nazareth (Early stuff Like "Loud 'N' Proud" and Hair of the Dog)
34. Iron Maiden (Early stuff)
35. Mahogany Rush -last good record was Juggernaut.
36. Guns and Roses - Made one great albumand then some good songs.
37. Scorpions - Both Roth and Schenker line ups made some good stuff, but I prefer the older stuff with Uli Roth
38. Corrosion of conformity
39. Uriah Heep - One of the big 4 (Zeppelin, Sabbath, Purple and Heep)
40. UFO - early stuff was great. Lights out, Rock Bottom.
41. The Cult ("Electric", a good album)
42. Girlschool (they rocked)
43. Gary Moore - Not his latest stuff.
44. MSG/Michael Schenker Group - Assault Attack is a highly underrated album.
45. Nirvana - Yes they must be on a top 50 list. Some days I would rate them much higher.
46. Ranging Slab (don't know if they are metal but they made at least one good album)
47. Merciful Fate / King Diamond - Acquired taste, but I like them.
48. Def Leppard - some days they are on the top 25 list.
49. Slipknot - Just discovered them Love them when I'm in the right mood.
50. Metallica
51. Legs Diamond - "waiting" is still a great song.
52. Pearl Jam
53. Alice in chains
54. Savatage - One great album and some good ones.
55. Fastway - First album was good.
56. Rose Tattoo - Highly underrated band.
57. The Runaways - they actually made some good songs
58. Carcass - when I'm in the right mood.
59. Mama's Boys
60. Rage against the Machine -Some good songs
61. Red hot chili peppers - some of the Early stuff
62. Manowar - Yes, They are Cheesy but Defender is still a good song. Orson Welles helps :-)
63. Machine head - when I'm in the right mood.
64. Samson - Highly underrated band.
65. Night ranger - Highly underrated.
66. Pantera - when I'm in the right mood.
67. Faith no more - Highly overrated, but made a couple of good songs.
68. Tygers of pan Tang - Hellbound is great track and it was John Sykes first band.
69. Blackfoot - Perhaps not Metal. Made some good stuff.
70. Lizzy Borden - Not great, but here for nostalgic reasons
For more great stuff check out the other lists.
1. Sir Lord Baltimore - Made one good record. Kingdom Come. Fantastic stuff.
2. Trouble - Trouble is still a great album
3. Masters of Reality - One great, but one great album is enough.
4. Lucifer's Friend - One good album.
5. Ursa Major - Underrated
6. Captain Beyond - Underrated
7. Budgie - Underrated
8. Montrose - Perhaps not great, but here for nostalgic reasons
9. Chateaux - Chained and Desperate
10. Warlord - "Deliver Us" had its moments.
11. Warhorse - First record and Vulture Blood had a couple of good songs.
12. Gordi - Perhaps not great, but here for nostalgic reasons
13. More - Perhaps not great, but deserves to at some sort of list
14. Manilla Road - Perhaps not great, but deserves to at some sort of list. Their producer and their singer ruined them. The music isn't bad, but the sound and the singer is really tiresome.
1. Yngwie Malmsteen - Perhaps he doesn't deserve to be at first place, but today he is. Steeler, Alcatrazz. Good stuff.
2. The Hellacopters
3. Backyard Babies
4. Mustasch
5. Candlemass
6. Opeth
7. Entombed
8. Meshuggah
9. In Flames
10. At The Gates
11. The Haunted
1. Rush
2. Saga
3. Hawkwind - Highly underrated
4. Pallas - Highly underrated
5. Demon. - Highly underrated
6. Hughes and thrall - Great
7. Dream Theater - I just recently discovered them
8. Phenomena
9. King's X - First two albums
10. Opeth
11. Magnum - Perhaps not great, but here for nostalgic reasons.
12. Triumph - Perhaps not great, but here for nostalgic reasons
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. The Who
3. ZZ top
4. Yardbirds
5. Cream
6. The Allman Brothers
7. Jeff Beck
8. Mountain
9. Humble Pie
10. West, Bruce & Laing.
11. Arthur Brown
12. Steppenwolf
13. James Gang
14. Iron Butterfly
15. Ted Nugent
16. Vanilla Fudge
18. Blue Cher
What I meant was a way for me (or another reader) to select my favorite bands individually from your lists just by clicking on a "favorites" button or the like. Sorry for all the work you went through!
Still, it's pretty uncanny how you and I agree on the placement of nearly every band you've mentioned. I only recently discovered Opeth and I'm completely in a trance over them.
What I meant was a way for me (or another reader) to select my favorite bands individually from your lists just by clicking on a "favorites" button or the like. Sorry for all the work you went through!
No problem. I'm not sure how that would be possible. One way would be to create a new thread where every group/artist is one post.BTW, I lost one of my favorite bands in the editing process. Queen , they should be at 10th place. I first had both Van Halen and David lee Roth and 9th place and then Queen at 10th. It's so annoying I can't edit the list.
Still, it's pretty uncanny how you and I agree on the placement of nearly every band you've mentioned. I only recently discovered Opeth and I'm completely in a trance over them.
I too recently discovered them. I can't believe I have not heard of them before. I probably should have them at 4th place or at least 5th.
BTW, I want to share with some of the metal heads here the thrash album that has been kicking my ass this year. I saw them not too long ago at a festival just miles away from my home and the band Vindicator, delivered a punch that puts to shame what Dave Mustaine has been putting out on public radio as of late.
