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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 22:23
Yeah, that is disturbing. Why would you have a wet dream about Rick
Wakeman? Dream about jamming on stage with him, sure, but a wet dream?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 22:25

I once hit the dude from Green Day-

they're prog...right?




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 23:20

I´ve been met:

  • Alan Parsons (and says hi!)
  • Godfrey Townsend (got an autograph)
  • PJ Olsson (got an autograph)
  • Matráz (got an autograph)
  • Tryo (got an autograph)
  • Evolución (got an autograph)
  • Toccata (got an autograph)
  • Premiata Forneria Marconi
  • Akineton Retard (got an autograph)
  • Omni

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 23:25

    Then there was the time I met that Camel clone band:

    ShockedLlama outta here!

    "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
    He chortled in his joy.
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 23:26
    Saw Rush in Milwaukee on the Vapor Trails tour. Had the best seats I've ever gotten for a major (arena-size) concert, second row right in front of Geddy.

    That was cool enough, but during one of the solo sections, Alex wandered over to my side of the stage to jam with Geddy. He starts hamming it up a bit for the crowd, and looked right at me. In my best aging dork style, I pointed at him and mouthed the phrase "You the man!"; he dropped his hands to his sides very quickly and shrugged his shoulders with a "Who me? Aw shucks" kind of look on his face and went back to playing without missing a beat.

    Highlight of my sad sad life. Well...highlight of my musical life at least...

    I haven't met any major prog players, but I did shake hands and chat with the guys from King's X on a couple of occasions; semi-prog maybe. They play mainly clubs and bars these days and are quite sociable with the fans (well, sometimes Ty Tabor doesn't stick around for the meet & greets, I think he's shy).

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 23:35

    Adrian Belew was playing in a bar and I went there to see him. As I was walking up to the club, I noticed Adrian and another guy standing just outside the front door talking. I went to walk past them and said something like "Hi, duh, your Adrian Belew, you're so great, etc". He just smiled, held open the door for me, and said, "...and let me introduce you.... to the club !" It was like his super polite way of saying that I had to keep moving... I thought it was cool.

    He played about five songs. All on an acoustic guitar with no band. All were new, except the last one which was "Three of a Perfect Pair". It was the most complex thing I ever saw a guitar player sing and do at the same time.

    Later, he autographed my "Desire of the Rhino King" CD... which I still treasure to this day. He was really cool to me again when he signed it. He would have won me over as a fan if I wasn't already one !

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 23:40

    Originally posted by emersontarkus23 emersontarkus23 wrote:

    Yeah, that is disturbing. Why would you have a wet dream about Rick Wakeman? Dream about jamming on stage with him, sure, but a wet dream?

    Stern SmileRelax! He probably just fell asleep in the bath...

     

    or maybe even on a leaky waterbed! Ermm

    "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
    He chortled in his joy.
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 23:42
    Originally posted by Single Coil Single Coil wrote:

    He played about five songs. All on an acoustic guitar with no band. All were new, except the last one which was "Three of a Perfect Pair". It was the most complex thing I ever saw a guitar player sing and do at the same time.



    Yeah I saw him play that too. It was pretty impressing

    RIP in bossa nova heaven.
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 23:56
    I think King Of Loss stalks Daniel Gildenlow.
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 00:20

    This close



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    "Who would wish this on our people?..And proclaim that his will be done" Sacrificed Sons - Dream Theater
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 00:22
    Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

    I think King Of Loss stalks Daniel Gildenlow.



    "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 02:58

    I was quite close to the stage at the Flower Kings gig in 2003 and at Pain of Salvation's gig in 2005.

    I was late from a Dream Theater autograph session.

     

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 03:10
    i got my right shoe autographed by mike portnoy
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 03:27

    I have met Tony Levin and we spoke for quite a while.  Also hung out with Ozric Tentacles once, Gong many times (and Daevid did artwork for my CD), Nik Turner while on tour with him, Harvey Bainbridge while on tour with him, met Annie Haslam and met Paul Whitehead. 

    Also sat one table over from Roger Waters in NYC when his son was in Ozrics!!!

    I will be doing a gig with Tim Blake and Jean-Phillipe Rykiel in September. 

    Cyndee 

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 03:33
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 03:36

    ONE TIME I SAW SPOCKS BEARD IN SANTA MONICA .I WAS SITTING AT THE EDGE OF THE STAGE THE WHOLE SHOW AND MR MORSE SAID''BOY, YOU GOT THE BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE''.AND ONE TIME I SAW PLANET X AND DRINK A BEER WITH THEM AFTER THE SHOW[BY THE WAY DEREK PLAYS]

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 04:31
    right here's my ultimate, highly embarassing and
    personally not very benefitting fanboy-story:

    i've met quite a few prog greats, mostly just for a
    quick chat or an autograph, but meeting the boys
    from MARILLION on the "radiation" tour was very
    special. i am a die-hard fan of them and i have
    followed them through all their musical phases and
    experimentations and, yes, pun very much intended,
    progressed with them as a listener but also as a
    human being.

