Remember seeing that incredibly beautiful girl at your local bookstore, or in your favorite pub; and thinking to yourself “my god she’s lovely, I would absolutely love to meet her!” And remember that gloomy sinking feeling you got in the pit of your stomach when you actually started considering approaching her? Feels horrible doesn’t it? Well the bad news is that this nasty little feeling that we like to call ‘approach anxiety’ is evolutionarily hard wired into us men; and no matter how many women you approach it will never …

Trees have always been a source of many important raw materials for human kind, and many of us take these materials for granted on a daily basis. Lets be honest, when was the last time you thought about where your toothpick came from? In the world of guitars however this sort of blissful ignorance is inadvisable. This is because the wood that is used to make your guitar will ultimately shape the tone, feel and timbre of the instrument. So why would your wood play such an important role in …

Giving a person advice on relationships and social dynamics is quite the delicate task. And something I have found out over time is that one person of the opposite sex can never really give a person of the other sex proper dating advice. It never seems to work. Today we take a look at some of the most exasperatingly erroneous pieces of relationship advice men get from women. 

Women want a nice sweet guy

Heard this? Believed it? Embraced this piece of age old wisdom with no …

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It is with great honor that I type the following.
It wasn’t too long ago that I was approached by the raunchiest, funkiest and coolest online lifestyle site The Backdoor to have my own column. They were super polite in asking if I would have the time to be a regular contributor to the website. Before giving them my word I asked the architects of The Backdoor what exactly they would like me to write about; Metal, Music, Movies, …

Talk to a group of rock music fans about the best bands around today and bring up Alter Bridge; chances are most of them would simply term it as Creed with a replacement front man. One of the most ignorant and appalling simplifications in the rock n roll scene today! With Mark Tremonti free to guide the bands musical direction, Scott Phillips with his act cleaned up, Brian Marshal back and happier than he was with Creed, and a front man who along with his incredible guitar skills can soar …