Listen to Vindicator's "United We Fall" album and it'll remind you of the stuff that Dave did back in the 80's with his paranoid government conspiracies as well as serious dual solo shredding. "13" sucks compared to this. Gets that west coast sound while been based right outside of Cleveland Ohio.
Bastards of Noise and Aggression and Hail To The Thief are standouts.
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Slayer and Nuclear Assault on the South of Heaven tour 1988
Metallica on Damaged Justice two weeks later
both at Hammersmith Odeon, London
Iron Maiden I have seen too many times to remember!
Exodus on the Fabulous Disaster Tour
Nuclear Assault supported by Dark Angel
Kreator going out in support of Terrible Certainty
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32. Accept - Fast as a shark. Still a great track.
And "Princess of the Dawn" from that same album.
I've seen Iron Maiden 5 times (only because they don't play gigs close to where I live anymore. Otherwise I'd be there every time). I saw them once in a tiny, hole in the wall club in Memphis when Blaze Bailey was still with them.
Another time I went up for a high five with Steve Harris and missed his hand, hitting his bass really hard. I thought I'd get tossed out by the security people, but instead he gave me a thumbs up and "Well done, mate!"
I could've died happy that night.
Great to see this thread resurface every now and again.
I've gotten into some new stuff (for me at least in the last few years).
Atreyu, Lamb of God, Coheed and Cambria, some more As I Lay Dying, 30 Seconds to Mars, Parkway Drive, Chimaira, etc.
Great stuff.
Very melodic in parts, with aggressive counterpoints in the verses (usually).
How the devil did Sabaton not get mentioned once in this thread?
Who knows but they were absolutely amazing at the weekend.
My tastes run a pretty wide selection of all different genres (except for rap, hip hop, country & western and manufactured pop, I'll listen to a bit of everything), but my main love is metal of all kinds.
At the moment my main playlist is a mix of the following genres:
There's a few bands in there in particular that I'm finding I tend to play more than others at the moment, namely Dead Letter Circus, Twelve Foot Ninja, Karnivool, Kylesa and Fair to Midland. The first three are some of the best Australian bands around at the moment. I've seen them multiple times in Canberra, and they're always brilliant. Kylesa I saw at Soundwave last year, and I was lucky enough to catch Fair to Midland when they were touring Australia for the first time to support Dead Letter Circus. Some of the best live shows I've seen. Highly recommend all of them.
So I've been a metal head since the Late 70's starting with the Godfathers of Metal Black Sabbath. I jumped to hard Blues rock like Aerosmith then to the Real fathers of metal Judas Priest. While in HS a class mate told me about Iron Maiden and I got Number of the Beast which had just been released when I graduated. Not long after I got into Saxon and went to my first metal concert in 1983 to see the British metal Onslaught of Iron Maiden, Saxon and Fastway.
It was not long before I had over 500 albums of nothing but metal, most being pop metal bands like Dokken, the Scorpions, UFO, Y&T and then obscure bands like Tsunamie, RAIL and many more.
I started playing my guitar more bought a ton of equipment from Gibson les Paul, to a guitar that was refereed to my Neo-Space Age Explorer, to Yamaha, to my babb which was a Charvel Jackson model 2 and my Charvel DX series. I got keyboards, bass guitars, drum machines, and my amps a Peavey VTM 120 1/2 stack and my Marshall JCM 800 100 watt on a Peavey Sheffield 4X12 stereo cab.
I started off as a guitarist that did backing vocals and keyboards and the ability to play bass if needed and then latter became a lead singer guitar player and playing up and down the front range of Colorado at places like Bangles, After the Gold Rush, Pure Energy, Tanz, AJ's, The Armory, The Dark Room, Alibi's, Castaways and a few others. We got regular airplay on Original music hour on KBPI and the now defunct KAZY and on KILO. KILO even featured us in a 30 minute spot and interview. As an all original band we made little money but had great rewards. In many ways the sound of the music was like Maiden meets Dream Theater, Meets Metallica (Though I am far from a Metallica fan our bass player was)
While I am not playing in bands in more (Marriage and family life and a spouse that got jealous because you got asked out and hit on all the time by other musicians and fans put an end to playing. I tried to get back in to music a few years ago but found that my idea's, wants and needs did not mesh up with everyone elses in the state I live in.
I am still a huge Iron Maiden fan, as well as my Priest, But I really get into Kamelot (My drummer was great friends with Casey before my drummer past away from a brain tumor). Within Temptaion and Nightwish and Xandia are in my favs as well. But recently my BF turned me onto Battlebeast with their new singer and I'm really enjoying that band as well as his favorite UDO and old UDO Accept.
I don't make it to concerts much the last was Kamelot and Nightwish and it was the show Annette missed and was let go a few nights later from. I wanted to go see Kamelot and Delain but funds have not allowed me to go. Though I may get tickets at the last moment
I miss my old house. For one, my two roommates were also gaming buddies, one of whom was also a jam buddy for music. Second, we lived right next to the airport and the city had paid to have all the houses in the neighborhood sound proofed. Our basement was a practice space, we had at least 8-9 amps, drum kit, etc. Turning my bass amp all the way, it shook the house, but you could barely hear it outside. It was awesome.
