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Post by Chess on Aug 18, 2005 18:28:40 GMT -5
Apologies in advance for the poor quality of some of the pics, as anyone with a camera fone will attest they can take great pics...sometimes! thats if the weather permits, the light is just right and yer subject freezes for 5 seconds or more! Anyway great night-the man is amazing and the kit is litteraly breathtaking! Lovely to meet FACE - LANDSTANDER - ROBOFLOP and SKIES OF THE MILLENIUM NIGHT in the flesh. Hopefully we'll see each other again at a gig somehwere The kit when we arrived they had a camera behind the kit projected onto the screen so you cud see what he was doin....still made no difference, we were all stumped! Him and the kit in all their glory! playing, what i can only describe as, tibeten (sounding) discs out front for the Q&A s - struck me as a very nice guy, very laid back - not bad for a man o 54...as he told us!! What would ye give? Side shot of the chromatically tuned toms! The ridiculous array o pedals...and thats just his left foot alone! there were even more for the right! Ah DW....some day...someday!!
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Post by landstander on Aug 18, 2005 18:39:51 GMT -5
heh...was quite a nite....wasnt the full kit i was informed...fuckin class tho
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Post by Chess on Aug 18, 2005 18:44:43 GMT -5
i think this is his newer kit
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Post by skies of millenium night on Aug 18, 2005 18:45:41 GMT -5
great pics and a great night in general.my ears are still ringing. twas really cool to meet everyone in the flesh.
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Post by Chess on Aug 18, 2005 18:47:59 GMT -5
mind you im giving serious thought to throwing my drums out the window!
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Post by landstander on Aug 18, 2005 18:54:55 GMT -5
lol....here which one of ye said today he (bozzio) was sposed to be obnoxious etc
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Post by skies of millenium night on Aug 18, 2005 18:56:47 GMT -5
afraid i did totally proven wrong. really cool guy
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Post by Chess on Aug 18, 2005 18:57:44 GMT -5
not me tho i was surprissed whn he turned out not to be! Hey Gav whn you put yer hand up to ask a question i seriously thought you were gonna ask about Vai...i was trying my best to shuffle of the seat and put enuff space between us in case he took a run at ye!!!! ;D
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Post by skies of millenium night on Aug 18, 2005 19:02:43 GMT -5
haha! cuan wanted to ask him if the big kit was to make up for a small member. ;Dthat would have been heart stoppingly funny.
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Post by Chess on Aug 18, 2005 19:08:09 GMT -5
and heart stopping!
for a 54 year old the fucker has some lighting like reflexs!
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Post by skies of millenium night on Aug 18, 2005 19:13:24 GMT -5
hell yeah.personally i thought,that since it was the last night of his clinic tour,bozzio held back a bit(due to being completely knackered)until the end where he just let it rip.
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Post by Chess on Aug 18, 2005 19:20:56 GMT -5
like i said it was the fast cymbal washlike thingy that iwas livin for - does it at every show/clinic and its insane....and can only be done on those cymbals!
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Post by skies of millenium night on Aug 18, 2005 19:23:07 GMT -5
that was breathtaking and the place erupted. gonna get his dvds when they come out for sure
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Post by Cúchy Cú on Aug 18, 2005 19:44:02 GMT -5
Jaw dropping stuff. I absolutely love seeing someone like this play...
It was also much more interesting than I thought it would be... Especially the Q and A. I thought initially "ah the rich self indulgent tosser has all those symbals cos he CAN" but it turns out that he uses different bass drums and symbals for texture, notes and establishing key withoin his pieces. I loved the idea of an introspective microcosmic "orchestra" too... Thus all the cymbals and toms etc etc... Far from being used just for fills and stuff he actually plays riffs and stuff on them!
And far from being a wanker, he was a genuinely nice, interesting and open guy.
Great night, and i've even more respect for this man than I had before.
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Post by face on Aug 19, 2005 19:33:15 GMT -5
oh god, when i first walked into that room i was like oh bjasus thats a big kit! but when he got going, my jaw actually dropped, it was fucking amazing!!!!!! made me want to go home and practice till my hands bleed, then i tried and i was like heh, right burning these! but truely breathtaking to see him do his stuff. heh, during the Q&A i was thinking bout asking him to sign a symbal and give it to me.
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