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Roc N Soc seating products are great for drummers and others. I use the drum throne with back rest when drumming and I use the stool with back rest when playing keys other than piano.

The pedals...

I have been out of circulation for a good time and I really need at start getting the songs in my head recorded so folks can let me know how they like them.

I have started diving into a new...

Disagree.

There were many "pressing master tapes" used by such hideous companies as "Record Club Of America" and so on that had the RIAA pr-emphasis to speed up production runs. These were often...

Anyone synth sound that was inspired by the Van Halen song Jump. Tony Banks went down this path on the final Genesis tour.

Allan Holdsworth is fine (UK anyone?). The Alan Holdsworth guy must play sax.

English Settlement was my first XTC vinyl. Knuckle Down is likely may favorite song by them.

I always found Duke to be a poor sounding piece of vinyl (53 minutes is way too long for a single album). The CD release was certainly an improvement sonically (as the low frequencies were rolled off...

Overall I really like this album. The annoying thing to me is the overuse of the snydrum/snare combo.

Too bad that neither Malcolm or Robert could play like Stevie or Joe Zawinul (Weather Report used TONTO, the instrument, on the album Tail Spinnin').

Melody then rhythm (be is simple or complex) is what makes anything musically appealing to me. Gentle Giant were excellent at keeping the balance. RTF was a great band at their peak but I don't have...

Rob, I think it was when we were running through Ibby at soundcheck that those tears first started rolling. It sure was a wonderful show and I was thrilled to mix it. There was only one HtM show I...

I love both Arista releases.

The first album did what music can provide at its best. For me, music is a way to convey emotion, energy and atmosphere through sound. New York Dreams Suite is my...

Kenso is an amazing live band. I had the great pleasure of seeing them at NEARfest about 5 years ago at Lehigh's Zollener Auditorium. They almost never play in the states. If you get a chance in he...

I've never seen a prog band crop a pic before or obscure a member's image like in the movie "Almost Famous".

The Beatles used a Leslie often on guitar and vocals from Revolver onward.

Add to my list of bad prog instruments/effects...

1. Drum Machine
2. Any synth with a "Jump" preset
3. pop flavored...

Guitars played through a Leslie. Steve Howe did some nice stuff with that.

He has always been an exceptional live performer. The post Linda band have been exceptionally good. Abe Jr. on drums and Wix on keys never fail to deliver.

My friend and I got the royal treatment...

I have a soundboard of The Bayou (D.C.) from 1980. I don't have the set list handy but the performance was OK. The mix was all over the place with Berlin's vocal way too loud (and not very good). The...

I'm happy that there is something new from Nick.

I haven't seen him for decades. I doubt that Nick would remember me. The last time I saw Nick was when he payed with with Hackett at The Bayou in...

How is any SACD "all analog"?

Don't misunderstand me. SACDs from the beginning had very little back catalog as a format. I would love to see some original analog quad mixes transferred to SACDs....

I really miss this festival! Maybe next year.

I love to see ELP's "Welcome Back..." get the full cleanup, remix treatment as well. There are some amazing restoration tools that could turn the live recording into something very special. I've...

One of the best fusion composers ever.

I wish JLP and Steve Hackett would have worked together. They both have such beauty in melody and strong sense of atmosphere and rhythm.

Steve and Alan weren't original YES. Jon and Chris are the real legacy members along with Tony Kaye. Howe and Wakeman can make claim due to the successes of their tenure but Bruford was the drummer...

Who is the drummer going to be?

Wasn't Phil the pool boy. That was the contract so i thought. There was a histrory of Phil hanging about while Peter did some rounds IIRC IIRC. of if IIRC.

I guess that I am cucumber. Still love...

The show is called The Riches. It has been available on Netflix from time to time.

I don't think that the Super Duper Deluxe set comes in a box, otherwise it would be called The Ultra Super Duper Deluxe Extravaganza Box Set now including virgin cardboard painted with the blood of...

Christine and I just saw Eddie Izzard in Baltimore the past Tuesday. A very funny show. He did about 70 minutes, then a 20 minute break followed by close to another hour. At the end he did a Q&A for...

I'm back as bp.

