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    Posted: September 25 2013 at 14:24
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by altaeria altaeria wrote:


Am I sitting near a bathroom? there is a half mile hike to the nearest latrine, there is a one mile queue leading to it and you can smell it from a mile and a half away, it was declared out of order three hours ago.

How much does a beer cost? roughly five times the gdp of Ethiopia

Do I have to get up for work the next day? yup, it's also month-end and quotas are down; and there are rumours of layoffs, management are looking closely for tardy slackers.

Did I go with my buddy or my disinterested girlfriend? both, and she's even more disinterested now that your soon to be ex-buddy is plying her with drink and smutty innuendo. 

How late does the train run? fifteen minutes after the band announces the last number - you will miss the  end of that song, and the standing ovation, the three encores (where they will play your favourite song that they dropped from their concert set-lists thirty years ago) and unfortunately, the last train

Am I really into this particular band this year? absolutely, they're your favouritist band in the whole world ever and the original singer has just rejoined the band after an absence of twelve years, unfortunately he's had a sex-change since then and is really into disco now.

How is the sound? you know that green semi-solid residue that separates out of milk left that's been left in the fridge for several months? Well if you collect that up and ram it into your ears using a q-tip and a turkey baster so that it starts to dribble out of your nose and tear ducts, even that won't distract you from the excruciating pain created by the travesty of noise that constitutes the sound system.


Is this an outdoor venue?  How is the weather?  yup, it's surprisingly quite pleasant, the sun is shining, the air is warm with the faintest hint of a breeze, there isn't a cloud in the sky, which is a nice change from the last five days torrential rain that's turned the concert arena into a reenactment of the battle of the Somme.





Ugh... With all that being the case, I am not even going to the show. 
Instead, I will work on this teetering relationship with my girlfriend. 
Thankfully, the weather is nice-- so maybe a picnic in the park will be helpful. 
I appreciate the feedback.  I almost made a terrible mistake there.
 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2013 at 13:44
Originally posted by paganinio paganinio wrote:

Long: 150 minutes or longer

Medium: between 95 and 150 minutes

Short: 95 minutes or shorter

When I shop for DVDs I prefer the longer ones. Most of my prog DVDs are
long DVDs (definition above). However when I go to a live show, I prefer
short ones.  That's because I like to take in music in small doses. Long concerts are excruciating both for the musicians and for the audience.


I prefer things the other way around... at least kind of. If I go to a concert, I want it to be long so I get my money's worth (and travelling too, since usually the better concerts are at a city 3 hours away from where I live, and I might even have to stay to sleep the night over there). As for DVD's (or CD's too, I like those ones too), sometimes I like them shorter. At least, as a listening experience, I usually find shorter sets with better chosen material to be better (though, if it's long and all goo, it's all the better, but usually they get the better set overall on a shorter album, and works better as a cohesive set). However, if I want to get to know the band by hearing the live album (which is kind of a greatest hits album in a way), then the longer is better.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2013 at 13:25
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

2 hours is perfect for me.

Add a 20 minutes encore and it's even better.

That sounds like a good time span to me as well, yes.
Paul Simon said once, listening to a Philip Glass (!) record, that he found out that 45 minutes is the perfect length for an album.
I agree somehow, and I'd say that 2 hours is the perfect length for a concert.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2013 at 13:03

Pretentious bullsnit is it then. Glad we cleared that up. Approve

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2013 at 11:13
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Pretentious bullsnit?
 
You know better!
 
Cool
 
I would think that people that are adding nothing like information about the subject and are mostly tripping it down, would likely be considered more bullsnit ...
 
The length doesn't matter to me ... it's about the music and the art.
 
But then, I've had the experience of a couple of hours non-stop of Ravi Shankar, and 40 straight minutes of Segovia, and many other long cuts, and am not bound by the clock that created the synthesizers!
 
Yes, my heart is a clock like you say!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2013 at 11:11
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 15:13
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I remember having played for 5 hours with my prog band.

But everyone left after 20 minutes.

Did you realise at the time or were you told later?Tongue
 
 
That would be calling him a liar! Confused
 
What he meant was that he was really ripped at one of those all night Grateful Dead jams that never got recorded so we have no idea if there was anything within it that could be considered music that Pink Floyd stole for their shows!


I have no idea of what and who you are talking about. Ermm

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 15:10
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I remember having played for 5 hours with my prog band.

But everyone left after 20 minutes.

Did you realise at the time or were you told later?Tongue
 
 
That would be calling him a liar! Confused
 
What he meant was that he was really ripped at one of those all night Grateful Dead jams that never got recorded so we have no idea if there was anything within it that could be considered music that Pink Floyd stole for their shows!


I have no idea of what and who you are talking about. Ermm
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 14:20
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I remember having played for 5 hours with my prog band.

