On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:59:20AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:06 AM, allcoms <allcoms@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> > I suppose that the whole PG/Genesis versus the Linux audio world came to a
> > head when PG flew Paul out to have him demonstrate Ardour to him. What song
> > was in your head on the flight over las- do you remember? Watcher of the
> > Skies?
>
> on a red eye from the east coast, probably Michael Hoenig's Departure
> From the Northern Wastelands and then an attempt at sleep.
>
> > I can only presume it wasn't quite what Pete was after at the time
> > otherwise we'd have some marketing machine going right there.
>
> oh, they loved it. problem was that (a) they then went ahead and
> bought soundscape as well, mostly for their hardware but it ended with
> SSL having involvement (ownership, in one case) in two DAWs which made
> no sense to anyone and (b) they didn't really have much of an idea of
> what to do with an open source software "product" (no blame here - it
> *is* a tricky question to answer for a company like that). Full
> credits to Harrison here for actually coming up with a plan in that
> area, but it doesn't change the fact that the answers are not obvious.
>
> > Maybe we should have a separate LAU/LAD for those who prefer Collins
> > Genesis? ;)
>
> and a separate one for those us who have correctly diagnosed "seconds
> out" as the best genesis album ever, but didn't like anything after
> that except for "mama" and "the brazilian".
A friend saw them on that tour, and said they opened with "Dance on a Volcano", at the beginning of which, all of them except Collins simultaneously stomped on Moog Taurus pedals for that first low note in the opening riff. He said it made his hair fly back like that dude in the old Maxell tape commercials.
-ken
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