| Current music: | Asia - 'Without You' |
Another concert last night, not quite on the same level as last weekend's
Re: the Asia concert last night... good performance, great opportunity to see some prog legends perform up close.
Steve Howe - still an amazing guitarist, fluid and inventive. What a mind; he can turn the mundane into an amazing platform for utterly creative style and showmanship. Steve got a great tone out of his Line6 gear, and unexpectedly even used a Variax to supplement his classic old Gibson ES-175 (though he played 'Clap' on a Martin') Steve looked really frail, like an errant gust of wind might waft him of
Carl Palmer - still a hell of a drummer at his age, and he does a nice Buddy Rich impression ;^} His playing was as tasty and sloppy as ever. Not one of the great timekeepers in rock and roll history, but I do love hearing him play. In this case he played a set of purple Ludwig Vistalites, with Paiste's on top and two of his trademark gongs behind him. Rather modest set actually. It didn't really help his cause that I saw Neil Peart utterly pwn poor Palmer last weekend!
Geoffrey Downes played 9 various Roland keyboards, two Fantoms, a digital drawbar organ, a digital piano of some type, and a little Moog 'Little Phatty' on top of the right hand stack. He also worked a ridiculous looking Roland synthaxe at the end of the night... I'd personally like to know what he was processing his voice through for backup vocals. They sounded ridiculously huge and it was really hard to tell it wasn't just samples (but I think it was a keyboard process... for 'Video Killed the Radio Star' he used a classic vocoder, and I think it was a vocoder like process that gave the rest of the backups their thickness, as nobody else in the band was really trying at all, except for Steve Howe during 'Roundabout'.
As for the band as a whole, they only really caught fire during the cover of ELP's 'Fanfare for the Common Man', which gave everybody a chance to really step out. That was pretty much worth the price of admission, and made me really want to hear some more ELP. No such luck. The abbreviated 'In the Court of the Crimson King' was pretty nice. 'Roundabout' was just serviceable - it just left me really wanting to go see YES (on tour in a month.) The Asia material was mostly fine, but lacked energy. Strange night, but glad I went. I predict the chance won't reoccur.
Rehearsal tomorrow night, and I'm looking forward to it!!! Later in the week, I've got more auditioning to do for other roles in our show, and also some videotaping to do for Beth Patterson. For now, I'll leave you with a few more pictures of our wonderful new Lab Girl.
Picture 1 - Brains for Brunch!
Picture 2 - Don't move
Picture 3 - Flying Car nose art
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