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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2013, 01:30:45 AM »
Neal Morse- LIVE MOMENTUM Promo


They visited Finland last summer, with Jason Gianni on drums, and the concert was unforgettable!
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2013, 09:03:39 PM »
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2013, 09:19:57 PM »
Note to self...Buy wiper fluid ;D
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2013, 10:09:48 PM »

They visited Finland last summer, with Jason Gianni on drums, and the concert was unforgettable!

Man that guy gets a big full sound out of his drums.

Allot of drummers think that (when live) that sound comes from tuning low and fat but it doesn't, it comes from tuning properly and surprisingly "high".

Proper mic'ing and mixing then works the rest of the magic.

In a studio however, if the engineer does not know what he is doing, he will kick you out if you tune your drums like this. LOL    


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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2013, 05:52:08 AM »

They visited Finland last summer, with Jason Gianni on drums, and the concert was unforgettable!

Allot of drummers think that (when live) that sound comes from tuning low and fat but it doesn't, it comes from tuning properly and surprisingly "high".

Proper mic'ing and mixing then works the rest of the magic.

True, I've been amazed by such thinking too. I joined a local reggae group around 1993 and played for the first year my old acoustic setup: 18" bass drum, 14" snare, 13" tom and 16" floor tom, which sounded quite modern and fat while tuned jazzy. I used the same setup for loud rock, blues and what not, always tight and easy for recording and live as well. Later we started to use electric drums, because those are lighter to carry and don't take much space, but not so nice to play though. Nowadays I mostly use djembé and cajón as a setup with splash cymbal, shaker, brushes and tambourine, convenient to carry around for the middle-aged hippie. ;)

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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2013, 10:33:15 PM »

They visited Finland last summer, with Jason Gianni on drums, and the concert was unforgettable!

Allot of drummers think that (when live) that sound comes from tuning low and fat but it doesn't, it comes from tuning properly and surprisingly "high".

Proper mic'ing and mixing then works the rest of the magic.

True, I've been amazed by such thinking too. I joined a local reggae group around 1993 and played for the first year my old acoustic setup: 18" bass drum, 14" snare, 13" tom and 16" floor tom, which sounded quite modern and fat while tuned jazzy. I used the same setup for loud rock, blues and what not, always tight and easy for recording and live as well. Later we started to use electric drums, because those are lighter to carry and don't take much space, but not so nice to play though. Nowadays I mostly use djembé and cajón as a setup with splash cymbal, shaker, brushes and tambourine, convenient to carry around for the middle-aged hippie. ;)



The problem comes from the fact that an acoustic drum sounds drastically different to the audience than it does to the drummer.

If a drummer tunes his drums so they sound good to him, chances are good the audience will not agree.

Understanding this fact will, or should, influence his tunning choices.

It takes some time and resources but it helps to tune your drums and then get a friend to hit them while you stand 50 feet away. You will immediately see that you have tuned WAY too low.  ;D  

Drums are designed to sound their best when they "vibrate". Drummers would be well served to tune in such a way that allows them to do that.  ;)    
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2013, 11:51:25 AM »
Can you remember... (Black Sabbath)

MetallicA & Ozzy - Iron Man & Paranoid (RnR Hall of Fame '09)



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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2013, 11:54:02 AM »
and here the original

Black Sabbath - Paranoid/Iron Man (Music Video)



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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2013, 08:46:09 PM »
I like Sabbath as long as Ozzy is singing ;D
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2013, 04:04:33 AM »
One of the all round Geniuses who comes around maybe once a generation; maker of one the first Digital Video clips with a dozen Atari's,  ??? :o ( he asked for some help, but hadn't been invented ... ) the extraordinary Musician, 'Gearhead', Todd Rundgren.  :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren#Production.2C_video_and_other_work
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Rundgren has long been on the cutting edge of music and video technologies. His music video for the song "Time Heals" was among the first videos aired on MTV, and a video he produced for RCA, accompanied by Gustav Holst's The Planets, was used as a demo for their videodisc players.

His experience with computer graphics dates back to 1981, when he developed one of the first computer paint programs, dubbed the Utopia Graphics System; it ran on an Apple II with Apple's digitizer tablet.[17] He is also the co-developer of the computer screensaver system Flowfazer.


Todd Rundgren & Ringo Starr All Star Band - I SAW THE LIGHT and LOVE IS THE ANSWER, Portland Oregon
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #25 on: January 19, 2013, 04:16:02 AM »
More Tech stuff, ...
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In the 1990s, Rundgren was an early adopter of the NewTek Video Toaster and made several videos with it. The first, for "Change Myself" from 2nd Wind, was widely distributed as a demo reel for the Toaster; he also used the system for videos from No World Order. Later, he set up a company to produce 3D animation using the Toaster; this company's first demo, "Theology" also became a widely-circulated item among Toaster users. Most of Rundgren's Toaster work is available on the video compilation The Desktop Collection.
Edited out Religous content from Orginal at Wikipedia...


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Trivia: At this time Todd did a kind of 'reggae' version of the song, Letterman pushed him to sing as is on the Album.
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me (Letterman 4-16-03)
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2013, 04:30:44 AM »
Todd Rundgren Change Myself Lightwave Music Video

From the Youtube page:
Created totally with NewTek's LightWave 3D modelling and rendering software and NewTek Video Toasters on Amiga computers, in the early 1990's.

This video was ripped to MPEG from a very high quality promotional VHS tape. This video was a monumental achievement in 3D animation for its time in the early 1990s and it was done COMPLETELY on affordable, personal computers.
Todd actually used a stack of ten Amigas (because it would have taken forever to render this many frames of 3D animation on a single machine).. and was sneakernetting SCSI hard drives between them since Commodore, Amiga's maker, would not provide him with networking hardware to make the rendering of the thousands of frames in this video easier. He did most of the 3D object modelling and animation scene plotting himself.

So he's not just a singer / songwriter, but a VERY talented artist and computer wizard too. He originally intended the video to be 100% 3D rendering but Warner Bros. insisted that he appear in it, so he filmed himself in front of a black backdrop and then overlayed the film of him singing the song onto various 3D objects in the final rendering, ... much more on YT Video page, ...
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2013, 04:41:10 AM »
Sorry, wait for, "A Dream Lives on Forever". No more posts for me till next month.  ;D  ;D  ;D

Professor Todd Rundgren at the IU School of Music Auer Hall Part 2 - 10/31/2010
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2013, 05:15:29 PM »
I was following this thread http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,112477.0.html so I started looking through my Music folder. I have an Original Master Recording Pink Floyd - Meddle CD that was released in 1989.
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In 1989, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab released the Pink Floyd album, Meddle, as a 24 karat gold UltraDisc CD.
http://pinkfloydarchives.com/dusmfsl.htm#MedMFSLCD1
I have it ripped to my computer and this song is, well, a little strange, but good.
Pink Floyd - Meddle - 05 - Seamus
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Re: January Music Thread
« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2013, 06:43:19 AM »
One of my all-time favorite guitarists:


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