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I’m seeing used K1200s online for $400 (the one I played on the album was borrowed) - I might have to take the leap… 😁

That’s very thoughtful and kind Frank, thank you. The cliche about how you...

Thank you Mr. Pie 🙏 No actual Mellotron with reach at that point, I think pretty much all the keyboard work on that album was the Kurzweil K1200 - a wonderful keyboard.

Aw shucks, sorry you weren’t into the sound of WBF - I love how that album ended up and thought the sonics suited the material, and Andy P. was happy with the finished result (and he was kind of my...

We auditioned the pre-edited master DATs for the whole album in 2006, and discovered that they were of significantly higher fidelity than the edited-together DAT which was used to manufacture the...

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I sure wish that he and she would have had the opportunity to find out about that. My guess, though, is that he still would have been able to find something “fond” to say about her in her...

Toss and BB are indeed brutally amazing on that album.

I don’t think there’s even a “clean” mix of hat.! Just some Amazon mis-labeling weirdness. Nope, never done a clean mix of one of my records and as far as I know no one else has either.

Thanks so much for the good words. I’m guessing that the “Crimson King” reference you note is in “Inhale” - for that one, Lyle Workman created the instrumental track, playing all the instruments...

Thank you Batchman - I’m inclined to think Amazon’s got the remastered audio in spite of the listed 1992 date, which was the year of its initial release (we remastered it in 2006) - if you continue...

Having seen Frank say to Diva “I love you, sweetheart,” with the widest imaginable smile on his face, I definitely take exception to the article title’s premise. Haven’t read the article itself and...

No clean/censored version exists, certainly not on any physical release, and I’ve never heard of any digital release being censored in any way. There are four “fuck”s on the album, none of which have...

Aw shucks, yeah I gotta log another big thumbs up for “Road Back Home” - absolutely a great song as far as I’m concerned. A beautiful way to wind up Argent’s recorded career. Maybe not prog, but...

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Wow, cool college station!

Vaylor did a great job with this video! I was very happy he asked me to participate.

I Can See Your Box From Here

SEAN Cornelius!

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Agreed about BT! Really solid album full of good songs - or at least I felt that way the last time I heard it, 43 years ago or something.

See you there gojikranz (and hopefully rapidfirerob). Looking forward to seeing any PE members who make it to a show - we always come out to say hi after the gig so I’ll be happy to meet any of you...

And I was at Santee Lakes in the East County of San Diego attending a family gathering and absolutely inconsolable that I was missing the concert…

Just got an image of the most terrifying street gang ever…

I tend to feel that Desperate Straights is fairly awash in both of those qualities, but humor is very subjective - I suppose that whimsy is as well!

Ok then, maybe it’s NOT so polarizing 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah this track is gonna be polarizing as heck - I think it’s really good. Poem in the middle is estimable and the arrangement/recording is pretty fantastic. Good vocal - it’s not “singing” as such...

I’m inclined to think my album Wooden Smoke might qualify also.

Gary Green and Ray Shulman in “Excerpts from Octopus,” for gosh sakes

You can tell from the overdubs on Transylvania and Twinkle that FZ was in the early stages of shaping this material into some sort of finished, somewhat Hot Rats-esque project, before F & E arrived...

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Also the band Chicago got deeply immersed in the politics of the day on their early albums.

But it is true that it’s a lot easier to find a Brady Bunch rerun than a Smothers Brothers rerun...

The writing on Under Wraps is really good - I would welcome the addition of real drums if it helped make the songs more approachable to people, but I also suspect that the right remix of the existing...

Ooh! I’m playing “Release Release” in my head and can’t recall the appearance of the tubular bells (the fact that Eurythmics music is playing in this room right now isn’t helping me remember), can...

“Timing” has a ton of vocal lines that were muted in the original mix - and they’re really good!! Nice to finally hear them!

Thank you Rufus!

