Hi Steve! I've been on the lookout for a Jackson RRXT in Kawasabi green, and stumbled across an old post of yours. If you still have it and are ever looking to sell it, would you please let me know? Thanks!
*shrugs* I've got no problems when artists pursue their ways, their artistic vision. It's their own right and I appreciate the need to search for progress in your sound. But do things that you're not able to realize with quality makes me raise my eyebrows. As I said, Midlake, that are not metal do that kind of stuff better, even if they don't use distortion, but the music is genuine.
Well, I like it, there is something to it. They blend Iron-Maiden style metal with punkrock and somehow it works, pretty solid. One of my Dutch friends lives there and became friends with their guitarist. He gave me their CD.