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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 02:40
I'm with Alan on this - I thought 1 was a good idea, but never gave me that 'wow' factor; 2 on the other hand, hit every button & contained serious 'grin' factor.



Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:


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Yay Good old Santa.

Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited Live (3 CDs and 2 DVDs

Just had a quick watch of the Hackett DVD - all I can say is
Supper's Ready - 'kin 'ell
Firth of Fifth - 'kin 'ell
Musical Box - 'kin 'ell.
Guys, if you like Genesis then you really need to get this!


Vicky & I were at the Albert Hall in October & witnessed this astonishingly good rebirth of Genesis material, so when this box set arrived via Santa I was more than a little chuffed.

You missed a couple of salient points though, Alan:

Watcher Of The Skies - 'kin 'ell.
Fly On A Windshield/Broadway - 'kin 'ell.
Entangled - 'kin 'ell.



Actually - the whole set - 'kin 'ell.



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Oops - forgot one:

Steve Rothery's size - 'kin 'ell!!

...who ate all the pies, who ate all the pies... etc etc

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 02:43
Actually - back to the Albert Hall gig - I remember distinctly a seriously enthusiastic, happy, but restrained (ie sitting) audience... until they played Musical Box.

As the final chord was played, the Hall erupted, everyone on their feet shouting their heads off; good to see a similar reaction on the Hammersmith DVD

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 03:38
I like karaoke too, I just prefer cover versions to add something. Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 04:09
Ooooooh, bitch

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 04:29
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 07:52
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:


You missed a couple of salient points though, Alan:

Watcher Of The Skies - 'kin 'ell.
Fly On A Windshield/Broadway - 'kin 'ell.
Entangled - 'kin 'ell.

 
I haven't watched it all yet!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 07:53
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Actually - back to the Albert Hall gig - I remember distinctly a seriously enthusiastic, happy, but restrained (ie sitting) audience... until they played Musical Box.

As the final chord was played, the Hall erupted, everyone on their feet shouting their heads off; good to see a similar reaction on the Hammersmith DVD
If the ending of Musical Box doesn't get you then nothing will.
 
Mind you, a few people remained firmly seated, probably the ones too old to get up.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 09:53
One thing that has surprised me about owning the world's most useless must have gadget (aka an iPad) is that I've rediscovered the radio - not the gratuitous me-me-me DJ babble of Radio 1 and 2, but the radio plays and comedy programmes of yore. I've always been a casual listener of Just A Minute, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The Infinite Monkey Cage, but I haven't really taken too much notice of radio plays since Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy back in my student days when owning a TV was a low priority. Currently enjoying a radio remake of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere - far more satisfying than the original Telly series.



Speaking of BBC radio plays... anyone got this?


Considering it combines one of my favourite albums with my pet hate (philosophy), I rather enjoyed it.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2013 at 02:32
Never heard of it - sounds interesting though; didn't know Tom Stoppard had even released an album

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2013 at 07:24
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

didn't know Tom Stoppard had even released an album


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2014 at 05:45
Happy New Year everyone.

I'm currently listening to a prog playlist on Spotify from my tablet which is connected to my new Bluetooth music player. Hey, I'm up with this tech stuff!

Of course, it would be a lot better if the tablet didn't lose its internet connection during every track, I may have to go back to CDs.

And now Dream Theater are on.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2014 at 06:13
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Happy New Year everyone.

I'm currently listening to a prog playlist on Spotify from my tablet which is connected to my new Bluetooth music player. Hey, I'm up with this tech stuff!

Of course, it would be a lot better if the tablet didn't lose its internet connection during every track, I may have to go back to CDs.

And now Dream Theater are on.
I got one of these for crimble:
It's also a Bluetooth speaker (and rather a sonorously pleasing one at that) so I can stream any track from the 200Gb of proggy tunes on my PC to the puny iPad by WiFi and then pipe it out to the clock using Bluetooth. For once, the technology seems to work surprisingly well, the first bluetooth speaker I bought used to drop-out all the time.

I've always thought it a  pity that Ericsson didn't name the communication protocol after King Harald Bluetooth's son, Sweyn Forkbeard (first Danish king of England) or his son Cnut the Great - far higher giggle factor in calling it Forkbeard or Cnut.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2014 at 08:25
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I've always thought it a  pity that Ericsson didn't name the communication protocol after King Harald Bluetooth's son, Sweyn Forkbeard (first Danish king of England) or his son Cnut the Great - far higher giggle factor in calling it Forkbeard or Cnut.

