Rickter Scale - Show 121 - "Cryptic Ghost Spirals"

[Rick and Roll]

From 8-11 PM EST Sunday March 11 and 1-4 PM EST Monday March 12.

You'll miss an hour of the show if you forget that in our continuing effort to fuck up time, the powers that be decided we needed daylight savings time even earlier!

Let's make this one semi-quick, I'm completely whacked......

In the next month I'm going to play a couple of Porcupine Tree shows, two XTC shows, and some other fun music. Rosfest is coming up soon, and I'm getting a copy of the Tempustry CD to play for the show, can't wait and next week we're playing a disc no one has heard, plus 2 oldies!

So this show I'm clearing out a few things I've been wanting to track for awhile.

Ozric Tentacles - "Spirals In Hyperspace" (2004) 69:39

Too tired to put the track listing up, maybe later in the week. I've been hitting the Ozrics hard this past year, but for 2007 they'll be scarce, maybe a song here or there. When I did the Ozric two-show set, I didn't have this CD, but have since gotten a copy. "Spirals" marks a transition from the propulsive jam to a more groove-oriented mood, almost jazzy. Seventy mintues of excellent stuff.

Ghost Circus - cuts from "Cycles" (2006) total 31:21

Chris Brown from TN (US) and Ronald Wahle (Holland) team up for a nice record. I'm not enamored of the vocals, but it's fairly crunchy music. They play pretty much everything on the record. We'll hear "Trick of the Light", "Accelerate", Send/Deturn", and "Mass Suggestion part one". The last of the Rogor Mortis titles that were burned for me last year.....just in time to see him again at Rosfest!

Cryptic Vision - In A World (2006) 72:59

The much-anticipated follow-up to "Moments of Clarity" is an excellent CD, that leads off with the 18-minure title cut. The debut was excellent, in the Kansas vein, but here there's more branching out musically. "Common Ground" is a wonderful song both musically and lyrically. A must-get, along with the live CD from Rosfest.

Have fun this week, and be on the lookout each week for the show!

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

From 8-11 PM EST Sunday March 11 and 1-4 PM EST Monday March 12.

You'll miss an hour of the show if you forget that in our continuing effort to fuck up time, the powers that be decided we needed daylight savings time even earlier!

Leave it to our congres to even fuck up time!

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Cryptic Vision - In A World (2006) 72:59

The much-anticipated follow-up to "Moments of Clarity" is an excellent CD, that leads off with the 18-minure title cut. The debut was excellent, in the Kansas vein, but here there's more branching out musically. "Common Ground" is a wonderful song both musically and lyrically. A must-get, along with the live CD from Rosfest.

Have fun this week, and be on the lookout each week for the show!

OK. A little personal insight.

I discovered this band quite by accident. I purchased a stack of CDs. The vendor recommended I try Cryptic Vision's Moments of Clarity. I was a bit skeptical but I believe he gave me the CD for $5. Anyway, one weekend we had to make a long road trip for a family event and I decided it time I listen to that stack of CDs. The Cryptic Vision was on top. Having never heard of them, I tossed it into the van's CD changer and we hit the road. I was so amazed with their sound, I let the CD play over and over on the trip.

When I returned home, I started up an email dialog with the band.

When I heard they were playing ROSfest I was completely delighted. They had the Sunday morning slot. Now, for anyone who hasn't attended ROSfest, this is the toughest time slot. The Saturday evening of ROSfest is a late night party with all of the bands. Anyway, I was so excited to see them that, despite my late evening drinking with the bands, I was up quite early. I coerced Martha and Kris (my son) to get their arses moving. No way in hell was I missing this.

Cryptic Vision's performance did not disappoint! They were stellar on stage too! And can Todd sing! I took a huge number of photos and immediately dumped my flash card's contents into my Powerbook. By that time, M and Kris and I were at the end of the signing queue for Cryptic Vision. I had put together an impromptu slideshow of the photos I'd taken whilst standing enqueued.

When we finally got to the table where the band was seated to sign items, I showed them my slideshow. They were immediately in awe! They wanted to buy my pix and immediately started throwing money at me! I don't remember if it was Todd's wife or Sam's wife, but one of them eve toss $100 at me . If Rick remembers, we had a huge dinner table that eve and I paid for all meals with the cabbage that CV tossed at me. What a great experience. I had to run out to a store in the area to find DVD-Rs so I could burn copies for the band. Good thing I had some money!

