^^ That's pretty good as I recall.
So sorry to hear about Wayne. Those Explorer's Club discs of Trent's were also pretty good. I believe Steve Howe and Steve Walsh were on one or both of them.
Currently,Trent is heavily involved with Chicago and Robert Lamm. Eventually I would not be surprised to see an expanded collaboration in the future.
Impending Ascension is probably their best despite the drum machine. There's a lot of great melodies and chord progressions in "Estadium Nacional" and "Waterfront Weirdos." I've never been crazy about Trent's vocals, but they're not intolerable and some of his writing is really good. I like some of the tracks on "Test of Wills" too (and a real drummer certainly helped that one), but I got off the bus after "One Hundred Year Flood;" didn't really like any of it. Magellan was sort of a guilty pleasure of mine for a while; something I wouldn't want to play for any of my friends but enjoyed (at least in parts) in the privacy of headphones.
mmmhhh!!!... I was lucky enough to have already discovred AnglaDotenBerk by the time budduies told me about Magellan, Shadow Gallery, Cairo and dream Theatre, and luckily so, because if it had been the other way around, I'd probably have not cared to find out about the swedish prog revival, because I was totally unimpressed with those US bands.
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Then you have vinyl nazis who claimed that the CD killed (or attempted to) the vinyl ... Actually the pre-recorded cassette killed vinyl, and Cd killed the cassette.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I loved Magellan, so sad to hear about Waynes death.
I felt the same way about that album; it did nothing for me. However, there's some good stuff on "Impossible Figures." I put it on every now and again. I actually love "A World Groove," though I can imagine others here might not. I heard a lot of negative things about "Symphony for a Misanthrope" so I just never picked it up. Maybe I should put it back on my radar.
"Arf." -- Frank Zappa, "Beauty Knows No Pain" (live version)
Thumbs up from me for HoR - brilliant from start to finish. And I don't mind the programmed drums, nor do I hear anything to dislike about Trent's vocals. Impending Acs has a couple of weaker tracks but the 3 epics are, well epic! Spin them both regularly.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
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