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YERMOMSMOM
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Hey I was wondering if u guys could give me a some prime locations to where I could busk playing drums.

Thanks
Chris P. - Mon, 2 Aug 2004 1:05pm
Nik Olaz
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here's an idea:

get a job. - Mon, 2 Aug 2004 1:08pm
YERMOMSMOM
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nah, waste of time. At least for the summer. - Mon, 2 Aug 2004 1:46pm
Nik Olaz
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you know those things called resumes? i think they look alot better with places you have worked written on them as opposed to "busker". - Mon, 2 Aug 2004 8:35pm
Perpetual_Burn
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"So where is your last place of Employment?" Says a potential Employer. "Uhhh..the streets bitch." - Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:14pm
k8
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There's already a drummer who plays on the corner of Yates & Government I believe. - Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:37pm
The One After Two
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c'mon now guys, he will be self-employed in the Tourism industry. - Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:21pm
Gman
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Busking is an awesome way to practice, but not necessarily make money.

That said, busking drummers drive me nuts. Sorry. - Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:07am
YERMOMSMOM
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I only need to busk during the summer. During the year I teach drums at LPP. Near the end of the year I had 20 students at the end. So I already have a job, and making $25 an hour. I love teaching drums, but I wanna perform solo downtown, and I do wanna drum with that latin drummer k8, he's dope. - Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:47am
Robnoxious
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Why don't you jam with the Bagpiper ?
Or 15 feet away from Dave Harris or any other causeway busker. - Tue, 3 Aug 2004 1:56am
Mike
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What is LPP? - Tue, 3 Aug 2004 7:20am
YERMOMSMOM
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Lebeau-Petersen Productions - Tue, 3 Aug 2004 1:01pm
PrincessP
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If your in to waiting for a spot the inner harbour is great. My friend and I made lots o cash there a couple of years ago. - Tue, 3 Aug 2004 2:50pm
Zippgunn
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Neither drummers nor bagpipers should EVER be allowed to busk ANYWHERE except in front of the legislature. - Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:51pm
Gman
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More like guitar players should never be allowed to busk ANYWHERE...

EVAR!!! - Wed, 4 Aug 2004 6:34pm
mavis
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More like....NO musicians should ever be allowed to perform anywhere...like in the universe, anytime....like for eternity. - Wed, 4 Aug 2004 9:45pm
Trican
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Crispy... you more than fucking suck... sell your drums! Nobody wants to hear your shitty off time double-kick Nu-Metal shit downtown... especially tourists!! And the sad thing is you actually do teach little kids how to play the drums when your not even that good. Do everyone a favor and stick to ska. - Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:21am
YERMOMSMOM
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The funny thing is Trican I don't suck at all. Talk to all my friends and fellow musicians I've played with, they all think im a great drummer with talent, from people from esq high in the jazz program, people at vic high, and even musicians from vancouver, scottish fish, hoochy girls, vasectomys child, jd and the captian, twiceborn. Im still working on my double kick stuff, the fast strait stuff isn't perfect but I've got some fast intricate rhythms down, it'll be way easier when I get my Pearl Eliminator. And dude just because I played in a nu metal band, dosen't mean thats all I play and listen to. Im gonna be playing all sorts of styles when im busking downtown. I can play jazz, swing, ballads, rock, metal, punk, calypso, samba's, mambo's, you name it. My parents hired me for a wedding gig this summer! And all of the Repertoire is nothing close to rock, maybe fast blues but that's it. 18 of my 20 students are coming back for lessons next season, and I have more on top of that who are signing up, all of my students think im a great teacher, and using Murray Creeds Groove Essentials and music makes it fun and easy to learn(even teach) drums. What you see at shows is not juat what I am, im not just a numetal drummer, im a musician. Im alot better than you think, and dont take it like I think "im all that" cuz I know im not all that, even though people on livevic slag me for joking around,being cocky here and there, and being apart of Twiceborn. Just cuz I can't play as well as Pete Sandoval, Danny Carrey, Raymond Harrera, Vinnie Paul, Mike Portnoy, "death metal dave" or any pro drummer dosen't mean I suck, i've got a long road ahead of me buddy. I'd like to check out one of yer shows and slag you, but im not that low, and it wouldn't get me anywhere. Oh ya and just to let u know Twiceborn broke up, so Im gonna be up to tons of practice since my drums are back home. I hope u see me downtown busking sometime, come and say hi and i'll show you what im made of :) By the way im sitting in with the Hoochy Girls this saturday at Fernwood, you should come check it out. If you ever want a drum lesson email me.

Chris P.

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Nik Olaz
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AND FURTHERMORE MAY I REITERATE THAT TWICEBORN HAS BROKEN UP. - Thu, 5 Aug 2004 5:41pm
YERMOMSMOM
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lol, to let everyone know Twiceborn is done. - Thu, 5 Aug 2004 7:42pm
Trican
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Yes I need lesson from you... OMG!!! I've beening playing drums for 7 years I don't need any tips or practice from you. Oh and it's realy great that all these people think your a great "talented" musician... and that your own "parents" are actually hired you to play a wicked, far out gig at a wedding. By all means congradulations. I don't even really go to shows. I've only seen you drum about 2-3 times... but what really bugs me about you is that your so god damn cocky it's sickening.

