The only thing they sold at the bay area shows was a 5 disc compilation of older LPs called volume 2. They were selling it for 30 bucks, you can by the same on Amazon for 15. No shirts at all.Originally Posted by Dan Roth
The only thing they sold at the bay area shows was a 5 disc compilation of older LPs called volume 2. They were selling it for 30 bucks, you can by the same on Amazon for 15. No shirts at all.
Saw on FB that Jamie Glaser is being evicted from his home because the owner is selling the property, and he needs to be out of there by the end of the month, but the JLP tour doesn't end until August. He's seeing if he can get a down payment together to buy the property himself by means of a gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/x3ue6-save-my-home
I donated today. I hope lots of people can help out, if you can. He has a number of animals, so it is hard for him to find a rental.
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Friggin' great show in Austin Saturday night. The man hasnt lost a single bit of energy and played all the songs full tempo. The band is fantastic. Big thumbs up.
How long was the show? He's only scheduled for 70 minutes at the Saratoga Jazzfest, probably a shorter festival set. And early 1:30-2:40PM
They played an hour, took a break, played for another hour, in San Francisco.
They took a break but only when the drum solo popped up. Did not expect that at all! I think it was about 90 mins... maybe a touch shorter than that. Overall I think it was a great set length though. We were the early show - so probably why it wasnt longer.
Griffin's a great drummer but man, I could do without the drum solos. At the APB show I attended he did a solo that seemed to go on forever, and when it reached a spot that seemed like he was wrapping up, he started up again and a guy near me said, "Really!?".
Saw them in Chicago last night. JLP doesn't seem to have lost any facility with age. It all looked effortless and sounded great. They played about an hour (including the overly long drum solo), took a good 20 minute break, then came back out for about another hour. They closed with a great version of the Enigmatic Ocean suite. All in all a great show, even if I'm not crazy about the City Winery vibe.
Agree on that drum solo - didnt see that coming - was ok for a couple minutes - then it just didnt stop - great player indeed - but not the best solo.
I hate to say it, but most drum solos are boring. The one in San Francisco was no exception. Other than that, a great concert.
I am a drummer and even I am not that thrilled with solos!
I agree that the solo at the ARW concert was fairly boring. (Especially because the drums were about the only thing I could hear for most of the concert...the sound was that bad. I could hardly hear Rabin for the first half...)
Seeing the maestro tonight!!!
I wish he was playing closer to me. I didn't even realize he was touring until just now.
JLP was only on my mind because I just received those two boxes (volume 1 & 2) and was listening last night. I'd forgotten how good some of that stuff was/is since I hadn't heard any of it in years. Everything aside from Imaginary Voyage and Enigmatic Ocean are new to me, although looking through his discography just now I remembered that I had Open Mind on cassette.
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Same happened in Portland with ARW sound. I agree with the drums solos are boring, even CP solos are non sense. We already know their capabilities.
JLP played only a bit over an hour in Saratoga yesterday. It was still a great show. Hearing Imaginary Voyage, Cosmic Messenger and The a Struggle of the Turtle to the Sea did my proggy heart good. Despite the short set, there was still a drum solo. Actually I thought the most impressive soloist was keyboardist Wally Minko, he was just on fire.
Tour finale in Times Square was wonderful. The band played for nearly 2 hours. JLP brought out 3 local violinists. He said they were street musicians, each performing separately along with the master on Jig (nearly 10 minutes long), and both Enigmatic Ocean & Struggle ..turtle...sea. The latter stretched to about 25 minutes, 9 of which were RG's drum solo.
Smoking show, tight band.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
I find drum solos to be extremely boring, and Rayford's solo last night was excruciatingly long.
Agreed - simply amazing show. And if that's it and Ponty is retiring from the road (as he has hinted at), he sure went out on top. Those three violinists were also great but Scott Tixier and Zach Brock are far from "street musicians". (I didn't hear Ponty use that term last night actually).
Seemed like he was done after 4 minutes, then continued, prompting a groan from many.
Thanks for the clarification, wasn't familiar with them. The 3rd was also a surgeon (?) if I heard right. (Edit- John Carlucci)
Nice seeing how packed BB King's was.
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"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
I should have made a (LONG) bathroom break during the solo. Anyway, they all sounded in fine form last night, even the guest violinists. Ponty appeared to be really having a good time.
The most excessive drum solo experience I've been through was Eddie Jobson's Ultimate Zero tour where Simon Phillips and Marco Minnemann each did solos that went on forever.
Marco is one of the very few drummers I am happy to see play a solo. Every time I've seen him in The Aristocrats, his solos have killed.
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Yes, Marco is an exception. I went to one of his drum clinics. Phenomenal. His skills and mastery of unusual meters were amazing. Yet, he is so musical (check out The Mute Gods).
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