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I am hoping for good tickets for the Massey Hall show in Toronto. My daughter says she will come with me. Maybe I can convert her to some really good music. Lol. My wife dislikes SW after sitting through the last show in Toronto. Even I have to admit that it was way too loud. I hope the sound engineer tones it down this time around. Kind of wrecked the show plying it that loud. Even for me.
Toronto Massey Hall ain't too shabby either
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wheeler98
400 Club - QQ All-Star
That venue; the Queen Elizabeth Theater in Toronto, is all kinds of terrible for a person on wheels. It has lousy accessibility and unuseable washrooms. I saw Porcupine Tree's "The Incident" tour there...never again. Crimson should be at Massey Hall or the Koerner...
I'll be in Row C center :banana: Good but a letdown from front row last April. Who else is going???
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We went to see Steve Hackett last night. It was my 3rd time seeing him in the last 5 years, so I knew it was going to be good.
The big unexpected surprise was that there was a significant surround aspect to the show! The setup reminded me of Steven Wilson's on the Raven tour. Like that show, the surrounds only stood out on a few songs.
The 2nd song he played was Out Of The Body, from the Wolflight album. I was mildly startled when the howling wolf effect at the beginning came from behind us. When a mellotron-like keyboard part came from back there too, I was grinning from ear to ear.
Ironically, when the surrounds were employed, the mix was way more aggressive than anything I've heard from Mr. Hackett. (I haven't heard any of the box set, yet). There was an extended intro to The Wheel's Turning that started out with some creepy carnival music coming exclusively from the rears. As it built up, the fronts were gradually raised until the whole sound was as immersive as anything I've ever heard live.
I hadn't bought Wolflight, mainly do to the blah reviews of the 5.1 mix here. I couldn't resist buying a signed copy of the CD/Blu-ray set for $20 last night, though. The mix sure isn't very aggressive, but I knew that when I bought it.
I'm not sure how many shows are left on this tour. But I highly recommend checking it out!
The big unexpected surprise was that there was a significant surround aspect to the show! The setup reminded me of Steven Wilson's on the Raven tour. Like that show, the surrounds only stood out on a few songs.
The 2nd song he played was Out Of The Body, from the Wolflight album. I was mildly startled when the howling wolf effect at the beginning came from behind us. When a mellotron-like keyboard part came from back there too, I was grinning from ear to ear.
Ironically, when the surrounds were employed, the mix was way more aggressive than anything I've heard from Mr. Hackett. (I haven't heard any of the box set, yet). There was an extended intro to The Wheel's Turning that started out with some creepy carnival music coming exclusively from the rears. As it built up, the fronts were gradually raised until the whole sound was as immersive as anything I've ever heard live.
I hadn't bought Wolflight, mainly do to the blah reviews of the 5.1 mix here. I couldn't resist buying a signed copy of the CD/Blu-ray set for $20 last night, though. The mix sure isn't very aggressive, but I knew that when I bought it.
I'm not sure how many shows are left on this tour. But I highly recommend checking it out!
Saw Steve Hackett the following night! Great show! The new material was much more engaging played live than on that saccharine disc. My first time seeing him. Great stage presence, looks relaxed during even really difficult runs up and down the frets, and everyone in the band seemed to be enjoying themselves thorougly!
Added treat, which I didn't expect, seeing Roine Stolt with the group on bass and guitars!
Snood just got home from downtown Orlando Dr. Phillips Center seeing Kevin Griffin (Better than Ezra) solo show....with a drummer Jen playing boxes and pots tho 
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Was a fun show, was all acoustic lasted about and Hour and 45 minutes. Very funny guy Kevin is.........lotta goofing around lotta great songs tooo. Some cover songs.........he is a very good mimic of other artists
Not many peeps know that he is a prolific song writer for other people too
Check this list out below - Includes Sugarlands -Stuck Like Glue & Howie Day's Collide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Griffin - Pretty impressive
I was front row far left, Had to have my neck turn constantly - my neck was pretty achey by the end
Right at end of show he says he will be out the front door in about 5 minutes to meet everybody if they wanna stick around. Sure enough, him and Jen come out and peeps form a line and he takes time to take pictures sign autographs and talk to eeeeeeeeeeeveryone and we are talking like easily close to 200 people.
Right before the lady drummer walks off, I say Jen........point at her set list and ask if me can have that.........She smiled and said yeah sure :banana:
I had a lady in a wheelchair in fron tof me with her friends, think she was going thru chemo..........he remembered her from another show went right up to the whellchair helped her up and hugged the hell out of her and talked for like 5 minutes to her and her friends...........I was like WOW, Snood always liked this guy, but to see how nice he was close up was amazing.
