Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Battle of Evermore and the timeless nature of fantasy

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(early metal-ish Friday) That it is told in the language of fantasy is not an accident, or because Tolkien was an escapist, or because he wa...
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Sunday, June 30, 2024

The analog kid—some reflections on music and technology and Into the Void

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Spiraling into a (digital) void... I recently finished Geezer Butler’s biography Into the Void . A fun and interesting read for many reasons...
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Monday, May 13, 2024

Why we need fantasy: Some thoughts from a Blind Guardian concert, May 11, 2024 at the Worcester Palladium

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I'm in there! Somewhere back left... No one ever dares to speak It's nothing else but fantasy It's make believe, Make believe No...
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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Metal spring (and summer) kicking off, plus metal memoir update

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This spring and summer I’ve got four bands/five shows on the docket. We get started this Friday with the legendary Judas Priest, touring in ...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Of internet induced “Panic Attack” and Judas Priest’s Invincible Shield

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False metal cowers before this shield. Even as I’m feeling dragged down by the state of “reality” such as we know it, I’m buoyed, once again...
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Thursday, December 7, 2023

The hellscape of KISS avatars and AI art

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KISS (holograms) love you! KISS just wrapped up a 50-year career in typical KISS fashion. Selling product. Not content to leave the stage wi...
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Sunday, August 27, 2023

Ace Frehley, Nashua Center for the Arts (Aug. 2023)--a review

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We had good seats... up close and personal with Ace Frehley. Wildly unexpected: Ace Frehley played a cover of Thin Lizzy’s “Emerald” at the ...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Railing against AI art

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I hate computer generated art* and worry very deeply about what a future dominated by artificial intelligence will look like. Both for artis...
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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Defending 80s KISS

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Big hair, and hair shirts. According to some "fans" (I won’t name names—yet), KISS was only good in the 70s, and once the makeup c...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Gordon Lightfoot recap

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So the Judas Priest concert was cancelled after 70-year-old Rob Halford came down with a bad cold, but 83-year-old Gordon Lightfoot powered...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

S&S updates: Glass Hammer, Schuyler Hernstrom, and more

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In full disclosure I'm not a big prog fan, unless you count the likes of RUSH, and perhaps a bit of Yes' back catalogue. I'm met...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

A review of Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road (Neil Peart)

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Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road (2002) did not quite meet my expectations, both the book itself and in a larger sense who I believ...
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Saturday, February 6, 2021

Some ramblings on old school tastes in music, reading

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Now that's old school. I was glancing at my bookshelves recently, as I’m wont to do when I’m in between books and scanning for the next...
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