h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Everyone must do this! Thanks.

NAME: Shagrath
RESEARCHER NUMBER: 595733
THREE BANDS THAT KICK A$$: Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Tool
ENTRIES YOU'D LIKE TO WRITE: I have two: DB and CoF (in process)

daSilva
91632 (that's right, only 5!)
Black Sabb (hey, I'm from Brum! ), Soulfly (gotta love the latino stuff), Rammstein (I like big stage shows too! )
Entries: I'll have to get back to you on that one!

~jwf~
U162344
I am not now nor have I ever been a heavy metal fan per se.
That's because I'm old enough to have seen what happened when stadium performances in the late sixties grew so big and so loud that 'stadium rock' had to find new ways to 'include' such large audiences.
What evolved was a kind of 'folk rock' on big amps, a fusion that created simple, repetitive, feel-good themes loud enough to be shared by tens of thousands simultaneously. Ooops sorry - did you think heavy metal was something more complex? That's probably because these sing-songy pep-rally chants were spiced up with soaring and searing guitar solos (by the likes of Randy Rhodes) that are really 'blues/jazz' improv riffs.

As for 'entries', I'll be maintaining the conversation thread that's pushing for a new UK national anthem based on a traditional folk 'round' of We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions. No, I am not kidding and I believe it is important that the people of the British Isles recognise their own genius and celebrate it the way Freedy would have wanted you to. The way Freddy did!


~jwf~

I've worked with Black Sabb's first manager - Now direcetor of the Birmingham Intenational Jazz Festival (biggest, oldest, most free gigs...), I know where it came from

Welcome guys--um, you can just hang around in the Dungeon if you like or start your own threads; whatever works.

NAME: Uncle Bob
RESEARCHER NUMBER: U563464
Three bands that kick @$$: Wild Cherry, ACDC, The Romantics
Do you play any instruments, and if so, are you in a band?
*Alto Sax, heaps of bands.
*Guitar, no bands.

Hi Uncle Bob! Um...we don't have a lot to do yet, so...I don't know, just kind of hang around for awhile, okay?

NAME: I'm Better Than You Man
RESEARCHER NUMBER: 642056
ENTRIES YOU'D LIKE TO WRITE: I dunno. Maybe something on the awesomeness of Iron Maiden or something.

Three bands that kick @$$: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and Post-Sabbathian-Pre-Nineties-Ozzy
Do you play any instruments, and if so, are you in a band?
no

Hi.

(Note: I'm allowed to be rude to IABTYM because he's a real-life friend. Does anyone remember real life?)

I am! Really! Wow!

I am! Really! Wow!
Yeah. He is sitting next to me right now. Looking for stuff to post on. He always does that. This is ALL he does through the entire day. F5, look, F5, look, F5, look, etc.

I'm not signing up...I'm just posting...s

NAME: 2legs.

RESEARCHER NUMBER: U169793.

ENTRIES YOU'D LIKE TO WRITE: Not sure whats already in teh guide on bands/stuff.

Three bands that kick @$$: Ozzy Osbourne, blacksabbath, metallica
Do you play any instruments, and if so, are you in a band?
Guitar, not in a band at the current time

Okay, 2legs, you're official now. And there's a link to the current band entries on the main page if you're actuall interested .

NAME: TB
RESEARCHER NUMBER: u170182
ENTRIES YOU'D LIKE TO WRITE: (this is optional)

Three bands that kick @$$: Kick Axe (canadian band if any of you have heard of them I'll be pleasantly shocked), ACDC, Def Leopard, P.O.D. (yes I know you said three but I cant count ok?)
Do you play any instruments, and if so, are you in a band?

NAME: Elenitsa

RESEARCHER NUMBER: 677219
THREE BANDS THAT KICK A$$: FNM, Corrosion of COnformity, Black Crowes

ENTRIES YOU'D LIKE TO WRITE:

INSTRUMENT/BAND - Nope/nope

Thanks! It's good to see we're not dying off just yet.

S'OK - when you've lived through as many rock/heavy rock/heavy metal revivals as I have you become sortta chilled out about it all. Although the Darkness do give me nightmares..........

Hey people, the Dungeon is open too!

Just so you know, I brought in a fridge!