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Real Name: Brad
Gaia Name: Masterofhorror81
Age: 21
Location: Florida
Gear: A LOOOOONG LIST!

Guitars:
Jackson WR1 USA Warrior
Jackson DKMG Dinky /flamed fretboard! XD
Ibanez S320 S Series
Ibanez IJX40 Jumpstart Package, lol everybody's gotta start somewhere
Epiphone Les Paul Special II
Ibanez AEF37E Cutaway AE

Amps:
Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier Full Stack
Marshall MG100HDX/MG412 Half Stack
Crate GLX 2X12 Combo
Ibanez GTA15

Preamps/Modeling/Recording:
Engl MIDI Tube Pre
Furman M-8 Power Conditioner
Behringer V-AMP PRO Modeling

Processors/Pedals:
Line 6 POD X3 LIVE
Toneworks AX3000G
Zoom6
Ibanez Smashbox
DigiTech Grunge Distortion
DigiTech XMM Metal Master
Dunlop GCB-80 Volume
Dunlop DB-01 Dimebag Crybaby From Hell
Boss DD-6 Digital Delay

Cases:
Gator GR Delux Rack Cases (2)
Coffin Standard
Ibanez Hardshell
Epiphone Hardshell
Jackson Hardshell

That's about it, I use PRS picks .88 and GHS Boomers/Ernie Ball Power Slinky strings, Levi Straps.
Favorite Music: Metal, but I love everything
Favorite Guitarists: Yngwie, MAB, Becker, Vai, Satch, Cooley, Petrucci, Buckethead, Loomis, etc..
What you like to play: Metal, but I can adapt any style
Songs you can play: If I listed them all, this would take up more of your time, so let's just leave it to way too many!
Been to any concerts: I've been going to concerts since I was a baby so I'll just name the best concerts I've been to: Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, Cannibal Corpse, White Zombie, Devildriver, Fear Factory, Joe Satriani, MAB clinic, Dragonforce, Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica, Divine Heresy, 3 Inches of Blood, Pantera, Down, Ministry, Dream Theater, etc....
When you started icon_wink.gif : 8 1/2 years ago
Bio: I was drawn to music naturally, my parents put me on it when I was young, took me to concerts and that started it. I started off on piano like alot kids, I practiced it for 4 years and decided it wasn't for me. My initial intention was to go to guitar right away but my friends had a band going and they needed bass so I took bass and played it for 2 years, then our drummer quit so I took that part on for about a year. I was back and forth through it all before taking on the guitar. That's when I found my true passion. 8 1/2 years later I'm still addicted and my bands have really done well. I still practice those scales and I refresh my memory every once and awhile and I'll practice my chords and sweeps and just keep practicing my theory.

Real Name: Laurie-Ann
Gaia Name: La Belle Isolde
Age: 20
Location: Alberta, Canada (Near where Nickelback comes from *shudder* and no that is not something I'm proud of)
Gear (your guitar, amps ect.): Yamaha acoustic
Favorite Music: ...I can't possibly list it all here. I'll just say I like the new Nightwish album and tons of random stuff in between. The Dresden Dolls and Soilwork are awesome, and Ruby Vileos is my current fetish.
Favorite Guitarists: Pete Yorn, Alexi Laiho, Peter Wichers
What you like to play: Rosie Thomas and Pete Yorn (when I can play a complete song I'll probably die a happy woman)
Songs you can play: God Damn the Sun by The Swans, The Park by Feist, Same Mistake by James Blunt, The Scientist by Coldplay - that's everything I can play somewhat complete right now.
Been to Any Concerts: Never... Sonata Arctica and HIM came close to my city but I was too broke emo
When You Started: Very end of December 2007
Bio: I've wanted to play an instrument since I was really young, I was constantly drawn to keyboards where I would pluck out simple tunes by ear (I can play the Classic romeo and Juliet theme by ear, though not the fancy two-hand version)

Real Name: Giandomenico

Gaia Name: giando

Age: 22

Location: Italy

Gear (your guitar, amps ect.): Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plus, Marshall Valvestate AVT2000 100W, Boss compressor/sustainer CS-3, Boss super chorus CH-1

Favorite Music: Oh well, I like music! XD But if I have to tell THE music I like, well, it's BLUES! Electric blues and his most "deep" guitarists^^

Favorite Guitarists: Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour

What you like to play: well, everything that's bluesy but some other tunes too, like Pink Floyd's, AcDc's, Led Zeppelin and so on (I like very much '70s music...)

Songs you can play: So many! XD Staorway to Heaven, Communication breakdown, Thank You and other Zeppelin tunes; Back in Black, Higway to Hell, It's a Long Way to the Top and other AcDc's; Lenny, Pride and Joy, Wham!, Couldn't Stan the Weather and some other SRV's; Confortably Numb, Wish You Were here, Shine on you Crazy Diamond, Breathe, Time, Money and other Pink Floyd's; Bold as Love, The Wind Cries Mary, Red House, Fire and some other Jimi's... Ah, I have some of MY tunes too! XD

Been to Any Concerts: Frank Gambale, Billy Cobham, Michael Bublè, Natalie Cole... and I had my own concert with my band!

