grodog wrote:Looks like Geoff Tate's coming to Wichita in March with his Operation:Mindcrime band. I just might have to check them out!: http://operationmindcrime.com/wordpress/tour/
I wouldn't recommend it, Allan. I saw him two years ago and his voice is shot. He'd simply not sing anything not in his lower register, choosing instead to be silent.
I'd instead suggest you catch Queensryche. Much like what Journey did, Queensryche found a singer that can sing Queensryche songs, which unfortunately Tate can no longer do.
The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Davy Brown, Davy Brown
Where ya gonna be when the hammer comes down?
Can you outshoot the Devil? Outrun his hounds?
Ain't nothing to it but to stay above ground.
Davy Brown, Davy Brown
Where ya gonna be when the hammer comes down?
Can you outshoot the Devil? Outrun his hounds?
Ain't nothing to it but to stay above ground.
I was able to cajole 9 friends into joining me for Jeff Lynne at the Hollywood Bowl in September, meaning I was able to qualify as a group purchase and 1) get a discount on the price, and 2) get really good seats by purchasing 3 months ahead the general public on-sale date
The Mystical Trash Heap - blog about D&D and other 80s pop-culture The Heroic Legendarium - my book of 1E-compatible rules expansions and modifications, now available for sale at DriveThruRPG
Good album, but I'm starting to think there's an issue with the mixing. Maybe another "loudness war" victim.
EDIT: I just started reading reviews which confirmed my impression, so it must not be my imagination. This mix sounds compressed as hell. Really too bad.
Not fond of the vocalist, but very progy, interesting. I agree the mix sounds terribly compressed, maybe a function of the medium being Youtube, dunno.
Listening to the Black Dahlia Murder's cover of hardcore songs:
I think over again my small adventures. My fears, those small ones that seemed so big, for all the vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet, there is only one great thing, the only thing, to live to see the great day that dawns, and the light that fills the world. - Old Inuit Song
“Superstitions are religious forms surviving the loss of ideas. Some truth no longer known or a truth which has changed its aspect is the origin and explanation of all. The name from the Latin, superstes, signfies that which survives, they are the dead remnants of old knowledge or opinion” - Eliphas Levi (138 The History of Magic).
“Let no one wake a man brusquely for it is a matter difficult of cure if the soul find not its way back to him”, the Upanishads of ancient India ( 58 Our Oriental Heritage, Durant).
"Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring" – Edward Gorey.
"The bright day is done and we are for the dark" - Shakespeare
"No lamp burns till morning" - Persian proverb.
“The living close the eyes of the dead, but it is the dead that open the eyes of the living”— Old Slavic saying.
'The best place to hide a light is in the sun' – old Arab proverb.
'To thee, thou wedding-guest!
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best who loveth best,
All things both great and small:
For the dear God, who loveth us,
He made and loveth all' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (VII Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner).
[i]It is a joyful thing indeed to hold intimate converse with a man after one’s own heart, chatting without reserve about things of interest or the fleeting topics of the world; but such, alas, are few and far between.[/i]
– Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), [i]Tsurezure-Gusa[/i] (1340)