P.S. Wow !!! Omg !!!! Is that your drumkit ?!!
Man I would fuck Nik Olaz to get my hands on one of those! - Thu, 5 Aug 2004 8:31pm
Nik Olaz
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NU-METAL vs. POST-HARDCORE: the Final Battle - Thu, 5 Aug 2004 8:52pm
Trican
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Nik I fucking hate you ;)
Everyone knows my favourite band is LFO - Thu, 5 Aug 2004 8:57pm
YERMOMSMOM
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Its funny cuz all I was asking about was a prime place to busk and here ppl go off on how cocky im being... - Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:40pm
Trican
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Ya See whats funny is..... is that you're a fucking loser who should never of picked up a pair of drumsticks because you don't deserve to be graced with the privlage - Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:51pm
YERMOMSMOM
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Im sorry you feel that way Tristan. - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:43am
Nik Olaz
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AND NUMETAL BRINGS IT EASY WITH THE "NICE" ANGLE WHILE UGLY RED HAIRED WELSH BOY SCREAMS LIKE A GIRL. WHITE PEOPLE, THIS IS WHY YOU ARE DOOMED - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 6:37pm
YERMOMSMOM
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Check out how ugly nik is (very left) :P you look like a ghost, u go outside much? - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 9:28pm
Trican
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Man look how much of a poser Crispy is......you stupid mudvayne.. slipknot faggooooooot... - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 9:57pm
darcy
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wtf is this? a fashion show? t)hough based on those two pics i would have to side with trican. even though i have lost track of what this is about) - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 10:55pm
YERMOMSMOM
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Dude it was a halloween costume. Its too bad that you don't listen to Mudvayne or Slipknot, especially Mudvayne's drummer Matt Mcdonough, Matt could school any of yer drummers from yer favourite bands: At The Drive-in, The Mars Volta, Incubus, GlassJAw, and Sparta. BTW which one of these faggots are you mr. tarr? Hope you like my new pic :) - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 10:55pm
darcy
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isn't the drummer from at the drive in the same drummer for sparta, or is it the mars volta. in any case the volta owns sparta - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:15pm
YERMOMSMOM
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Definately dude, Jon Theodore is a wicked drummer. Tony Hajjar has got nothing on him. - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:22pm
Nik Olaz
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lookit moron, i was fairly picking on you and tristan. you know to play along. I go out alot, but not enough to be some fucking queen of the maggot hive like you and the rest of your self-praising jerk-off buddies.

i encourage your ass to come to the next organsplatter show, i mean we dont have pin ups of us posing for your masturbatory delight in hit parader, but i think you'll enjoy the thrill of a mic being swung in your face.

ps: you listen to corporate jock-rock. fuck off. - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:28pm
YERMOMSMOM
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Fairly picking huh? play along eh?

I qoute first reply of the thread.

"here's an idea:

get a job"

But anyways, ya I want to check out one of yer shows. Whens the next one? - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:39pm
Nik Olaz
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whenever man, keep a lookout. - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:42pm
YERMOMSMOM
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I sure will, u guys got any mp3's? - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:46pm
Nik Olaz
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yeah, we do. will you hear them? no.

btw the comment

"get a job"

is a productive one.

as i think we should maybe leave busking for those less fortunate, not someone with a nice set of drums of yours. - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:48pm
YERMOMSMOM
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hmm...

edit tag: yer it

I just wanna get out there and have some fun, all my friends say it dosen't pay well, near the wages of ppl who are working at McD's... But I wanna do it for the thrill. - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:49pm
Nik Olaz
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man i'm sure there are some groups you could join that play for charities and costume balls or whatever the community has going on.

http://www.jobbank.gc.ca this place has plenty of job opportunities for people who have the skills. - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:53pm
YERMOMSMOM
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ya if I want to get a job, but I already have one. - Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:59pm
Nik Olaz
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ok. - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:03am
trican
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Actually .... i'm the one on the very left but i don't look like that any more (it's from 3 years ago). I've actually gone through puberty... gained all these sweet looking muscles and I wear corpse paint and leather now... i love you nik;). And as for the mudvaye comment. Jon Theodore could fucking destroy Matt whutever the fuck his name is. He's a hired drummer you moron one of the best. Too bad the bands I listen too keep making orignal music while yours keep plunging their cock into little boys and play power chords and blast beats. - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:03am
YERMOMSMOM
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just not in the summer. - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:03am
ScottL
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hmmm ATDI's drummer killed himself... So i suppose he is in niether? Maybe both? Anyway i think the styles are way to far off to compare Matt Mcdonough to The Mars Volta or anything... - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:04am
Trican
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buuudy atdi's drummer didn't kill himself at all... your thinking of jeremy ward the 6th member of marsvolta - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:11am
YERMOMSMOM
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If u say trican that mudvayne play blast beats, than you haven't even listened to mudvayne before, because matt plays none. And dude I know Jon Theodore is one of the best I listen to thier cd all the time, and I have his interview in Modern drummer. And he got 2nd place for up and coming drummers in the annual MD poll. One of my favourite drum qoutes is from Jon " you gotta die every night on stage, or else it ain't worth watching". So true. - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:18am
D�d[]Sanger
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Tonite some busking bastard trying to compete with Vic's one and only origional drumming busker was pissing off me and everyone else in earshot trying to talk over coffee..

