Search:

ALERT!

I also looked up the show on 7/6 in Medford, and it turns out, it's a fucking ASIA show, not Focus. Like, "Heat of the Moment" ASIA. Yikes! There's either something wonky in the OP, or the...

Yeah, egg on my face for not sampling this. Like you, I really like Second Split, and like the new one. Since both were instrumental, I just assumed the earlier stuff was too. Wrong! Even my wife was...

It's not a disdain for vocals, it's a disdain for shitty vocals. I love vocal music, but some releases feature vocalists who should never have been allowed to get within shouting distance of a...

Cool, I'll keep that in mind.

Bill

I agree about Topos, but I wasn't so taken with the earlier albums that featured vocals. This one returns to that format, so I'm wary. If it comes out on CD, I'll give it a listen. Maybe it will be...

OK, I accept that, but this applies to about .01% of the population. I think the way you present your issue here is fine. You say, "I'm out, and this is why," which makes sense, but of all the...

I remember that show very fondly, except for "Fuck Pittsburgh," which I largely agreed with, but it was incredibly distracting. If they guy wasn't the club owner, I'd have told him to keep it down. I...

^^^
Your description of this band is very similar to what we're trying to do with the Latin jazz band I'm in called Nectar (we recycled the name ;)). The band is comprised of a classical guitarist,...

Yeah, that's equally bad. Honestly, the live music business is pretty much a rat's nest all around. There are absolutely exceptions, but my baseline expectations are very low.

I do feel things...

With Eccentric Orbit, playing Prog Day was pretty amazing. I actually think we played better at the Regent Theater in Arlington, MA in January, 2015 at a smaller, local festival, but Prog Day was an...

A lot of people just look at "new posts" which combines all the forums into one feed, so I'm not sure it matters that much exactly where it is. It is primarily an artist issue, but I think...

I'm cross posting this here from the other thread, as this may be a better place for this discussion:

I'm an actively gigging musician and I have played Prog Rock in the past and am currently in a...

I saw your thread. I'm an actively gigging musician and I have played Prog Rock in the past and am currently in a Jethro Tull tribute band, as well as a Latin jazz band that strays into Fusion...

There are a couple of others, including one by one of his ex-wives, but my sense is this is still the best that's out there. Dick is among my favorite writers, and I got the Sutin biography when it...

Cool, I didn't know that on either of those. It doesn't surprise me he had them as ideas earlier, but I'm surprised to see he actually played them with the band, even in rehearsal.

Bill

Not as many new tracks as I'd hoped. Seems to be just other versions of songs already on the album.

What the hell are they doing playing "4WD" in 1978, or is this from a later tour?

Bill

I'm not generally a fan of these reissues, or the SW remixes, but this one intrigues me. I've always been a bit nonplussed by Bursting Out because I felt the song list wasn't all that great. This may...

Honestly, I never really noticed, though I'm not actually a huge fan of that album. I'm not certain I even own it right now.

If true, that is a bit wonky, and I'm not certain why they'd move...

It's an interesting point. I also can't think of much material from BSS on the Works or subsequent tours. Really only "First Impression - Part 2." It's odd, this being among their most popular...

I just saw this. Hilarious. So much for the budding Chechen Prog scene. :p

Cool, thanks.

That's right. For "Black Dog," Andy Jonhs used two Universal Audio 1176 Compressors in series. One had all the compression buttons punched out, so it functioned like an amp, and that signal slammed...

Out or curiosity, do you review a lot of books? If so, where do you review them?

Bill

I'm with you. This was among the first non Beatles rock that I got into, prompted by an older cousin, and it was also among the first non Beatles rock albums I bought with my own money. I don't spin...

You probably play Tormato a lot. :rofl

I'll definitely check out a new one from these guys, but I'll approach with caution. I thought Return to the Castle was pretty weak. I was really excited to have Alex Camatti back, but this one just...

:up

I did take some lessons early on, and it helped A LOT. It didn't even take that many sessions for me to get a better sense of how to breathe and control pitch. It was actually fun, because I...

I agree about On the Third Day, but I've never really liked "From the Sun to the World" or "Kuama"... especially "Kuiama," which just find really dull.

Bill

I think for what you're doing here, the vocals are fine. They kind of remind me of Neil Young, who isn't a great singer by any means, but gets by on "personality" and fitting his voice with the...

My cats are constantly asking me if supper's ready. ;)

I really like Mieville. I actually got turned onto him here in the thread about fantasy books. The next two books in the Perdido Street Station world, The Scar and Iron Council, are not as good, imo,...

