YTSEJAM Digest 7158 Today's Topics: 1) TFK review / new tunes by Mike Shetzer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:49:53 -0400 From: Mike Shetzer To: email_address_removed Subject: TFK review / new tunes Message-ID: <000501c568a7$b404ae80$cdf7fea9@mizz> Up on my site now has two objects that my delight or interest some or all or none... first, review from last night's Flower Kings conshirt. In a nutshell... CAUTION DUE TO SPOILAGE OF SONGS :) "Last night I had the privelege of seeing Sweden's The Flower Kings for the third time. Last time I saw them play at a small club, there was a minor power failure and they were unable to complete their set. This time they were back in full force, playing a three hour set! But first... the opening band. Hailing from Montreal, Virtual Max was the openers of choice for TFK. Basically, a drummer, keyboardist and keyboardist. The catch? The two keyboardists play the keys with superball mallets (for lack of a better description). One plays two in each hand, the other one in each hand. Their powerful synthesizers combined with this strange style of playing gives them a dynamic percussive approach and a large genre bending range. Needless to say, their innovative playing captivated me, and after an hour long opening set of wonderful music (ranging from atmospheric to King Crimson influence to full out rock to odd RIO influences), I rushed to their table to buy their two CDs. TFK then took the stage. After a rough sound start (namely because Roine's lead guitar was barely audible), they got into the groove of things and proceeded to play a full blast set of new and old tunes. They were in typically great shape, although unfortunately there was no Gildenlow for backup vox/guitar and no Hasse for percussion. They were, however, sporting their new drummer Marcus, who got a little solo spot (as did bassist Jonas and keyboardist Tomas) to sport his chops. I can't judge yet whether or not he compares to Jaime or Zoltan, but he seemed to have no trouble playing their long compositions. A great experience, as usual! Setlist included Love Supreme, Cosmic Circus, Last Minute on Earth / In The Eyes of the World, Stardust We Are (part 3), The Truth Will Set You Free, a floydesque guitar jam, Church of Your Heart, A Vampire's View and an encore of I Am The Sun (part 1). " Also, in the download section noted below, two recent jams produced in a practice of alternaprogrock band Shaking Judy can be downloaded and listened to. Criticisms, hate mail, comments, and a love letters welcome. http://www.angelfire.com/music5/sandman/downloads.html ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 7158 ************************** === Contributions to ytsejam: ytsejam@torchsong.com === === Send requests to: ytsejam-request@torchsong.com === === More information at: http://www.dreamt.org/local/ytsejam.php === === Brought by the ghost of ytsejam@arastar.coms past === === Reach the owner of this list at: ytsejam-owner@torchsong.com ===