Shred XLIX: And then the North Koreans attacked

HolyMoly wrote: Pekka wrote: HolyMoly wrote: Pekka wrote: HolyMoly wrote:   Hmm, I'll have to check out the full version.  I've seen a Camel concert from this period before, but it was from 1976 (Moonmadness) I think, with a full Snow Goose and with Doug Ferguson still in the band. Seen, like, live, really?  I'll get back to this tomorrow, now to bed. Bye. Oh no.... it was some televised concert or something - probably on youtube now, my friend made me a DVD of it. But I did see Camel live in person in 1982 (The Single Factor tour).  My first concert!    My dad and I were fans even that early on. Did you catch any of the perhaps better tours later on? Camel is the one of my biggest favourite bands that I still haven't seen live. Pretty much because their last tour took place before I heard of them. I don't think there's any official release of that concert you had on DVD, it would be nice if it's good quality. No, I never got the chance to see them live again.  I gather their US tours have been pretty small, few, and far between since then.  In fact, the one time I did see them, it was while my family was visiting Denmark, and not in the US at all. When Camel Productions started their label, I think my dad ordered some stuff from them, and included in the letter that he and I were probably the oldest and youngest person in that 1982 audience.  We both bought and got got signed copies of "Never Let Go" and "On the Road 1982" (recorded very close to the date where I saw them, and with the same set list). It's perhaps unfortunate that I only got to see them when the band was kind of in disarray (why else would you hire someone like Chris Rainbow to sing...  yuck...).  But then again, I was young, I was getting heavily into the band, and I loved it all - "The Single Factor" only seemed weak in retrospect (though even then it did feel like the album was too short).  And on the tour, they played a ton of songs from "I Can See Your House" and "Nude", two excellent albums by any measure. This, by the way, I think is a clip from the 1976 concert I got off the internet.  It's professionally shot with multiple angles, so I'm guessing it was probably televised somewhere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3kUR0cXt-U

Edited by Pekka - October 25 2012 at 11:15

The Bearded Bard wrote: presdoug wrote: HolyMoly wrote: presdoug wrote: Did you know that Steve Lukather played on Triumvirat's last album "Russian Roulette"? Not a commonly known thing, really. Now that's a great bit of trivia.  Never would have thought they'd cross paths! Also on "Russian Roulette" is Jeff Porcaro My guess is that Chris will be stoked when he sees this.

ps: don't tell him that he might have heard it before, and that it have just slipped his memory, tsk tsk , i  have known this for soem time, as it have comed up in ceveral "is Toto prog related" threads

Name that Douchebag

> Fly into Atlanta airport
> Have police shut down all entrance ramps into major highway for over 20 miles through heart of city in rush hour, so you can easily drive your motorcade without hinderance from commoners
> Thousands of residents stranded in traffic
> Go to fundraising event for 45 measly minutes, which people pay $500 to go to and even more to be photographed with you.
> Close down highways again as you run your motorcade back to the airport

I am so frickin mad at this douchebag.

So, the Guess Person Game has migrated to Shred? 

Is he an activist or something?

The Bearded Bard wrote: ^I won't. Hush, hush     smartpatrol wrote: presdoug wrote: I love Piper. My favorite Floyd album out of the ones I've heard is Meddle, but even that is only liek a 2.5 That's my least favourite of their albums with a 4+ rating, and I still think it's at least a 3 star album You're not a Pink Floyd fan, are you?

no

I've been a Pink Floyd fan all my life, which is a long time.  Though I've still never listened to The Division Bell all the way through. 

Aginor wins the prize, which is his very own autographed douche bag.

i would like my douche to be filled with bags k

That happened to me once when I was driving down to Detroit Metro Airport.  I can't recall much of the details, but I remember that we were stopped at an intersection to let a politician and his entourage drive by.  I think that it was probably Bush or McCain, but I'll be damned if my feeble brain can remember who it was.