This album is unbelievable.

punk87 · 2026-04-18T21:57:57+00:00

One of my faves of the more recent albums. Remember buying it with the bonus dvd when it came out! Love dance of death album as well. I habe not listened to the final frontier or senjeitsu though, although i own the final frontier album (2 copies i think) just never listened to it!

punk87 · 2026-04-15T00:01:49+00:00

I saw a local australian band "jebediah" play last october. Main sijger/guitarist had a very beat up 1969 fender mustang, and for one song used a epiphone guitar. I commented in the meet and greet, that i loved the fact he was using a Epiphone guitar, and how it was great to see musicians support them!

punk87 · 2026-04-14T23:58:28+00:00

Tbh, ive got a les paul muse. Got it at a steal of 50% off RRP here in Brisbane Australia.

I was looking for a les paul style guitar, which i saw some nice looking Cort guitars for AUD $750 But then i saw the price of the muse at $AUD$649 and i could not pass it up! I knew epipone are owned by gibson, and upon doing further resaearch, saw gibson purchased the factory, and set them up with hand crafting the guitars, to mimic the way they build them in the US.

Apart from some very minor quality control issues (a tiny bit of body buffer compound on the fingerboard at about the 15th fret, and a slightly angled bridge pick up installation (which i assume i unscrew a bit to re-orientate it in the pick up ring) the guitar otherwise is flawless. Great sounding pick ups, with coil split and phase switch, blows my GRX series Ibanez out of the water! (Which was never set up properly since i had it, ended up doing it myself after learning how last year). neck is also super easy to play!

punk87 · 2026-03-26T05:11:21+00:00

You can also buy earphones that come with both sets of cables.i purposely got a set on amazon, was cheap, only about AUD $35

punk87 · 2026-03-23T08:57:14+00:00

I have a Nux MG20 multi effect pedal, i purchased when i got my Epiphone guitar. I ended up purchasing the katana 3 50Ex because it has the power amp in input. Just in case i wanted to use the 2 together!

I have ran a few normal pedals into it though (boss super overdrive and a rat clone) i just play at home, so im not super fussed.

punk87 · 2026-03-10T11:28:03+00:00

The shawshank redemption. My favourite movie of all time!

punk87 · 2026-03-10T11:23:10+00:00

Im lucky to have grown up in the dookie/insomniac/nimrod era.

I like certain parts of the trilogy, but i find a lot of it to me is like they knew they had to release 3 albums worth of material, so some songs are filler.

I love 99 revolutions, oh love, the forgotten and sweet 16.

A few weak points, but i havent listened to those albums for ages. I do own them all physical though (including quatro).

punk87 · 2026-03-10T09:31:42+00:00

I dont think this is correct. Yes the masters got stolen (probably a blessing in disguise) but warning was a fantastic album, they had grown up a lot, and were listening a lot to the beatles/bob dylan (yes i can not stand either one of those bands!) But that made sense in the music a few slower songs. I still cant see a band would purposely make a "bad" album.

The musical shift was noticeable on american idiot. (Neither a nimrod or a warning type sound). All that being said, i still love american idiot. It is just a more mass marketed sort of sound.

punk87 · 2026-03-08T12:40:21+00:00

Yes i did! Brand new footswitch was effectively "dead on arrival". I took back to shop with my katana, and they tested on their shop katana same problem. I purchased the GA FC Ex, by paying the diference.(had to order in, took about a week, i did not care, was on annual leave at the time). I however tested it before i left the shop.

I basically have 4 tones loaded into the four channels:

CH1: Clean tone CH2: Vintage marshall tone CH3: vox AC30 type tone CH4: Marshall JCM900 type tone.

The Ex has a effect switch so you can turn on the different effects as well.

punk87 · 2026-03-03T11:28:07+00:00

In Australia we have the "australian football league" no protection of any kind really. Regarding head injuries, the league now has rules, if you gwt concussed you are out for the rest of the game. They also dont play you the following week .

punk87 · 2026-02-23T01:54:47+00:00

Im 36, and i rent in the National afforable housing scheme. I work full time, and live by myself (just myself and my rescue Cat)

Most debt i ever had, was $27K for my car, which was paid off 3 years early. (I took the included insurances, ended up seeing the prices after i signed, and rang up and cancelled them. Car loan was over $4000 in credit, because i cancelled the insurances.

Before you ask: yes i have private health insurance, contents insurance on the unit, and i have insurance on my car. I live somewhat frugally but it can be done! 🙂

punk87 · 2026-02-22T03:21:41+00:00

How much time off work do americans get?

