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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2012 at 15:12
Originally posted by Fox On The Rocks Fox On The Rocks wrote:

Originally posted by martinprog77 martinprog77 wrote:



Clap Seems like a really great guy.


He is! Can't wait for the box-set in a couple of weeks!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2012 at 15:37
Originally posted by rdtprog rdtprog wrote:

Originally posted by Fox On The Rocks Fox On The Rocks wrote:

Originally posted by martinprog77 martinprog77 wrote:



Clap Seems like a really great guy.


He is! Can't wait for the box-set in a couple of weeks!

I know, I am soooooo excited!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2012 at 15:49
Is quoting a video over and over bad for PA server space?

He listens to Nickelback? Not for the music but for the production? weird.

I'm not a big fan of his Devins music at all really, I can see now where our tastes differ
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2012 at 15:09
DT knows exactly what he's doing... he's been using protools for what, 15 years?  the thing that always amazes me about his records is the production... it's tight without seeming overcompressed.. in a different world he would be bob F****** rock...in the sense that he would be a 'sought after producer' of metal & mainstream rock albums.. but i think he has found a better way to make a 'living' for himself and his family... he's not greedy/desperate and it shows... i think he's accepted his life without becoming desperate... hopefully, he'll avoid mid-life crisis.. but it's unpredictable and could be very 'entertaining' ... ;P 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2012 at 14:29
Originally posted by jadawal jadawal wrote:

Is quoting a video over and over bad for PA server space?

He listens to Nickelback? Not for the music but for the production? weird.

I'm not a big fan of his Devins music at all really, I can see now where our tastes differ
It's hosted on youtoube, so no, It's just an embedded applet, streaming the data from it's source servers at youtube.com
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2012 at 14:30
Originally posted by gazagod gazagod wrote:

DT knows exactly what he's doing... he's been using protools for what, 15 years?  the thing that always amazes me about his records is the production... it's tight without seeming overcompressed.. in a different world he would be bob F****** rock...in the sense that he would be a 'sought after producer' of metal & mainstream rock albums.. but i think he has found a better way to make a 'living' for himself and his family... he's not greedy/desperate and it shows... i think he's accepted his life without becoming desperate... hopefully, he'll avoid mid-life crisis.. but it's unpredictable and could be very 'entertaining' ... ;P 
OMG another Voivod fan. Now I know there's at least two in the world.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2012 at 15:01
Originally posted by Failcore Failcore wrote:

Originally posted by gazagod gazagod wrote:

DT knows exactly what he's doing... he's been using protools for what, 15 years?  the thing that always amazes me about his records is the production... it's tight without seeming overcompressed.. in a different world he would be bob F****** rock...in the sense that he would be a 'sought after producer' of metal & mainstream rock albums.. but i think he has found a better way to make a 'living' for himself and his family... he's not greedy/desperate and it shows... i think he's accepted his life without becoming desperate... hopefully, he'll avoid mid-life crisis.. but it's unpredictable and could be very 'entertaining' ... ;P 
OMG another Voivod fan. Now I know there's at least two in the world.
Count me among Voivod fans, all eras melted. Rooaaarrr (sorry, don't remember the number of o, a and r) was one of the first thrash metal CDs I bought.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2012 at 00:33
I miss the skullet. I'm so shallow.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2012 at 14:46
I'm new to Devin Townsend's music, and from what I've heard from Addicted and Deconstuction I would have thought that metal was HIS music. I think that there's a lot of softer-edged metal bands that Devin doesn't know about (Porcupine Tree, Fates Warning, Pain of Salvation, Threshold), bands that might be more suited to him. Devin seems like a genius though, so I won't tell him what to listen to Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2012 at 14:55
Haha, reminds me very much of an interview with Ron Jarzombek around 1990 where he said that he doesn't listen to Metal at all but to music like Janet Jackson, only because of the mix and production and Allan Holdsworth of course...

Devin's music is great, the only issue I have sometimes is the similarity of the sounds and synths.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2012 at 02:28
I am surprised that Devin Townsend doesn't listen to metal!
This is like telling Mike Portnoy doesnt listen to progressive rock!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2012 at 18:28
I'm the same way.

My own music is prog/metal/experimental - and most of my daily listening is punk and indie!

Its weird - sometimes a composer doesn't produce the kind of music he listens to. Its a weird phenomenon, but its the way I've been since I got out of grad school.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2012 at 02:02
does a pizza chef eat pizza all the time?  yeah hahaha
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