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Re: Greetings from Erpland !!! « Result #1 Yesterday at 9:14pm »
Ozriks, Saw and met you all after the show, (I was the chap with the ELP shirt on)who helped Oliver pack up his drums, and thank you for signing a setlist for my son.Ed-you asked about a MIDI controller,which I play.Here is a link to my website.You all rock.I have many fine photos to share from the Asheville show,where can I send them?Also-when you are ready to rock Florida,let us know,we'll get you booked.:) Peace and Love(thanks for the photo op Brandi:) Frank"DrumMan"Johnson Rockledge Florida www.drumman.iwarp.com
Whereas when I went to watch Floyd on their last tour we were all told not to open our eyes during the gig but to just listen and we would have a chance to purchase the visuals at a later date
Maybe peeps like the older stuff cos they bought it at the time and have played it millions of times and haven't had the time to do that with the newer ones ?
I think the band came off age with Erpland though, it was a milestone recording where the band stopped being "people stumbling about on stage making weird noises" and became a fully professional touring and recording band. It was a band too, not just Ed and some mates.
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Re: just listen... « Result #5 Yesterday at 8:42am »
yes it's damned annoying, but again I don't have to be ill for that to be happening - in fact i only have to be trying to concentrate on something that's not music or not concentrating at all and in they flood... there is only one way to stop them - make music.
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Re: just listen... « Result #10 Yesterday at 8:24am »
you mean you have to be ILL to get plagued by tunelettes like that !??! you lucky lucky bstard !! what i wouldn't give to only be plagued by tunelettes when ILL !!!!
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Re: The Bits From Other Bits « Result #13 Yesterday at 6:37am »
I think the Ayurvedic dub section being eye of adia is very well known...........but I didn't hear eye of adia until long after I had pungent so was quite a shock when I heard it. Strangely a mate of mine swears on one Ozric tune he hears a sample from a tears for fears tune. I'm sure he meant some female vocalising which I personally would have thought would be from the Asian sound tapes the Ozrics used to use on the earlier stuff.
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Re: Gong 2032 « Result #14 Yesterday at 6:33am »
Whereas when I went to watch Floyd on their last tour we were all told not to open our eyes during the gig but to just listen and we would have a chance to purchase the visuals at a later date
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Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #16 Yesterday at 6:05am »
Maybe peeps like the older stuff cos they bought it at the time and have played it millions of times and haven't had the time to do that with the newer ones ?
I think the band came off age with Erpland though, it was a milestone recording where the band stopped being "people stumbling about on stage making weird noises" and became a fully professional touring and recording band. It was a band too, not just Ed and some mates.
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Re: Rare and Unreleased Ozrics « Result #18 Yesterday at 5:50am »
No. Only if someone transfers it onto Cd from vinyl for you. Its not a very good recording Blimjim2007, and there are many better shows better recorded than that one. When Muckicker was pressed to vinyl (by whichever rip off scoundrel) the original tape was played too fast making all the music appear faster (and about a semitone higher in the process).
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Re: Gong 2032 « Result #19 Yesterday at 5:44am »
At Gov't Mule gigs you are actively encouraged to record the show and take photos. The band even prepare a special area for those wanting to record. This despite the fact that the band record and sell every show they perform themselves. I think that was really poor form from Porcupine Tree towards their fans. Hawkwind don't like fans recording their shows but we take no notice and record em anyway.
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Re: The Bits From Other Bits « Result #20 Yesterday at 2:19am »
"no singing, but as close to it as you're gonna get" Look out for the Champignon & Friends January 2003 gig and you'll hear Jon doing a vocal/acoustic version of Iscence with Seaweed & Hal on keys.
Re: The Bits From Other Bits « Result #21 on Dec 6, 2009, 5:03pm »
hearing you on both counts, mate! this is new to me. does the eye of adia bit come in on the dub part of ayurvedic? thats what im picking up. someone's got good ears for detail! this is pure geek territory this is... so, on the subject, i have an ozrics bootleg from ipswich (22.4.1991) and the fiddly guitar line from 'iscence' appears in the jam section of 'ayurvedic'. nice! and good for all those who want to hear 'iscence' live. no singing, but as close to it as you're gonna get.
