but will it be on ice?

FeedTheCollapse: but will it be on ice?

lol

Sounds like a roundabout to the gates of delirium. Anyone who can sit through all that is a real storm trooper with a heart of the sunrise.

Joystk: Sounds like a roundabout to the gates of delirium. Anyone who can sit through all that is a real storm starship trooper with a heart of the sunrise.

Don't be embarrassed. I've seen all good people make that mistake.

I've seen Wakeman in concert several times. He's a hell of a lot of fun. Super talented, of course, but also just a hoot. The old "pretentious" label just didn't stick. He's too engaging and having too much fun to be pretentious.

I still maintain that there's a million times more pretention in a single B&W pic of U2 gazing pensively out across the landscape than there is in a ten-minute synth solo.

Squidgilum: Joystk: Sounds like a roundabout to the gates of delirium. Anyone who can sit through all that is a real storm starship trooper with a heart of the sunrise.

Don't be embarrassed. I've seen all good people make that mistake.

I've seen Wakeman in concert several times. He's a hell of a lot of fun. Super talented, of course, but also just a hoot. The old "pretentious" label just didn't stick. He's too engaging and having too much fun to be pretentious.

I still maintain that there's a million times more pretention in a single B&W pic of U2 gazing pensively out across the landscape than there is in a ten-minute synth solo.

Lol, maybe I'm thinking of "Storm Troopin'".

Squidgilum: I've seen Wakeman in concert several times. He's a hell of a lot of fun. Super talented, of course, but also just a hoot. The old "pretentious" label just didn't stick. He's too engaging and having too much fun to be pretentious.
I still maintain that there's a million times more pretention in a single B&W pic of U2 gazing pensively out across the landscape than there is in a ten-minute synth solo.

I thought I already had you farky'd "Good Stuff" before, if only for your awesome somewhat obscure username. Maybe it was on my computer at work.

I saw an old 70's interview with him, part of a docu about Yes...
very interesting guy. very funny.
i forget, is he american or british?
anyway there was an article linked from fark a while ago that had him talking about "tales" tour and curry and stuff. awesome stuff.
real good read and funny.

/ has "Wives" on cd... cheap.. for 7$ new or something.
it's alright.
// has "journey to the centre of the earth" on vinyl... interesting music, but he got some horrid singers to be on it... ugh.
the narration was nice though.

anyway in that documentary, he talked about some of his concerts with Yes, around Fragile era...
and how at first he was buggled by having to go from like piano to mellotron to moog to mellotron all in a space of like 5 bars or something. missing cues and whatnot.
quote like " oh whoops i'm supposed to be on the [moog/mellotron/piano, etc.] now. uh oh that silence isn't supposed to be here... maybe i was supposed to play then." lmao.

I was born too late, but god I loved that album.

Squidgilum: I still maintain that there's a million times more pretention in a single B&W pic of U2 gazing pensively out across the landscape than there is in a ten-minute synth solo.

also, seconded!

Squidgilum: I still maintain that there's a million times more pretention in a single B&W pic of U2 gazing pensively out across the landscape than there is in a ten-minute synth solo.

Well, sure. Bono is just trying to look cool and important-- Wakeman is hard at work. Cape not withstanding.

Good stuff. I'd love to see that show ;)

Squidgilum: Joystk:

I still maintain that there's a million times more pretention in a single B&W pic of U2 gazing pensively out across the landscape than there is in a ten-minute synth solo.

I hate prog and especially Yes, but I do agree with you there.

Why all the U2 hate? Their last couple albums are 'meh', but everything from War to Zooropa is awesome. Say what you like about Bono, but at least the guy's using his celebrity status for good causes, and not being a trashy vapid whore like some others.
(Britney, Madonna, I'm looking at you!)

/Still thinks they put on a hell of a performance at the inaguration...was expecting them to play MLK

Because back in the day, Rick Wakeman was called "pretentious".
These days, U2 is called "pretentious" (not necessarily in just his music)

Even if you liked YES and bought "Journey To The Center Of The Earth", you probably consider "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" obscure, but at the time it came out, it was considered "pretentious" by several of his fans, including me.

I was wrong.

True fans will be interested in a Wakeman's web site which links to a video talking about how he came up with the album and promoting the show.

I think that his piano part in Bowie's "Life on Mars" is one of the best keyboard performances in rock music history. He was pretty funny on "Top Gear" as well- he brought a set of keys to their test track and had a 'star in a reasonably priced car' jam.

Album is ok. The tracks really don't have much to do with their subject matter, though. I half get the feeling he wrote the tracks, then desperately searched for some common theme that had six elements before settling on Henry's wives.

6 Wives was the album Wakeman owed A&M records when he left the Strawbs for Yes. I used to think he recorded it over a couple weekends just shut Herb Alpert's trap. It has grown on me over the past 35+ years.

i love the fact that when he was in yes, he was the only meat-eating conservative in a group of veggie liberals. funny guy.

Saw "Journey to the Center" performed live in its entirety on TV when I was a lad. Wish they'd reshow that.

Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed Solomon king.

/obscure, wrong dynasty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mSJP18SMXw
Thread is useless without a video. My fav Wakeman. If you bore easily skip to ~2 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8swApEb9w

Catherine Parr, the best of the wives.

/Don't care for any other part of the album.