Posts by foxfeeder
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Slightly off topic, but, without googling or imdb-ing, which of the above list of people appears in an episode of Father Ted? (UK comedy set in Ireland)
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This has rapidly become the most simultaneously hyperactive yet boring thread in the history of the internet!
Close second I guess is the many versions of new PG songs being released in a "drip feed them until they die" form.
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Hold on my heart 172 bpm? What version are they listening to? The Prodigy? Just hummed it while looking at my watch, more like 48 bpm, way too slow, as it sounds.
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Hold on my heart!
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I agree about The Fugitive. It along with A Curious Feeling are his only two solo albums that I enjoy listening to start to finish. And I quite like his singing voice on The Fugitive—rather Al Stewartesque to my ear.
Personally, I prefer Soundtracks to The Fugitive, the instrumentals work better, and the guests really add value.
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(Just to complete the excellent review of Tom Morgenstern)
The HDVS capture may have been transferred to film at the time :
Peter Wilson (from High Definition & Digital Cinema), who worked on the HDVS production of this concert, said that the tapes have been transferred to 35mm film using Sony EBR process (and then blown up to 70mm film). source: hddc.co.uk
ps : Electron Beam Recording (EBR) was a process developed by Sony PCL to transfer HDVS video tapes (1125i @ 60hz) to 35mm film @ 30fps. (There also was a mode to transfer into 2250p @ 24fps to simplify the direct distribution to cinemas!)
Correction to link: Welcome to HDDC Ltd.
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I crashed my car in November 1991, while listening to this track. True story.
Because of, or coincidentally?
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I'm listening to music either written or produced by the great Alan Tarney of the Tarney Spencer Band. They got their start working other great musicians including James Taylor Move (late 60s), Kevin Peek, Terry Britten, Cliff Richard and The Shadows (Cliff Richard, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, John Farrar (!)). Alan Tarney and Trevor Spencer also worked with Olivia Newton-John, Chris Squire (!), Bonnie Tyler, Charlie Dore, New Seekers, Peter Doyle, and The Real Thing. They had a go at their own band "Trevor Spencer Band" which had three albums in late 70s. They never caught on so Alan Tarney went the Trevor Horn route and became a famous producer/songwriter. He was famous for writing/producing 80s Cliff Richard hits (We Don't Talk Anymore, A Little in Love), Leo Sayer (More Than I Can Say), Charlie Dore (Pilot of the Airwaves), A-Ha (Take on Me, Sun Always Shines on TV), etc.
Leo Sayer's last UK hit, Orchard Road, is an Alan Tarney song too. Tarney only produced A-Ha, just to be clear.
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That is incorrect
As there were several "That"'s in the post you quoted, perhaps you could be more specific?
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I've never seen Whitehead's work as particularly appealing, the ideas are good, but the execution is, indeed, a bit amateurish. (Better than I could do, but I'm not even an amateur!). I guess I'm spoilt though, having had Phil Travers covers for the Moody Blues and solo albums as a reference point.
I do remember seeing a massive poster of SEBTP in the window of the "Migrant Mouse" record shop in Lower Bridge Street, Chester, back in the day. The shop window was at 45 degrees to the street, as it was on the corner of a side street, so you couldn't miss it, and I remember being quite struck by this one as very impressive. The Lamb cover is good also, but of course, Colin Elgie's cover for Trick is one of the best ever. He also did the cover of Justin Hayward's solo album the following year, using a similar concept (every song illustrated) but a different style (more "Norman Rockwell"!)
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Im Germany, it's 55€ (CD-Set) and 59€ (Vinyl)
More money for less tracks with lower sound quality. Not a hard decision in my book!
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That's brilliant! Steve really rocking out, not sure I could have imagined him playing a smoky blues bar in Tennessee somewhere but there you have it. Looks like so much fun it's a wonder they weren't tempted to just let rip more often.
There is more in the show, I have the DVD set of gas tank.
Steve made the ITV News at Ten in the UK last night, being interviewed about Beck's playing back in the day.
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There's a TV performance (with Rick Wakeman, I think) where Steve introduces "Guitar Boogie" like this:
"This used to be called Berry's Boogie, and then Beck did it and called it Beck's Boogie, so I suppose we ought to call it Hackett's bogie."
From "Gas Tank", a TV show by Rick and Tony Ashton.
Steve Hackett, Rick Wakeman And His Band - Hackett's Bogie (GasTank Ep 6) | Rick Wakeman - YouTube
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Knebworth 78 as broadcast on Radio 1 included Fountain of Salmacis, and The Lady Lies. Maybe others, just going from memory of what's on my tape of it.
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Got myself a meta quest 2 VR headset when it was on sale a few weeks back, and finally fired it up last night.
Wow! It was my first time trying anything like this and it's pretty amazing. I clicked on video of a rollercoaster that's in Canada's wonderland or something. You have a totally immersive 360 degree experience where it goes up and up and up and then drops and goes flying around the track. It's not exactly the same as being on a rollercoaster but it's closer to that than, say for example, watching it on a regular TV. A lot of the same things were happening in my brain as happen on a rollercoaster and I found my body leaning to one side and another, my stomach dropping a little etc.
I watch a short bit of a Foo Fighters concert and hope they can make something like it for a Genesis concert if they have enough from the footage they already have.
I've missed the mark with prior technology advances like minidisc vs ipod, and then ipod vs streaming. But I can immediately see the appeal of VR and assume it will get better and better. I can imagine it replacing standard TV and maybe computers/gaming. Also, with how quickly chatGPT and other AI are becoming available and capable of producing high quality art and writing, I bet in a few years you'll be able to write your own scenes and have AI render them in 3D video.
Dara O'Briain Is Amazed By VR | Live At The Apollo | BBC Comedy Greats - YouTube
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I feel sorry for those who've waited 20 years for THIS! And now, it turns out, you'll have to wait even longer for the rest. What nonsense.
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Andy Fairweather Low and the Low Riders live from Cardiff (CD + DVD Christmas pressie) - Andy is a really good (and underrated) guitarist who has supported everyone. I've been a fan since the 70s.
He was on Jools Holland's Hootenanny. I guess you know he is on Helen Watson's "The Weather Inside"?
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Genesis: Archive releases for sure. compilations, perhaps.
PG: an album.
SH: Wolflight mk 4
Otherwise: Tim Bowness, another album that pales compare with Dancehall and Stupid Things.
Cock Robin: an album and a book.
Singles charts full of drivel!
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Great song, great lyrics, probably thanks to B A Robertson as much as Mike, Paul Carrack's great performance too. Can't help feeling the comment "for the first time it sounds really good!" is Rutherford's sour grapes at the events of Paul's departure. He does seem to bear grudges!
