The Wildhearts
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BOMBER123

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193 posts

164 months

Saturday 23rd March 2013
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rockers & rollers , if you have never heard them , 100 % recomend you check these guys out , ginger wildheart one of the most talented songwriters & performers out there ,solo stuff well worth a listen too

you be daft not to check them out on the 20th aniversery tour of earth versus the wildhearts classic album !

Mastodon2

14,322 posts

194 months

Saturday 23rd March 2013
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Devin Townsend was a short time member. High point of their career tbh.

gazza285

11,109 posts

237 months

Saturday 23rd March 2013
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Devin Townsend was the biggest pain in the arse I ever worked for, the only tour I walked off.

Mastodon2

14,322 posts

194 months

Sunday 24th March 2013
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gazza285 said:
Devin Townsend was the biggest pain in the arse I ever worked for, the only tour I walked off.
Perhaps you would care to elaborate?

Japveesix

4,576 posts

197 months

Sunday 24th March 2013
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By some stretch my favourite band. Seen them a few times in various guises, and met them a couple of times, and they've always been friendly gentlemen and an excellent live band.

Saw ginger and friends in Exeter as a little intimate gig and it was brilliant, they just showed how much fun you can have onstage whilst still sounding good and not taking yourselves too seriously. A little bit in love with Victoria Liedtke at the moment as well.

Ginger isn't always consitent with his songwriting but when he's good his songs are some of the best rock songs, and greatest riffs, ever written.

And mastodon posting crap on the forum again, no real surprise there...

BOMBER123

Original Poster:

193 posts

164 months

Sunday 24th March 2013
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well said boss met ginger a couple of times & must of notched up seeing him/them 50 plus times , some people dont know what they are missing hey

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

166 months

Sunday 24th March 2013
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I've always loved I Wanna Go Where The People Go, so I bought the Best of The Wildhearts recently and wasn't too impressed sadly.

metalsteve

367 posts

270 months

Sunday 24th March 2013
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Been a fan since i heard Turning American on Reading's Radio 210 rock show with Brian Pithers all those years ago. Top band. Seen them many times over the years and was lucky enough to be at the earth vs 15th anniversary show at shepherds bush.

Mastodon2

14,322 posts

194 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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Japveesix said:
And mastodon posting crap on the forum again, no real surprise there...
Would be interested to know how what I've posted is "crap". As a person, I've never heard a bad word said about Devin, apart from one report in this thread. Everything else I've read from people who have met and worked with him said he was an awesome and laid back guy.

And quite how he came to be in, and out of The Wildhearts I'm not sure, but you have only to listen to the likes of Infinity, Terria, Synchestra etc to see that he is an immensely talented and diverse composer and musician. If ever there was an addition to a band that could take their music to the next level in this sphere it would be Devin, but perhaps he was in an out too quickly to ever teach the rest of the band a few of his secrets.

Anyway, next time to you want to accuse someone of talking "crap" please try to back it up with at least some sort of flimsy justification, to do otherwise is just a bit of a dick move tbh.

NuisanceFactor

295 posts

213 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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BOMBER123 said:
you be daft not to check them out on the 20th aniversery tour of earth versus the wildhearts classic album !
Yup, got my tickets for Manchester Apollo in a couple of weeks and the Birthday Bash in December.

scoobyfreak10

164 posts

162 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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Also checkout ginger`s pledgemusic campaign http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/gingerwildhear...

and also the unnofficial facebook page (of which i`m admin ) Plug !!!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/350448578333546/

NuisanceFactor

295 posts

213 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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Good work! That page is the reason I joined facebook.

scoobyfreak10

164 posts

162 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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NuisanceFactor said:
Good work! That page is the reason I joined facebook.
That`s good to hear , i kinda am a silent admin hahaha , there are 6 of us admin ( i actually run tylafest and all things dogs d`amour ) that`s my main group but i do post on the all things wildhearts too ........... are ya looking forward to the eart Vs shows then

NuisanceFactor

295 posts

213 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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scoobyfreak10 said:
are ya looking forward to the eart Vs shows then
Oh yes! Will be taking my 17yo to only his second gig! First one was at the HMV Forum on 17th Dec last year - we had a hoot!

scoobyfreak10

164 posts

162 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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NuisanceFactor said:
Oh yes! Will be taking my 17yo to only his second gig! First one was at the HMV Forum on 17th Dec last year - we had a hoot!
I took my then 15yo to see slash in edinburgh and ginger was the support , we met the guys after their support slot bunch o legends

motorizer

1,540 posts

200 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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I drop in on that facebook page from time to time as well
Will be at the manchester gig

