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flatout111 11/30/2017 6:25am
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That's pretty cool, though why did you finally come out with the truth 2 years after you joined?? Tongue

Did you ever do a UK tour?
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Thanks everyone. I'll post some more cool stuff tonight you'll enjoy. I never really talked about my music career because, well, this is a moto forum...
Thanks everyone. I'll post some more cool stuff tonight you'll enjoy.

I never really talked about my music career because, well, this is a moto forum. I don't talk about myself much. But when it came up about how much Ralph loves rock and how I've spoke with him a bit I guess it led to talking about it.

I've always wanted to go to the UK but never have. When I almost got the CC DeVille gig the UK was in the plans. Never happened though. But hey, I was pumped he picked me. The tour just didn't get finances.
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Really cool to hear your stories, and I'm glad you shared your experiences and videos on here, I'm always looking for new music and yours is...
Really cool to hear your stories, and I'm glad you shared your experiences and videos on here, I'm always looking for new music and yours is right up my alley. Bit gutted you aren't on Spotify though!

Shame the UK tour fell through in the end Sad
Yeah, it's just logistics. Stuff is on ITunes, Amazon but not Spotify yet. We'll see.
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flatout111 11/30/2017 6:28am
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In addition to the touring and recording, I've also done some fun tribute shows both drumming...as Eric Carr of KISS and Joey jordison of Slipknot and singing as Paul Stanley of KISS. I'll post those pics. Pretty funny but def fun learning to perform in 7 inch platforms. And sing lead at same time.
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Give us a nudge if/when you get on Spotify dude! For now I'll stick with the YouTube vids to keep me going

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Me as Eric Carr and my beautiful Wife of almost 9 years.



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Me as Paul Stanley of KISS and Slipknot drummer.

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My Wife and I at Disneyworld, 2017.

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flatout111 11/30/2017 6:39am
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Give us a nudge if/when you get on Spotify dude! For now I'll stick with the YouTube vids to keep me going
Will do. Right on, man. I need Matthes to pick up one of my Angel of Mercy songs for Pulp. Those are all mine where other songs I am co-writer but it would require permissions from lots of members long gone in old bands.
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A few random shots of my kits. I signed with Sonor Drums in 97.







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So do you have a YouTube channel? If not might be a good thing to start one and post some of your original stuff and drum covers.

It's a great way to make some extra income if you can get a good following. Just a thought.

Forgot to ask.

Favorite city?

Least favorite city?
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flatout111 11/30/2017 8:17am
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I was going to do a YouTube channel but honestly I'm pretty busy so don't have a lot of time to run one properly. I'm also pretty private. I keep my music life completely separate from home life. Now, at least But I'll keep it in mind. Thanks.

I'm sure it would help. I still have some funds coming in from albums I did in early 2000s as well as more recent stuff right up to this year. Nothing major but royalties are nice. We also did some songs for a few commercials. Can't remember what though. Lol.

Favorite city. Shibuya, Japan

Least favorite city: Umm...there are parts of DC that are super sketch. Not sure exact what city. The whole cities blurring together is true. Our techs used to write on set list where we were so could address crowd properly.
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I was going to do a YouTube channel but honestly I'm pretty busy so don't have a lot of time to run one properly. I'm also...
I was going to do a YouTube channel but honestly I'm pretty busy so don't have a lot of time to run one properly. I'm also pretty private. I keep my music life completely separate from home life. Now, at least But I'll keep it in mind. Thanks.

I'm sure it would help. I still have some funds coming in from albums I did in early 2000s as well as more recent stuff right up to this year. Nothing major but royalties are nice. We also did some songs for a few commercials. Can't remember what though. Lol.

Favorite city. Shibuya, Japan

Least favorite city: Umm...there are parts of DC that are super sketch. Not sure exact what city. The whole cities blurring together is true. Our techs used to write on set list where we were so could address crowd properly.
I might be wrong but did a quick search yesterday and looks like The Fifth were in a couple Dodge RAM commercials.

Or did you mean you guys wrote music specifically for some TV commercials that were not part of any albums?

As for YouTube in order for it to be really worth it and to build a fan base you would more than likely have to put out 1 or 2 video's a week. It's the only real way to get people coming back to your channel and watch/subscribe. That's if you'd want to eventually make extra income to a full fledge salary. It would require quite a bit of work between practice, shooting and editing the video's, uploading them, interacting with your audience, etc. Once you have a lot of video's up and you have a strong fan base the money just keeps rolling in. Making money while you sleep, can't beat that.
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flatout111 11/30/2017 8:56am
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Good advice. Yeah, The Fifth were in a couple of Dodge RAM commercials for sure. Also Jeff Hardy...the wrestler... used our music. But I've also done other tracks for commercials not with The Fifth. But I honestly couldn't tell you what they were. It blurs after a while.
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Good advice. Yeah, The Fifth were in a couple of Dodge RAM commercials for sure. Also Jeff Hardy...the wrestler... used our music. But I've also done...
Good advice. Yeah, The Fifth were in a couple of Dodge RAM commercials for sure. Also Jeff Hardy...the wrestler... used our music. But I've also done other tracks for commercials not with The Fifth. But I honestly couldn't tell you what they were. It blurs after a while.
Jeff Hardy of the Hardy boys is/was into moto. They were my brother's favorite tag team partners growing up. Any idea if he used it back when it was still WWF or WWE or the other associations he wrestled for. Any idea of the year? Might have to look up his wrestling entrance and post it. What song did he use for it?

