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Not so hot groupies flashing their tits

March 31st, 2006

Quote of the night from our singer: “I remember when we used to get hot groupies…”

tits

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New Dream Theater album sounds like a “do it yourself” project

March 9th, 2006

Ok I have listened to the entire new DT album. I must say I’m not impressed. Don’t get me wrong, the musicians are amazing. That’s not my beef.

The engineering and production on this album stinks. It sounds very mid-rangey (if that’s a word). In my one car stereo all I can hear clearly driving down the streen is snare drum and vocals. Can’t hear the bass, and the guitar & keyboards just blend into each other to form foggy sort of “audio soup.” And it seems like the whole thing is damn near panned center. Mix in some stereo will ya?

The lead guitar parts are way too low. The snare drum is too loud and in fact the whole kit sounds very mid-rangey and thin. The kick drum doesn’t kick. The toms are kind of whimpy. And the whole kit was obviously recorded in a tight space and it is totally lacking “life” or some kind of wideness or ambience.

The vocals sound pretty good.

Did these guys engineer/produce it themselves? That’s just what it sounds like.

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Shaved pussy

March 7th, 2006

One time on break at a gig a fine looking young woman comes up to the “band table.” She says “hi guys.” We say hi. She says “Guess what? I shaved my pussy tonight” and proceeds to lift her dress up and show us.

I love being a rock & roll musician sometimes…. :-)

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