Last live metal show I went to: The Sword and Kyuss Lives


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A large, grand exhibition has seldom been so dominated by one painting. The Alba family, the noblest in Spain after the King, has put its private collection of art on show at the Centro Centro in Madrid and it is full of splendid things that have rarely been seen before.
Tickets are limited by time of entry, yet the rooms are always full. This is not the cosmopolitan crowd that packs the famous National Gallery of the Prado or the nearby Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. It is almost entirely Spanish.
They mostly gather in front of the painting by Francisco Goya of the 13th Duchess of Alba, Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Alvarez de Toledo, born in 1762, who may have had an affair with the painter. Her short, extravagant life and her loves have been the source of legends, novels and films.
The Alba family has produced extraordinary duchesses, with the formidable current incumbent, who is aged in her 80s, always in the news and a focus of the paparazzi. She still parades in her bikini on the beaches with her husband, 30 years her junior, whom she married against the opposition of her family.
A billionaire, she has more titles than any other member of the nobility of Europe. Long before the Duchess of Cambridge, she was photographed topless and appeared on the front of a popular magazine. A lovely painting of her as a young girl in the 1920s surrounded by toys is in the Centro Centro exhibition.
The 13th Duchess, painted by Goya, was just as independent-minded and surrounded by gossip and speculation. The painting shows her in a white dress pointing at the ground where Goya's signature is inscribed. It is on the gallery's tickets, catalogue, posters and all the merchandising. It was done in 1795 when she had been married for 20 years, as a companion piece to a portrait of her husband, which is in the Prado.
Goya painted him as a reserved scholarly man leaning against an early version of a piano and reading a score of music by Haydn. He died a year later, aged 39. Goya then painted another portrait of the duchess in mourning black. Now in New York, the painting shows the duchess wearing two rings: one inscribed "Alba" and the other "Goya". It is the origin of all the speculation.
There is also the legend that the duchess posed for the celebrated twin paintings of The Maja Nude and The Maja Clothed, a scandal in their time, but now the pride of the Prado. The fact that they do not look at all like the duchess has not stopped this being accepted as a received truth.
The portrait of the Duchess in White at El Legado Casa De Alba at Centro Centro is superb. The thin linen dress on the tall, slim figure of the lovely young woman is made piquant by touches of red. A wide red sash emphasises her famous slim waist. Elaborate red bows adorn her neckline, contrasted against her long black hair left loose and natural. She wears a necklace of red coral. Her little dog has a red bow on a rear leg. The most striking feature is the direct gaze of the wonderful eyes that show complete self-confidence, just short of arrogance. In the background you can see a faint view of Madrid.
Her pose makes her a commanding figure. Rightly, she is the outstanding figure in a show of 400 objects, including many portraits. Another portrait by Goya from the collection also shows a woman in a white Empire-line dress caught high under the bust just like the Duchess'. It is of the Marquise of Lazon. It is full of character, but does not have the wonderful presence of the Alba.
The exhibition includes fine Italian Renaissance paintings, including a Last Supper by Titian, who also painted the Grand Duke of Alba in 1570. Also of particular note is The Virgin of the Pomegranate by Fra Angelico. This work by the saintly master has an Early Renaissance gold background, but it uses the then-novel medium of oil paint, making the face of the Virgin and the Christ child particularly luminous and spiritual. It is superbly preserved and the colour contributes wonderfully to the effect, especially the blue of Mary's robe.
The show includes historic documents the family preserved. These include Columbus' sketch of the coastline of Hispaniola where he first touched land in the New World and the official list of his crew. There are also elaborate, colourful deeds granting land, coats of arms and patents of nobility to conquerors of new territory.
Yet the portraits are the essence of the show, including a lovely picture of a young girl by Renoir. Deliciously, right at the end there is a flourish of the 20th century in a painting by Marc Chagall. A colourful bunch of flowers near an open window reveal a portal to all the themes of his work: a bird singing joyously, more flowers, some lovers. It again suggests the question: were the rough, deaf commoner painter and the elegant, noble duchess really lovers?
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California native Jackie Rosas saved the life of a New Jersey teen after reading her suicidal Tumblr post. Rosas saw the blogger's threat and alerted police. The cops notified schools in the area to no avail. They found the 16-year-old blogger's Twitter account by matching the photo to her Tumblr. Police poured over her tweets, YouTube videos, and blog posts. They found a November tweet that mentioned the "UHS marching band" and matched it to a school in New Jersey. Police found her and took her to a medical facility. "It's an amazing feeling knowing you are able to help someone from thousands of miles away," said Rosas. Monica Nickelsburg
President Trump's son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner reportedly held discussions with Russia's ambassador about setting up a secret communication channel between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin shortly after the election, intelligence officials confirmed to The Washington Post.
The Post first learned of Kushner's inquiry in an anonymous letter sent in December; Kushner's meeting with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak reportedly happened at Trump Tower on Dec. 1 or 2. Kushner apparently suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities for the secret communications, alarming Kislyak, as that would have been a security risk for Russia, too.
... Kushner conveyed to the Russians that he was aware that it would be politically sensitive to meet publicly, but it was necessary for the Trump team to be able to continue their communication with Russian government officials.
