Yup he did he says "Thanks to you and everyone else for the birthday wishes last week!!"

Okay so the new link for the boards are http://caged-inside.com/boards/YaBB.pl :)
muchlove yo x

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Letting you guys know the boards are fixed now!

If you haven't yet signed up then do so now

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By Cuban Cigars

Asphodel-Norwood - It was a homecoming for the ages and a long way from hay wagon gigs at Gramma Flo's Restaurant.

Norwood's hometown heroes Three Days Grace, international rock headliners now, filled the A-N Community Centre with their chart-topping songs and a whole lot of love to help the Norwood Lions make the final payment of their $350,000 community centre commitment.

Opening the concert was My Darkest Days, another local band heading for stardom.

3DG has wanted to do a hometown show for a while but when you're opening for the Rolling Stones, selling millions of CDs and filling arenas across North America that's hard to do.

"It's really cool to come back," lead singer Adam Gontier told The Shield during a quiet pre-show chat. "Because it's such a small town, it's hard to get everything lined up to put together a show but we did and it's awesome. We grew up with so many of these people. It's definitely going to be a different vibe. It's always good to have a certain intimacy with the crowd and this venue allows for that."

The band (Norwood’s Brad Walst on bass, drummer Neil Sanderson of Peterborough and guitarist Barry Stock of Toronto) is taking time off to record their third CD.

"We're going to do some one-offs in the summer. Mostly down south and out west," Brad added. "But we'll start writing until we get the record done. We've been busy. We've been on tour for two years so it's time to take a little bit of a rest but at the same time we get pretty anxious when we're down. It's nice to be home but you start to get that itch."

"We have a lot of time to kill during the day when we're on the road and tend to hang out with our guitars and come up with different ideas," Adam says. "We never really put anything super-solid together on the road. We kind of just put together ideas."

The boys are humbled by the trailblazing Seattle bands they followed (Nirvana, Pearl Jam) when they first hooked up 16 years ago at NDHS. Now that they headline big arenas themselves their appreciation is even keener.
"When we started to write music they were pretty much our favourite bands," says Adam. "A lot of the music that comes out today doesn't have the substance and heart that those bands did. Once you've been out and seen it firsthand it's pretty cool, too. We have a new-found respect for the older bands."

"It's cool to hear that younger musicians say Three Days Grace is a huge influence on them," Cohiba cigars says.

The pair always knew they wanted to make a living playing music. Their acoustic sets at NDHS set the stage for today's popular Java Fests.

"I always wanted to play music no matter what. Whether it was on a big scale or smaller scale," Adam said. "We've definitely grown as performers but we're roughly the same guys."

There's nothing wrong with would-be musicians dreaming big, says Brad, but you've got to work hard at it.
"Never quit and keep writing."

Source: ShieldMedia.net and thanks Dennis for the link ;)

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Three Days Grace drummer speaks out about "Herbie Rocks" charity auction in support of Sick Kids Hospital, featuring autographed memorabilia from artists and sports stars from around the world

Mark your calendars! On May 3rd, you'll have the chance to be the winning bidder on one-of-a-kind, autographed sports and music memorabilia as a part of the annual Herbie Rocks Auction! Herbie Rocks was founded by Neil Sanderson and his wife Janin as way to involve the music community in the life-saving and life-altering goals of Operation Herbie and the SickKids Foundation.

You can do something to help out guys, even promoting Operation Herbie would be awesome. I think it's great that Neil is doing this just shows what can be done to make the world a better place :)

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Happy Birthday Barry! Love you man! Hope you have the best birthday ever.. Here are his birthday wishes :) CLICKY

LOVE YOU BARRY XOXOXOX

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That's it for Barrys birthday wishes, Managed to get 42 wishes :)
I need to add the ones that were sent recently which I will today or tomorrow.

Thanks to those people who sent theirs in, for those who didn't it's late to send them in now.

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