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Poll Question: Mikael Åkerfeldt or Steven Wilson?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2006 at 22:33
Jeff:
 
You must be having bad luck finding them because I got Voyage 34, Up the Downstair, and Signify in a store, but it was a used record store that had a tendency for classic rock and prog specialties.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2006 at 23:09
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Jeff:
 
You must be having bad luck finding them because I got Voyage 34, Up the Downstair, and Signify in a store, but it was a used record store that had a tendency for classic rock and prog specialties.
 
I haven't had any luck in any of the local music shops and retail music stores by me anyways. I can find all of Mr. Akerfeldt's albums no problem however. LOLWink ... I knew I should have picked up those albums (They had like everything) I saw at the Porcupine Tree concert but noooooo I just had to get the tour shirt.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2006 at 23:10
I found Coma Divine Live and Warszawa (I didn't purchase that one though, I will do if I see it's still there) in my local store.  Infact they had Voyage 34 as well.  I don't think they had much else though, besides Deadwing (which I've got already).

I really want Lightbulb Sun and a few others as well, especially in remastered format.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2006 at 23:59
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

I found Coma Divine Live and Warszawa (I didn't purchase that one though, I will do if I see it's still there) in my local store.  Infact they had Voyage 34 as well.  I don't think they had much else though, besides Deadwing (which I've got already).

I really want Lightbulb Sun and a few others as well, especially in remastered format.
 
Well, before the DT concert in April, I got On the Sunday of Life at the Virgin Megastore (and my friend got Voyage 34, sadly, no Stupid Dream or Lightbulb Sun there though :(  ). Mostly Steve messing around in his studio, but it has some great songs like Radioactive Toy and Nine Cats (and Linton Samuel Dawson's hilarious)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 00:20
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:


I found Coma Divine Live and Warszawa (I didn't purchase that one though, I will do if I see it's still there) in my local store.  Infact they had Voyage 34 as well.  I don't think they had much else though, besides Deadwing (which I've got already).I really want Lightbulb Sun and a few others as well, especially in remastered format.


You really should get Warszawa James,it's an excellent live album.
    


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 00:25
Sort of unfair to pick between the two,while they worked together and seem to be friends,they are totally different musically.

Both are great musicians,singers and songwriters,but Wilson definitely edges out Akerfeldt with his work in the studio.

And Wilson is wayyyyyy more prolific,no contest there.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 01:51
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Sort of unfair to pick between the two,while they worked together and seem to be friends,they are totally different musically.

Both are great musicians,singers and songwriters,but Wilson definitely edges out Akerfeldt with his work in the studio.

And Wilson is wayyyyyy more prolific,no contest there.


Word.

Can't wait to hear the project they are doing together.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 01:52
Porcupine Tree has always made waaaay better music than Opeth. The choice is blatent for me because I can't stand Opeth's growling vocals most of the time.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 01:58
Originally posted by swilson swilson wrote:

PS - And ProjeKCt Six (Fripp and Belew) is opening for us.

If you're in San Francisco I'll definitely be there.Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 02:23
Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by swilson swilson wrote:

PS - And ProjeKCt Six (Fripp and Belew) is opening for us.

If you're in San Francisco I'll definitely be there.Tongue


Friday 13 (!!) October at the Fillmore. I'll see you there.

A Friday the 13th night with Porcupine Tree in San Francisco.  ........COOOOOOOOL.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 02:25
Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by swilson swilson wrote:

PS - And ProjeKCt Six (Fripp and Belew) is opening for us.

If you're in San Francisco I'll definitely be there.Tongue


Friday 13 (!!) October at the Fillmore. I'll see you there.

A Friday the 13th night with Porcupine Tree in San Francisco.  ........COOOOOOOOL.

I'm going to look into it shortly.Approve
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 02:30


Here's one for you....I F***ING HATE THE RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS!!!!  And you can quote me on that....Wink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 05:54
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

I found Coma Divine Live and Warszawa (I didn't purchase that one though, I will do if I see it's still there) in my local store.  Infact they had Voyage 34 as well.  I don't think they had much else though, besides Deadwing (which I've got already).

I really want Lightbulb Sun and a few others as well, especially in remastered format.


According to the PT website, Lightbulb Sun will get the same "treatment" that Stupid Dream just got, a remastered reissue including 5.1 DVD-A (just arrived for me yesterday Tongue).  This will occur sometime after the new album is released, so next year.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 06:21
All our old stuff should be available in the US through Navarre distribution, but of course I'm disappointed to hear that even one person had trouble finding it, that's not good.  Stupid Dream has just been reissued as a 2 disc set, with a 5.1 surround sound mix added to a pristine stereo remaster.  Lightbulb Sun will get the same treatment sometime next year - I just need to get around to doing the 5.1.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 06:38
^^^

Steve, I checked amazon.com and cduniverse.com and both seem to indicate Lightbulb Sun is only available as import, for over triple the price as In Absentia or Deadwing, for example.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 08:49
Originally posted by swilson swilson wrote:

Lightbulb Sun will get the same treatment sometime next year - I just need to get around to doing the 5.1.S


Excellent, I will patiently wait for this one, Steven! I got the reissue of Stupid Dream a few months back and even in plain ordinary stereo it is one sublime record -would love to be able to hear it one day in surround, too (and the same goes for In Absentia, needless to say!)

Great to have you onboard, hopefully I will get the chance to catch Porcupine Tree performing in Finland sometime in the future.   

Oh, and I hope your PM-box isn't overflowing with messages already

Keep up the brilliant work, I love to spend money on pretty much everything you come up with!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 09:26
Wilson, anytime.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 10:29
From swilson:

But I should say that the most hurtful things I have ever read about myself have been not from other musicians, but from reviewers such as yourself.  A reviewer's words are more painful precisely BECAUSE you know that they don't understand what it is like to struggle for self expression.  At least another musician has some kind of right to criticise, knowing as they do what it takes to get even a slight foothold in this most heartbreaking of industries.

If these aren't sobering words for anyone on here who stands in harsh judgement of people like Wilson and Neal Morse and Roine Stolt, et al. who have no concept of their talent and struggle then I don't know what it will take.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 13:47
Originally posted by swilson swilson wrote:

All our old stuff should be available in the US through Navarre distribution, but of course I'm disappointed to hear that even one person had trouble finding it, that's not good.  Stupid Dream has just been reissued as a 2 disc set, with a 5.1 surround sound mix added to a pristine stereo remaster.  Lightbulb Sun will get the same treatment sometime next year - I just need to get around to doing the 5.1.

S

 
Awesome!Tongue I think I'll order Stupid Dream online (at least that's at a reasonable price...I love Porucpine Tree don't get me wrong, but I'm poor and $30 something dollars is a bit steep for an album) soon enough but I need to start saving up first (went on a Yes spending spree.....wallet is down to zippo)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 13:54
Look at the S. Wilson influence and sucking-up in this thread. Just because he's around it's now 38 to 50??????? What the hell? Vote for your honest opinion, no one knows who you vote for unless you tell them. 
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