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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 12:09
I touched James LaBrie during the Poznan gig... TWICE!(Hes got a cool Majesty Signet on his hand)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 12:17

Do ye know what James Labrie sings to warm up his voice?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 12:48
Yesterday I had a work meeting with Topi Lehtipuu, the opera singer who used to be the vocalist with Höyry-kone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 13:09

Had a beer with Dave Cousins (The Strawbs) on their recent acoustic tour.

Had a two minute chat with Peter Gabriel during his first solo tour.

The best was with Steve Hackett, I and a friend had made our own Steve Hackett T-shirts back in the early 90's using the (at that time) new Canon digital colour copier - my friend worked at a print shop. We copied the 'Time Lapse' cover onto our T-shirts along with the current tour info and went to see him play at a small club. During the set break this guy comes up to our table and goes on about our shirts and asks if we have any to sell. Answer is no, we only made the two - good thing because it turns out the fellow is the road manager for Hackett and he we would have probably been arrested and charged if we tried to sell a shirt. So after the show he comes back and introduces himself properly (at this point we still had no idea he worked for Steve) and asks if we would like to meet Steve Hackett - are you kidding! So we meet Steve, he looks at our shirts, signs them for us, answers a couple of questions and leaves. The road manager then tells us that if we are interested in selling shirts we would be allowed to make them and tour with Hackett, gives us his phone number and tells us to meet him in Michigan in two days. Never did go, ah well, it was a hell of an evening anyways.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 13:43
I saw Jethro Tull last Thursday

I sat right in the back aisle in the middle.. I couldn't have been any further away from Ian Anderson since the theater had a bowed back wall! But it was close enough...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 14:58
Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

Do ye know what James Labrie sings to warm up his voice?

Ma-a-a-a-i-i-aaaa...

Feel its something special? A dedication maybe?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 15:03
Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

Do ye know what James Labrie sings to warm up his voice?

Ma-a-a-a-i-i-aaaa...

Feel its something special? A dedication maybe?

Ah and on ghost reveries Mikael Akersfeldt sings: Drown in the deep ma-a-a-i-i-aaaa...i should really sue them for using my name

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 15:39
Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

Do ye know what James Labrie sings to warm up his voice?

Ma-a-a-a-i-i-aaaa...

Feel its something special? A dedication maybe?

Ah and on ghost reveries Mikael Akersfeldt sings: Drown in the deep ma-a-a-i-i-aaaa...i should really sue them for using my name

Oi, so you have hard, military, german tendencies? Its not Maja (Maia?)? A hard, edgy Maier! or Maybe Major? 

btw... Maybe Akerfeld is singing Down deep in Maaaaaiiiiaaaa? ()

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 15:42

Well my name is written Maja but its pronounced Maia. Do you know what song i mean? i think its called baying of the hounds

And yes i thought it sonded like Down in the deep maaaaaaaaaia at first too...whatever that means

Listen to it!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 15:49

The Song is Baying of The Hounds (Though  we get a feeling of deja-vu when listening  to Beneath The Mire)... And Akerfeldt  pronounces it quite hard... I can hear an "r" there...

Funny though... in the the Baying I always hear "Everything you believed is a lie, Everyone you loved is a dead burger..."

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 15:49
I've had some stimulating chats with Ed Wynne and John Egan of Ozric Tentacles. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 16:00
I once met Tommy Shaw of Styx, although I really don't consider them to be prog.  Or great for that matter.  Or even good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 16:12
Originally posted by fastandbulbous fastandbulbous wrote:

I once met Tommy Shaw of Styx, although I really don't consider them to be prog.  Or great for that matter.  Or even good.


I never met Tommy Shaw in person, but several people he worked with in the studio have screamed at me over the phone before.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 16:43

Well, of all my "brush with prog greatness" moments, the best was when I met and shook hands with Bill Bruford, who was in the crowd at a Van der Graaf Generator concert in Holland last year.

"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 17:01
Jon Anderson gave my brother a cookie  But I haven't met anyone

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 20:54

The closest I ever came to prog greatness was in 1987 when I saw Marillion on the "Clutching At Straws" tour at a little dinner theater in San Clemente California called "The Coach House".

My wife and I were early and were waiting in front of the club with about 15 other people when Fish, Steven, Peter, Mark and Ian walked right by us just inches from my wife and I to enter the club and do a soundcheck. It happened so fast I didn't realize it was happening until the band had entered the club. 

My wife and I were able to score killer seats right up in front near the stage since I slipped the doorman a $20. Mariilion blew us all away, Fish even stood on top of the table that my wife and I were sitting at and danced while singing just inches from us, Totally unreal.

This was one of my all time greatest concert experiences that I will never forget.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 21:12
Fish also stood on my table during their 1st tour for the Script album in Montreal. However, I've got a much more memorable one. It was 1987 at the Montreal Forum. Me and a friend decided at the last minute to head down to the Peter Gabriel concert and pick up a couple of tickets from our favorite ticket scalper who used to work the street before big shows. We lucked out more than we could have imagined. 2nd row on the floor, dead centre !!!  During the show, Peter performed "Lay Your Hands On Me" and allowed himself to fall into the audience. Me and my friend had him right in our grasp for what seemed like a good half-minute. There we were, holding Peter Gabriel above our heads. A very memorable moment indeed ......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2006 at 21:27

Originally posted by angegabriel angegabriel wrote:

Fish also stood on my table during their 1st tour for the Script album in Montreal. However, I've got a much more memorable one. It was 1987 at the Montreal Forum. Me and a friend decided at the last minute to head down to the Peter Gabriel concert and pick up a couple of tickets from our favorite ticket scalper who used to work the street before big shows. We lucked out more than we could have imagined. 2nd row on the floor, dead centre !!!  During the show, Peter performed "Lay Your Hands On Me" and allowed himself to fall into the audience. Me and my friend had him right in our grasp for what seemed like a good half-minute. There we were, holding Peter Gabriel above our heads. A very memorable moment indeed ......

That is a great story angegabriel. I too saw Peter Gabriel in 1987, I had floor seats but I was 20-30 rows back. Also I had about 4 or 5 giant guys in front of me blocking my view of the show, they were only there to hear "sledgehammer". I didn't get anywhere near Gabriel.

It was still a great show though.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 14:39

I talked to Jon Anderson sortof. He was in Israel a few months ago and after the concert he was surrounded by a few fans and he looked tired and annoyed but we told him "You were great!" and stuff like that and he just kept walking and didn't say a word...

 

He seemed very nice on the show though. But he wasn't as nice afterwards....

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 14:54

I stood next to Bill Bruford at the bar in a local arts centre where the Earthworks were playing. I didn't know what he looked like at the time, and didn't realise who he was until he sat behind the drums at the gig, 30 minutes later...

I grunted a 'Hi' at Harvey Bainbridge of Hawkwind once at a HW gig. He grunted a vague greeting back at me.

I shook Dumpys (Dumpys Rusty Nuts) hand at a festival. He was scary, and he smelt funny.

I also met Andrew Eldritch of 'The Sisters of Mercy' he was an arsehole.

..oh and Wayne Hussey of 'The Mission' at a Cure concert back in the 80's. He was very pleasant.

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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