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infocat
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Posted: July 19 2013 at 19:13 | ||
I've gotten to appreciate (to some degree) most types of harsh vocals. The ones I still don't care much for is the hardcore-style screaming (Between The Buried And Me). |
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cstack3
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Posted: July 19 2013 at 21:42 | ||
Brian May, PhD, is a member of the astrophysics faculty at the Imperial College of London. His academic website is very interesting! Dr. May always inspired me....I'm working to complete my own Doctor of Public Health degree at age 58! Rock on, Dr. May!
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The.Crimson.King
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 29 2013 Location: WA Status: Offline Points: 4591 |
Posted: July 19 2013 at 23:34 | ||
You're right...for some reason I was thinking they didn't introduced the clean & growl mix until Deliverance
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bucka001
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 16 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 864 |
Posted: July 20 2013 at 08:06 | ||
Peter Hammill has been able to support himself and his family of five (and is fairly well off) playing/recording music and has never done anything since VdGG started up in '68 except make albums and tour the world. David Jackson is a proponent of the "soundbeam" and conducts several workshops and public performances throughout the year, working mainly with the disabled. http://youtu.be/-jn-fz7dxHE He also has been playing with a number of people lately (David Cross of King Crimson, Le Orme, John Hackett, etc) Hugh Banton owns his own business, "The Organ Workshop," and has had it for decades. After leaving VdGG at the very end of '76, he went to work for an organ builder for a few years, and eventually started his own company. Very successfully, too. The Organ Workshop designs, builds, and installs organs for halls, auditoriums, and churches. http://www.organworkshop.co.uk/ Not a stretch for Hugh (an electronics wiz), as he was tearing the guts out of Hammonds as far back as '71 and putting his own stuff in there. By '76, he'd designed from scratch his own organ and was using it at VdGG concerts by the end of the year. Guy Evans teaches music technology at a college in London. He also was doing projects with groups like Echo City, which included creating percussive (and other) instruments which could be played by disabled people. There was a bestselling fiction author I was interviewing (either Ian Rankin or Michel Faber... one of those NY Times Bestseller types...) that commented on how cool it was that when the VdGG members left the band, they all at least went on to do really interesting, worthwhile things. |
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moshkito
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 16148 |
Posted: July 20 2013 at 14:26 | ||
Haha .... funny!
So my dentist here in Vancouver, named Keith Collins, is a bass player and has been for the 30 years I have known him (I turned him on to off the wall music!), and he has even taken lessons from one of the best ... can't even remember his name right now -- he plays for the group Oregon and does private lessons around here in Portland!
Keith plays a lot with some names around here, like Tom Grant and such.
So one day he is carving out a tooth and it was hurting ... and I stopped him, and told him ... "Keith, that's not a bass drum!" ... and I have not felt a single twinge since then! Talk music and he hears.
He went to Brazil a couple of years ago ... I gave him a poop load of Egberto Gismonti, and Airto and Milton Nascimiento, and it took him 20 years to go try something else ... he loved it ... but he doesn't see the connection to my giving him music ... that's ok. No worries there. I'm probably buying the nice 5 string he has. I can remember 15 years ago when he said something like ... I'm scared to even touch one of those 5 string basses!
Look him up. He is very tidy, carefull and you can tell he does his homework. Should be a very good and steady bass player!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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presdoug
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Online Points: 8084 |
Posted: July 20 2013 at 15:15 | ||
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Prog-jester
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 05 2005 Location: Love Beach Status: Offline Points: 5777 |
Posted: July 20 2013 at 15:39 | ||
I heard Spock's Beard guy works at Cirque du Soleil, doesn't he?
I've released three vinyls with my band, Stoned Jesus, played some festivals w/ Causa Sui, Orange Goblin, Uncle Acid, Naam, Long Distance Calling, Black Label Society and Enslaved, to name a few, and we're going on the fourth European tour this September, for almost two weeks. Still a customer support manager in a small IT company On MY DYING BRIDE: check 2001 and 2004 releases, they are awesome, and even 2012 is pretty good, too |
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progbethyname
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 30 2012 Location: HiFi Headmania Status: Offline Points: 7750 |
Posted: July 21 2013 at 20:38 | ||
Vokills.... well said. Also, Beneath The Remains is an absolutely fantastic album. Have you ever checked out Max Cavalera's SOULFY project? Now that is South American metal at its best. They have 8 albums to their credit. ;) I recommend 'The Dark Ages' album. It's their most complete release to date. :) |
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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The.Crimson.King
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 29 2013 Location: WA Status: Offline Points: 4591 |
Posted: July 21 2013 at 22:58 | ||
I have the 1st Soulfly album and love that song where Max sings, "No &^%$#@#$$ Hootie and the Blowfish"... I love "Beneath the Remains" and think the next one "Arise" is even better...In the early 90's I had a Mazda Miata and I put a huge Sepultura label across the top of my front windscreen...I used to call it "The Death Metal Mobile"
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sleeper
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: July 22 2013 at 06:31 | ||
I did search on Koellens racing and can only assume that he was either participating under a pseudonym or that he was only at an amateur level. I know that David Jackson was a maths teacher after VdGG broke up in the late 70's. These days, there are very few professional musicians involved in prog and those that are tend to have to work very hard at the business side of things to keep going (like Nick Barrett of Pendragon). |
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Roj
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 07:26 | ||
Flower Kings vocalist Hasse Froberg is a baggage handler at the airport (Stockholm I think) as his day job.
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progbethyname
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 07:29 | ||
Cool. So what does Nick Barrett do exactly? This is interesting. :) |
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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altaeria
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 05 2004 Location: Philadelphia Status: Offline Points: 178 |
Posted: July 22 2013 at 13:30 | ||
Geoff Downes played in a John-Payne-fronted ASIA during the Post-Grunge-infested late 1990s. Maybe that didn't technically qualify as a "day job" ... but it sure wasn't glamorous. |
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terryl
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 03 2007 Location: Thailand Status: Offline Points: 183 |
Posted: July 22 2013 at 15:02 | ||
that's cool! If one goes to see Flower Kings live in Sweden, then he/she can hang around in the airport to get an early autograph of Hasse Froberg himself!!!! Not sure if my favorite progger Phideaux does TV movie directing or makes music for a day job. |
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And who are we to justify the right in all we do
Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
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sleeper
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 15:15 | ||
Couldn't tell you what the day to day running of Toff Records and Pendragon entails I'm afraid, might be worth PM'ing Wilcey to find out, as she's Nicks partner and very much helps out in that respect. |
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presdoug
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Online Points: 8084 |
Posted: July 22 2013 at 16:42 | ||
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giselle
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Posted: July 26 2013 at 11:01 | ||
Surprisingly enough, not many musicians make a lifetime living out of music. Even successful musicians run out of steam and money after a while, bands like Ten Years After, ELP, Yes, became quite well off individually for a while, but you need to sustain a successful and popular career to keep up the mansion and cars. Apparently even David Bowie never made a profile until recently.
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giselle
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 18 2011 Location: Hertford Status: Offline Points: 466 |
Posted: July 26 2013 at 11:01 | ||
Sorry, I meant of course "never made a profit"
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rushfan4
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Posted: July 26 2013 at 11:10 | ||
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Kashmir75
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Posted: August 10 2013 at 21:26 | ||
Wow, you're in Stoned Jesus? Love your band! My brother played me some of your stuff! I will download your album off Itunes.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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