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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: uwe on February 25, 2008, 06:54:23 AM
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Here: http://www.originalasia.com/
Needless to say, they won't send anybody scurrying to buy the CD who didn't even like them first time around (don't bother, Dave!) , but they don't sound washed out either. Wetton's voice isn't quite as angelic as it used to be, I actually like it better now. Palmer's drumming is still pompous - the best circus band drummer in the world. Hats off to Geoff Downes for that unabashed eighties keyboard wizardry, but he can also still pump the Hammond (or a synth that sounds like it!) and Steve Howe's angular playing will always have idiosyncratic charm to me.
Uwe
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Actually sounds good, even a bit abstract in parts- Then I realized I was listening to Nels Cline Destroy All Monsters - OOOOPS!
::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
Back to Asia - Does sound good like an old friend, in all its grandeur, like a glittery glove that feels good to put on, but everybody makes fun of.
Hope spandex is forbidden from the tour!
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"Does sound good like an old friend, in all its grandeur, like a glittery glove that feels good to put on, but everybody makes fun of."
That's an apt way of putting it. :)
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(don't bother, Dave!)
Thanks. I won't! :D
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GACK!!! - I think I just sicked up a furball!
Who in God's green earth sprung them from the nursing home!
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I've resigned myself to the realization that John and I are the only ones here who own up to actually liking them. Sigh!
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I'm not ashamed of it and I'm not proud it!
But I like all kinds of music. Hip Hop, Rap & country are the only genre's that I have trouble listening to consistently.
There is good music in all genres.
You know Uwe we are hardly a dying breed, there are a lot of prog lovers at Talkbass, most of them younger too.Groups like Porcupine Tree have a large younger following now.
They don't remember the shame that is trying to be inflicted here, when prog was a dirty word.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/misc/yesno.jpg)
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:P Geez, don't go getting a complex over it! :D
I can take or leave the prog thing. Asia to me was a case of "what ever can we do to make some money now" - they just never did a thing for me - a retreaded Asia is just worse - IMO
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Put Wetton back in Crimson for an album? Now I'd be interested. But Asia? Nah.
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I liked Asia, but always thought they had a little too much filler material for a band with their credentials. I always loved the video for "Sole Survivor" (I think that was the one), where Wetton looked like hell - unshaven, greasy hair, disheveled. Somehow, it fit the mood of the video, but I'd guess he'd been on a bender. Was it someone here that spent some time with Wetton, and said he's a big drinker.
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Yes, he's an admitted alcoholic which was the downfall of Asia's line up more than once. But he's been clean for several years now and I guess his recent heart surgery reminds him to stay that way.
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Nice bit of Wetton technique here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=golYq8nG4vk&feature=related
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You shouldn't post stuff like this, John, it gives ze Herr Möderätör nightmares.