So..........Snood's turn to meet Mr Griffin, one of the auditorium assistants was taking peoples phones and taking pictures for them. She took about 7 of Snood and Kevin talking........Well as you know Better than Ezra put out a DVD-A - How does Your Garden Grow some 2 or 3 years ago and is very hard to find...........it was the disc that accidentally got me into 5.1 and I do mean complete accident.
Well first off I told him great show and man Snood was really impressed on how well you treat your fans, I then mention if he planned on putting out any more Surround Sound titles..........he looooooooooooked stunned. He was like wow you have that?? How Does Your Garden....?? I said yeah Snood is one of the few............he mentions that yeah it didn't sell too well but he loved it. Snood told him well me about to go home and re listen to it along with Fleetwood Macs new 5.1 Tusk release. He wasn't aware of the Mac, but he said that his favorite 5.1 release that was awesome was ..................get this
Neil Young - Harvest (didn't have the heart to say it was channels swapped)
Snood said yeah thats a good one, then he says yeah he was stoned one night listening to 5.1 tunes and he was like yelling for his wife - come in here you gotta hear this you are not gonna believe.............
He said he wishes it was more popular and is mainly for people with 5.1 car systems..........Snood told him no, there are alot of us with ok to great home 5.1 systems that love this stuff. Oh he said like real high end audiophile stuff, Snood said yeah kind of for some, but a lot just have the systems that are just able to play it not so much super audiophile, but just good sounding and still you can play the surround without having to spend a lot.
Told him if he ever gets a chance to put some more of their albums in surround.............
Snood has a pic of when I asked him about surround and it is funny, he has both hands up and is is like whaaaaaaaaaaaaa you have that??
Signed my set list with "Joe - You Rock!!"
Very Koo Night............Snood did go by myself, since both my best buds are not into Better Than Ezra
Thoroughly enjoyed :banana:
Oh he is playing Ponte Vedra Florida tomorrow Jan 12th @ 8PM , so if you are anywhere near Jacksonville.......very fun show.
:Was a fun show, was all acoustic lasted about and Hour and 45 minutes. Very funny guy Kevin is.........lotta goofing around lotta great songs tooo. Some cover songs.........he is a very good mimic of other artists
Not many peeps know that he is a prolific song writer for other people too
Check this list out below - Includes Sugarlands -Stuck Like Glue & Howie Day's Collide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Griffin - Pretty impressive
I was front row far left, Had to have my neck turn constantly - my neck was pretty achey by the end
Right at end of show he says he will be out the front door in about 5 minutes to meet everybody if they wanna stick around. Sure enough, him and Jen come out and peeps form a line and he takes time to take pictures sign autographs and talk to eeeeeeeeeeeveryone and we are talking like easily close to 200 people.
Right before the lady drummer walks off, I say Jen........point at her set list and ask if me can have that.........She smiled and said yeah sure :banana:
I had a lady in a wheelchair in fron tof me with her friends, think she was going thru chemo..........he remembered her from another show went right up to the whellchair helped her up and hugged the hell out of her and talked for like 5 minutes to her and her friends...........I was like WOW, Snood always liked this guy, but to see how nice he was close up was amazing.
So..........Snood's turn to meet Mr Griffin, one of the auditorium assistants was taking peoples phones and taking pictures for them. She took about 7 of Snood and Kevin talking........Well as you know Better than Ezra put out a DVD-A - How does Your Garden Grow some 2 or 3 years ago and is very hard to find...........it was the disc that accidentally got me into 5.1 and I do mean complete accident.
Well first off I told him great show and man Snood was really impressed on how well you treat your fans, I then mention if he planned on putting out any more Surround Sound titles..........he looooooooooooked stunned. He was like wow you have that?? How Does Your Garden....?? I said yeah Snood is one of the few............he mentions that yeah it didn't sell too well but he loved it. Snood told him well me about to go home and re listen to it along with Fleetwood Macs new 5.1 Tusk release. He wasn't aware of the Mac, but he said that his favorite 5.1 release that was awesome was ..................get this
Neil Young - Harvest (didn't have the heart to say it was channels swapped)
Snood said yeah thats a good one, then he says yeah he was stoned one night listening to 5.1 tunes and he was like yelling for his wife - come in here you gotta hear this you are not gonna believe.............
He said he wishes it was more popular and is mainly for people with 5.1 car systems..........Snood told him no, there are alot of us with ok to great home 5.1 systems that love this stuff. Oh he said like real high end audiophile stuff, Snood said yeah kind of for some, but a lot just have the systems that are just able to play it not so much super audiophile, but just good sounding and still you can play the surround without having to spend a lot.