When You Started: Since 2003

Bio: Hi, I'm an italian medical school student...everything is quite ok, and I have a gip that I love sooo much!^__^

Real Name: Richard

Gaia Name: Linx1990

Age:17

Location: England

Gear B.C. Rich Warlock (Bronze Series)
Marshall MG-100DFX
Zoom G1 Effects Pedal

Favorite Music: Heavy Metal, Thrash, Industrial

Favorite Guitarists: Micheal Angelo Batio, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammet

What you like to play: Whatever floats my boat really

Songs you can play:
Metallica:
-Whiskey in the Jar
-Enter Sandman
-One
-Wherever I may roam
-The Unforgiven
-Nothing else matters
-..and justice for all
-Fade to Black
LostProphets:
-We are godzilla, You are japan
Creed
-One last Breath
Muse
-Plug-in Baby
List is getting a bit long so I'll stop there.

Been to Any Concerts: No, not yet.

When You Started: 2004-ish

Bio: I hate Bios so I'm not going to fill it out

Real Name: Amanda 'Manda the Panda' Berry
Gaia Name: San Venganza
Age: 16
Location: North East England

Gear (your guitar, amps ect.): Tony Iommi Signature Gibson SG
Fender Squire Strat
Boss Distortion Pedal
and a really bad practice amp that electrocutes me ><

Favorite Music:
Rock and Metal in general

Favorite Guitarists:
Synyster Gates
Slash
only two i can think of right now :gonk;
etc

What you like to play:
anything rock and metal

Songs you can play:
A ton of Avenged Sevenfold
Metallica: Fade To Black, One, Enter Sandman
some good charlotte
a whole horde of other songs

Been to Any Concerts:
Linkin Park
Avenged Sevenfold
Blitzkreig (next month)

When You Started: 3 and a half years ago

Bio: i'm a general, loveable person who everyone thinks is shy cause i dont talk much if i dont know you/dont want to talk, i'm slightly paranoid cause of a bad relationship with my dad (parents divorced when i was little and i had to live with my dad until a year ago), i got my SG for my birthday from all of my friends, who wanted to get me a new guitar blaugh

Real Name: Cameron Means
Gaia Name: l_Shamrock_l
Age: 18
Location: Fresno, California(Soon to be wherever the Navy takes me! Hoo-ya!)
Gear (your guitar, amps ect.): Ibanez RG Series Electric Guitar, Roland Micro Cube Amp(All I have!), Takamine G Series Electric Acoustic, Epiphone Les Paul model Bass
Favorite Music: Rock, Power Metal, Melodic Metal, some alternative
Favorite Guitarists: Joe Satriani!!!!! Eric Johnson, Alexi Laiho, Alexander Kuoppala, Steve Vai, Herman Li, Sam Tottman, John 5, Synyster Gates
What you like to play: Anything that catches my attention. No style in patricular at the moment, though I'm trying my best to learn Satriani's style. I guess if you want to catagorize me at the moment Metal would be the closest.
Songs you can play: Crowd Chant(Joe Satriani) Cliffs of Dover(Eric Johnson) Hate Me, Kissing the Shadows(Children of Bodom) Sugarfoot Rag, Damaged(John 5) Days of the Phoenix(AFI), and quite a few more I learned a portion of. I have a problem sticking to a song long enough to learn the whole thing. If it's a guitar battle or something of the sort I'll usually learn both parts, however if it's a guitar vs. other instrument(Such as in Children of Bodom's Kissing the shadows) I'll sometimes just stop learning the song when it gets to that part
Been to Any Concerts: Nope
When You Started : 2 years ago in March
Bio:
I'm Cameron Means. I started playing 2 years ago in March when my older brother gave me his old guitar as a birthday present(March 17th). He doesn't play any guitar anymore, but my first guitar was a cheap Silvertone electric guitar that looked like a Les Paul but was very, very far from the qualities of a typical les paul...it sucked, that's all there is to it. At first I had no clue how to play a guitar, but we all start there, right? I first started fingering the frets a bit, and my brother showed me some exersizes on how to build up finger strength and accuracy. I got used to it, and I went on to learn my first song(Not all the way through) called God Called in Sick Today, by AFI. I learned a portion of that song then moved on to another song, that I learned every part except the barre chords for, as I wasn't advanced that far yet, another AFI song called Days of the Phoenix.
In the first 6 months of my playing I would learn a few video game songs, such as the theme for Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy9, Star Ocean2, the boss theme for Final Fantasy7, and the heavy-metal song played in Final Fantasy10(Forgot what it was called) I did really well in playing those songs and progressed steadily. However at this point I had known absalutally nothing about scales or chords...
When my junior year of highschool came up I had signed up for a guitar class, where my teacher, Mr. Maldanado(Not that his name's important at all) tought me(And the class) how to play! He first tought us some pentatonic scales and chords; barre chords, etc.. At the end of the year I learned a whole lot and was much better at this point than I ever thought was possible in such a short time.
Now, playing for only 2 years I'm doing sweeps, chords, scales, etc. To put this into perspective in the simplest terms: People are startled when I tell them I've only played for 2 years. They tell me I play as if I had 3 or 4 years experience under my belt. Of course that's due solely to the help I've received from many friends who have tought me much and helped me learn.
I'm always looking for ways to improve and will take all the help I can get, as well as try to pass on as much of what I know to you all as well. Thanks a lot and I'll definitally enjoy my stay here.

