the Alembic live

gearHed289 · March 16, 2024, 03:33:03 PM

My '83 Distillate Exploiter and I doing the Real Me last Saturday. Pretty good capture. Singer is blown out. (so was I vocally). 2 hour Who set starting at 10PM with a 6PM load-in.

Chris P. · March 16, 2024, 04:10:40 PM

Great! I loved every three minutes and seventeen seconds of it!

BTL · March 16, 2024, 06:39:00 PM

What a blast, great job!

Ken · March 16, 2024, 11:31:11 PM

Excellent!

Dave W · March 17, 2024, 12:38:26 AM

morrow · March 17, 2024, 05:55:45 AM

Great stuff!

ilan · March 17, 2024, 09:02:57 AM

It's da bomb.

gearHed289 · March 17, 2024, 12:46:17 PM

Thanks guys, it's a joy to play the Ox's stuff. Always trying to do better!

gearHed289 · December 19, 2024, 08:09:48 AM

Well I got abducted by another prog band.

These guys the Cyberiam have been friends for years, and have gigged with Nomadic Horizon a few times. They split with their bass player and gave me a call. I had about 7 weeks to learn and memorize a good 75 minute set of their rather complex music for an album release show. It went really well! The show was shot on 5 or 6 cameras and a multi-track recording was done. The selections from the new album "Unobtainiam" are being mixed and edited now, but in the meantime, here's a cell phone clip of an older song called Alice in Afterland.

ilan · December 20, 2024, 01:39:10 AM

Great sound and playing. Looks awesome too.

Basvarken · December 20, 2024, 01:43:09 AM

Congrats Tom. Seems like a good fit for you!

morrow · December 20, 2024, 06:00:03 AM

Nice stuff!

gearHed289 · December 20, 2024, 08:27:52 AM

Thanks guys! It is a beautiful beast that gets the sounds I want. And yes, the band and I are definitely good fits for each other. They're a little more technical than what I'd normally be doing, but there's enough genuine emotion in the music to keep it from becoming a wank fest.

The singer has an interesting history. Born in Northern Ireland, at 21 he became a member of a "boy band" put together via a BBC singing competition called One True Voice. Moved to Chicago in the early 2000s and fronted one of the biggest cover bands in town for several years. Got a "golden ticket" to Hollywood on American Idol season 10, but had to bow out because he's here on a work visa. And made it pretty far on the Voice in 2015. Talented guitarist as well.

Basvarken · December 20, 2024, 11:13:39 AM

His voice reminds me of Tim Christensen, the lead singer of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy

Son of Dave W · December 22, 2024, 11:04:03 AM

That's rad and sounds great. Love that riff around 2:00.