Told him if he ever gets a chance to put some more of their albums in surround.............
Snood has a pic of when I asked him about surround and it is funny, he has both hands up and is is like whaaaaaaaaaaaaa you have that??
Signed my set list with "Joe - You Rock!!"
Very Koo Night............Snood did go by myself, since both my best buds are not into Better Than Ezra
Thoroughly enjoyed :banana:
Oh he is playing Ponte Vedra Florida tomorrow Jan 12th @ 8PM , so if you are anywhere near Jacksonville.......very fun show.
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Saw Jason Isbell on Saturday night in a sold out crowd of 1300 in Omaha. The show was fantastic. If you have not seen/listened to him, you are missing out. Gets the Americana label put on him, but it was a rock & roll show. For a review and photos go to omaha.com and it is in the entertainment tab. Went with a group of people with ages ranging from upper 50's to early 20's.
kap'n krunch
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
I got my tickets, I got my tickets..
KING CRIMSON , AYLESBURY Sunday row 8 and Monday Row 1!!!!
OK, it's in September..but tempus fugit!!!
KING CRIMSON , AYLESBURY Sunday row 8 and Monday Row 1!!!!
OK, it's in September..but tempus fugit!!!
Upcoming in May 2016...to see Strawbs--Electric (!) in Annapolis Maryland. Dave Cousins had significant health problems and some tour dates were canceled this year...hope that he has mended well!
No surround connection that I can think of, but I would love it if Steven Wilson worked some magic on one of Strawb's classic, synth-heavy albums, e.g., Hero and Heroine, or Ghosts! I have never seen in print where SW has mentioned the group, however.
No surround connection that I can think of, but I would love it if Steven Wilson worked some magic on one of Strawb's classic, synth-heavy albums, e.g., Hero and Heroine, or Ghosts! I have never seen in print where SW has mentioned the group, however.
blue.monk
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
Yeah, I hope he's doing better. It would appear to be a good sign that they have some '16 dates on sale. I saw the classic Hero/Ghosts lineup at NEARfest in 2004 and the acoustic trio not long after in Ann Arbor. A terrific and under-appreciated band IMO. Yes, Hero and/or Ghosts mixed by SW would be wonderful!
Next Tuesday 26th, Bristol Colston Hall, Steven Wilson in concert :woopie
I'd forgotten it was so soon after Steven Wilson, so on next Friday I'm off to The Giants Of Rock weekend - a great line-up, and even though it is at a Butlins holiday camp the atmosphere is always great :music
I've just got in after the Steven Wilson gig at Bristol Colston Hall, all I can say is it was F***KING AWESOME
The musicianship was brilliant as you'd expect, Steven Wilson can draw some of the most incredible musicians in to realise his dream/music. His playing is just so fluid, and he really interacts with the audience, with some amusing musings! Some great keyboard Synth work by Adam Holzman, Ninet's vocals are amazing (what a range & emotive), the new guitarist Dave Kilminster's playing is great, as is the new drummer Craig ?, and Nick Begg's just gets better & better, his Bass underpins it all.
If you like your rock music, very jazz-rocky, heavy, proggy, and loud - you hear and feel the power of the music - you'll love the gig. The Hand Cannot Erase was played in full, and if anything live more than on the album, it really strikes you how emotive an album it is. The 2nd half was tracks from 4 1/2, Porcupine Tree, The Raven etc., and a really nice version of Space Oddity in tribute to David Bowie.
For those of you waiting to see Steven Wilson on the latest tour all I can say is you're in for a treat. Its gone into my top 10 gigs ever, on a par with last years King Crimson gig in Cardiff.
The musicianship was brilliant as you'd expect, Steven Wilson can draw some of the most incredible musicians in to realise his dream/music. His playing is just so fluid, and he really interacts with the audience, with some amusing musings! Some great keyboard Synth work by Adam Holzman, Ninet's vocals are amazing (what a range & emotive), the new guitarist Dave Kilminster's playing is great, as is the new drummer Craig ?, and Nick Begg's just gets better & better, his Bass underpins it all.
If you like your rock music, very jazz-rocky, heavy, proggy, and loud - you hear and feel the power of the music - you'll love the gig. The Hand Cannot Erase was played in full, and if anything live more than on the album, it really strikes you how emotive an album it is. The 2nd half was tracks from 4 1/2, Porcupine Tree, The Raven etc., and a really nice version of Space Oddity in tribute to David Bowie.
For those of you waiting to see Steven Wilson on the latest tour all I can say is you're in for a treat. Its gone into my top 10 gigs ever, on a par with last years King Crimson gig in Cardiff.
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