Re: Ozrics sample alert « Result #26 on Dec 6, 2009, 7:15am »
in this compilation http://www.discogs.com/Various-Eclipse-A....e/release/77537 the intro to the fourth track sounds very much like the intro to strangeitude. although simon posford, a known ozrics fan, is involved in it, there's no acknowledgment that this is indeed a sample. anyone noticed this or is it my imagination?
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The Bits From Other Bits « Result #27 on Dec 6, 2009, 6:56am »
So we know the obvious ones such as Eye of Adia being incorporated into Ayurvedic but what are some of the lesser known reused elements of Ozric tunes.
How about the section starting at about 5:38 in Pixel Dream that sounds very much like the main Guzzard riff, both being in 7/8 too. Then there is the track on one of the unreleased discs, squashy things....last track on unreleased disc 3, which contains the coily melody stated at 2:49.
Re: Gong 2032 « Result #28 on Dec 6, 2009, 5:11am »
I really like 2032 a lot. Such a great variety of music, great sound production, such cool lyrics... fantastic and the double vinyl gatefold with the huge booklet with all the words, the large poster and you also get the CD... amazing package. Probably the best I have seen this year... Great stuff. Totally missed the tour though, which really sucks... Oslo was the closest....
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Re: Gong 2032 « Result #29 on Dec 6, 2009, 3:57am »
At lease you can take pictures at Gong. At Porcupine Tree, some American drone announced that no photographs or recording devices were permitted and if a member of the audience saw someone using such a device, could they please inform security. In principle I agree that this was correct for such a show (a thousand digital cams would greatly detract from the spectacle), but it was the manner the request was presented. At Gong, I was able to stand right next to Miquette and take as many snaps as I wanted - but I limited it to a handful as to not a) miss the show and b) annoy anyone.
ps. should we still be calling photographs "snaps" now that digital photography seems to be the norm
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Re: Gong 2032 « Result #30 on Dec 6, 2009, 3:53am »
Saw them in Munich, much better than the 2032 album, which was quite understated. I was going to post my pics, but they pretty much are the same as yours (nice colours in yours though). I have seen photos from nearly every gig (thanks to Facebook) and Daevid Allen insists on wearing the same "Nobody Knows I'm a Lesbian" T-Shirt at every show! Vive la difference.
Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #32 on Dec 5, 2009, 12:25pm »
there's still life in those old farts yet for sure. i think i'll always be looking forward to the new ozrics album regardless of whether it matches the past or not. just because the new (any new) album does not hit me the same way as their early work doesn't mean it's not quality. what can 3 votes out of 23 (well more if you count best ofs remixes and the like) albums prove? just which ones are more popular, not which ones are the best.
Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #33 on Dec 5, 2009, 12:17pm »
i think one of the reasons why there are few votes for most of the albums is the sheer volume of the ozrics work. i love the floor's too far away, but would i vote for it above erpland, underslunky and waterfall cities (random examples, it's just what i voted for)? no.
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Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #34 on Dec 5, 2009, 11:24am »
So what does the poll prove? O.T are not the band they once was? A few votes for the early stuff and the purple patch early nineties and no votes so far for anything beyond Pongmaster. Is what I say controversial or merely the truth? Perhaps a return to those epic tunes like those that are favourites being played live is what needs to happen. I for one still love the Ozrics so much and I would still say that there is not a bad tune in anything recorded to albums, but please return to the epic............lol..Ed the nutter.
Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #38 on Dec 4, 2009, 9:16pm »
current leanings on my part + voting time equaled (=) ____________________________________________ L' U'slunky, S.G.W., + B.T.O.