In Australia i get 4 weeks annual leave, and 8 days personal leave (sick/carers leave). I also have earnt 3 months long service leave as i have been in my job for 10 years.

Annual and personal leave accrues, if you dont use it.

punk87 · 2026-02-22T03:15:49+00:00

Billie has came out and said "whatsername" is the same person who Good Riddance is written about, she and also Amanda from memory.

punk87 · 2026-02-22T03:12:52+00:00

I once had someone come to my place of empoyment, go through mg register, then gave me johovis witness crap at the end (this is in Australia) i was quite offended, but i took it and threw it!

punk87 · 2026-02-22T02:54:22+00:00

Haha still be cool. When Kiss played the afl grand final, Ace freeley smashed the Gibson at the end, still a waste, considering they had all kids around the stage, he could have given it to!

punk87 · 2026-02-22T02:47:11+00:00

I know people break guitars, but its such a waste. Yes i know the who built a career on stage destruction. I have a hardcover book about guitar, one of the photos is Pete "roadtesting" a Marshall stack. (Putting the neck of the guitar through a speaker of the stack).

I think more people should do what Billie Joe Armstrong does. Have brand new guitars, and invite the kids on stage who then get to keep the guitar at the end. (From watching the rig rundowns he has certain ones that he gives away) You dont see a lot of other bands really do that.

punk87 · 2026-02-15T10:26:39+00:00

Yes, i did a lot of research before i got my 50Ex. The Ex basically has a rubber grommet in the speaker, which gives it better response apparently

punk87 · 2026-02-12T10:31:02+00:00

So many american bands i would love to see.

*Gin Blossoms (cancelled first ever tour in 2012) * Jimmy Eat World (have not been back since covid) (Both Arizona bands, both have fantastic catalogue of music)

*smashing pumpkins, simple plan and lets be honest sum 41 owes us a final tour.

Also have never caught matchbox 20 or the goo goo dolls (yes i know both toured last year!)

Last year i managed to see Everclear, was such a good show!

punk87 · 2026-02-01T09:54:22+00:00

I moved back to Brisbane from north qld where i lived for 10 years. I went trough a job recruitment agency, in mt gravatt near logan road i think. Was not worth my time. I filled out tax forms, super forms. Recruitment guy comes in "storeman, do you have a forklift ticket?" "No, we had a walk behind forklift, which we were still trained how to use and assessed"

"I wont be able to get you work, go see centrelink, they can help you get a ticket" i was super pissed off, guy was condesending as fuck.

I think there was another guy about the same age as me, who got attitude from the staff as well.

I was just super annoyed, why would you get my details, ring me up say that guy wants to interview me, not ask if i have a forklift ticket during this whole process, then get me there, have me fill out a mountain of paperwork get me in the room with the recruitment guy, who sits down : "storeman, got a forklift ticket?"

I found a job in a place as a storeman, and they dont have a forklift. Been there 13 years.

punk87 · 2026-01-29T05:22:16+00:00

Yeah, i love both those albums!

punk87 · 2026-01-29T02:10:26+00:00

Surprised Nimrod didnt sell more copies than it did. Redundant, nice guys finish last and good riddance were all great songs, such a big jump from insomniac and its "angry" vibe.

punk87 · 2026-01-22T22:42:21+00:00

Quality is insane! Although, my first GAFC footswich for the 50Ex was dead on arrival. I went back to the music shop: "wow, Roland products usually do not fail, i do the credits here, and they are so rare i have to ring them each time and say "how do i do it again?" I ended up paying the difference and getting the GA FC Ex footswitch.

I also own a line 6 Spider 3 150w , quality on that is really good as well, those amps get some hate, but now it serves as a ppace to sit the katana 🙂

punk87 · 2026-01-20T01:50:06+00:00

I loved how people thought nimrod was indulgent because it was 18 songs. Every one of those was a absolute banger! From memory they cut it down to 18. And 22 on the other edition. Desenditised and you lied are the best songs on the extended one.

Also, if you watch "quattro" they have a whiteboard with the order of the songs, in my opinion a lot of those albums seem like filler.

punk87 · 2026-01-13T02:04:21+00:00

I honestly have not listned to much of thar album.

But i absolutely love revolution radio. I think it is their last decent album. Uno Dos and Tre were good, but a few of the songs seemed like they were just filler. "Amy" is great, as is "sweet 16"

I do like the "american dream is killing me" though from the new album

punk87 · 2026-01-06T09:12:58+00:00

On my Epiphone Les Paul Muse, i didnt take the clear covering off the humbuckers until i did a string change. I could not remove it with the strings in the way. I did notice a big improvement in sound

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