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Vin 10:42 pm UTC 12/04/07 |
| In reply to: | re: TSO - Pudding 08:01 pm UTC 12/04/07 |
| I read that, too. It was probably posted here. If true, that would make O'Neil the Anti-Jim, in terms of relative prolificity. But then again, I do detect quite a bit of "redundling" from O'Neil. Not "recycling," exactly, but I hear a lot of musical similarity (chord progressions and such)across the TSO & Savatage catalogs. > I read an article recently (past 6 months) that Paul > O'Neil had written about 7 albums worth of material. Maybe > there's a Summer tour coming up? > > > Nightcastle, eh? Yeah, been waiting for that for going on > > Bat II years now, really. I LIKE the X-Mas stuff, most of > > it, but I LOVE Beethoven's Last Night, and am much looking > > forward to a new non-X-Mas album from TSO. > > > > For that matter, I'd like to see the BLN tour that was > > supposed to happen six years ago, too. They keep putting > > it off to do more Christmas shit. Milk that fucker dry, > > man. > > > > > I love TSO, been trying to hunt down a bootleg of their > > > current tour, apparently about 3 new songs from their > > > forthcoming 'Night Castle' CD is being played. > > > > > > I can understand why Patti might be thanked, since she has > > > worked with TSO in the past, I heard a rumour that she now > > > and again helps out with demo's for Paul O'Neil, not sure > > > the validity of that though. No sure why Meat Loaf gets > > > thanks, perhaps they're golfing buddies. > > > > > > > So my cube neighbor is rocking the Oldies radio station, > > > > which actually plays only X-Mas music all month long (not > > > > necessarily oldies, even) and so far today they are > > > > playing Trans-Siberian Orchestra like, literally, every > > > > third song. Its weird, especially since they are playing > > > > mostly off of "The Lost Christmas Eve," which I actually > > > > just, finally, purchased last week. > > > > > > > > And I must say, I enjoy Rob Evan's vocals much more on the > > > > TSO record than I do on his TDE work. He sings with more > > > > bass and menace here, not so much the vanilla Luke > > > > Skywalker vocals of TDE. If he could sing Steinman this > > > > way, I might actually get excited about it. > > > > > > > > Also, anybody know why Meat Loaf and Patti Russo get > > > > thanked AGAIN on "The Lost Christmas Eve?" On the prior > > > > album, Patti actually appeared, but not on this one. > > > > Seems strange. Unless they just really don't want Meat to > > > > sue them for gimmick infringement... | |
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