In addition to their discussion about setting up the communications channel, Kushner, [Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael] Flynn, and Kislyak also talked about arranging a meeting between a representative of Trump and a "Russian contact" in a third country whose name was not identified, according to the anonymous letter. [The Washington Post]
Senior U.S. officials expressed shock at Kushner's bold proposition, especially as Russian communications are closely monitored by the U.S., with one calling his idea "extremely naive or absolutely crazy." Read the full scoop at The Washington Post. Jeva Lange
A Yale University dean has been put on leave over racially insensitive remarks she made in Yelp reviews. "If you are white trash, this is a perfect night out for you," June Chu wrote about a Japanese restaurant. In other posts, she noted "I am Asian" as proof of her culinary expertise, warned of "sketchy" crowds at a movie theater, and called the workers "morons" who serve "snack orders to the obese."
President Trump on Friday condemned the "merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt" and urged "all who value life" to confront terrorists' "war against civilization." At least 26 people, including children, were killed Friday when eight gunmen dressed in military uniforms attacked a bus and a pickup truck carrying Coptic Christians. The Coptic Christians, a minority group that has long faced discrimination in Egypt, were traveling to St. Samuel Monastery in Egypt's Minya province, located south of Cairo.
"Civilization is at a precipice — and whether we climb or fall will be decided by our ability to join together to protect all faiths, all religions, and all innocent life," Trump said in the statement, pushing for everyone to unite "for the righteous purpose of crushing the evil organizations or terror, and exposing their depraved, twisted, and thuggish ideology." Becca Stanek
We've all been there — tossing and turning in sweat-soaked sheets, fan on full blast, wishing we could just fall asleep. A nearly decade-long study of 765,000 Americans, published Friday, found that as the world warms as a result of climate change, we are likely to get worse and worse night sleeps due to the difficulty of slumbering when it's hot out. "Elderly people, and people making less than $50,000 per year, seem especially affected by the trend," The Atlantic writes.
Basically, for thousands and thousands of years hot days would cool into comfortable nights as the sun's heat radiated back out into space in the evening. But now greenhouse gases reflect that heat back at the Earth, even at night, keeping us toasty if we don't have the a/c on full blast. "We know from a broad literature in the laboratory context that our sleep is regulated pretty heavily by our body temperature — and especially by our core body temperature," said Nick Obradovich, one of the study's authors.
Obradovich added that while the study focused on the U.S., it could be even harder for people in other parts of the world to power through the hot nights. "In Ghana, it's really hot and really humid, and there are no other options. You just suffer through the heat," he said.
Getting adequate sleep, of course, is important for good health. Deprivation has been linked to conditions like high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity, as well as shorter-term consequences like problems with mood and memory. Obradovich noted that older people tend to have higher mortality rates during heat waves, too, and part of the reason could be all the tossing and turning cutting into their sleep.
Read more about Obradovich's research at The Atlantic. Jeva Lange
It may almost be June 2017, but 2016 presidential election rhetoric lives on. After Hillary Clinton took some jabs at President Trump during her commencement speech Friday at her alma mater, Wellesley College, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released a statement swinging back. "Today's speech was a stark reminder why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016," McDaniel said in the statement. "Instead of lashing out with the same partisan talking points, Hillary Clinton would be wise to look inward, talk about why she lost, and expand the dwindling base of Democratic Party supporters — we won't hold our breath though."
Clinton didn't call Trump out by name in her speech, which she began by discussing former President Richard Nixon and what it was like living through his resignation. "We were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice," Clinton said. She added that this happened "after firing the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice," a not-so-veiled allusion to Trump's recent firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Clinton encouraged the graduates to remain hopeful despite the "full-fledged assault on truth and reason" and to reach out to people "hurt" by the Trump administration's newly introduced budget plan, which she called a "con." Becca Stanek
Singer Ariana Grande said Friday that she will be returning to Manchester for a benefit concert to help the victims of the Monday attack at her show that left 22 dead and dozens more injured.
"Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder, and to live more kindly and generously than we did before," said Grande, 23, in a statement. "I'll be returning to the incredibly brave city of Manchester to spend time with my fans and to have a benefit concert in honor of and to raise money for the victims and their families."
Grande added that while "there is nothing I or anyone can do to take away the pain you are feeling or to make this better … I extend my hand and heart and everything I possibly can give to you and yours, should you want or need my help in any way." Read her full statement below. Jeva Lange
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In case anyone needed another reason to be afraid of the slippery, slithery creatures that are snakes: They might hunt in packs. Well, at least one snake species might.
Vladimir Dinets, a scientist from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, recently observed the Cuban boa hunting fruit bats in caves — only to realize that if more than one snake was present, the snakes would engage in what seemed to be "coordinated hunting." "Snakes arriving to the hunting area were significantly more likely to position themselves in the part of the passage where other snakes were already present, forming a 'fence' across the passage and thus more effectively blocking the flight path of the prey, significantly increasing hunting efficiency," the study's abstract says.
Group hunts boasted much higher success rates than solo hunts, and a press release about the study noted that "the more snakes were present, the less time it took to capture a bat."
In case the mental image of snakes hunting in a pack weren't reason enough to stay inside, the snakes did this group hunting while dangling from the top of the cave. "After sunset and before dawn, some of the boas entered the passage that connected the roosting chamber with the entrance chamber, and hunted by suspending themselves from the ceiling and grabbing passing bats," the study said.
