Big Bop/Reverb

This post is for the Big Bop/Reverb. This is a venue that is located in the heart of Toronto Ontario.The Big Bop started in 1985 as a DJ nightclub back when the Entertainment District had not been developed yet. But by the time Richmond Street super-clubs were up and running in 1993, the venue fell on hard times. Dominic bought the building in 1996 and decided to turn it into a live music hall consisting of three venues: Kathedral, Reverb & Holy Joes.There is not a huge amount of metal/hard rock venues in Toronto but there is a few The Reverb/Big Bop is one of the oldest and most well known. One of the main reasons it's so popular despite its grungy exterior is it's welcoming of almost any local band. In fact on Thursday Jan 7th I saw what was probably the last show I will ever see there with On Burning Shores,ADF,Ceaderdale and so on who Iam friends with. This is a venue which allows almost any band to play and throws great compilation shows. Some may think this is a bad thing by many bad and rough around the edges bands playing. This is not the case many bands start playing here and become huge. For instance in '98 I saw the first ever Canadian show by InFlames at this venue. Go figure eh. The Reverb is a iconic place in Toronto in which all of it's residence weather they want to admit it or not will miss it greatly.
Thanks for the memories. Rest in peace Reverb 1985-2010

Blood trails from thee

This is just a video my friend shot of me while I was at his house just playing not a professional recording what so ever that's that.

Review on the Unearth DvD Alive From The Apocalypse

This DvD is possibly my favorite Metal DvD. Alive from the Apocalypse not only has a amazingly well shot live DvD but has hours of behind the scenes with the band telling their fans how Unearth came to be. They show all their changes throughout the bands hard fought and well earned career. The band conveys very thoroughly their rise and how the bands dedication through adversity got them where they are today. The live portion of the DvD is professional to say the least. It shows the intensity of their shows and makes you feel as if you are watching their antics first hand. The band performs spins with their guitars, beer bongs while still playing, and all well playing insainly technical music all around. By far one of my all time favorite music DvD's of all time.

Minor Pentatonic scale In The Key Of A (for you guitar players out there)

I have posted these positions of the A minor pentatonic scale for guitarist that do not know where all the positions on the fret board this scale can be played. This is very helpful in finding new melodies because of the difference in the fingering it makes it easier to find new note patterns. If you do not know how to read tab the top line is your high E and the bottom line is your low E. So from bottom to top its low E-A-D-G-B-E. The numbers represent the fret to be played on the corresponding string. Have fun and enjoy hope this will help in the road to soloing.


Position 1 / 5th fret
-------------------5-8------
---------------5-8----------
------------5-7--------------
--------5-7-----------------
----5-7---------------------
-5-8------------------------

Position 2 / 8th fret
-------------------8-10------
---------------8-10----------
------------7-9--------------
--------7-10-----------------
----7-10---------------------
-8-10------------------------

Position 3 / 10th fret
------------------------10-12
--------------------10-13----
----------------9-12---------
-----------10-12-------------
------10-12------------------
-10-12-----------------------

position 4 / 12th fret
------------------------12-15
--------------------13-15----
---------------12-14---------
----------12-14--------------
-----12-15-------------------
12-15------------------------

Position 5 / 15th or 3rd fret
------------------------15-17
--------------------15-17----
---------------14-17---------
----------14-17--------------
-----15-17-------------------
15-17------------------------

Qiuck lick

Just a quick little acoustic riff sounds cool for slow stuff. Just made it up to throw on the post gonna put a new one every week check it.   This is slide ( _ )and this is bend ( ^ )  and the ( p ) stands for pull off, sorry bout the symbols don't have the software making do.
                                           
-5-7-7 _ 8-7-----5-7-7 _ 8-7--------------5-7-7_8-7---
---------------8^--------------8-5-8 _ 10---------------8^
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-5-7-7_8-7---8p7-10p8-10_12^----------------------
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