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lenora_roseJeff, I got the message you called. I've been out...
Went with mom to Trans-Siberian Orchestra Monday. (I guess that's sort of a "so much for avoiding Christmassy stuff before Dec. 1", but I don't pick the dates. Heck, I usually go to the John Huston Christmas Carol, and that's next weekend. haven't got tickets yet, though.)
Yowza. I've been a folkie too long. I forgot how LOUD huge arena concerts get. I should have grabbe a pair of Colin's earplug. (Pretty good soundmix for the volume, though - although I had a hard time sometimes hearing the string section over the rest of the rock) And how over the top; at one point I did say to mom, "I think four different big lighting effects at once is a bit much..." and that probably wasn't their most ostentatious. Some of the most ridiculously over the top bits (Four lighting effects plus actual fire/sparklers/fireworks type mixes) actually flowed together really well, others just seemed like one or two too many things at once.and sometimes blindingly bright or busy. But I liked the fires. (And I was really glad the last effect seemed to be based on dry ice, cause the waft of cool, after so many waves of heat, was verra nice)
The music was darn good, if sometimes overly sentimental (although it's not like I didn't know about their ridiculous reverence for Christmas) and sometimes overly melodramatic (even for my tastes) but they're having so much fun with it all that it's hard to mind. And seriously, there's a lot of appeal in tangling classical and rock so thoroughly.
Although I keep being reminded about someone's passing comment that it really is harder to play a guitar well when it's strapped down by your crotch instead of at a decent level. (Which is why fewer of the really truly guitarists' guitarists wear theirs so low.) But since I felt remarkable astonishment that the bass player's legs were actually capable of closing and standing normally, and he didn't *have* to hold them three or four feet apart all the time, adn even the good female singers were expected to go up and do some seriously sexy dancing (Obviously during the classical/rock segment not the christmas one), it wasn't like they were considering all the posing unimportant.
And I do have to appreciate the sight of a violinist vamping and bounding across the stage like the rockingest rocker of them all.
If the new album is as much the classical heavy and as little the Christmas heavy as it seems, I might have to add it to my wish list.
Went with mom to Trans-Siberian Orchestra Monday. (I guess that's sort of a "so much for avoiding Christmassy stuff before Dec. 1", but I don't pick the dates. Heck, I usually go to the John Huston Christmas Carol, and that's next weekend. haven't got tickets yet, though.)
Yowza. I've been a folkie too long. I forgot how LOUD huge arena concerts get. I should have grabbe a pair of Colin's earplug. (Pretty good soundmix for the volume, though - although I had a hard time sometimes hearing the string section over the rest of the rock) And how over the top; at one point I did say to mom, "I think four different big lighting effects at once is a bit much..." and that probably wasn't their most ostentatious. Some of the most ridiculously over the top bits (Four lighting effects plus actual fire/sparklers/fireworks type mixes) actually flowed together really well, others just seemed like one or two too many things at once.and sometimes blindingly bright or busy. But I liked the fires. (And I was really glad the last effect seemed to be based on dry ice, cause the waft of cool, after so many waves of heat, was verra nice)
The music was darn good, if sometimes overly sentimental (although it's not like I didn't know about their ridiculous reverence for Christmas) and sometimes overly melodramatic (even for my tastes) but they're having so much fun with it all that it's hard to mind. And seriously, there's a lot of appeal in tangling classical and rock so thoroughly.
Although I keep being reminded about someone's passing comment that it really is harder to play a guitar well when it's strapped down by your crotch instead of at a decent level. (Which is why fewer of the really truly guitarists' guitarists wear theirs so low.) But since I felt remarkable astonishment that the bass player's legs were actually capable of closing and standing normally, and he didn't *have* to hold them three or four feet apart all the time, adn even the good female singers were expected to go up and do some seriously sexy dancing (Obviously during the classical/rock segment not the christmas one), it wasn't like they were considering all the posing unimportant.
And I do have to appreciate the sight of a violinist vamping and bounding across the stage like the rockingest rocker of them all.
If the new album is as much the classical heavy and as little the Christmas heavy as it seems, I might have to add it to my wish list.
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