Rickter Scale - Show 121 - "Cryptic Ghost Spirals"

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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.