It's good to have one of those. Mine's a retired nurse, so my various surgeries, therapies, tests, treatments, and visits are now her hobby. She's really good at it.
Get better quick!
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It's good to have one of those. Mine's a retired nurse, so my various surgeries, therapies, tests, treatments, and visits are now her hobby. She's really good at it.
Get better quick!
Conway may possibly appear on as many records in my collection as anyone. And while I’ve only seen him here in the US a couple of times on stage, those were memorable shows. An important figure for a...
I meant that there was an album's worth of excellent material on Snow. Not two album's worth. And the slavish emulation of Tommy, structurally and thematically, really brought it down. I was...
Snow has a masterpiece buried in it somewhere, maybe. Needs a shovel.
Too soon.
I heard him say that, I smiled, and I thought no more of it. Confidence is a Nick trademark, as well it should be.
I'm not suggesting that more promotion was even possible, given the short notice. Just saying that without it the results were predictable. Few bands from overseas attempt to book their own tours...
If there was any promotion beyond email, social media and word-of-mouth, I missed it. And yet, how many BBT fans are there who don’t follow their Facebook page or their mailing list? The band must...
Fort Wayne was full, about 250.
Not sure of the seating capacity of the NJ venue. 500, 600 at most. I’d say 2/3 full on Saturday, half full on Sunday, largely of people who were also there...
That was the plan four years ago as well. Dave Desmond, trombonist, who leads the section, comes over and rehearses locally hired players. I’d be curious how they’re recruited, and how much they...
I wished more and more over the two evenings for less drums in the mix. Nick plays and sounds great, and would have been just as easy to appreciate and might have sounded even better if blended more....
I do, yes. It's not high-end, but it's quite adequate (Denon/Definitive/Monolith) and I believe it does multichannel music justice.
I understand the feeling of relief. I like this band on its own...
One focused listen to the Atmos mix, not nearly enough. It's the same band. It's a different band. Either way, it's pretty great.
More emotional. Less British. Less history. More impressionist....
Yes, I'm thinking it'll be trumpet + keyboard simulating the brass section, and I expect it will sound pretty good. But there's no getting around that when Cade Gotthardt is playing trumpet and Oskar...
Well, it is a Spawton song. But it's brass-heavy, and the first four US dates are sans brass. They did not play it on the last tour, the first with Alberto. But they have had time to work up a new...
1. I have heard == unofficially and maybe unreliably -- that the setlists for the NJ shows will be heavy on the standard repertoire, without necessarily playing the bulk of the new album. And of the...
Band Wagon USA posted that they will be getting them to the Post Office on Monday. The USPS postage is apparently paid and the mailing labels processed; Monday is the day InsideOut lifts the shipping...
Exerpted from the post by BBT on Facebook, Decermber 12:
For these four shows the band’s line-up will consist of Alberto Bravin (lead vocals), Nick D’Virgilio (drums), Oskar Holldorff (keyboards),...
An opportunity for some innovative writing. I would expect that many of the scenes that take place during the Beatles Years will be shot simultaneously for all four movies, but shot multiple times...
Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin, performed by Liquid Tension Experiment, on the album Liquid Tension Experiment 3 (2021)
If you were willing to travel from anywhere in North America to see BBT, odds are that Indiana is your closest show. Sure, there are likely fewer prog fans in Montana than in Hoboken, but it's still...
It's like 250 seats, so a sell-out wasn't hard. Also, Indiana is closer to most of the continent than the East Coast is.
Hedgerow to the Meadowlands
I only know what's posted on Facebook (both oin the main BBT group and in the special group for the NJ shows) and what can be seen looking at the ticketing pages for the events.
The NJ shows (I'm...
There are still too many tickets remaining for the New Jersey (2 shows), Boston and Buffalo shows coming up in early March. If you're on the fence, jump! If you know music fans in these regions, get...
My work was all in the nonprofit sector, but the corporate-think was, increasingly, the same. Especially in more recent years as the museum industry (where I was for my last 30 years) drew more and...
I am so happy I don't have to keep up with the tech any more. I haven't edited a video since I retired, and not having to care about all the new tools -- particularly the AI-based ones -- is a...
They said "dress for the job you want, not the job you have." That's when I started wearing cargo shorts and flip-flops to work.