This isn't the first time a group hunting effort among snakes has been observed, though it remains unclear if this is actually a widespread serpentine phenomenon or if there's really any purposeful coordination between the snakes. "It is possible that coordinated hunting is not uncommon among snakes, but it will take a lot of very patient field research to find out," Dinets said. Becca Stanek


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It used to be the morning ritual. One cup, never more. Usually Peet's—or the darkest, and strongest option available. My philosophy was, "I like it strong with plenty of cream," and it held up through over 15 years of passionate coffee drinking. Read more »
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I was showing off a trick to export Firefox SQLite tables to a spread sheet, and while she is a forensics person, she had never ever heard of this trick. It is neat enough to know when working off an image to pull the entire history of a Firefox user by using the SQLite table manager Firefox plugin. You can also find this plugin for Chrome that makes things just as easy. This article though will focus on SQLite and Firefox.


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"(The) basic principle is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on; without having some real-time information about what's taking place," Panetta told Pentagon reporters. "And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation."
President Barack Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command and Marine Lt. Gen. John Paxton to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Thursday.
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put all leads and quotes together in an attempt get the truth...
I'm getting sick just finding out everything that was going on behind the scenes of this and how it's not being talked about.
This is way bigger than that.
Not so much leads, but here are the quotes. I posted the same link in another thread. Benghazi Timeline
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.
The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham's place as the head of Africon.
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Like the parka, the fall-weight bomber jacket has its roots in military fashion. It was initially designed to keep pilots warm and comfortable on long flights during WWII. In fact, during the 1940s New Jersey-based manufacturers Schott (the inventors of the style) ceased making them for civilians in order to meet the demands of the war effort.
Nowadays, it's much easier to get your paws on one, and thankfully, the cuts brands are producing for this season are way slimmer and much sharper than their sage green potato sack ancestors.
To get some insider knowledge on how a proper bomber should fit, I hollered at Jason Schott, whose great-grandfather founded the business back in 1913. He told me, "The jacket is designed to keep you warm and keep the wind out, so you don't want it to be too big or full. It should fit snugly and cleanly across your waist. Fitted but not constricting is the magic ratio."
His fine company has been doing a sturdy "October/November" version in green waxed cotton (instead of the traditional brown leather) with a swaggy sheepskin collar. If Joe Namath flew a plane, this is the jacket he would wear. It goes great with cuffed blue jeans, work boots or a cable-knit sweater. If you want a more mid-to-lightweight option, this smart number from venerable street wear vets Stussy will do you right. It's made of nylon, which will take the chill out of the wind but won't have you schvitzing if you need to wear it to a concert or any other subcultural events that may be on your social calendar this fall or early winter.
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Just got started on making belts and thought I might share a couple of pics. The pouches on the Fett belt are Taco's. Oil base dye is not available in California, so I am I'm experimenting with different leathers and dye colors. Still, that will be the belt on my finished ROJT SE.
The Jedi belt is one I did for a friend. This one is not intended to be character specific. I am starting on pouches for it now. I haven't found any patterns that I like, so I modeled them in SolidWorks to develop the flat patterns.
I'm the guy that bought Taco's belt tooling. I hope to start on Fett pouches soon.
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As a newbee I have read and took alot of advice on everything I can to do with beekeeping. So long story short...I have been feeding a swarm I caught a few weeks ago to help them along before winter. And some advise I took was to feed with a hive top feeder. So I bought one from Brushy Mountain, it is their own wooden one that they make themselves. Its has floats to keep the bees from drowning, right? WRONG! I notice the first time i checked on them after feeding and seen alot of drowned bees and thought maybe this is normal. Well tonight i had what seemed to be 1000's of dead bees so many that i dumped the feeder and pulled it off. no more of that! Just before i dumped it I watched for a moment and noticed that every bee that went down to feed was slipping on the walls of the feeder and could not climb back out, what good does this type of feeder serve? what should I do know? To make matters worse, i have two more of these being delievered form brushy mountain any day know for my other hives.
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Savor these summer cocktails, long after Labor Day
Pigskin season kicks off tonight, TV's newest pilots air next week and its about time to switch from iced coffee to regular. In short, fall is here. But just because summer's sailed doesn't mean we have to give up on summer cocktails. A recent vodka "tutorial" with our friends from 42Below made that point clear when they let us indulge in over a dozen fruity vodka-infused libations. Yes, we take our work very seriously.
We polled our staff to come up with our top five. Here are the recipes, so you can whip up a little bit of summer at home, whenever you feel like it. Cheers.
HONEY JULEP your Derby drink done differently
Calls for: •30 mls (1 oz) 42BELOW Honey •15 mls (½ oz) pineapple juice •15 mls (½ oz) part gomme or simple syrup •6 chunks of pineapple •12 mint leaves •Dash of Angostura bitters
In a highball glass, muddle together the pineapple and mint with simple syrup, then add spirits and juice. Fill with crushed ice, then churn before serving with a pineapple chunk and a sprig of mint.
CUCUMBER COLLINS so refreshing you'll want to splash your face with it
Calls for: •1 ½ parts vodka (unflavored) •1/3 part fresh lemon juice •1/3 part simple or sugar syrup •3 parts soda water •2 parts cucumber juice, or 6 large chunks of cucumber, peeled and diced •Cucumber peel to garnish
In a mixing glass, muddle together the cucumber chunks (if using chunks). Then combine 42BELOW Vodka, juices and simple syrup, and fill with ice. Shake well, then strain into a Collins or highball glass filled with crushed ice. Top with soda water and garnish with a long strip of cucumber peel.
because real men don't shy away from pink drinks
Calls for: •1 part vodka (unflavored) •1 part Grand Marnier or rich •Orange liqueur •5 parts berry smoothie •Orange slice to garnish
Fill a highball glass with ice, add spirits, then top with smoothie. Squeeze in a slice of citrus and stir.
