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Stumbled upon this and realized how very little my practicing habits have changed in 4 decades. That's a picture of me practicing in the basement when I was a teenager, watching Star Trek TOS on VHS (on a little black and white tv). Unplugged. I still do most of my practicing in front of the screen, most of the time unplugged. And I have since logged in some serious practice time in front of every Star Trek series (and many other shows, films, and documentaries). I've used my DAW to practice on occasion, usually when I had material to learn, sometimes to A/B studio and live versions, or even to slow down certain passages or loop things I wanted to focus on. At some point I was involved in an Iron Maiden tribute - pretty cool because the way Live After Death is mixed, I could focus on my (Adrian Smith's) parts by playing his side only and then turn off his side and jam with the recording - since I was using my old POD HD, it all came through the studio monitors - pretty convenient way to learn and practice. I did the same for a Judas Priest tribute in which I played bass. A lot more convenient to have a bunch of songs loaded in a project than to mess with media players. Just unmute what you need and play along. I also used to keep a couple of blues arrangements to jam to - that was a while ago though.

Cats (the Musical) - Old Deuteronomy (I just had to wrap this series up)

RWAKE - Leviticus

The Police - Murder by Numbers (Genesis > Exodus > Numbers)

Genesis - Keep it Dark

Exodus - Piranha

Right. No THC in it if I am not mistaken, correct?

Oh babe, I wanna put my log in your fireplace... Who else... Awful but certainly memorable.

I don't indulge but I am for anything that will spare me the smell when people around me do indulge. (I am not judging at all, by the way. It's just not for me.) When I was a teenager, we used to smoke hasch. Lots of it. It's actually all we could find. And I seem to remember it smelled very sweet. The smell of weed was kind of a shock when I finally got to smoke some for the first time a few years later.

Judas Priest - Tyrant (couldn't decide whether to go with the studio version or the live one).

Celtic Frost: Circle of the Tyrants

It only believes In a pile of dead leaves And a moon That's the color of bone November, Tom Waits. I'd quote the entire song, actually. Also: No one speaks English and everything’s broken Tom Traubert's Blues, Tom Waits.

My girl is American Japanese with some Chinese on her mother side. And THAT is my type. I've always had a thing for Asian girls, though. But Japan was my first love.

Motörhead - Stay Clean

Tygers of Pan Tang - Love Don't Stay

I've been immersing myself in Japaneses culture and history these last few years - I've even started learning the language. Musically, there is so much going on over there... My favorite metal album (actually an EP) of the last decade is by a band known abroad as Unlucky Morpheus. Fantastic musicianship and terrific (not to mention drop dead gorgeous) singer.

This brought back tons of memories! Might need to dig out the old PC and play with PA9 and Sonar 8 just for fun...

Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger

David Bowie: Look Back in Anger

The Tea Party - A Certain Slaint of Light

Never had a chance to visit Toronto, unfortunately. As a Leafs fan, I would very much like to, but I guess what I would actually like to see would be the old Maple Leafs Garden and the city the way it used to be. The vision I get through tv shows filmed in Toronto leaves me with an impression that matches your description of it. I guess a lot of places went though a similar process in recent decades. When I arrived in Quebec City in 2001, there were always punks and goths hanging at Square D'Youville, and there were all those cool bars down on St-Jean. Within a few years, it lost all its grit and slowly became a very sterile place. By the time I left in 2010, it had been completely gentrified, with the occasional goth night organized by old timers in location with no real vibe at all. From what I heard, one of them actually takes place in a tiny restaurant, too... Weird. So I completely get what you mean.

Infant Sorrow - Furry Walls

The Cure - Play for Today

The Cure - Play

The Misfits - Green Hell