I will always agree that the live side of HTM had the energy that never seemed captured in the studio. Having seen any version of the band live and mixing all but one of the...

I will always spend what money I have supporting live performance rather than reissues, remasters & remixes of something I have bought on vinyl, cassette, and CD.

Should any band take the risk...

The entirety of the performance = band performance, venue acoustics, both live (speaker placement, tuning out the room's low frequency ringing - the most essential point of achieving great sound in a...

The Moog analog delays are great. The fact that they have one that is affordable is wonderful.

I's love to see them add a stereo phase shifter, chorus/flanger to the lineup.

No "Love Beach"?

Most any song by Harry Nillson tends to linger. Not a bad thing unless it is Me and my Arrow.

I didn't know that OS were playing. I did catch a vid of "Squirrels" on YT. I hope that someone posts some more of the set.

I'm thrilled to see my bros in the band active and the one song I heard...

Some songs by America exceptionally bad (to the point of comedy).

? PCM ?

SACD is originally 1 bit / 2.8224 MHz PDM (aka DSD). Some DSD recorder have doubled the sample rate of DSD.

When you refer to DSD = 24/176, do you refer to software that converts the...

Upsampling can be helpful in some cases provided that the original recording was not a 44.1 or 48 k digital. What I mean by helpful is the end user using a very high quality converter with great SRC...

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The above is the waveform analysis for the new version of Vapor Trails. You can replicate the...

I'm devastated.

I just finished the Keyboard Magazine article on George a few days ago and was planning on giving him a call to catch up on things today, then I saw this thread.

George was one...

Frank is still recovering from his hand injury. I'm sure that they will be up and running as soon as the band is able and I can't wait.

I've worked with a number of the P FUnk guys, especially the horn players based in Baltimore. Some killer playing, silly stage antics and a fun vibe every time.

During one of my first R&B tours,...

Being room temperature doesn't help one's chops.

Neil is better here than on the earlier Buddy Rich Tribute. The earlier on lacked much of the essence of what made Buddy great. That being the ability to propel the band, the nuanced ghost notes on...

Should we piack a date of some random show at Zollner and sell it out then spend most of our time in the halls wearing our GG and NF t-shirts?

It would be very odd for the artist, especially if...

The band has changed over the years but the last time I saw them they were very good.

Local (to me) bassist Scott Ambush has been with the band for close to 20 years now IIRC.

edit - Scott...

I hope that Jon has cleared this with the venue.

The extra tunes now available that were left off of Between Nothingness and Eternity are tremendous. More fire than five human should be able to create. Very different than the studio versions. They...

Nothing from the 70s is going to have any frequencies much above 20k. Analog multitracks certainly could not capture higher frequencies. Most analog recording device top out at 17k when recording at...

I had a chance to see UK in Baltimore but had to bail at the last minute due to a family issue.

I would have loved to hear Eddie with John. I've seen Eddie a few times in the past years and...

Sonically, the Live at The Fox '73 show sound pretty good. The others are pretty bad to my ears (due to distortion, over compression and denoise overuse.

I'll likely pick up the Fox show soon....

I was walking through an Asia rehearsal at the Clair Bros. Water Street facility during one of the last rehearsals with Wetton prior to the big MTV event. At thr time I was renting some gear from...

Vision (Stan Whitaker's early 80s band) used to play with Glass Moon when we would go through the Raleigh area. Glass Moon and The Producers were my two favorite bands that we shared the stage with...

Happy The Man's connection to Genesis and PG came trough two of the Genesis road crew (Dale Newman and Dan Owen) IIRC. I don't think that Genesis ever thought about Stan at the time, especially if...

Brand X after Morris Pert left.

I love this album. The SACD version helped a good bit to improve the experience.

That album is a perfect example of the studio sucking the energy and emotion out of a band. Jack and Friends played The Bayou and did many of the tunes on that album and they killed live. "Bird...

....and Phil was Phillip early on.

I love Mike's bass playing, especially in the days before he started using active basses. He always has had a great sense for space in his playing.

I often...

If Fripp plays, how will you be able to tell?

I imagine this time around he will be off stage in a faraday cage will all players signing NDAs regarding what he played, when he played and so on....