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Calls for: •45 mls (1 ½ oz) 42BELOW Kiwi •10 mls (1/3 oz) gomme or simple syrup •4 strawberries, hulled and chopped •4 wedges of lime
In a mixing glass, muddle the limes and strawberries together with the sugar syrup. Add 42BELOW Kiwi and fill with ice. Shake vigorously, then pour all contents into a short glass.
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Calls for: •30 mls (1 oz) 42BELOW Passion •30 mls (1 oz) pineapple juice •Dash of gomme or simple syrup (optional) •Half a red chili, seeded •4 chunks of pineapple •4 mint leaves •Mint tip to garnish
In a cocktail shaker, muddle the chili and pineapple. Add mint, 42BELOW Passion, juice and gomme, if needed. Fill with ice, shake sharply and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a mint tip.


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Innovations in Education
Cesar Chavez Academy, Pueblo, Colo.
School Profile: Selected Variables a
|Year First Chartered
|Grades Served
|Student Ethnicity b
|75% Hispanic, 23% White, 1% African-American, 1% Native American
|Special Education
|Free or Reduced-price Lunch b
|Annual Cost per Student
a Unless otherwise indicated, these data are reported by the school and are for the
school year 2006–07.
b These data are reported online for 2005–06 at http://www.schoolmatters.com.
c These data are drawn from the Cesar Chavez Academy report card for 2005–06 posted on the Colorado Department of Education Web site.
Mission and Founding
Anyone entering Cesar Chavez Academy, a modern adobe-style refurbishment of a former public elementary school, first sees a large black aguila, the square-winged eagle symbol of La Causa, Cesar Chavez' populist, nonviolent crusade for Mexican immigrant dignity, living wages, decent working conditions, and pride. This symbol of social justice speaks as loudly today for underserved Latino students in Pueblo, Colo., a community characterized by its poverty, as it did when Chavez first united poor farmworkers in the 1960s. With Pueblo's earlier steel mills replaced today by a low-wage service economy and local families facing rising gang crime and narrowing job prospects, husband-and-wife team Lawrence and Annette Hernandez, along with community activists, founded Cesar Chavez Academy (CCA) in 2000 as a new kind of school, one that could live up to the eagle's promise.
CCA's mission, displayed in hallway murals, banners, bulletin boards, and, even, the school's bus, is to prepare Pueblo's children for "success as young scholars, citizens of the world, and community leaders." This mission is grounded in the conviction that all children are capable of learning at high levels if they are taught by skilled educators, challenged by engaging curriculum, afforded adequate time to master content, and held to ambitious standards. The mission binds school staff, students, and parents together as familia. Says one board member, "If you don't buy into the mission that poor students can and will excel, you won't want to work as hard as you have to at Cesar Chavez—and we won't let you stay long." "Here," he adds, "we're family; we're all here for the kids."
Originally conceived as serving kindergarten through third grade, CCA soon grew into a prekindergarten through eighth-grade program. The school is committed to achieving academic excellence through rigorous studies, team teaching in small classes, a longer school day and year, strong parent commitment, and "healthy intrusiveness"—this last described as the intensive involvement of faculty and staff in the lives of their students. This includes an extensive tutoring program. The school's motto is "No excuses, no surprises." Every student knows their academic standing, in every course and every assignment, and knows there are resources available to help them excel.
CCA cofounder and principal Lawrence Hernandez grew up in Pueblo and left his hometown to pursue advanced studies. After earning a Ph.D. in education from Stanford University and serving on the faculty at Harvard University, he decided to "go home to make a difference." The core group of founders were inspired by Chavez' phrase, "Si, se puede" (Yes, we can), and named their enterprise after the Mexican-American leader.
School Operations and Educational Program
Cesar Chavez Academy offers its students an award-winning, ambitious academic program, with a curriculum aligned to meet or exceed Colorado's high academic content standards. The program also emphasizes the history, culture, and native language of Latinos. "We're very intentional about our culture," explains principal Hernandez. "It emphasizes hard work, respect, personal responsibility, resourcefulness, and loyalty to the golden rule [i.e., treat others as you would like to be treated]." Of the school's rigorous curriculum, he says, "It holds students to a higher bar with high standards, and they must meet it over and over." Each student must complete every assignment. Work that receives a grade below 80 percent must be redone with additional instruction, time, space, materials, or other resources needed to ensure mastery. "All students succeed because we don't allow them to fail," Hernandez says. "We set kids up for success."
Tutoring is used schoolwide to help teachers individualize instruction, modify pacing, check for understanding, reteach content, monitor student work, and build teacher-student relationships. "Kids will work for someone they love," reflects a veteran teacher who believes that when instruction is personalized and teacher-student connections are made, struggling students become more successful learners. CCA's one-on-one tutoring program is designed to give students whatever they need to master core subjects, improve their writing, hone study skills, and manage emotions that can get in the way of learning (e.g., anxiety, frustration). Students meet with teachers for tutoring before school, during recess, lunch, and teacher preparation periods, after school, during weekends, and on holidays. Students have teachers' personal phone numbers so they can call after hours for help with assignments. Students receive enrichment, accelerated learning opportunities, field experiences, counseling, and additional time to relearn lessons. They are responsible for taking comprehensive oral and written exams, managing regular projects, demonstrating key skills, and creating portfolios of their work—all of which is graded using rubrics. They must redo work that receives a grade of 80 percent or less, and all written work must undergo an extensive revision process that results in a final mistake free product.