Yeah, Cnut would have been much better. Could have had endless fun in Currys.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2014 at 08:50
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 I can stream any track from the 200Gb of proggy tunes on my PC to the puny iPad by WiFi and then pipe it out to the clock using Bluetooth. 

How do you stream from the PC to the iPad?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2014 at 09:05
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 I can stream any track from the 200Gb of proggy tunes on my PC to the puny iPad by WiFi and then pipe it out to the clock using Bluetooth. 

How do you stream from the PC to the iPad?
First You need to have iTunes running on the PC, then you select "Home Sharing" from the "File" Menu. On the iPad you set-up home sharing in "Settings ->Music->HOME SHARING". Once you done both those you can now load the iPad's Music app, go to the "Shared" tab and select your PC's library. After an age as the two communicate with themselves, your PC music library will be accessible.

For something that is relatively simple they do seem to make a meal of it, but it does work.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2014 at 09:15
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 I can stream any track from the 200Gb of proggy tunes on my PC to the puny iPad by WiFi and then pipe it out to the clock using Bluetooth. 

How do you stream from the PC to the iPad?
First You need to have iTunes running on the PC, then you select "Home Sharing" from the "File" Menu. On the iPad you set-up home sharing in "Settings ->Music->HOME SHARING". Once you done both those you can now load the iPad's Music app, go to the "Shared" tab and select your PC's library. After an age as the two communicate with themselves, your PC music library will be accessible.

For something that is relatively simple they do seem to make a meal of it, but it does work.

Ah, so it's an Apple thing then! Maybe I can do that from my Nexus. I shall do some digging.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2014 at 09:20
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 I can stream any track from the 200Gb of proggy tunes on my PC to the puny iPad by WiFi and then pipe it out to the clock using Bluetooth. 

How do you stream from the PC to the iPad?
First You need to have iTunes running on the PC, then you select "Home Sharing" from the "File" Menu. On the iPad you set-up home sharing in "Settings ->Music->HOME SHARING". Once you done both those you can now load the iPad's Music app, go to the "Shared" tab and select your PC's library. After an age as the two communicate with themselves, your PC music library will be accessible.

For something that is relatively simple they do seem to make a meal of it, but it does work.

Ah, so it's an Apple thing then! Maybe I can do that from my Nexus. I shall do some digging.
Thanks Dean.
I have accessed my PC music library wirelessly from my Archos - that's  Android based - and it's a lot easier than the Apple route.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2014 at 09:33
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 I can stream any track from the 200Gb of proggy tunes on my PC to the puny iPad by WiFi and then pipe it out to the clock using Bluetooth. 

How do you stream from the PC to the iPad?
First You need to have iTunes running on the PC, then you select "Home Sharing" from the "File" Menu. On the iPad you set-up home sharing in "Settings ->Music->HOME SHARING". Once you done both those you can now load the iPad's Music app, go to the "Shared" tab and select your PC's library. After an age as the two communicate with themselves, your PC music library will be accessible.

For something that is relatively simple they do seem to make a meal of it, but it does work.

Ah, so it's an Apple thing then! Maybe I can do that from my Nexus. I shall do some digging.
Thanks Dean.
I have accessed my PC music library wirelessly from my Archos - that's  Android based - and it's a lot easier than the Apple route.
It looks like you can do it with Spotify. At least Spotify on my laptop has recognised my Nexus (7 times so far) but it's not clear how I can access the music on the laptop from the Nexus, which is connected to the Cnut player.
So far I've worked out how to play The Tangent via a playlist kindly donated by Mr Tillison, but then I have the CD anyway, Confused


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2014 at 04:15
Jim, what's your opinion of the main Hackett singer Nad Sylvan? I've not come across him before, but apart from being a bit scary looking and having a name that appears to be short for men's dangly bits, I quite like him.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2014 at 06:16
Well, apart from the fact he looks like the b*****d son of Dee Snider and Gene Wilder (see below), I have to say I like his voice; occasionally cracks on the higher register, but I don't think SH could have found a better Gabriel-era-type vocalist.

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