yermomsmom: I know you like to show off, but if you're just in it for the thrill, start another band or continue your drum lessons.

If I see one more annoying fucking drum busker, shit is gonna go down.

So unless you wanna get pelted with tomatoes, leave the busking to those with no other means of financial support!

Having said that, I will be at the next Organsplatter show, reason being, they don't fucking suck, they don't fucking pose, and they don't need to brag about their skills.

Above all that, since when did having a fucking tan account for anything????

Real musicians useually aren't tanned as they spend all their free time indoors jamming...

Also, this thread is lame.

"Nuff said"*to quote the immortal Griph* - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:20am
Trican
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OMG!!!! really ... ur more of a loser than i thought. - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:23am
YERMOMSMOM
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and why is that? - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:26am
Trican
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just because.... i'm not even gonna say anything anymore ... i've proven my point 10 fold - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:26am
YERMOMSMOM
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wtv, come check out the hoochy girls show im sitting in for tomorrow... and this is my last post on livevic for a while, latas - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:30am
trican
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Nuff Said - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:41am
Bladge
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hah....tristan,crispy,and nick are arguing the most useless point ever......why don't you all stop wasting your time on this thread and use the time for something usefull....like picking up your instruments and practicing....."NUFF SAID" - Sat, 7 Aug 2004 7:54pm
Zippgunn
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Welcome to LiveVic Crispy where people who actually DO stuff get slagged by useless twats, many of whom can't even spell the word "kvlt" or play their way out of their respective paper bags. You should feel very good because the surest sign that you are doing something worthwhile is when these dorks start getting on your case. Congratulations. P.S. Nobody loves a busking drummer. - Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:27am
ScottL
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Trican:
Are you sure about that... because if i'm not mistaken, Omar and Cedric went and started Mars Volta with some other dudes, and then the Bassist (paul) and other guitarist (jim ward) (who are marginally less interesting than Omar) started Sparta after ATDI's drummer killed himself. Isn't the drummers death the theme of Deloused in the Comatorium? Perhaps i'm a little mixed up. (sparta and TMV are both equally wicked) - Sun, 8 Aug 2004 1:08pm
Trican
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Lemme break it down

ATDI-Tony,Jim,Cedric,Omar,Paul
TMV-Jon,Cedric,Omar,Flea,Keybord Guy
Sparta-Jim, Pual, Tony, Matt

TMV album De-loused in the comatorium is about Julio Vengas a tortured artist back in El Paso who commited suicide finally after several attempts. Now Jeremy Ward Jims cousin was the sound and light guy for TMV until he over dosed on LSD fun stuff - Sun, 8 Aug 2004 6:21pm
Mutilashawn
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Dodsanger said "I will be at the next Organsplatter show, reason being, they don't fucking suck, they don't fucking pose, and they don't need to brag about their skills."

Thank you very much. Unfortunately the reason Organsplatter doesn't brag about our skills is cause . . . well we don't have any. However Mitochondrion is the fucking shit mofos.

and Crispy if you wanna hear Mitochondrion go to our website http://www.mitochondrion.ca. There's mp3's there. Plugity Plug Plug Plug. - Sun, 8 Aug 2004 6:36pm
Mike K
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Neil Peart (Rush) is the best drummer of all time. - Sun, 8 Aug 2004 8:04pm
Curmudgeon Rocker
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And Mike K. has the best user i.d. pic of all time. - Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:10pm
misfit
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Josh Frese is way up there.

But seirously...Chris, he just wants to be the best. It might take him another 15 years before anyone likes him...or maybe he could, you know..leave town? take lessons of his own? stop stealing from kids who would like to play drums? This town needs more drummers..and less ego. - Mon, 9 Aug 2004 12:07am
Mutilashawn
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AHAHAHAHA look at Joe in that picture next to Trican!!!! AHAHAHAHA - Mon, 9 Aug 2004 9:02am
Kris North
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Crispy is a great guy and a good drummer. When he gets his hands on a keyboard some things come out badly sometimes but Crispy is a good guy. - Mon, 9 Aug 2004 9:57am
ScottL
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Thanks Trican, I saw a The Mars Volta interview about a year ago and it was difficult to follow sometimes and i got confused! Thanks for straightening the facts! - Tue, 10 Aug 2004 1:05am
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