Student success is not left to chance. In addition to academic support, CCA provides its students with clear rules for behavior and conduct. These rules are modeled throughout the school and codified in a student-parent-teacher compact. Students are required to wear uniforms, and dress code violations result in disciplinary action, starting with reflective writing assignments about school expectations. Behavioral infractions are documented and then followed by a "see three before me" intervention by which students receive counseling, guidance, and redirection from three staff members before, if necessary, the principal gets involved. Good behavior is rewarded and bad behavior is addressed. The most common infractions are incomplete homework, tardiness, and absences. One board member speaks of a student who was regularly tardy or absent and falling behind in her studies. A home visit revealed that both parents were mentally disabled and no longer had a car. They rode bicycles instead and were unable to transport her across town to school. Board members and teachers came together to make sure the student had a ride to school every day. That same student subsequently won that year's district spelling bee.
Except for the prekindergarten and kindergarten programs, the school is structured around team teaching, and students rotate to different classes. In the first and second grades, students have three teachers, one for reading and social studies, one for mathematics and science, and one for writing. In third through fifth grades, students rotate to 11 different teachers, plus a tutor, for writing, reading, mathematics, science, social studies, Spanish, and five different electives. Middle school students rotate similarly but have one less elective teacher. For teachers, mastering deep content and pedagogical expertise is essential to their professional success at CCA, and they rely upon one another for help with specialized knowledge and skills.
A typical day for the school's prekindergarten through eighth-grade classes begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 4:05 p.m., with full-day kindergarten ending at 3:50 p.m. The half-day kindergarten programs runs from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Many students arrive about an hour before school to eat a free breakfast and nearly all students stay until 5:30 p.m. for extracurricular activities or tutoring. Middle school students in the award-winning mariachi band program have a slightly varied schedule to accommodate their daily, two-hour practice sessions.
As a way to battle the influence of gang activity in the community and to help foster student friendships, school staff encourage membership in authorized—and supervised—student clubs and organizations. All students must participate in after-school enrichment activities, and all teachers must teach or supervise at least one extracurricular activity. The school boasts champion sports teams; the mariachi band has placed second in international competitions; there are choir, theater, and other clubs, such as public speaking, LEGO challenge, and chess. Student leadership is cultivated through the student council, academic competitions, honor-society activities, and charity work. Middle school students at CCA mentor students in the lower grades. Though the student population is primarily low-income, they collect food for less fortunate farmworkers in the rural part of their county.
School leaders pay attention to individual students' academic needs and work hard to cultivate a safe environment where students feel they belong. Staff members are also mindful of more quantitative measures of success. "We see ourselves as a totally data-driven school," explains the principal, pointing to ways that teachers use assessment score data to customize curriculum and instruction to meet students' learning needs. "Data," he explains, "tell us where we are" with each student, class, and grade level and help teachers choose the appropriate interventions. At the center of CCA's assessment approach is an individual achievement plan for each student, which is based on an intensive quarterly item analysis of a repeat-measures exam aligned to the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP). By analyzing student performance on the same test items over time, teachers can gauge student mastery of the standards. "We all do item analysis," says a new teacher. "I fought it tooth and nail, but I lost—and I'm glad because [doing] it shows a clear picture of what I need to teach or reteach." Score data are disaggregated using a number of criteria: student name, grade, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, English learner designation, date entering Cesar Chavez Academy, and special education status. Numbers are presented in graphs and charts for staff to review and then follow up on as appropriate.
One teacher comments that the principal has a computer-like brain, because if someone points to a particular student, he can immediately describe the assessment data for that child.
Family Involvement and External Partnerships
CCA believes student success is enhanced when parents participate in the life of the school and in students' learning process. Parents, explains the principal, "support us by making sure kids have a place and time to do homework, and [by] coming to conferences." Parents provide transportation for other needy students, drive students to sports events, staff the concession stand at events, work in the library, donate uniforms to the clothes closet, and staff clubs and other activities like Girl Scouts.
School staff and parents agree that two-way communication is strong and consistent, that parent input is constant and valued. Regular newsletters are sent home in Spanish and English, and parents are contacted early in the day if a student is tardy or absent or is missing homework. If such problems persist, the school's prevention specialist conducts unscheduled home visits to investigate the problem and find ways to support the student. New this school year at CCA is PowerSchool, an online tracking system that allows parents and students to electronically monitor assignments and grades from home.
"We constantly collect data from parents," explains Hernandez. "All parents have opportunities to voice issues." Parents are invited to complete an anonymous online survey at least four times a year, timed with quarterly conferences. Twice a year, a school climate survey is sent home, asking parents how welcome they feel at the school and what staff can do to better serve them. Hernandez has an open-door policy and often walks around the parking lot during dropoff and pick up to speak with families. Parents are invited to join the board of directors and to attend monthly meetings.
