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Kashmir75 
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 Posted: December 07 2009 at 22:18 |
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Anderson on Drama, definitely.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 07 2009 at 23:38 |
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No way Squire on ABWH, I believe Levin is far a better bassist than Chris (Who is already outstanding)
I would vote Moraz in Going for the One.
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I read an interview with Levin about his playing with different bands and artists. He said that when he was playing for Peter Gabriel, he was given The Lamb lies down on Broadway to listen and he was like very cool music. When he joined King Crimson he was given another album (I don't remember which) and just the same he liked it a lot. But when he was going to play for ABWH, he was given Close to the Edge, and he was just like he didn't know how the **** he was going to play the beginning to that song. He then was asked if he had liked the song, and he said he had been too worried about playing it to think wether he liked it or not. In the end he had to invent some weird techinque in order to give the song an adequate sound. |
Lets be honest The Lamb (The track), is probably one of the simplest ones of the album, more if you listen the Peter Gabriel solo version (Rockpalast Rocknight September 15, 1978) which is more Rock than Prog.
I don't believe Close to the Edge is as complex as most King Crimson music, probably Levin feel more cofortable with the music
I heard CttE in the ABWH tour and it's simply amazing version, but a musician who can adapt his playing to Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, etc, has to be absolutely versatile,
I consider Tony the best living bass player (his competitors Entwistle and Gary Thain passed already).
But that's my opinion
Iván
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Posted: December 08 2009 at 00:24 |
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Maybe Bruford would have straightened Tales out a little.
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Posted: December 08 2009 at 22:35 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
Dellinger wrote:
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
No way Squire on ABWH, I believe Levin is far a better bassist than Chris (Who is already outstanding)
I would vote Moraz in Going for the One.
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I read an interview with Levin about his playing with different bands and artists. He said that when he was playing for Peter Gabriel, he was given The Lamb lies down on Broadway to listen and he was like very cool music. When he joined King Crimson he was given another album (I don't remember which) and just the same he liked it a lot. But when he was going to play for ABWH, he was given Close to the Edge, and he was just like he didn't know how the **** he was going to play the beginning to that song. He then was asked if he had liked the song, and he said he had been too worried about playing it to think wether he liked it or not. In the end he had to invent some weird techinque in order to give the song an adequate sound. |
Lets be honest The Lamb (The track), is probably one of the simplest ones of the album, more if you listen the Peter Gabriel solo version (Rockpalast Rocknight September 15, 1978) which is more Rock than Prog.
I don't believe Close to the Edge is as complex as most King Crimson music, probably Levin feel more cofortable with the music
I heard CttE in the ABWH tour and it's simply amazing version, but a musician who can adapt his playing to Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, etc, has to be absolutely versatile,
I consider Tony the best living bass player (his competitors Entwistle and Gary Thain passed already).
But that's my opinion
Iván |
What do you mean by hearing the ABWH tour? Did you attend, or hear the album or the DVD? I mean, Tony Levin, unfortunatly, doesn't play in the ABWH live album, but I don't know wether you mean the album or some other source...
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Posted: December 08 2009 at 22:38 |
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By the way, the interviw is in the Yes page, notes from the edge, (nfte.org), you go to Archives, and at the end of the page is a list of interviews with several Yes related people, there's only one interview with Tony Levin.
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Posted: December 08 2009 at 22:49 |
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I guess Bruford on Tales, but I don't think that could salvage the album for me. Alan is a great drummer anyway.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Posted: December 08 2009 at 23:03 |
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VANGELIS ON RELAYER
Oh God yes!
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 08 2009 at 23:42 |
Dellinger wrote:
What do you mean by hearing the ABWH tour? Did you attend, or hear the album or the DVD? I mean, Tony Levin, unfortunatly, doesn't play in the ABWH live album, but I don't know wether you mean the album or some other source... |
Yes, I know Jeff Berlin appears in the album and DVD, but I had the luck to see them on August 1989 in NY, remember the month because it was close to my sister's birthday and she was pissed that I didn't went to dinner with her.
Iván
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 22:37 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
Dellinger wrote:
What do you mean by hearing the ABWH tour? Did you attend, or hear the album or the DVD? I mean, Tony Levin, unfortunatly, doesn't play in the ABWH live album, but I don't know wether you mean the album or some other source... |
Yes, I know Jeff Berlin appears in the album and DVD, but I had the luck to see them on August 1989 in NY, remember the month because it was close to my sister's birthday and she was pissed that I didn't went to dinner with her.
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I'm envious. I would have loved to see yes with Wakeman (well, this wasn't exactly Yes, but it's just the same anyway), but I didn't know them back then (I was too young and barely knew any music at all). Even the last time Yes toured with Wakeman I was barely beginning to know them (2003 or 2004? something like that). I wish the recorded show from the tour had been one with Levin, though.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 23:08 |
Well, the only time I saw Yes with Wakemanand Squire together was in the "Onion" tour, and I found it a bit disappointing (still good though).
But it pisses me more having only seeen Genesis once in the "Invisible Touch Tour"...That was terrible, never had the chance to see them with Gabriel and/or Hackett.
Iván
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Posted: December 10 2009 at 22:02 |
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Why oh why has the union tour DVD not been released? I would love to see/hear that. Well, I've seen it on You Tube, but it's not quiet the same. Now, why was it a dissapointment?
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Posted: December 11 2009 at 12:24 |
Patrick Moraz on Going for the One. As good as the album turned out, re-hiring Wakeman was a step backward: more a 'regressive' than a 'progressive' personel move. And I've always thought Chris Squire's justification was sorta tacky, something like, "well, how many Swiss rock stars are there?"
Clearly it was a strictly mercenary decision. Maybe Moraz wasn't as congenial a person (or as famous a star) as Wakeman, but his performance on Relayer was phenomenal. Imagine what he could have done with Awaken (and didn't he have some compositional input there before being fired?)
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"we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini
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Dellinger
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I don't think I would have liked better Awaken with Moraz. That song's just awsome the way it is, and Wakeman did a superb job in it. The piano at the beginning and the organ in the middle are perfect, and I don't think it would have been good to change them (well, Wakeman himself did perfect them on later live versions, as far as I'm concerned).
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Posted: December 12 2009 at 01:00 |
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Bruford on Tales.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 13 2009 at 00:41 |
Yesterday's night on a reunion at a friend's house we listened Drama after some time, I wouldn't change a song or a member of the band.
Fantastic album.
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - December 13 2009 at 00:42
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Posted: December 14 2009 at 14:11 |
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As much as any of these would be interesting, I'm going to go off the menu and say Jobson on 90125.
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