I feel pretty darn content with that... although it felt like calculus + rocket science trying to commit while inside the voting 'booth' pondering this vast + tantalizing ballot of medicinal musical numbers laid out like mushrooms calling out for me to pick them. I let it stew in my noggin' a couple of days just to make certain. Seems if my tastes change can perhaps retract and maybe vote differently... that sweetens the pot as well. Cheers! Big ups, 'tis fun like playin' a game, was indeed an entertaining idea to endeavor upon at last, yes. Looking forward to watching the 'ticker tape' as we progress with time on this one... so on, and so forth...
Re: new members of the crew? « Result #39 on Dec 4, 2009, 10:46am »
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I think his playing on The Throbbe was staggering. The part in the middle where there is a crotchet triplet rythmn has not been the same since he went.
aha-aha!! he was absolutely nec-breaking, ear-bleeding drummer..ohh, and of course those dub beats...i like them to teh bone!!
So why they leave the band? i mean Stuart Fisher and Hal Waters (synth - if i understand correctly) ?
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Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #40 on Dec 4, 2009, 7:14am »
Perhaps some of the deep techno producers like Peel Seamus, Vince Watson, Kirk Degiorgio, Russ Gabriel...a lot of their own productions have that minimal but deep sounds with the same feel as the early Ozric releases - e.g. Electronic swamp land vistas at dawn, rather than Pagan forest light at dusk
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Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #41 on Dec 4, 2009, 7:11am »
I think it was released just at the ass-end of the Big Beat boom (hence the likes of Space Raiders, Will White from Propellerheads, Sparky Lightbourne from Skint records), thank god we didn't have Fatboy Slim remix...Eat Static, System 7 remixes fit - plenty of good remixers out there, but which could capture the essence of Ozrics whilst giving it something a bit esoteric...?
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Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #42 on Dec 4, 2009, 6:06am »
It could have been a great record though. I'd like to hear a part two with only good remixers permitted. In fact just give the remixing jobs to Hillage and Posford and Peplar.
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Re: new members of the crew? « Result #43 on Dec 4, 2009, 6:03am »
I agree, Schoo style of drumming was like progressive thrash (almost like Opeth drummer Martin Lopez). I think his playing on The Throbbe was staggering. The part in the middle where there is a crotchet triplet rythmn has not been the same since he went.
Re: new members of the crew? « Result #44 on Dec 4, 2009, 4:36am »
I loved Rad when I saw him live but in retrospect he was a bit over the top with his fills. The first couple of times I saw Schoo, before he had gelled properly with the rest of the band I thought he was all over the place, but once he got there he was simply amazing. Am I the only one who thinks he made the Ozrics a bit thrashy (a good thing in my book)? That jam at the end Myriapod in the Pongmasters album/DVD is like WOW! Not to mention the blastbeat at the end of The Throbbe.
Re: Vote for your Favorite Ozric Album « Result #47 on Dec 4, 2009, 2:27am »
what's also funny, i thought there were people who enjoyed the techno side of the ozrics sound more than the organic/jam one, but only waterfall cities (which i voted for, with erpland and underslunky) from the post-joie and merv albums has any votes. i guess these people don't use this forum. 3 votes were too few in the end, i found it quite hard to decide.
Re: new members of the crew? « Result #48 on Dec 4, 2009, 2:11am »
That was Stuart Fisher a.k.a. Schoo. He also drummed in Chewier, Oakum and Zoemetra on Spirals. I remember in one Pongmasters (I think the one with Hal Waters on keyboards), he was the first (and only, so far) Ozrics drummer I'd seen who just sat behind his kit while the rest of the band did Plasmoid with programmed drums.
and i thought excersize bikes have only one wheel. interresting visual. mine doesnt get much use.
trip to death museum wasnt as much as i expected. seeing pictures and news colums. they had a coroners instruction video playing at the beginning of the tour. bet i would have reacted differently when i was younger. recall the person who got me trying to do a bruce dickenson emergency vocalist bit for his "band" was into stuff like that.
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i think i'll always be looking forward to the new ozrics album regardless of whether it matches the past or not. just because the new (any new) album does not hit me the same way as their early work doesn't mean it's not quality. what can 3 votes out of 23 (well more if you count best ofs remixes and the like) albums prove? just which ones are more popular, not which ones are the best.
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