From the outset, CCA offered a prekindergarten program, charging families $350 per month. Since full-day kindergarten is not funded in Colorado, CCA provides scholarships, sliding scale fees, and fund-raisers to retain this option for families and to cover the monthly cost. According to the principal, Cesar Chavez Academy has a tradition of not relying upon other organizations to provide services. Except for the local library, few community organizations give services to CCA. Versatile school staff members meet most needs themselves. However, the board and the principal do work with the Pueblo Chamber of Commerce and the Latino Chamber of Commerce "to serve our business interests and help us raise money" and to support the economic health of Pueblo, as a board member explains. The principal also cooperates with the local Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, which is developing new higher-end housing in the neighborhood adjacent to the school. CCA's success has stimulated local real estate development, with developers aligning their plans with school capacity projections. Additionally, this neighborhood association was recently awarded grant funding to develop after-school programs for neighborhood children and youths and is working with the school as it moves forward.
Governing for Accountability
A nine-person board made up of business leaders, parents, and community activists governs CCA. The board actively assists and guides the administration, faculty, students, and families and does not provide a rubber stamp for all school proposals and plans. The board's goal, like that of school leaders, is to make CCA "the epitome of great instruction, a source of pride for all of us."
A site-based leadership team was initiated this year, the direct result of putting kids' learning needs first and monitoring efforts to close the achievement gap. The leadership team, including the principal, director of operations, chief financial officer, director of assessment, teacher coaches, and family support team members, oversees the quality of teaching and learning and its improvement. The new structure created three academy directors, each a lead teacher without classroom duties, to direct the instructional programs for prekindergarten through second grades, third through fifth grades, and middle school (sixth through eighth grades). Each academy director is responsible for producing a quarterly student achievement plan, a snapshot of how students are doing and plans to improve learning, with current disaggregated student- and grade-level data to identify gains and target areas for interventions.
Teacher talent is key to the school's successes, and one way the school ensures high-quality instructors is to grow its own. It is accredited by the state of Colorado to train and license teachers.22 "We give teachers a ton of support," reports Hernandez. Teachers agree, describing professional development as being "everywhere, everyday" and "whenever we want it." It starts during the interview process, explains the principal. "We try to hire only people who will be stars," believing that novices "learn to become great teachers here." While using outside experts as needed, "we try to build inhouse capacity and expertise to do our own professional development," which includes curriculum trainings, topical workshops, ongoing feedback, evaluations of student work, analyzing student-level performance data, joint lesson planning, regular observations, and coaching on such techniques as differentiated instruction, which means tailoring instruction to students' individual needs, learning style, interests, and abilities. All new teachers receive mentoring from a teacher with at least two years of experience at CCA. Induction support is highly valued. The mentor serves as a guide, advocate, confidante, subject expert, critical friend, champion, and reflective partner. One first-year teacher says, "There's always someone to go to for everything."
The school had its charter renewed in 2005 and will be up for reauthorization again in 2010. Renewal was part of a $2.1 million award settlement against the local district, which did not adequately address CCA's needs in an approved local bond. Currently, the school is embroiled in another lawsuit with the district over what school leaders believe to be anti-charter and anti-choice bias in the district's treatment of the school. Despite these challenges, the board and principal are clear that the school's accomplishments result from its charter status, giving it the flexibility to hire top teacher talent, fire teachers that do not meet the stringent standards, choose effective curricula, and adjust its budget to extend the school day, hire tutors, and add facilities as needed. "Without the charter we couldn't do what we are doing—it would be squashed," reflects principal Hernandez.
The school has a waiting list of 3,000 students. Spaces are offered by lottery and some families apply years before their children are school age, in hopes that they may be at the top of the waiting list in time. "Love and high test scores make us an easy sell," explains an academy director.
Student Achievement at Cesar Chavez Academy (CCA)


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Gogi is worried about his exams and is trying hard to get good marks. Jethalal and Daya visit Sodhi's house to boost Gogi's morale. Meanwhile Daya said something which made Jethalal scared. What did Daya say? Can Gogi get good marks in exam? Stay tuned and enjoy the full episode.
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The PwC Securities Litigation Study tracks US federal securities class actions filed since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) in 1995.
The PwC Securities Litigation Study tracks US federal securities class actions filed since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) in 1995.
In the 16 years that we've conducted this study, we've seen that litigation, like many aspects of life, comes full circle. As one crisis or event passes, another emerges, fueling a new pipeline of securities litigation and enforcement cases. The accounting scandals of the early 2000s were supplanted by the stock option debacle, which in turn gave way to the financial crisis.
In 2011, we witnessed a further slowdown in financial crisis-related cases and the emergence of new and evolving trends, such as those involving mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The growth of M&A-related cases, reported in our 2010 study, continued in 2011, with one-quarter of all securities litigation filings in 2011 citing allegations of a breach of fiduciary duty in connection with an M&A transaction. This year's study explores explanations for this 'new' focus of litigation, a trend we see increasing in years ahead.
Plaintiff attorneys appear undeterred in bringing cases against foreign issuers despite the Morrison ruling in 2010, with 61 cases in 2011, doubling 2010's filings. The increase was sparked by the emergence of another focal point: China-based companies, especially those entering US markets via reverse merger transactions. The focus on accounting and governance-related issues at China-based companies, which surfaced in 2010, built momentum in 2011 among plaintiff attorneys (who brought an additional 37 cases); the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); and the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).