Subj : Prog Rock
To   : Chicken Head
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Fri Jan 11 2019 07:03 pm

  Re: Prog Rock
  By: Chicken Head to Rob Swindell on Fri Jan 11 2019 05:39 pm

 >   Re: Prog Rock
 >   By: Rob Swindell to Chicken Head on Fri Jan 04 2019 05:24 pm
 >
 > Ah..I see I need to update that old .sig.  Forgot about that!
 >
 > What do you think about Porcupine Tree?   I've been needlessly obsessed with
 > the "Deadwing" album for some reason.  I keep going back to "Arriving
 > Somewhere, Not Here."

My brother is a big fan of them. I really like Gavin's drumming, but haven't
really gotten in the albums that much.

 > "Snakes and Arrows" was really good.   I think "Vapor Trails" was great
 > too..only because we were lucky the band got back together after Neil's
 > tragedies.   Speaking of which...Vapor Trails is kind of the audio
 > counterpart to Neil Peart's "Ghost Rider" book.   The tarot cards in the
 > liner are explained in the book.   Quite a good read too.  I enjoyed Neil's
 > trip across Canada to the arctic circle and down to Mexico.   The drum-solo
 > opening to "One Little Victory" is kind of like Neil telling the world he's
 > back.

I agree with all of that (yeah, read the book too).

 > Oddly enough on Slacker there is a re-issue of Vapor Trails that I
 > absolutely hate.  They re-mixed all the songs and I really hate the end
 > result.  Not sure what the hell they were thinking with that one.

Totally disagree on that one. Vapor Trails was a horrible mix/master, overly
compressed (dynamically) and sonically harsh. I *much* prefer the mixmaster.
You can actually hear Geddy's awesome bass work on One Little Victory. A/B the
two versions of the songs and I think you'll come to the same conclusion. There
are full parts of the songs that now stand out as "new" to me that were
completely buried in the mix before. I love it.

 > We are http://www.prooforspoof.com

Are you sure about that? :-)


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