BOMBER123

Original Poster:

193 posts

164 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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yes the earth v wildhearts shows should be a treat , i hope they throw in some of there killer b sides from that era in the 2nd half of the show too

Japveesix

4,576 posts

197 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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Mastodon2 said:
Japveesix said:
And mastodon posting crap on the forum again, no real surprise there...
Would be interested to know how what I've posted is "crap". As a person, I've never heard a bad word said about Devin, apart from one report in this thread. Everything else I've read from people who have met and worked with him said he was an awesome and laid back guy.

And quite how he came to be in, and out of The Wildhearts I'm not sure, but you have only to listen to the likes of Infinity, Terria, Synchestra etc to see that he is an immensely talented and diverse composer and musician. If ever there was an addition to a band that could take their music to the next level in this sphere it would be Devin, but perhaps he was in an out too quickly to ever teach the rest of the band a few of his secrets.
No idea why you felt the need to post all of that. I know full well who devin is, likewise have never heard anything bad about him and said nothing bad about him myself. So why you felt a mini lecture defending him was necessary I don't know. As it happens he was never really in the band at all, merely helping out a friend when he needed it.

Mastodon2 said:
Anyway, next time to you want to accuse someone of talking "crap" please try to back it up with at least some sort of flimsy justification, to do otherwise is just a bit of a dick move tbh.
So coming into a thread clearly started by a big wildhearts fan and designed for other fans to discuss their music (that many love and rate very highly indeed) purely to post that Devin Townsend joining the band for half a tour was the highlight of their 20 year career wasn't a "dick move"?

Muppet, go back to posting about your lightspeed fast cupra, or you noisy type-r chav exhaust in every general gassing thread smile

Mastodon2

14,322 posts

194 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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Japveesix said:
So coming into a thread clearly started by a big wildhearts fan and designed for other fans to discuss their music (that many love and rate very highly indeed) purely to post that Devin Townsend joining the band for half a tour was the highlight of their 20 year career wasn't a "dick move"?

Muppet, go back to posting about your lightspeed fast cupra, or you noisy type-r chav exhaust in every general gassing thread smile
No need to come off like a butthurt fangirl and start slinging personal insults, we are just discussing music here, but it seems you can't even keep that civil. Do you lose your grip on the handles so easily in real life, or just on the internet?

I do enjoy a bit of The Wildhearts, as it happens, and to have seen them with Dev onstage would have been a bit of an event tbh. Let's not pretend for a second that Devin isn't a huge talent musically, you would be a bit blinkered to suggest that he could have had a massive impact on their music, his creativity is seemingly limitless and I'm sure him and Ginger teaming up to write could have spawned some brilliant songs. Perhaps it did surface to a degree on Endless Nameless, which featured a few musical idiosyncrasies that Townsend was fond of.

I don't care if you think they had other career highlights, because my post was about my opinion (that is why I posted it) and to me, seeing a band I like briefly joined by a musician of Devin's stature is great. In much the same way that I think one of Slayer's career highlights was having Pat O'Brien in their live band, I'm sure many would disagree, but for me seeing musicians collaborate, or even just cross genres and bands to play live together is a pretty special thing.

If you disagree, that's fair enough, but trying to make it personal just because you don't share my opinion seems a little off-colour. I suppose the great irony is that we both appear to be Wildhearts fans yet you just seem intent on attacking me. rolleyes

Japveesix

4,576 posts

197 months

Monday 25th March 2013
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Mastodon2 said:
No need to come off like a butthurt fangirl and start slinging personal insults,


If anything you sound like a "butthurt fangirl" of Devins hence the pointless lengthy posts on him in a topic about a totally different artist.

Your first post in this thread was clearly a dig at the wildhearts and not a positive post from a fan, your backtracking since isn't convincing in the lsightest.

Here's the main song he co-wrote with ginger which i've always loved, sounds quite Wildheartsy to me, though I guess his influence is obvious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcfDxq8Zw5A

Apologies for the personal insult but your constant posts about how amazingly quick your cupra is (or was as the case is now) have always grated on me, much like 300bhp posting about old fox bodies and mustangs in every thread, so it was cathartic to get it off my chest finally.

Apologies to everyone else for ruining the thread, back to the ginger chat smile