But everyone left after 20 minutes.

Did you realise at the time or were you told later?Tongue
 
 
That would be calling him a liar! Confused
 
What he meant was that he was really ripped at one of those all night Grateful Dead jams that never got recorded so we have no idea if there was anything within it that could be considered music that Pink Floyd stole for their shows!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 11:18
Nostell Priory 1982 - Theakstons festival.

Warm with wall to wall sunshine, Theakstons Best Bitter and Old Peculier on the bar at c60p a pint and me having a lift so I could drink as much as I wanted, line up:

opener - Marillion (never heard of them before - a rumour went round The Enid were opening, which got me very excited - but Marillion were excellent and I've been a fan ever since)
2 Huang Chung (lasted 5 very badly played numbers before getting bottled off - wrong band, wrong festival)
3 Lindisfarne - magic
4 The Blues Band - brilliant
5 Jethro Tull - captivating

That festival could have gone on forever as far as I was concerned.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 08:35
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by altaeria altaeria wrote:


Am I sitting near a bathroom? there is a half mile hike to the nearest latrine, there is a one mile queue leading to it and you can smell it from a mile and a half away, it was declared out of order three hours ago.

How much does a beer cost? roughly five times the gdp of Ethiopia

Do I have to get up for work the next day? yup, it's also month-end and quotas are down; and there are rumours of layoffs, management are looking closely for tardy slackers.

Did I go with my buddy or my disinterested girlfriend? both, and she's even more disinterested now that your soon to be ex-buddy is plying her with drink and smutty innuendo. 

How late does the train run? fifteen minutes after the band announces the last number - you will miss the  end of that song, and the standing ovation, the three encores (where they will play your favourite song that they dropped from their concert set-lists thirty years ago) and unfortunately, the last train

Am I really into this particular band this year? absolutely, they're your favouritist band in the whole world ever and the original singer has just rejoined the band after an absence of twelve years, unfortunately he's had a sex-change since then and is really into disco now.

How is the sound? you know that green semi-solid residue that separates out of milk left that's been left in the fridge for several months? Well if you collect that up and ram it into your ears using a q-tip and a turkey baster so that it starts to dribble out of your nose and tear ducts, even that won't distract you from the excruciating pain created by the travesty of noise that constitutes the sound system.


Is this an outdoor venue?  How is the weather?  yup, it's surprisingly quite pleasant, the sun is shining, the air is warm with the faintest hint of a breeze, there isn't a cloud in the sky, which is a nice change from the last five days torrential rain that's turned the concert arena into a reenactment of the battle of the Somme.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 07:55
Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I remember having played for 5 hours with my prog band.

But everyone left after 20 minutes.

Did you realise at the time or were you told later?Tongue


Yes, we did. But we just didn't care and played for the remaining dozen (who were quite drunk, I must confess).

I arranged a show for the prog band I was in during the late 70's playing an outdoor party for a secretary I worked with.  We set up and are getting ready to play our "show" when we notice that her husband and all his friends are bikers!  We play our 1 hour set of King Crimson covers and original prog to absolutely no reaction...no applause...no booing...nothing.  Then we lurch into a 30 minute version of "In the Midnight Hour" to great applause and a collection of $10.  The most money I ever made from playing in a prog band LOL
Because of a misunderstanding with a promoter I went to play prog covers with the band I was in to a church celebration where people was expecting to dance tangos and mazurkas. 
They payed us to just leave the stage. LOL
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Originally posted by mongofa mongofa wrote:

4 minutes and 33 seconds


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2013 at 22:49
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I remember having played for 5 hours with my prog band.

But everyone left after 20 minutes.

Did you realise at the time or were you told later?Tongue


Yes, we did. But we just didn't care and played for the remaining dozen (who were quite drunk, I must confess).

I arranged a show for the prog band I was in during the late 70's playing an outdoor party for a secretary I worked with.  We set up and are getting ready to play our "show" when we notice that her husband and all his friends are bikers!  We play our 1 hour set of King Crimson covers and original prog to absolutely no reaction...no applause...no booing...nothing.  Then we lurch into a 30 minute version of "In the Midnight Hour" to great applause and a collection of $10.  The most money I ever made from playing in a prog band LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2013 at 18:54
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I remember having played for 5 hours with my prog band.

But everyone left after 20 minutes.

Did you realise at the time or were you told later?Tongue


Yes, we did. But we just didn't care and played for the remaining dozen (who were quite drunk, I must confess).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2013 at 16:49
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I remember having played for 5 hours with my prog band.

But everyone left after 20 minutes.

Did you realise at the time or were you told later?Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2013 at 15:18
I remember having played for 5 hours with my prog band.

But everyone left after 20 minutes.
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