SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

Hello everyone! Mission accomplished... The physical Green Card should arrive at the Art Rock mansion in the next few weeks, but what counts is that we have been approved immediately, and without any problems. The interview itself was a formality - I think our case was very clear-cut from the beginning, one of the advantages of being older!

As I said to someone else, I feel a little bit like a deflated sack now that all the tension of the past few weeks has been finally released. Hopefully we'll be able to enjoy some peace (not to mention live prog music) before the next crisis hits.

Raff wrote: Hello everyone! Mission accomplished... The physical Green Card should arrive at the Art Rock mansion in the next few weeks, but what counts is that we have been approved immediately, and without any problems. The interview itself was a formality - I think our case was very clear-cut from the beginning, one of the advantages of being older! As I said to someone else, I feel a little bit like a deflated sack now that all the tension of the past few weeks has been finally released. Hopefully we'll be able to enjoy some peace (not to mention live prog music) before the next crisis hits.

Glad to hear it, Raff.

It wasn't the same without you and Micky around here.

Raff wrote: Hello everyone! Mission accomplished... The physical Green Card should arrive at the Art Rock mansion in the next few weeks, but what counts is that we have been approved immediately, and without any problems. The interview itself was a formality - I think our case was very clear-cut from the beginning, one of the advantages of being older! As I said to someone else, I feel a little bit like a deflated sack now that all the tension of the past few weeks has been finally released. Hopefully we'll be able to enjoy some peace (not to mention live prog music) before the next crisis hits.

Very glad to hear that went well for you

I'm having a bit of a what-happened-with-the-last-eighteen-years-and-why-am-I-not-even-trying-to-achieve-anything-or-really-connecting-with-anybody crisis at the moment. Teenage angst, nothing like it.

TGM: Orb wrote: Raff wrote: Hello everyone! Mission accomplished... The physical Green Card should arrive at the Art Rock mansion in the next few weeks, but what counts is that we have been approved immediately, and without any problems. The interview itself was a formality - I think our case was very clear-cut from the beginning, one of the advantages of being older! As I said to someone else, I feel a little bit like a deflated sack now that all the tension of the past few weeks has been finally released. Hopefully we'll be able to enjoy some peace (not to mention live prog music) before the next crisis hits. Very glad to hear that went well for you I'm having a bit of a what-happened-with-the-last-eighteen-years-and-why-am-I-not-even-trying-to-achieve-anything-or-really-connecting-with-anybody crisis at the moment. Teenage angst, nothing like it.

Yeah, definitely. I know how that feels.

TGM: Orb wrote: cacho wrote: Raff wrote: Hello everyone! Mission accomplished... The physical Green Card should arrive at the Art Rock mansion in the next few weeks, but what counts is that we have been approved immediately, and without any problems. The interview itself was a formality - I think our case was very clear-cut from the beginning, one of the advantages of being older! As I said to someone else, I feel a little bit like a deflated sack now that all the tension of the past few weeks has been finally released. Hopefully we'll be able to enjoy some peace (not to mention live prog music) before the next crisis hits. Congratulations for you and Micky! Like I said in the other thread, I'm very glad to hear that. As you may see, I do have a different "hair-cut", do you like it? David Byron is made of win, btw. Just for Gypsy, because that's my favourite hard rock song ever.

Ahh, yeah! Though I've always found the production pretty bad, in which Gypsy as a hard rock song doesn't rock as it should be IMHO..

^no, I'm not  a man of production either, In Rock's production is pretty bad too, but still it rocks like hell.

Gypsy, for me it doesn't as I suppose it had back in the 70's, however great riff....

cacho wrote: ^no, I'm not  a man of production either, In Rock's production is pretty bad too, but still it rocks like hell. Gypsy, for me it doesn't as I suppose it had back in the 70's, however great riff....

Fair enough... I like raw production for some reason... I suppose it gives me a bit more of a feel that I'm making my own interpretation of the music and not just what the producer's feeding me. I mean, great production (by, say, Brian Eno) is great production and there are some albums which are increasingly becoming just a joy to listen to for that alone, but I think my definition off 'bad' production is production which doesn't, for me, mesh with the sound and ideas of the album, rather than production which clouds the exact musical content a bit.

So, for instance, I've never liked Rush's (finds better example) Jethro Tull's production after, say, 73 or so, all that much. It's perfectly nice, it just never does anything for the material other than get through the musical content, whereas, say, the early Genesis recordings, Trespass and especially Nursery Cryme are really shrouded in some sort of mystery and nice English-folklore feel from that very loose and atmospheric production.

TGM: Orb wrote: cacho wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: cacho wrote: Raff wrote: Hello everyone! Mission accomplished... The physical Green Card should arrive at the Art Rock mansion in the next few weeks, but what counts is that we have been approved immediately, and without any problems. The interview itself was a formality - I think our case was very clear-cut from the beginning, one of the advantages of being older! As I said to someone else, I feel a little bit like a deflated sack now that all the tension of the past few weeks has been finally released. Hopefully we'll be able to enjoy some peace (not to mention live prog music) before the next crisis hits. Congratulations for you and Micky! Like I said in the other thread, I'm very glad to hear that. As you may see, I do have a different "hair-cut", do you like it? David Byron is made of win, btw. Just for Gypsy, because that's my favourite hard rock song ever. Ahh, yeah! Though I've always found the production pretty bad, in which Gypsy as a hard rock song doesn't rock as it should be IMHO.. Oh, the production is lousy, haphazard and not particularly focussed. I think that's why it works for me so much. It's more about the spirit of rocking than the sound (and the truly pumping lyrics - it makes me feel more manly just listening to it). I just crank the volume up and live the piece, I'm not someone who really cares too much about production if it's not being used as a way of expression (e.g. Pawn Hearts, or Remain In Light or The Lamb...). Edit: and that organ solo is ****ing vicious. I think the live at the BBC version is possibly better.

You're a wise man.

And Raff, I'm so glad to hear everything went well .

TGM: Orb wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Rob you're 18!? Great, another member of the forum I'm older than... Yeah, I think so, anyway. Frankly, I think, being 18 is like being 16 but realising how embarrassing it is to have been 16. In the same way that 16 is like 14, but realising how embarrassing it was to be 14. I'm sure 20 will follow the same pattern. Edit: I also say frankly too much when I don't really mean it. At 17 it was per se, when I didn't mean it.

It'll soon level and just get sad. Don't worry.

TGM: Orb wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Rob you're 18!? Great, another member of the forum I'm older than... Yeah, I think so, anyway. Frankly, I think, being 18 is like being 16 but realising how embarrassing it is to have been 16. In the same way that 16 is like 14, but realising how embarrassing it was to be 14. I'm sure 20 will follow the same pattern. Edit: I also say frankly too much when I don't really mean it. At 17 it was per se, when I didn't mean it.

Edited by Henry Plainview - May 14 2009 at 16:57