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Too bad, coz the song itself was great.
*clears throat*
Ayreon
Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who in 1995 released an album called Ayreon, the first of a very successful series of rock operas featuring many international guest-musicians. Ayreon is Arjen's main project, but he also works on various side-projects.
Biography
The progressive metal outfit Ayreon is essentially just Dutch multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Arjen Anthony Lucassen (formerly of the more mainstream metal band Vengeance), plus a revolving-door cast of collaborators and guest musicians that changes from project to project. Ayreon albums are usually large-scale concept epics and sometimes rock operas, in the latter case featuring a different vocalist for each character. Lucassen formed Ayreon in 1994 and released its first album, The Final Experiment, the following year. The more ethereal Actual Fantasy followed in 1996, and from there Ayreon only got more elaborate. 1998's Into the Electric Castle was a campy, sci-fi concept work spanning two discs and featuring guests like ex-Marillion singer Fish and the Gathering's Anneke van Giersbergen. Next up was Universal Migrator, another double-disc set whose volumes were issued separately under the subtitles Part I: The Dream Sequencer and Part II: Flight of the Migrator. These featured even more guest appearances, most notably Tiamat's Johan Edlund and Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, plus current and former members of Gamma Ray, Primal Fear, Helloween, Stratovarius, and Symphony X; musicians included Rocket Scientist's Erik Norlander and ex-Gorefest drummer Ed Warby.
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Ayreon
Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who in 1995 released an album called Ayreon, the first of a very successful series of rock operas featuring many international guest-musicians. Ayreon is Arjen's main project, but he also works on various side-projects.
Biography
The progressive metal outfit Ayreon is essentially just Dutch multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Arjen Anthony Lucassen (formerly of the more mainstream metal band Vengeance), plus a revolving-door cast of collaborators and guest musicians that changes from project to project. Ayreon albums are usually large-scale concept epics and sometimes rock operas, in the latter case featuring a different vocalist for each character. Lucassen formed Ayreon in 1994 and released its first album, The Final Experiment, the following year. The more ethereal Actual Fantasy followed in 1996, and from there Ayreon only got more elaborate. 1998's Into the Electric Castle was a campy, sci-fi concept work spanning two discs and featuring guests like ex-Marillion singer Fish and the Gathering's Anneke van Giersbergen. Next up was Universal Migrator, another double-disc set whose volumes were issued separately under the subtitles Part I: The Dream Sequencer and Part II: Flight of the Migrator. These featured even more guest appearances, most notably Tiamat's Johan Edlund and Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, plus current and former members of Gamma Ray, Primal Fear, Helloween, Stratovarius, and Symphony X; musicians included Rocket Scientist's Erik Norlander and ex-Gorefest drummer Ed Warby.
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All Music Guide
BunnyS wrote: /me is now playing - Stadium Arcadium album :>
finally
I saw them live yesterday
..though it wasn't very different from how it was 4 years ago o_O
+different suits
+different jokes
+different soloes (plus fuckups <3)
+stadium arcadium songs
Even the same encore routine:
Lights out; wait 5 minutes; Chad comes on stage; drum solo; Frusciante and Flea come in; instrumental bit / noise section; Kiedis comes in to kick in Californication (I think); after that come about 10 to 15 bars of Suck My Kiss that eventually go into a very long version of Give it Away.
Was pretty much the same when I went to see them 4 years ago, even though that was a concert and this was a festival.
ps: Listening to..nothing \o. atm, cause I'm getting ready for a shower; 3 days of Pinkpop kills hygiene
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Some Kid A songs I messed up in Audacity, after I read this Wikipedia article on the album. Some songs actually sound ok.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_a
Interesting.. *points at the bit on syncing up*
I was finally going to buy Kid A a few days ago..but I chose to buy Kind of Blue in the end.
Thing is..Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was in my left hand while Kid A was in the other. Basically an impossible choice to do objectively, because you can't compare them, and they're both masterpieces..
Then suddenly the (dutch hiphop) group that was playing in the record store sang something about 'being like Miles Davis when I feel kind of blue' (but in Dutch)..so I figured I'd give the irony of faith what it wanted and bought it ;p
ps: Has anyone tried the sync-up with 10,000 days yet? I can't get it exactly synced up (just a few milliseconds), but I can hear that it actually fits pretty much perfectly if it wasn't for me not being able to use Audacity perfectly...
I was finally going to buy Kid A a few days ago..but I chose to buy Kind of Blue in the end.
Thing is..Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was in my left hand while Kid A was in the other. Basically an impossible choice to do objectively, because you can't compare them, and they're both masterpieces..
Then suddenly the (dutch hiphop) group that was playing in the record store sang something about 'being like Miles Davis when I feel kind of blue' (but in Dutch)..so I figured I'd give the irony of faith what it wanted and bought it ;p
ps: Has anyone tried the sync-up with 10,000 days yet? I can't get it exactly synced up (just a few milliseconds), but I can hear that it actually fits pretty much perfectly if it wasn't for me not being able to use Audacity perfectly...
