Have to agree with those who selected Sunsets...there are individual songs on the earlier albums I like better, but as a cohesive album, Sunset does it for me. As for the later stuff, most of it...
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Have to agree with those who selected Sunsets...there are individual songs on the earlier albums I like better, but as a cohesive album, Sunset does it for me. As for the later stuff, most of it...
But not enough of the material that would get me excited enough to part with $60-$80. It becomes a a low return on investment. Sure I would like to see the new tune and I Am Waiting...but most of the...
This includes a spoilers with regard to their brand new tour which kicked off this weekend at LA's Whiskey. I will leave it (no pun intended) as generally disappointed. Leaning heavily toward...
For me seeing him in an intimate theater was a treat to watch him work up close. I had previously only seen him from a distance on large stages (w/ Asia and ELP). True, it misses the Emerson touch,...
Saw them in Portland a few weeks back. The one thing I will say about the band (now that I have seen them 3 times) is their live performance is so much better than their recorded "albums." Don't get...
I recommend Dynamo Bliss out of Sweden--also a big fan of General Mojos out of Seattle--but that's more psych pop.
For me it starts with Roine Stolt's solo--The Flower King (1994) and quickly folds into Stardust We Are (1997). My issue with much of the mid-period Flower Power through Unfold the Future is a lack...
Nuuuude women! Clowns welcome!
I find the setlist....OK. The issue is I don't find it compelling enough to drive 4 hours each way on a work night since they are not playing anywhere remotely convenient in the Northwest. So, soft...
Paul Simon forgot the lyrics to Cool Cool River a few weeks ago and he "punished" himself by singing a song he has longed loathed 59th Street Bridge (Feelin' Groovy).
Maybe there is something wrong with my ears, but I really didn't get a a good sense of melody. With few exceptions, it all seemed to blend into a generic rock and roll blob. Maybe that's too harsh...
Agreed. It was his musicality and Beatles-y sensibilities that crafted what made Beard standout. But conversely, Neal needs the Beardies to edit his output---not everything needs to be a 30 minute...
I've given it a listen and have come away...unenthusiastic. It is definitely a truly professional effort, but apart from a moment or a single song here and there, I found it to be generally beige....
Yes and no (IMHO)--what it would do is open the door for JA to return and continue on in some hodge-podge variant, or continue on with a new guitarist and no longer play 750-1000 seat sheds-they...
It's been a business arrangement for at least the last 35 years that plays live music and occasionally puts out a product....so kinda
There is no question that Rabin is talented...even more than just talented. However, I think the issue is that some fans (myself included) equivocate Steve Howe's sounds and textures as integral to...
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The Shire of Frodo gets booed off the stage (Netflix show F is for Family)
They were opening for Lifted Riffs!
^ Deface the Music
I suppose I was hoping for another cut or two from RA instead of the 2 from POV
What Rick probably meant is there was no direct evangelizing--several of his chosen songs from Testimony, One, etc... had some of the heavier religious lyrical overtones. He did not proselytze, per...
Was there too. I was a bit underwhelmed by the setlist (I would have preferred at least another Beard tune or two and some of his pre-evangelical solo work from the first two albums), but truly...
Sort of.... (limited budget and space :) )
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btw--Glasys on far right
Glasys is a Portland guy! I saw him a couple of weeks ago with a group called the Real World Collective which recreated the 1992 Peter Gabriel Secret World Tour (yes, including the goofy...
I know...boo hoo me. But once again, for the third tour in a row they leave out significant chunks of the country. Drive 4 hours to some winery in the sticks on a Thursday? I don't think so. You...
Not a prog show...BUT happened during one of his proggiest song--Elton John in San Diego, maybe 2010 or 11. The show opens with Funeral for a Friend and about 2 minutes into it, he abruptly stops,...
"I don’t go backwards. I’m not interested in going backward."
I don't mean to sound disingenuous, but his non-stop remastering of classic prog albums seem to belie that statement.
These were musicians in their mid 20s...I am not certain they had the business acumen to realize the ramifications.
Or did they just want to record their next album or play their next gig? We see...
Not from a romantic relationship--per se--but Solsbury Hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGaqmvIEyaI
I always thought (and approached the album as such) that this was Rabin's response to write a "Yes" album as there was much criticism from Yes fans at the time that his input was far inferior to that...
I suppose it's all relative (pun sort of intended)...but he's 48. At this point in their careers, the YesMen were beginning their 3rd act--Keys to Ascension. However, I suppose that makes him young...