Edit: Oh yeah, I can also play some Dethklok songs, such as the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle, Detheme, Go Into the Water and part of Awaken Mustakrakish

Real Name: Tory
Gaia Name: IGotTheMusicInMe425
Age: 19
Location: California
Gear: 3/4 Fender Squier bass guitar with a Badtz-Maru pick guard
Favorite Music: Mostly alternative and pop-rock, but anything with a good energy and beat.
Favorite Guitarists: Flea, Johnny Christ, Synyster Gates, Alex Davies, Ed Minton, Ed Hetherton, Ray Toro, David Desrosiers, Jeff Stinco, Sebastien Lefebvre, Pierre Bouvier, Dave Baksh, Stephen Lynch
What You Like To Play: See 'favorite music'
Songs You Can Play:
1. All The Small Things by Blink 182
2.Breakthrough by Hope 7
3.Crazy by Simple Plan
4.Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) by Lostprophets
5.Runaway by Avril Lavigne
6.Teenagers by My Chemical Romance
7.Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan
8.That Girl by McFly
9.Perfect World by Simple Plan
10.The River by Good Charlotte
11.The Rock Show by Blink 182
12.Weekend Warriors by A Change Of Pace
13.Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
14.When I'm Gone by Simple Plan
15.Dear Maria, Count Me In by All Time Low
16.Keep Your Hands Off My Girl by Good Charlotte
(Currently working on Nine In The Afternoon by Panic at the Disco.)
Been to any concerts: My first show was in Florida when I was sixteen, I went to see Simple Plan. I still maintain that was the best night of my life. I think my next show after that was Next Big Thing 6, where I saw The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Kill Hannah, Angels and Airwaves, Three Days Grace and My Chemical Romance. Then I saw Papa Roach with a friend of my mom's, then I went to a show with Kill Hannah and The Pink Spiders. I then saw Less Than Jake with my sister (her first concert), and later I saw My Chemical Romance for Grad Bash. I went to see Paramore for my eighteenth birthday, and as a going-away present from my friend Liz, she took me with her to the Honda Civic Tour last year, with Cobra Starship, The Academy Is..., +44 and Fall Out Boy. I moved out to California, and after winning a pair of tickets, I went with my friend Adam to see Simple Plan perform on Jimmy Kimmel in LA. My most recent show was Taste Of Chaos last month, where I saw Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold.
When You Started: Mid-October 2007....guess that would make it about seven months now.
Bio: I'm a born and bred military brat. I was born in Japan and lived there until I was six, then we moved to Germany. When I was ten, we moved to Maryland, and then to Florida when I was fourteen. I had expressed some artistic tendency when I was twelve, but it was during my high school years in Florida that I started to explore music. I'd heard Addicted by Simple Plan on the radio and I was instantly in love. My interest in the band, and others like them, grew quickly. I bought Simple Plan's DVD, and while watching them have the time of their lives and doing what they loved, I decided that's what I wanted. I informed my parents that I wanted to take music lessons, and I started off on drums. It was fun to hit things for awhile, but something just wasn't clicking. I started guitar lessons as well, but the same thing. Then, shortly before my high school graduation (and my family's impending move to California) I asked my guitar teacher Marty if I could try playing a bass guitar for a couple lessons. Once I'd balanced the bulky instrument on my lap, I began to play and everything came to me so much easier than it ever had. I now live in California, where I hope to form my own band. I already have a guitarist, my boyfriend Adam smile

^^^^^^^^My bass(except mine's black)^^^^^^^^^^^
Real Name:Alex
Gaia Name biggrin evil Kenpachi
Age:16
Location:England
Gear (your guitar, amps ect.) biggrin ean edge bass, Line 6 75watt portable amp, boss overdrive pedal
Favourite Music:Metal and funk
Favourite Guitarists:Tom Morello, Justin Chancellor, Flea
What you like to play:Metal with funky basslines like tool and rage against the machine
Songs you can play:
hysteria-muse
longview-green day
The Pot-Tool
Schism-Tool
Killing in the name-Rage against the machine
loads more but those are my faves, i also play original songs played by my band Pandemic!
Been to Any Concerts:i went to see Chimaira not long ago
When You Started:About 2 years ago now
Bio: not much to tell. i got into bass a couple of years ago, started off easy playing white stripes and nirvana and gradually progressed into red hot chilli peppers, tool and rage against the machine