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Finbar

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About Finbar

  • Birthday 07/11/1986

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    Toronto
  • Interests
    Everything King Crimson and everything music. Rush is my third favourite band, next to King Crimson and Nine Inch Nails.
  • Gender
    Male

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  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    3
  • Last Rush Concert Attended
    23/09/07 Air Canada Centre
  • Favorite Rush Song
    The Fountain of Lamneth
  • Favorite Rush Album
    2112
  • Best Rush Experience
    Finally seeing them!
  • Other Favorite Bands
    King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, Iron Maiden, Tool, Dio, Black Sabbath, Frank Zappa
  • Musical Instruments You Play
    Keyboards, vocals

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  1. My next concerts!? - This next week I'm seeing Devo two nights in a row. f*ckin' lucky I am. - I wanna go to Spiral Beach's next two Toronto shows. One of them's free, so I'm there for sure. The other one... I hope I can make it, but if not, hey there's the free one, and that'll be my fourth time seeing them anyways! - After that I have Between the Buried and Me to look forward to in the new year. I've only ever heard one song, and that was on YouTube last night, (It was pretty good, but I don't think I was in the right mood) but I'm going because Cynic, one of my favourite bands of all time, are opening. Bonus, Devin Townsend and Scale the Summit are also opening. It's funny because I've actually seen everybody performing before except for Between the Buried and Me. I saw Cynic open for (and upstage) Meshuggah, and that's how I originally got into them. - Then there's Slayer/Megadeth, which got postponed and rescheduled, and they added Testament to the bill. Oh boy!
  2. QUOTE (The Owl @ Nov 20 2009, 01:17 AM) QUOTE (Finbar @ Nov 19 2009, 08:56 PM) QUOTE (The Owl @ Nov 18 2009, 09:00 PM) I know Im sounding like a broken record here, but have any of you newbies tried any early PT yet? If so, what? and How did you like it? My brother lent me ...On the Sunday of Life. It's the most Ben Reed non-Ben Reed music I've ever heard. I recommended it to Ben Reed and he listened to Tarquin's Seaweed Farm instead. (Which I haven't heard.) He didn't like it. Furthermore, he's scared of me showing him more Porcupine Tree because he hates Japan, Richard Barbieri's old band. I LOVE ...On the Sunday of Life. It's brilliant music, and I like how it's more varied than your average Porcupine Tree record. There are some albums I like more, and some I like less, but all of them are at least a 9/10 for me. (That I've heard, anyways.) Actually, from my understanding, "On the Sunday of Life" was actually a compilation of the better songs off of "Tarquin's Seaweed Farm", and "The Nostalgia Factory" which were originally cassettes that Steven Wilson released by himself under the name "Porcupine Tree"... Yes that's correct. But back then, Steven Wilson WAS Porcupine Tree. And he continued to be so even when he got his band, which was originally just a touring band. And of course, even now, Porcupine Tree and Porcupine Tree's touring band are two different things. Because the band is a four-piece, but live they play with John Wesley as well (whose only contribution on any of the albums is backing vocals on Fear of a Blank Planet) who, to my understanding, has been playing live with the band since Gavin Harrison joined. ...On the Sunday of Life isn't JUST a compilation. SOME of the songs are re-recorded. Like one or two, I think. And even if it's a compilation in the way it was put together, it's still the first released album by Porcupine Tree. It counts.
  3. QUOTE (The Owl @ Nov 18 2009, 09:00 PM) I know Im sounding like a broken record here, but have any of you newbies tried any early PT yet? If so, what? and How did you like it? My brother lent me ...On the Sunday of Life. It's the most Ben Reed non-Ben Reed music I've ever heard. I recommended it to Ben Reed and he listened to Tarquin's Seaweed Farm instead. (Which I haven't heard.) He didn't like it. Furthermore, he's scared of me showing him more Porcupine Tree because he hates Japan, Richard Barbieri's old band. I LOVE ...On the Sunday of Life. It's brilliant music, and I like how it's more varied than your average Porcupine Tree record. There are some albums I like more, and some I like less, but all of them are at least a 9/10 for me. (That I've heard, anyways.)