Thank you so much Doh. I really love being in this band and on this tour, and I’m glad that happiness is coming across. Thank you for coming to the show.

SGM have formally reactivated and have been very active on the social networkage. Extremely welcome development.

Cheer Accident tour is ten days in a row with no days off!! I haven’t done that...

Indeed. Minkoff is fantastic!!

All points well-made and -taken!

“Waiting for the Big One” and “Playing for Time” both coming on strong, though.

It’s all about “Sin’s a Good Man’s Brother” from Closer to Home by GFR. Blew my mind as a kid and still one of the most explosive album-openers ever. Man I love it.

I think it’s appropriate this...

I remember seeing Zappa in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, and Gentle Giant in ‘77, and Radiohead in 2006, and feeling privileged to hear so much new, unreleased material. It was a thrill for me to try...

Not necessarily - for instance the first album I did with him was Empath and there’s a whole bunch of people on there, and that’s just under his name. It’s more that on an album that’s under his own...

Wendy Carlos and Patrick Moraz would definitely be on my list, because they both played on albums that inspired me and altered my artistic trajectory for the better, and connected with me emotionally...

Jon Carin’s list of ‘80s-era “tone colorists” above made me think of Eddie Rayner from Split Enz. Very brilliant and underrated.

Little extra info gleaned there, thanks Hunch - now we know it was a Dallas gig (if that title is to be trusted) 😊

Did it? I know the 1975 New York performance got an official release a while back (Discogs entry for that one: https://www.discogs.com/release/15756083-Jan-Hammer-Group-Live-in-New-York), but this...

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Wow. Kinda stunning that I never happened across this one, in all the years of poking around used record shops.

I always enjoyed the heck out of “Melodies,” but man I LOVED “Oh Yeah” -...

Whoa! New one for me too, thanks for posting!!

Delightful video! Very grateful it exists.

We actually sang “go, Stanley Snail” instead of “cold stainless nail” in that version 🤣

Banton is unbelievable. Well the whole band is. But, lord, Banton.

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This isn’t the thread for it (but I’m drunk right now on a night off in Austria so I don’t much care at the moment) but Playing For Time by Gabriel is freaking heartbreakingly brilliant songwriting...

That was my favorite unboxing “video” ever, only took a few seconds to “watch” and the point was made perfectly without giving EVERYTHING away :-) Thank you Henry!

Mostly just little things - the slurpy guitar break at 0:50 followed by the breakdown/vocal section right afterward - a major textural shift even before the second verse. The chromatic rise and fall...

I might be wrong too but I seem to recall that Bowie did the Toy cover art himself. Personally I think it’s just about the same amount of subversive as the Next Day cover design (and I like them both...

It’s really good! It’s crisp and interesting and fun and unpredictable - I haven’t been this INTRIGUED by a new Yes song since I don’t know when. I’m very glad it exists - congratulations Yes, cool...

Dang good point!!

Aw, I don’t know - if Lenny could get all foamed up about “Surf’s Up” (which I also love) I gotta think he’d find some value in the “Fugue.” I guess the Piano Concerto was a different story for him...

“Fugue” is really divine. I mean, the whole “Enigma” 3-part suite and the title song are magnificent, top tier ELP, but “Fugue” is heavenly.

I used to play Living Sin in a band I had in 1980 that rehearsed for a year, did one gig and broke up shortly afterward, but we sure enjoyed rehearsing, and Living Sin was FUN to play, man. That song...

I’m also on the Hunky Dory train - but yeah, an actual top 5 is hard…

For me, probably something like

Lodger
Hunky Dory
Low
Station to Station
Aladdin Sane

If “Abbadon’s” ended with a big long BOMMMMMM instead of a little “bonk” the end of the album would be more momentous and those people who feel let down wouldn’t feel so let down

The endings of...

Granted I was only 11 years old when I got this album but I really liked the lyrics to Endless Enigma and I still think they suit the stateliness of the music real well. They SOUND good even if...