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Posted by: mike
where to begin....
i love music first off. i cant live without it. Tool is my favorite band and i fianally have the chance to go see them live  . i missed them 2 times before so this is exciting. i also love to play the guitar. i have 2 les pauls, a double neck epi. and a marshal half stack. i'm studying in the media field with hopes to do something in television or music studio work. i also study taekwon-do which is cool. cant wait to get my black belt. thats pretty much it.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Ah great, a fellow musician 
Welcome mike
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Tae Kwon-Do is a cool art. It's often labeled as inferior to other arts because a lot of TKD schools are watered down so as to allow a wider group of people to join. Don't buy into that notion though. You'll get back what you put into it. It just takes perserverance. One of the tenants.
I have a first degree Black Belt in Chung Do-Kwan TKD.
btw..Welcome to OTS.
Posted by: mike
i'm olny a green belt. i never heard of the style your talking about. i've heard muto kwon (not shure that spelled right). i'm UTF are you world or ITF? i know ITF and UTF are the same, but world is not because it didnt come from the "founder" of modern day taekwon-do. world is korean karate if i'm not mistaken.
check out
unitedtaekwon-do.com/
my teacher is mr. white
what instrument do you play canis?
Posted by: mike
i forgot to ask.. who do you study under Ion? also have you ever seen that cdrom taekwon-do bible they have out? it has vidios of all the paterns (i dont know what you guys do) and the complete book all on the 4 cd set. i dont know if there is any differnce between your style and mine, but i was wondering if you guys use the wave motion or not?
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Actually I am part of the UTF too but it stands for Universal Tae Kwon-Do Federation here. I would say it's affiliated with the ITF since we learn their patterns. (IE Chungi, Dan-Gun, Do-San, etc.)
Some schools don't even tell you what style it is. I don't think the differences are that much. The two biggest styles are Moo Duk Kwon and Chung Do Kwon though.
We even have to learn Korean strike terms. Neonsugi Koundae Jirugi!..hehe
Posted by: TotalRecall
I believe Laggy played the guitar in his earlier years...
Welcome Mike. Tool's a great band...I play some guitar too, but i'm not that good. 
Posted by: Shalome
I play the guitar as well, mike! I had a song on local radio at one point..
Tool is cool. Aw dammit, that was an accidental rhyme -- but its a stupid rhyme.
- Shalome
Posted by: Damage.inc
Aaahhh I have seen Laggy when he was playing the piano .
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Damage!!! About time you drifted by here...
Yeah, I played the electric guitar when I was in college (I was even in a couple of bands) ... played mostly rhythm guitar and acoustic, coz I was the vocalist in the band 
I have limited knowledge with the piano... I was forced to learn a little of it to impress an old girlfriend
:edit: if you wanted to know what my axe was, it was a 1972 Maya Stratocaster and a Yamaha Dreadnought Acoustic... I have sold both of them already more than three years ago, but I still kept my Fender Stratocoustic
Posted by: mike
im not a big fan of the strat. something about the tone of it bothers me i guess. i love the sound of a les paul because it's so heavy. it sounds great running through my marshall half stack. a good combination in my opinion. i hear messa's are good too, not to shure though. what kind of fx do you use if any? i use a Boss delay, and a akia( think thats the name) phaser. i dont use any distortion pedals because i have never really found one i like so i just use my amps distortion which is killer. i love delay though. anything that i write has to have delay in it, so over the years i have become pretty good when it comes to using this fx. line 6 make a good delay pedal. i belive one of them has a 14 second loop on it which is sweet. Canis what kind of tunings do you use, or do you just play in standard? i mostly use the tunning in led zepplins "the rain song"(best song ever written). it's a tricky tuning but one you figgure out the scales and what not nothing comes close to this tunings sound. what i do though is onece it's tunded to it i take down a step further so it sounds even heavier. the tuning by the way is "dadgad". aka Gsus. please correct me if im wrong. check it out though because if you like melodic music this would be the tuning to use.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
You don't like strats? Hehehe ... I love strats ... I never really owned a Les Paul or even played one regularly so I can't say if I like it or not...
I use Marshalls and Crates ... I actually have a mini-Marshall where I plug my Fender Stratocoustic during parties (it's as small as an FX pedal and battery-powered, so I can strap it on my belt and play "cordless" heheh)... I have three FX pedals - a DOD Supra-Distortion, a Boss Flanger, and a DOD Overdrive.... I also have a Dunlop CryBaby, but I use it sparingly since I play rhythm and it's only used for isolated licks here and there... I don't use delay coz most of the songs I write are hard-rock types where a distortion pedal usually does the job, hehehe...
I almost always play standard tuning, although sometimes I transpose it to "D" when I like to do a lotta bar-chords
I also played drums for about seven months in college (coz our drummer transferred schools and we couldn't find a decent enough drummer)...
I always wanted to try out bass guitar, but I never got around to it - especially when I graduated college and had to give up music in exchange for a real job, hehehe
Posted by: mike
i played bass on the side for about a year. i didnt really like it at the time though. i bought a drum set about 5 years ago and have been playing those in my spare time. one of my friends is a drummer and we used to play together, so i would pick up tid bits here and there from him.
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