Wrestling took a shit after the attitude era and I stopped watching it in the early 2000's. Stone Cold was the shit and the chicks were wearing practically nothing hence the reason a young boy watched wrestling lol.
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Right on Marc. Good times.
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Falcon 11/30/2017 11:42am
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Funny you mentioned Enuff Z'Nuff. "Fly High Michelle" is my favorite sad ballad ever.

You basically confirmed all the stuff I thought about the music business and underlined why I don't feel so bad that my band never made it. Glad you got to experience that life and still made it out before being a burnt-out wreck or worse yet, a statistic.
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flatout111 11/30/2017 12:01pm
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flatout111 wrote:
Good advice. Yeah, The Fifth were in a couple of Dodge RAM commercials for sure. Also Jeff Hardy...the wrestler... used our music. But I've also done...
Good advice. Yeah, The Fifth were in a couple of Dodge RAM commercials for sure. Also Jeff Hardy...the wrestler... used our music. But I've also done other tracks for commercials not with The Fifth. But I honestly couldn't tell you what they were. It blurs after a while.
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Jeff Hardy of the Hardy boys is/was into moto. They were my brother's favorite tag team partners growing up. Any idea if he used it back...
Jeff Hardy of the Hardy boys is/was into moto. They were my brother's favorite tag team partners growing up. Any idea if he used it back when it was still WWF or WWE or the other associations he wrestled for. Any idea of the year? Might have to look up his wrestling entrance and post it. What song did he use for it?

Wrestling took a shit after the attitude era and I stopped watching it in the early 2000's. Stone Cold was the shit and the chicks were wearing practically nothing hence the reason a young boy watched wrestling lol.
It was something off the first Plead album. Maybe Welcome to the War? Heck, I don't know. I might be wrong. Jeff used to come to our shows...which created quite a stir... and he'd be air drumming to me. I thought that was ironic cause I would play as him on a video game. Lol. I've gone to the Hardys Christmas parties.. Their home was in Cameron NC which is close to me. Jeff is cool. Never got to know Matt.

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flatout111 11/30/2017 12:09pm
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Falcon wrote:
Funny you mentioned Enuff Z'Nuff. "Fly High Michelle" is my favorite sad ballad ever. You basically confirmed all the stuff I thought about the music business...
Funny you mentioned Enuff Z'Nuff. "Fly High Michelle" is my favorite sad ballad ever.

You basically confirmed all the stuff I thought about the music business and underlined why I don't feel so bad that my band never made it. Glad you got to experience that life and still made it out before being a burnt-out wreck or worse yet, a statistic.
Vik Foxx from Enuff Snuff made all the chicks in the audience jealous with his glam look but that cat was amazing. Love Fly High Michelle and New Thing.
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Since I first got into music, I seriously stole everything from my hairstyle, playing style, showmanship to my kit setup from Vik. My wife said I had a man crush on him. Lol. Dude was bad ass.
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flatout111 11/30/2017 12:15pm
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Falcon wrote:
Funny you mentioned Enuff Z'Nuff. "Fly High Michelle" is my favorite sad ballad ever. You basically confirmed all the stuff I thought about the music business...
Funny you mentioned Enuff Z'Nuff. "Fly High Michelle" is my favorite sad ballad ever.

You basically confirmed all the stuff I thought about the music business and underlined why I don't feel so bad that my band never made it. Glad you got to experience that life and still made it out before being a burnt-out wreck or worse yet, a statistic.
Yeah, I ate the whole rockstar thing up...even on a smaller scale...but the business side sucked. And it's worse now. I don't disagree with what Gene Simmons says. Rock in 2017 is pretty much down the tubes. We're losing all the greats to death and old age and there are very few new greats.plus the business is dead. Unless you are someone like Lady Gaga or an old band like the Stones. Like MX, it's feast or famine.
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Falcon 11/30/2017 2:04pm
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Falcon wrote:
Funny you mentioned Enuff Z'Nuff. "Fly High Michelle" is my favorite sad ballad ever. You basically confirmed all the stuff I thought about the music business...
Funny you mentioned Enuff Z'Nuff. "Fly High Michelle" is my favorite sad ballad ever.