Has it even been mentioned here that BBT are doing four US shows in March, prior to CTTE? Indiana, 2x New Jersey, Boston.I believe there are still seats available for all shows, which are being...
Listened to their records over and over as a young teen in the early 60s, and followed them ever since. Unique humor, unique people, unique sensibility. Tommy was gifted in an irreproducible way, and...
I loved Ross Jennings’ solo album. I like Haken well enough, but “A Shadow of My Future Self” is the sort of prog-tinged power-pop, full of hooky melodies and tricky harmony, that pushes all my...
Wilson is a monumentally talented individual. That he could "swiftly record" such a lavish-sounding and polished track "over the weekend," and compose/arrange/perform the song to order (it sounds...
The soundtrack of my young adulthood. RIP
No brass section. No Dave Foster (or Maria Barbieri). And of course the roster of missing past members who we might have seen on the Tour That Never Was in 2020.
Nevertheless I will be at both New...
My copy was “expected” today. Shipped from Indiana, arrived at Horsham PA (a couple of miles away). Now it’s in Austin TX. “Expected” next Tuesday. Oh, Amazon. Oh, UPS.
Release-day delivery of pre-orders, common on Amazon.
Shipped, arriving tomorrow, 2CD+Atmos BD, $22.50 from Amazon US.
How do these things do wrt decoding various forms of Dolby Digital, and compensating for different oxide formulations? Can they properly play back a Dolby C cassette recorded on CrO2 tape, for...
My spinal fusion fixed most of my back issues, but apparently re-routed at least one nerve so now it’s getting very painful to put any weight on my right leg when it’s bent. I’m going up stairs...
Not according to the video, although I’m not certain who that person actually was.
As for the price of the single, as noted above, vinyl is now a niche luxury item. Today’s mass distribution of...
I was lukewarm on it when I heard it earlier today. Seeing the video changes everything. For one thing, it somewhat mitigates my worries over the power of AI tools to displace reality. Not that they...
As an only child, I can only imagine and wonder about the sibling relationship. But I know enough about loss. Stay strong.
Geeze on!
I wheeze, therefore I geeze!
And Ross is using Neal's acoustic guitar.
I listened once to the 5.1 mix last night. I was mightily impressed, not least with the density and complexity and overabundance of ideas, all of which require further listening and even study.
...
"It was reported" is not a source.
Sadly, I can find no confirmation of this from a reliable source.
Terry Kirkman, the Association Singer and Founding Member, Dead at 83
https://people.com/terry-kirkman-the-association-singer-and-founding-member-dead-age-83-7974413
I've always had a soft spot...
Big Big Train's "English Electric" Part One and Part Two.
Tough to choose between them. Of course then they were combined, with added material, into "English Electric: Full Power" so we don't have...
12/9/1972. University of Pennsylvania, Irvine Auditorium. I remember little. My wife remembers less, having become possibly the only human in history to sleep through a Mahavishnu concert.
Zero, one, or two, depending on where you are in the multiverse. FD's version has no other original (or even former) members. JM's version, which does still technically include two former members,...
And yet mine, just a few dozen miles south of you, did arrive today. Do you need a Kleenex?
Mine was entirely work-related. Sure it was.
Adhesive capsulitis is a bitch. I was developing it in 2006 while I was in the field in Argentina shooting a dinosaur dig; it became very painful to hoist the camera onto my right shoulder. Within...
I've been afraid to think about cancer. With everything else that's happened, it feels like that would be one hill too many. In spite of the cancer that killed my dad.
You guys are changing my...
https://bestclassicbands.com/david-laflamme-obituary-8-8-23/
David LaFlamme, of It’s a Beautiful Day (“White Bird”), dies at age 82.
RIP.
I was in a band long ago that featured a great...
Unlistenable because the fake audience behaves in a way that the real audiences (I was part of one) didn’t, inserting itself into the music in unrealistic ways (cheering as if the musicians were...
The bass playing is wonderful. Worth the price of the song all by itself.
I don't care how the vocals came to be; I find them fun and upbeat, just like the rest of the song. A throwback to Rabin's...
BBT has to be one of the most expensive bands to tour; even if they do contract the brass players locally, they still have to pay them. And meanwhile, there are eight other musicians with equipment...
Burning Shed, and I just checked and they still have some Ladies Mediums and Smalls. You know, Prog-fan sizes. :)