I suppose it really depends on the set list. Not terribly interested in hearing Can You Feel the Love Tonight, but if he breaks out Madman, Skyline Pigeons or Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters I just might...
I, on the other hand, really liked the first album --- and this is an autobuy for me--practically anything John Mitchell produces falls in that category!
All I can say is wow...didn't expect that....
That is exactly the point!:up
It's not an issue that rock music is not being made anymore or that the quality has declined or that the rebel ethos has evaporated...it is simply that it is not the...
Agree. But it's not the SW overload, it's I don't think Ron Howard's cinematic vision is a good fit. I find his "exciting" material a bit beige, heavily calculated and well...old!
So now that I...
Didn't go to as many shows as I would have liked this year, but 2 stand out because in most cases I know what I am getting---I know with a Waters show it is going to be spectacle, with BOC its is...
It will always be around to some degree; lessening with each generation. But generations well into the future will be listening--but just like Bing and Louis, it will simply be the biggest of the big...
We can agree to disagree and I will let you get in the last word after this tidbit--Cassidy and Garrett and their ilk were all flashes in the pan--one or two years of limelight then onto the next...
True. But it has supplanted rock as the baseline musical vocabulary. It is now the de-facto standard.
JJ I am not disagreeing with you. However the pre-fab model has become the standard. Yes, there is Radiohead and a variety of other indie-alt bands out there and they are very good and very creative....
Weren't the Beatles and and the Stones considered teeny-bop in their early days? We develop our musical preferences at a generally young age and as *we* were raised on rock, our children (mine were...
Worse...it's the Disneyfication of music that propagates multi-media "creatures" who put out beige dance music. The Demi Lovatos/Selena Gomez/Nick Jonas and every other auto-tuned paint by the...
A few musings to ponder:
1. Kirk was a character written in the 60's. Therefore heroes at that time for American action adventure TV were often painted in black and white (no Frank Gorshin jokes...
Watch the documentary called Chaos on the Bridge where many of the original producers went on record an said so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbyB2fy6Uzc
Honestly, who cares what Roddenberry would or would not have approved? He gets far too much credit for the show (people like Gene Coon and David Gerrold shaped a good deal of what we consider canon)...
Check and mate!
I might be talking out of school because I think Eddie Jobson has presented fans with a great deal of wonderful music that shall live on, and that his well earned retirement owes fans NOTHING more....
I found it to be a very frustrating watch...it doesn't live up to either extreme and therefore fails at both. The humor is very tepid (I guess I wanted Family Guy in Space...or at least Planet Ted)...
Nope, it's screw the left side of the continent...again. At least you east coasters get a steady diet of some of the overseas talent.
I said earlier I wasn't a Trekker, but I suppose I will let my inner-Trekker speak nonetheless! I think the reason it is set in this time period is to explore the Garth of Ivar storyline. I have...
I am a fan...but like Poisoned, not an obsessive Trekker. I watched the first episode and found it generally enjoyable. Sure, you can pick apart certain creative choices, but in the end I thought it...
Not saying it wasn't a good show...it was, but paying $100 and sitting a football field away was less satisfying than a small, intimate venue and the music was fantastic!
Very true! Last month I spent $10 to see Bent Knee playing with The Mercury Tree. That concert was far more satisfying than the $100 I plunked down for Roger Waters.
You're probably right...and if they do, it is just an aspect of the business they delegate to handlers and business managers...so I don't think they actually give it much thought at all. I am sure...
Yes, please!
Will be there in Portland opening night!
Bent Knee
General Mojos
Frequency Drift
Fluttr Effect
We Are Kin
iamthemorning
Trinity & Triage
Your take put the cap on my own personal decision to take a pass on this tour - Too far (3hrs each way on a weeknight), lackluster setlist, and Downes' continued inability to rise to the material....
Just tell me you weren't that idiot headbanging and dry-humping his girlfriend simultaneously in the middle of the floor!
I was at the end of the bar!
Caught them live in Portland, OR last night. They were simply incredible. About 50-60 people on a hot Tuesday night. The Mercury Tree opened for them, and they delivered the Crimson-meets-Tool goods...
I was at the Tacoma gig about 2 weeks ago and even from my cheap seats I could tell he was lip synching the older material simply on the vocal strength and audible pitch differences--as opposed to...
I understand that some people might enjoy his abstractions. I personally find him overly self-indulgent at the expense of narrative. And as that might be the case, it is not what I want out of my...
I have become a big fan of General Mojo's. They are out of Seattle and put together a tasty blend of genres tied together by a nice pop bow. Besides I have met them on a few occasions and they are...