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Rick Giner

About Me

I've always written music, for as long as I remember. My first band was a terrible Metal band called Possessed - I 'sang' with them for a few months - then left with a guitarist to form Thunderstruck, where I also played. Thunderstruck became Pangaea - and we were really quite a good hard rock band! Then I moved on to Iblis, a funk-metal band that were very popular - but boring to work with - so then came Super Monster Destroyer. The most fun and ridiculously-rockin' band I have ever been a part of!

When I moved up to Scotland and left the band behind I started writing on my own again, and am now working on an instrumental rock album. At the moment, this Space is dedicated to that project.

For a more detailed history (complete with downloadable-musical goodness) visit www.music.giner.co.uk .


When I can play like this, I'll be happy to die:

Erik Mongrain:

Andy Mckee:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/09/2006
Band Website: www.music.giner.co.uk
Band Members: Me. Rick Giner.
Influences: All my musical friends, Maiden, Pink Floyd, Megadeth, The Magnetic Fields, Opeth, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Beatles (very few albums), Nirvana, Slayer, Marty Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Captain Tinrib, Frank Zappa, The Almighty, Dimmu Borgir, Therapy?, Michael Jackson, G 'n' R, Aphrodite's Child .........
Sounds Like: A fretboard-masturbation session in a prog-rock festival during the summer of a year where everyone was able to get loads of cheap but strong acid but didn't take too much because they were already wasted on sun-warmed snake-bite bought from aging hippies who had taken too much acid.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

A Day on the Great Barrier Reef

-> @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Magnetic Island is just under two hours from the Great Barrier Reef and so it is a great place for a day-trip. We set...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:30:00 GMT

Living on a Tropical Island

.. --> @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> When it came to extending our stay at the hostel 'Bungalow Bay' we found out they had a seven night maximum stay ...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:23:00 GMT

A Week on Magnetic Island

Townsville is one of the bigger cities in Queensland with a population of 120,000 who mostly serve in the armed forces or work in the mines in the outback and use Townsville as their base during thei...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:38:00 GMT

Four Days on the Road to Townsville

It is just over 1300km from Brisbane to Townsville, and much of that stretch has been described as 'famously uninteresting' in at least one guide book we have with us. So we were lucky that we travell...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:43:00 GMT

A Weekend in Brisbane

Our last morning in Byron Bay started slowly on account of the beers consumed the night before, but by midday we were on the road to Brisbane where we were meeting our friends Mike and Bex. We had ori...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:43:00 GMT

A Day and a Night in Nimbin

When the tourists came in droves to Byron Bay, the hippies had to find a new place to hang out which still had the charm and character of a tiny peaceful community. And that was how Nimbin had been so...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:42:00 GMT

From Billengen to Byron

Eager to get on up the coast, we left Billengen after a slow morning in one of the town's cafés and a bit of browsing around the few shops in the high street. It was Monday morning and the town was a ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:39:00 GMT

An Unexpected Festival in Billenegen

The journey northwards from Dungog took us through more beautiful mountainous country and then past stunning coves and beaches as we started heading up the coast. We stayed in a caravan park at Nambuc...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:37:00 GMT

Heading North

. --> @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Our plans upon leaving Katoomba were simply to go North. Find some sun, and get back on the road. Our first day of...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:32:00 GMT

A surprise in Katoomba

. --> @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> The Sunday before we were due to leave Sydney it occurred to me that I was living my last Sunday in the city and f...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:31:00 GMT