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That seems good, and certainly easy enough! I figured someone would know exactly the part I was talking about.

Trivium This is a hard band to rank, because their genre classic Ascendancy remains my personal favourite, but I feel that their last three albums have seen Trivium FINALLY settle in their own particular sound. If Trivium followed Ascendancy with Shogun, then these last three, I think that their upward trajectory would have been incredible. So here you go, it is hard to rank them because they don't want for greatness. The absolute masterworks: 1. Ascendancy 2. The Sin And The Sentence 3. In The Court Of The Dragon Okay have some more masterworks: 4. What The Dead Men Say 5. Shogun Albums I love but I have issues: 6. The Crusade 7. In Waves 8. Ember To Inferno The two step children of the discography, but they are still beloved members of the family. Its just that in case of a fire, I love my cats more. So they need to either get over it or start therapy. It's not me, it's them. XOXO: 9. Silence In The Snow 10. Vengeance Falls

Definitely. Like I said before, I might not have a particular fascination or personal connection to them but great music is great music.

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AC/DC- Back in Black (10/10) not complicated music just good rock. Mick

Any of the first 6 plus the dio era. that's a great band in just those albums. Mick

Trivium

Thats an awesome mix! I played Master Of Reality earlier and that album alone is incredible.

Trivium- What The Dead Men Say The middle album of a trio of musically very similar albums, this one is outstanding (spoiler: they all are). If Sin And The Sentence returned Trivium to peak form, WTDMS takes the heaviness a step further, and really cements their current standing as a genre great. Trivium- In The Court Of The Dragon Trivium don't have to try so hard. The fact they do, and it sounds so effortless, is astonishing. Album number ten might ve the bands most accomplished work to date. I truly believe Trivium are one of the absolute finest bands the world has ever seen, any genre. I remember the sad feeling that they had lost themselves trying to appeal to the masses (Vengeance Falls comes to mind), so seeing their return to form is one of my favourite things to happen in metal ever.

When I’ve played this live I would set a tambourine on my floor tom and just strike it.

That's really cool that you were there, I obsessed over that video in the 80s more than any other. I had to buy replacements more than once. But I don't think anyone doubts that it was all filmed, it's not like they edit these things in real time. But the question is whether any remaining footage (for any of those 80s shows) that was edited out is still in usable condition (as you said) or can even be found. As I've said before, the fact that the overwhelmingly vast majority of VHS era concert videos from all kinds of bands that have been re-issued on DVD and Blu-ray are the exact same content that was originally released tells me that something about the process back then has led to this situation. Clearly no one was planning for 40th anniversary box sets at the time, it was just something done in the moment and in all likelihood the record companies were far more involved back then than later on. My first guess is that for most of these old shows whatever wasn't used was simply trashed. Second most likely thing is that whatever wasn't trashed was left to degrade to the point it can't be re-integrated (at least within reasonable cost), and thirdly that the footage (and/or companion audio) simply gets lost. I have no doubt that with Rush's modern concert videos with their direct involvement and in-house resources and Geddy's own brother directly involved they could lay their hands on all the raw footage from all filmed shows the last 20-25 years, but I'll bet (and I'm just guessing) that in the 80s the record company hired a production company, and all raw footage was handed over to them to do the work and once it was completed and approved anything left over was forgotten about for decades. The people doing it were not "Rush people", they were just neutral professionals racing to complete projects to get to the next one. And the band would not have been thinking about it, they would have been completing Power Windows and planning the tour just like every other album and tour cycle. I would kill for more of any of those 80s shows, but I'll remain very pessimistic until there's solid news otherwise. The fact that there was not even a hint of more ESL footage during the MP40 release is telling. But hey, I would LOVE to be proven wrong.

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Funny, we're doing FF's Learn to Fly in my Adult School of Rock and we were trying to rig something up for the tambourine. I just hung it off a separate guitar stand for him within reach. Far from perfect but it worked. But then we decided the other drummer will just do that part.

Our new School of Rock season started, we're doing Arena Rock. Im doing bass on Sweet Emotion and my first ever LEAD guitar on You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!

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Fantastic album. It's giving me Vs meets Lightning Bolt vibes.

I attended both shows back in September of '84. Floor seats for both (Row 21 and Row 33 iirc) and I'll just say that cameras were there moving about for both nights. Since they were using video tape not film, I can't imagine they would be paying crew to be there and not be rolling tape. I can't remember where I read this but I have a memory of the format was "M" video tape - I hope I'm wrong because if no one transferred all the recordings to other formats over the years and then eventually digitizing the material, the odds of surviving M machines are going to be long.

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You got kids? No… not anymore

IIRC he’s “asking” something I’ve already said unprompted

Luxuria de Lillith - Dark Energy

Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force

Negligent Collateral Collapse - One Thing is Sure

Restless Spirit - The Fatalist