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On Mon, 30 May 2005 12:33:41 +0100, "J. P. Morris" <jpm@it-he.org>
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>My tastes are somewhat esoteric. Although I have been known to indulge
>in Black Metal from time to time, most of my music is late 60s, early 70s
>progressive rock. I'm particularly fond of lengthy, epic pieces, rather
>than the attention-deficit music that appears to be prevalent today.
Speaking of epic pieces, the besto the 5 times I saw Yes was their
Close To The Edge tour. WOW! We sat in the 5th row, directly in
frontof Steve Howe. After a 2 our musical orgasm, they returned to the
stage for Starship Troopers. By now, everyone was standing up on their
seats, which were of the fold-up variety being on the main
floor.During Howes, unusually fluid solo (unusualy so because he
actually hit all the notes) my friend Mike got overcome and stepped
back on his chair a bit too far and it folded up, carrying him over
backwards. He then reached out to both sides and caused a bunch of ut
to start to fall back. Did I mention Mike was 6 feet 6 inches tall?
The people behind us screamed and thankfully pushed him back to
vertical, saving a total collapse of about 15 people. Howe saw this
and really grinned and pointed his guitar at us like "Gotcha!"
>My most recent purchase was 'Present' by Van Der Graaf Generator.
>This in itself is remarkable, since it is the first new album from the
>band in thirty years, but is still pretty good.
>
>VDGG is not for the faint-hearted. One of their most (in)famous tracks
>is the legendary 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers', which lasts around
>26 minutes. Needless to say it is.. patchy. Some great ideas, though.
>
>Other things I've recently got into (with a little help from Optician)
>include 'Rocker's Revenge' from the Bartman Music Project
>(
http://www.bartman-music.de ) and the fantastically weird and wonderful
>'An Electric Storm' by White Noise.
>
Look out! Here Come The Fleas!!!
>Here's a couple of mine:
>
>Quest for the Sacred Jaguar
>http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/jaguar6.ogg
>
>Legend of the Black Sun (originally a MIDI file by KoD.. my recording)
>http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/lbs1.ogg
>(The original is 48 minutes long, the longest tape I can use is about
> 45 minutes, unless it's run at some strange lower speed.
> This is just the first 15 minutes of the piece..)
Sir Cabirus has sent me much VDGG. Nice expositional type stuff.
-=UDIC=-
Optician Dragon
"Life Is Like A Can Of Tuna Fish - Sometimes It's Good, Sometimes It's Not So Good"
-Alfred E. Neumann