    "radiation" is still an iffy album for them and their fan
    base and the entire period was certainly not the
    happiest time in the life of the band MARILLION. the
    reasons are well documented elsewhere. anyway,
    they played their show in the club "docks" on the
    reeperbahn in hamburg – to a slightly reduced crowd
    than usual, i must add – but they delivered an
    exciting, fresh and very stubborn set that was all
    about reinvention and moving forward.

    a friend of mine who worked for the local office of
    their then record company was also at the concert
    and after the show, when i basically turned to collect
    my coat, she beckoned me over (knowing me and
    my appreciation of MARILLION), basically saying
    "you're not going anywhere". so, off we were into the
    hallowed halls of the grubby "docks" backstage area!

    well, you all know, what it is like to meet personal
    heroes and icons, whatever. you always come out
    afterwards, feeling a bit jilted or shortchanged,
    mostly on one's personal account by imagining not
    having asked the right questions or said the right
    words. it is also well known that all of MARILLION
    are really down-to-earth and friendly blokes, so this
    was going to be a real no-brainer. obviously it gets
    even better when the first thing that mark kelly does
    is to hand over a bottle of beer! i got to talk to every
    single band member and all of them were very
    accomodating and genuinely interested in my
    opinions on them (and i am always critical as well)
    and were eager to talk about all sorts of things and i
    am still grateful for this unique insight into the five
    men's personalitied that make up the best band on
    the planet. fanboy? so what!

    however – here's the catch. my left pocket was full of
    CD-booklets that i had originally intended to get
    signed by them. imagine how stupid i would have
    felt, after having exchanged so much more than just
    harmless chit-chat and the ususal fan-grovelling and
    feeling genuinely welcomed by them after a very
    tiring and demanding gig in this rather bleak period
    in the band's life, if i had pulled out these
    CD-booklets and asking for a meagre autograph? it
    would have been the ultimately disrepectful
    anti-climax for all involved and i would very possibly
    have hung myself afterwards –

    so – h, steve, mark, ian, pete – i (still) salute you!!!


    PS: another good experience on several occasions:
    geoffrey downes – always eager to meet up with
    fans and always in for a laugh or a beer! wonder how
    that ASIA reunion is going to affect that...
    progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false?
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 05:36
    I'm 19 and I live in South Dakota, US. I saw Dream Theater in Minneapolis during the Six Degrees tour and Rush in St. Louis on the Vapor Trails tour, both with my dad. Neither time was really very special, although both great shows.

    But Dream Theater was set to perform in Minneapolis on the Train of Thought tour with Yes, another band my dad and I love, but my family had been having financial problems. My dad had been in the hospital two weeks, I had been in the hospital a week, and money was running out. My 18th birthday and my dad's 40th were both coming up, and Dream Theater, eight hours away, was out of the question because gas prices were so high at the time. Between that and the ticket prices, it was too much.

    Little did my father and I know, my mom had emailed all the members of Dream Theater that she could get the addresses for, telling them how big of fans my dad and I were, explaining the financial problems and hospital visits, and asking if they could help us with tickets.

    And Jordan Rudess had replied.

    In fact, the email my mom got back was from Jordan himself, saying that he had gotten two tickets and two backstage passes secured for us, and all we had to do was make it up there. The email ended with Rudess simply saying, "I'll see the guys at the concert." My mom told my dad and I on my dad's birthday that not only were we going to see Dream Theater, we were going to meet them.

    So after Dream Theater got off the stage and Yes took the stage, my dad and I went back and did the Meet and Greet. We shook hands, got autographs and such, but my dad completely forgot to take pictures because he was so excited meeting the band, haha.

    So the best memory I have of the whole thing is my dad telling James Labrie that if James's voice ever goes out, my dad wants to be the first one called to take his spot.

    It was a pretty sweet time, let me tell you, and props to Jordan for rocking so hard on getting us tickets.

    Oh, yeah, Yes did okay too, I guess.

    Peace,

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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 06:19

    I had shake hand with van der Graaf Generator in 1975 at a signature event for the release of Godbluff, in Brussels. (Hammill, Evans, Banton, Jackson). As a souvenir, I have the original LP versions of H to He and Pawn Hearts signed by the four.

    I discussed a few moments with Tangerine Dream (early version) back in 1970,

    I discussed with Yes (Anderson, White, Howe and Squire) giving an unplugged short concert at the FNAC record shop in Paris, a couple of years ago (we were 30 to attend)

    I once found myself in the same hotel than Supertramp and Marillion.

    And I met several times various belgian "chamber prog" musicians when I was living in Brussels (not to forget going to school with Marc Ysaye)

    Not that bad, finally.

    Pierre R, the man who lost his signature
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    Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 12:02
    My mother was pregnant of me when Focus played on my parents' wedding.
    My music!

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