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infandous 
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now that is hilarious! Infandous is definitely our TFK guru. we are but his lowly disciples. [/QUOTE]Perhaps......but I'm certainly not a 5.1 guru. Dennis will be quite cross with me when he finds out I STILL haven't set up the 5.1 system my girlfriend has  |
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No worries m8, I will be patient with you.  Here is a nice deal on speakers: http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/302323 Here is a nice deal on a cheap 5.1 receiver: http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/302177     
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"Yeah, people are unhappy about that - but you know what, it's still Yes." - Chris Squire
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zumacraig
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Posted: June 11 2012 at 13:12 |
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good to know. after tomorrow i'll have the rush to keep me busy until BoE. hopefully that will keep me busy until Momentum
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infandous
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Posted: June 11 2012 at 13:33 |
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Heh, yeah, I'm looking forward to both of those albums greatly as well |
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Biff Tannen
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Regarding Zoltan not being in the band anymore, they never went into great detail about it on the TFK yahoo mailing list (but Roine alluded to it pretty strongly), but Zoltan and Tomas Bodin apparently did not get along well at all, and I guess it reached a point where they couldn't co-exist.
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infandous
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Zoltan apparently frequently denigrated Tomas' playing. I guess Zoltan was not impressed and made comments to that effect fairly often (Tomas revealed all this, in an interview? or maybe on the yahoo group, can't remember which). So Tomas told Roine that either he was quitting, or Zoltan had to go. So Zoltan was sacked. However, Roine always loved Zoltan's playing, and felt he was the perfect FK drummer, which is probably why he was on TSONE. In any case, it's also true that Zoltan much prefers jazz to any sort of rock music, and likes to keep his options open. |
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Posted: June 12 2012 at 11:41 |
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i think all the drummers they have had are good. why couldn't jamie come back? he wasn't flashy, but was a phat bottom end. i hope this new dude sticks around a while. too bad about zoltan. he's like 20 years younger than roine and tomas, so i can see him being an ass and not being able to understand that virtuosity doesn't mean playing lots of notes really fast. tomas's genius is in his tones, inverted chords, and what he doesn't play. his little mellotron solo in the middle of Circus of Brimstone kills me every time as does Room with a View. Kills me!
that being said, been listening to flower king lately and roine isn't a shabby keyboardist himself
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Biff Tannen
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Yep, the drumming in TFK is always more than good enough, and while I agree that Zoltan was the best of the bunch, none of the albums he played on are in my top tier of TFK albums, because the songwriting is what matters the most, and, IMO, Flower Power, SWA, Paradox Hotel and Space Revolver have the best songwriting.
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zumacraig
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Posted: June 12 2012 at 17:14 |
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i'd like the drums to have more of an 'in the room' sound rather than the arena reverb. minor quibble though.
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btw-i love the liner notes to The Flower King. really helps one enjoy the album more. if not for them, one might think 'cheessy'
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Posted: June 13 2012 at 07:38 |
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Posted: June 13 2012 at 10:22 |
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Yeah, depressing to hear this stuff. Also, he obviously posted that because fans were complaining, thinking that Reingold Records was the one charging inflated shipping costs. But what would anyone expect for a double vinyl package being shipped all over the world????
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if any band should do a kickstarter campaign its TFK. there's no reason these dudes, especially roine, should do well making music. neal morse seems to be doing well with his in-house recording and distrobution.
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^ You mean 'shouldn't' do well?
If Neal Morse can make a living doing what he does, TFK should as well. The thing Neal has over Roine is he has Mike Portnoy on his albums, so he gets a lot of the DT crowd to buy his music. I still think that BoE will do OK, as the last Transatlantic album and tour was highly successful and may have helped some people discover TFK who might not have checked them out before. |
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Posted: June 13 2012 at 13:29 |
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Yay! Now there's an ad banner so all at PA can be annoyed at the fact that TFK are somewhat popular around here
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Posted: June 13 2012 at 14:07 |
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Hey we got Biff Tannen and Marty Mcfly here! Where's Lorraine?
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We just need a George McFly and Doc Brown, and we're set.
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Darn them for being semi-successful! Don't they know that's forbidden for members of this genre?
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Pull off the CD from the package and I think more will buy.......The CD will get more purchases thru Amazon and the like, but not the vinyl.
I would glady buy the vinyl red or black version......I just don't care to have the CD. But at US$40.00 for the vinyl/CD package I will wait to see what happens.
I feel for him though, he is right......the use of the F word is awesome!
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Posted: June 14 2012 at 10:20 |
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You know, that "return of prog royalty" is going to ruffle some feathers, to be sure. I have to assume that is tongue in cheek. |
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