They must have edited it out, or else I didn't catch it. Feedback is annoying for the performer, so I can hardly blame him. I can't understand why nobody caught the issue with his guitar in "Lucky...

I didn't catch any feedback issues during "Tarkus," but his guitar fed back really badly at the beginning of "Lucky Man" and he had to motion to stage left to have them turn it down. Lake muffs the...

Out of curiosity, I decided to watch a bit of this performance, which I haven't done since the footage was shot. I was just going to scan through, but I wound up watching the whole thing. I have to...

I think it's entirely valid to feel as you do. I sometimes feel that way as well, and at other times the decisions about fluctuating the tempo don't bother me. There's so much to dislike about "Heat...

Yes, they played fast back then. They all played fast. Laying the blame for this solely on Palmer is ridiculous, as is accusing Palmer of having "tempo issues," as someone else said. This is how they...

The issue of Palmer "rushing" has been discussed a lot here. While it's true that his tempos fluctuate in some cases, it's pretty clear that he's doing that intentionally, and he's said as much. He...

Glad you made contact with Jordan. I was lucky to see him play with Payton Taylor as Duo Junk, and she was amazing. I don't think she's the drummer on the album, but I think she'd taken over, at...

I'm guessing no. Styx has always had really good live vocals, including backing harmonies, and I'm near 100% certain they've never used backing tracks. Tommy Shaw explicitly states that in this...

Same here! Thanks for your efforts on this! This is a wonderful album that deserved a great treatment.

Bill

New Macroscream is out. I just got the CD yesterday and spun it last night. It's good. I'm still a bit iffy at times on their singer, and some of the lyrics are a bit odd, but the music is decent,...

Definitely the poor man's ELP. I think he hit on a few interesting compositional ideas on Illusions and Spartacus, but otherwise, I find their stuff either too blatantly derivative, or simply...

Hate to say, that was always my least favorite of the early records, though I agree that ELO II was not especially strong either. I rarely listened to either. I think On the Third Day began their...

Well, there's nothing stopping a vendor or distributor in a given country from purchasing SHM-CDs manufactured in Japan and reselling. Domestic US vendors occasionally offer SHM-CDs. Consumers can...

I was a big ELO fan when I started discovering rock music beyond The Beatles in 1977 or so. Out of the Blue was huge, and that was staple listening for me for a while, but I got all the back catalog...

Apparently the process was developed in Japan by Universal Music Japan and JVC. Other manufacturers could probably create SHM-CDs, but they'd have to pay IP if UMJ and JVC filed in their countries,...

Cool. I would definitely recommend Of Things and Beings. If you like Peace of Mind, that one is a slam dunk, it's almost as good. Spheres Aligned might also be up your alley. I don't hate it, I just...

Like you, I recently discovered this band. I went ahead and got everything they had on CD, which is three albums. Of these, Peace of Mind I definitely like the best, followed by Of Things and Beings...

Seriously! :lol

My sense is that this was a problem with that particular unit. I've literally never heard of this being an issue.

Yeah, I had a Panasonic for years, then got a Sony when the Panasonic died on me....

Huh? I've used DVD players for the past 25 years to play CDs and I never experienced that problem. What brand player were you using, and when was this?

Bill

I got tickets for Boston. I'm psyched.

Bill

I was able to grab it from Musea in France. Very good album. I consider it a step up from 2019's Trinity, which I found a bit "paint by numbers."

Bill

Yeah, that's right. I actually grabbed the wrong set list for the fall of 1976. It's a little difficult to find things on that site. Here is the amended fall 1976 set list:

Intro/Just the Same...

According to On Reflection, this is what it was typically like from mid-1976 onward:

Intro/Just the Same
Proclamation/Valedictory
On Reflection
Interview
The Runaway/Experience
So Sincere...

You are correct. "Interview," "Timing" and the 1976 intro are all on Under Construction from 9/23 Düsseldorf, and it's not clear there was anything else on the set list in the September/October time...

:lol

OK, I missed that, thanks. Yeah, it seems like a stretch if it's just those three tracks, but if it's 5-6 tracks it's more attractive. I'll just wait and see what gets released and make a decision...

I'm not doubting what you're saying, but that doesn't sound like an extra album's worth of material. I'm wondering if they found something else, hopefully from a bit earlier that has more. We'll see...

Yes, definitely will be on CD according to Derek in that video.

Bill