Fall Six, Get up Seven: October 2016

Figured might be cool to share the music I'm into, most of it organised into a playlist for when I'm out on the bike. Great cruising sounds, great vocalists, good to sing along with.

Then for fun or curiosity, feel free to check out the link on the right hand side under popular posts "My old band recordings plus a new track" - me singing. Bit of rock in that direction too.

Playlist - in no particular order;

Back from Cali - Slash, featuring Myles Kennedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgUTKxcC5dA

Ashes Of Eden - Breaking Benjamin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1yTyAh8IA8

Failure - Breaking Benjamin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVIh1MFWDVw

Breakdown - Breaking Benjamin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spz5oa8UE-4

Saint Cecilia - Foo Fighters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBUBFKb5zY

Space Lord - Monster Magnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dscfeQOMuGw

Bullet In My Hand - Redlight King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1KL5U-fyMc

Wash It All Away - Five Finger Death Punch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9VFg44H2z8

House Of The Rising Sun - Five Finger Death Punch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXYIxJScSik

Made To Be Broken - Seven Mary Three (live - prefer studio version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHaHrzV7GOE&index=26&list=PLZ_5bDEnailfu6vjnYTrDOAKI9SNB5RIf

Master Of The Universe - Sick Puppies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvb6NQozYsE

Blow Up The Outside World - Soundgarden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC2GjXMk7i4

Stinkfist - Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pLGIgyfjw

The Pot - Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2F_hGwD26g

Black Cadillac - Shinedown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smvwKuqt_qU

State Of My Head - Shinedown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv0B-DLtMiM

Cut The Cord - Shinedown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9itwt_opsvQ

Footsteps (Go Higher) - Pop Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXvkTuMyZpM

Trenches - Pop Evil (a bit glam band but it grows on you)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWdtN7pCZug

Take It All - Pop Evil (even more glam band)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGL2OjmZLhM

Good Man - Devour The Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70FI3c2ARKM

I'm A King Bee - The Stone Foxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvEtts_67AU

Left Hand Free - Alt-J
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUoDpo2fo

Red Sun Rising - The Otherside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1cj2M_Mprw

Figure It Out - Royal Blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHX3lWJxQPA

Little Monster - Royal Blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ere2Mstl8ww

My Demons - Starset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSvOTw8UH6s

Mississippi Queen - Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhM1XZsh6o

Heathens - Twenty One Pilots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprcpdwuwCg

Paralyzer - Finger Eleven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk6gZuPKRE

Evidence - Faith No More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lvMNLhJrb0

Ashes To Ashes - Faith No More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfq7wHJu21c

Falling To Pieces - Faith No More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32bdevGClD4

Bulletproof - Shihad/Pacifier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftDSYPmh6o

Yeah. Git 'cha rock on already.

Monday, 10 October 2016

The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride - 2016 Tauranga

Hi you! Apologies I haven't posted in a while. Been a bit flat out if I'm honest. Working and charity work.

So the amazing DGR kicked off this Sunday just been (9th Oct 2016), with around 150-200 bikes turning up. We had old-time scooters, bobbers, Harley's, Triumph's, Ducati's, you name it, we even had a bike built from scratch on deck! The dapper level's were high, moustache's were curled up, moustache stickers applied to bike headlights and the comradery of the DGR pack was solid.

Collectively our riders in Tauranga, NZ managed to pull together $14, 049.00 for the charity, NZ collectively raised a whopping $93,178.00 and worldwide we helped generate US$3,542,031.00!
A legendary result!
I even managed to take out second place amongst our riders gathering up $1271.00!! Thanks to all who donated and put up with me spamming them on social media.

The ride day itself is something I highly recommend if you're a motorbike owner. The discussions around men's health, suicide prevention and prostate cancer were great to be had. I even had a good 10 minute discussion with a member of the public who just wanted to share his story of going through prostate cancer with me - a humbling talk and another reason why we do this DGR work in the first place. He is thankfully cancer free now, an excellent result.

Riding in the pack - I was lucky enough to be up front for the majority of it - was chilling in a good way. I am sure that people heard us coming around quarter of an hour before we even showed up. As we passed places, windows rattled. We were a very dapper gang of ladies and gents looking to raise awareness for Prostate Cancer and Men's mental health.

I think we accomplished that. I even had an opportunity to jump on a tourist bus and let the asian tourists just what we were all about, but they were so quick to get off their bus and get up close and personal with the bikes they literally pushed on past me! Was awesome!

Check out a few of the pictures of the day below.