  4. I've never heard this band before. But I'm gonna go see them live! Because Devin Townsend and Cynic are opening!!!!!!!!! ... And Scale the Summit too? WTF? I just found that out, like, RIGHT NOW, scrolling down. I saw them at Prog Nation. It was great, y'know, textured prog I guess?
  5. I have listened to The Incident every single day since it came out. And on the day it came out (Sep. 15th in my town) I listened to it before the stores opened (before I went to bed the day before) because I was able to buy it a little before midnight. I was like, "Are you gonna have this tomorrow?" and the dude was like, "Oh, I have it now. Want it?" When I saw them live about two weeks after, it was one of the greatest concert experiences of my life. I was there with a big group of friends, and my brother was among them. He said it was the best concert experience of his life; we'd seen Alice in Chains a week before and they're his favourite band. (He's seen them, like, a zillion times, but sadly never with Layne Staley.) My original plan was to just listen to The Incident every day in preparation for that concert. But Steven said they'd be back in the spring, so I figured I'd keep it going at least until then. I can sing along to almost all of both discs now! Sidenote: It does kinda bug me, though, that one disc's worth of music is divided into two. Like, I get that they want the title suite to have its own disc and breathing time before the other songs, but c'mon. Talk about a waste of resources. Very un-green if you ask me. Anyways, that's a minor quibble, and definitely nothing to spoil the enjoyment of the album over. Again, I've listened to it every single day since it came out and I'm nowhere near tired of it. It is my FAVOURITE PORCUPINE TREE ALBUM, but not by far. They're all so brilliant.
  6. My first Whitesnake experience was recent, and it was live. I love hearing big bands for the first time live. I was also surprised to recognize the guitarist's name Doug Aldrich 'cause he used to be in Dio, and I'm the HUGEST Dio fan. My girlfriend and I really enjoyed it for the cheese factor. The tunes were good, but we also really just got off on how suggestive they were. We couldn't BELIEVE it when Coverdale told the audience they were celebrating the whatever-anniversary of "Slide It In." And it was like, "WHOA! 'Whitesnake' named their album 'Slide It In!' They ACTUALLY went there!" We also enjoyed the jarring juxtaposition of the songs and banter. The songs sounded as "American beer-gut" as songs can sound, and then in between songs hearing Coverdale's charming British accent. It was my VERY first time hearing Whitesnake (I don't listen to the radio, and I don't go to strip clubs) so it was all new to me, keep in mind. The standout tracks of the performance for me were (Sorry to fans if I got the titles wrong; I was only there to see Judas Priest) Lay Down Your Love, Fool For Your Lovin' No More and of course, Here I Go Again On My Own, the former of which was, I believe, the only new song they played. But hey, it was all new to me! Gotta give some respect to Coverdale, that he can be around the block as long as he has, and the song from the new Whitesnake album holds up as well as all the other classics in the setlist. At least to THIS audient who'd never heard the band before.
  7. Easy choice. One invented metal. The other perfected it!!! UP THE IRONS!
  8. QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Dec 14 2008, 07:19 AM) Concerts were $12.50, and T-shirts were $15, I think. Yeah, it was cool. f*cker.
  9. Yes kicks ass. I saw them, or "Howe, Squire, White of Yes" whatever you wanna call it. It kicked so much ass.
  10. I sat down today and figured out my top 20 favourite bands and Dream Theater just made it at number 20!
  11. I only have a handful albums. Gotta catch 'em all!
  12. I suppose one could "choose not to decide." But man... I'm gonna have to go with Xanadu.
  13. My buddy and I wanna go see Radiohead and take our girlfriends as a concert-double date. So he asked her if she likes Radiohead, she said she'd never heard of 'em.
  14. QUOTE (arctangent @ Mar 12 2008, 03:45 AM) pink floyd or the beatles Pink Floyd or AC/DC
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