Crypitic Vision loves to do medleys; they call them progedleys or progledys -- medleys of bands that inspired them. Live at ROSfest (which, BTW, uses my photography for its cover and liner art) has one such "progledy".

Martha and I, as if we need an excuse to go to a prog festival, went to CalProg for our 20th wedding anniversary gift to eachother. I had a free first class ticket to fly anywhere in the contiguous states, so I purchased a first class for M and we flew in style. She'd never flown 1st class but she is 1st class. Both Cryptic Vision and Kino were playing CalProg. Last gig for Kino too. Met with Nadina and Museman as well.

Anyway, Cryptic Vision put on another fantabulous performance. I have the CalProg CD from that performance and I will upload the 'progledy' from CalProg. Maybe Rick can queue it up to play after his show as a bonus.

Martha and I were invited in October '06 by Cryptic Vision to Largo Florida for their performance opening for The Flower Kings to photograph them. It was a fun gig and partying with CV was a blast.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy hearing In A World in its entirety on Rick's show. It's a great studio performance and even better live! If you ever get the chance to see Cryptic Vision, do so.

OK, enough as I've written too much.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by VAXman

Leave it to our congres to even fuck up time!



OK. A little personal insight.

I discovered this band quite by accident. I purchased a stack of CDs. The vendor recommended I try Cryptic Vision's Moments of Clarity. I was a bit skeptical but I believe he gave me the CD for $5. Anyway, one weekend we had to make a long road trip for a family event and I decided it time I listen to that stack of CDs. The Cryptic Vision was on top. Having never heard of them, I tossed it into the van's CD changer and we hit the road. I was so amazed with their sound, I let the CD play over and over on the trip.

When I returned home, I started up an email dialog with the band.

When I heard they were playing ROSfest I was completely delighted. They had the Sunday morning slot. Now, for anyone who hasn't attended ROSfest, this is the toughest time slot. The Saturday evening of ROSfest is a late night party with all of the bands. Anyway, I was so excited to see them that, despite my late evening drinking with the bands, I was up quite early. I coerced Martha and Kris (my son) to get their arses moving. No way in hell was I missing this.

Cryptic Vision's performance did not disappoint! They were stellar on stage too! And can Todd sing! I took a huge number of photos and immediately dumped my flash card's contents into my Powerbook. By that time, M and Kris and I were at the end of the signing queue for Cryptic Vision. I had put together an impromptu slideshow of the photos I'd taken whilst standing enqueued.

When we finally got to the table where the band was seated to sign items, I showed them my slideshow. They were immediately in awe! They wanted to buy my pix and immediately started throwing money at me! I don't remember if it was Todd's wife or Sam's wife, but one of them eve toss $100 at me . If Rick remembers, we had a huge dinner table that eve and I paid for all meals with the cabbage that CV tossed at me. What a great experience. I had to run out to a store in the area to find DVD-Rs so I could burn copies for the band. Good thing I had some money!

Crypitic Vision loves to do medleys; they call them progedleys or progledys -- medleys of bands that inspired them. Live at ROSfest (which, BTW, uses my photography for its cover and liner art) has one such "progledy".

Martha and I, as if we need an excuse to go to a prog festival, went to CalProg for our 20th wedding anniversary gift to eachother. I had a free first class ticket to fly anywhere in the contiguous states, so I purchased a first class for M and we flew in style. She'd never flown 1st class but she is 1st class. Both Cryptic Vision and Kino were playing CalProg. Last gig for Kino too. Met with Nadina and Museman as well.

Anyway, Cryptic Vision put on another fantabulous performance. I have the CalProg CD from that performance and I will upload the 'progledy' from CalProg. Maybe Rick can queue it up to play after his show as a bonus.

Martha and I were invited in October '06 by Cryptic Vision to Largo Florida for their performance opening for The Flower Kings to photograph them. It was a fun gig and partying with CV was a blast.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy hearing In A World in its entirety on Rick's show. It's a great studio performance and even better live! If you ever get the chance to see Cryptic Vision, do so.

OK, enough as I've written too much.

Nah, never too much. Very interesting, seeing that CV is such a "spiritual" band, if vax likes them that much, they MUST be great!

Was that the dinner where Pete T. joined us and I commented on his wild shoes?

I will be meeting Steady Stan in mid-April - maybe CV will be playing a gig. I already know that Jeff Berlin's "Players" classroom is in Stan's area so I can try to be a stalker.