You basically confirmed all the stuff I thought about the music business and underlined why I don't feel so bad that my band never made it. Glad you got to experience that life and still made it out before being a burnt-out wreck or worse yet, a statistic.
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Yeah, I ate the whole rockstar thing up...even on a smaller scale...but the business side sucked. And it's worse now. I don't disagree with what Gene...
Yeah, I ate the whole rockstar thing up...even on a smaller scale...but the business side sucked. And it's worse now. I don't disagree with what Gene Simmons says. Rock in 2017 is pretty much down the tubes. We're losing all the greats to death and old age and there are very few new greats.plus the business is dead. Unless you are someone like Lady Gaga or an old band like the Stones. Like MX, it's feast or famine.
Yep. It's not likely you'll meet anyone making $100,000 a year gigging locally. It's either $25K and live in your parents' basement or $25M and buy your parents a few houses for fun. Grinning
I guess if you had a steady gig in Lady Gaga's tour band or something like that, it would be pretty solid.

The business is certainly changing though. I'm surprised there are any "record companies" still in existence in 2017.
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kzizok 11/30/2017 3:05pm
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Cool thread! Very interesting stories and pics!
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flatout111 11/30/2017 3:22pm
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Right! Now get it right though, dude. A Milestone Monster Energy Supercross videogame groupie! Smile I enjoy the MXGP games but my heart is with the AMA series. Both Monster Energy Supercross and Lucas Oil Pro Motocross. I do prefer SX, though. I like the real life MXGP series ok but it doesn't hold a candle to the AMA series. For me, that is. God, I can't wait for MES!

I really appreciate it guys. I've got some more cool stuff I'll be adding to the thread tonight and tomorrow.

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So, as entertaining as drum solos are to drummers, for the other 98% of the audience it usually is an excuse to go to the bathroom or bar. So I thought for my drum solo I would do something different. Instead of showcasing rudiments, ratamacues and paradiddles (which honestly no one cares about), I thought I would create a techno loop of all kinds of cool synth sounds...almost like a Rob Zombie feel or a Tommy Lee Methods of Mayhem vibe with all kinds of sound effects, samples, voices, effects, etc. And I would groove along with it and get the crowd involved. So, everyone leaves the stage and it's all me. I'm always trying to steal the show, Smile And I loved it. (As long as the sample and click track worked.) It's by no means technical but it got the hot girls moving and the dudes rockin' and THAT was what I wanted.

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Awesome read. I'm a huge fan of listening to programs like Alice Coopers radio show, sixxsense and all that type of deal, the people, the stories and the history of music has always interested me... I can't stand the majority of hip-hop, rap, pop etc but I will sit and watch documentaries on the development of music genres.
It's awesome you're taking the time to interact with interested people. Music is a huge thing to people that "get it".

Metal evolution is a great series to watch for a history 101.
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Extremely talented. Story telling time !! lol.
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Awesome read. I'm a huge fan of listening to programs like Alice Coopers radio show, sixxsense and all that type of deal, the people, the stories...
Awesome read. I'm a huge fan of listening to programs like Alice Coopers radio show, sixxsense and all that type of deal, the people, the stories and the history of music has always interested me... I can't stand the majority of hip-hop, rap, pop etc but I will sit and watch documentaries on the development of music genres.
It's awesome you're taking the time to interact with interested people. Music is a huge thing to people that "get it".

Metal evolution is a great series to watch for a history 101.
Not sure if you've seen them or not but a couple documentaries you should watch.

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Global Metal

Also, I agree about the TV series Metal Evolution. For those that might not know, in that series each episode focuses on 1 subgenre of metal. There's 11 episodes that aired on TV with a 12th called Extreme Metal: The Lost Episode that was apparently too metal for TV lol.

All 3 of those were made by the same guys.

So if any of you are looking for something to watch in your down time start with the documentaries and then the TV series.
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Not sure if you've seen them or not but a couple documentaries you should watch. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Global Metal Also, I agree about the...
Not sure if you've seen them or not but a couple documentaries you should watch.

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Global Metal

Also, I agree about the TV series Metal Evolution. For those that might not know, in that series each episode focuses on 1 subgenre of metal. There's 11 episodes that aired on TV with a 12th called Extreme Metal: The Lost Episode that was apparently too metal for TV lol.

All 3 of those were made by the same guys.

So if any of you are looking for something to watch in your down time start with the documentaries and then the TV series.
Thanks Mav, just watched the extreme episode. Looks like like a great series, I will have to watch the rest of them!
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flatout111 12/8/2017 5:15am
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Unplugged performance. I was really proud of this show. Taking a hard rock band and making it more intimate was fun and a challenge. I had my full big Sonor kit, a small Jungle Sonor kit and a bongo/conga setup. Drum heaven!

https://youtu.be/6KvMlHXHAA8

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