Another band that does the medley thing is Dream Theater. Not talking musically, but DT and CV are both eerily similar: fan-friendly, super-talented bands that are very grounded in their approach.

Thanks for the personal thoughts...I was hoping you'd add them here.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Nah, never too much. Very interesting, seeing that CV is such a "spiritual" band, if vax likes them that much, they MUST be great!

Sam went on about that in the ROSfest mailing list. They're not really; albeit, Rick is and he does write the majority of the songs.

However, spiritual doesn't necessarily equate to religious. There are a great many bands that are/were "spritual". Yes, and I love Yes. Spock's Beard -- come on and look at lyrics in some of the songs... especially before Neal split... The Doorway, a great tune, reeks of religious symbolism. The Flower Kings and even the Beatles after meeting with the Maharishi have put out "spiritual" songs.

If you listen to the first CV album "Angeline", I think that you will see their spirituality question the existance of a god.

Whatever, it doesn't bother me. They're great on stage, write and perform some excellent songs, and they're GREAT partiers! You missed Tim at CalProg sitting in the lobby bar of the hotel sucking women's toes! Christine (a friend) was so turned on, I thought she was going to perform a publicly obscene act of personal ... well... gratification.

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Was that the dinner where Pete T. joined us and I commented on his wild shoes?

Aye 'twas. OceanVic and his crew, My crew, you, and I forget several others all at one big table.

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

I will be meeting Steady Stan in mid-April - maybe CV will be playing a gig. I already know that Jeff Berlin's "Players" classroom is in Stan's area so I can try to be a stalker.

Cool. I can't believe we were at the CV/TFK gig and didn't meet up.

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Another band that does the medley thing is Dream Theater. Not talking musically, but DT and CV are both eerily similar: fan-friendly, super-talented bands that are very grounded in their approach.

I've heard a few of the DT medleys.

I think that CV does them just for the sake of fun. They do that fairly well but they are not polished at their segues between songs, and I don;t believe they want them to be.

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Thanks for the personal thoughts...I was hoping you'd add them here.

I did... and more.

[Rick and Roll]

I forgot to reply about the CalProg medley. That'd be good to tack on at the end of the Monday replay....I guess just toss it in the queue in the afternoon (I won't have access)...

[Rick and Roll]

bump....

[mailotron]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

From 8-11 PM EST Sunday March 11 and 1-4 PM EST Monday March 12.

.
Ozric Tentacles - "Spirals In Hyperspace" (2004) 69:39

Too tired to put the track listing up, maybe later in the week. I've been hitting the Ozrics hard this past year, but for 2007 they'll be scarce, maybe a song here or there. When I did the Ozric two-show set, I didn't have this CD, but have since gotten a copy. "Spirals" marks a transition from the propulsive jam to a more groove-oriented mood, almost jazzy. Seventy mintues of excellent stuff.

more an Ed Wynne solo project with a little help from his friends, more synths oriented imho here are the tracks and the guest

1.CHewier (Seawood kindling/Schoo drums/Brandi Wynne on bass ) Lol not bRANDY wINE
2.Spirals in hyperspace
3.Slinky
4.Toka Tola ( LOL enjoy Toke )
5.Plasmoid ( Brandi Wynne Spikes)
6.Oakum ( Schoo drums/Seaweed synths and bubbles/John ney,blul,duduk, silver flute/Zia bass)
7.Akasha (S Hillage and M Giraudi guitar and add synths) ( my fav of the cd )
8.Psychic chasm ( Brandi Wynne Tea/ Merv drum prog and samps)
9.Zoometra ( John ney, blul,duduk and silver flute/Scho drums)

Ed plays : guitar, keys,mind colours, programming


Progressively yours
Mailo

[Rick and Roll]

Thank you mail! great info....
who would have thought that a song with hillage on it would be your favorite!

[Methem]

Originally Posted by mailotron

more an Ed Wynne solo project with a little help from his friends, more synths oriented imho here are the tracks and the guest

1.CHewier (Seawood kindling/Schoo drums/Brandi Wynne on bass ) Lol not bRANDY wINE

See, Rick: It's the Schoo again, whoever that is...


-Methem

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by Methem

See, Rick: It's the Schoo again, whoever that is...


-Methem

[mailotron]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Thank you mail! great info....
who would have thought that a song with hillage on it would be your favorite!

You are welcome Rick

Héhé yep who would have thought it ?