EscapeGoat said:
Unfortunately, I do not remember anything about that first concert aside from the fact that we went, and that it was an outdoor area, with an open stage at the bottom of a grassy hill. The show last year was awesome. It was Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, and Rick Wakeman playing.
Funny story: this was in November, only a couple weeks after the Presidential election. And one of the songs they played was "Hold On." If you're not familiar, one of the lyrics is "Constitution screw-up shattering the dreams." And as Jon sang that line, he looked out over the audience with a very sympathetic expression on his face.
No, I've never heard of The Claypool Lennon Delirium. I'll have to check them out.
Imaginos is interesting. It's a concept album that Pearlman had been working on for years, since even before BOC existed, with a really impenetrable story (it involves time travel, shapeshifters, the Cthulhu Mythos, and on top of that the songs aren't even in chronological order to begin with). I believe Astronomy was always intended to be part of it, but they ended up recording it and putting it on Secret Treaties while Imaginos languished in development hell, with a later recording being on Imaginos proper.
Yeah, the original version has a much better atmosphere to it, but I dunno, the Imaginos version just sounds a bit more... what do I call it, polished? Yeah, that's it. The original was really minimalistic and felt slightly unfinished. Still a goddamn masterpiece, though. Like I said, I really don't know which one I like more.
Imaginos is a great album though. Upsets me that it was so poorly-received when it did come out because it has some fantastic stuff on it.
In terms of that kind of psychedelic-y rock, ever check out The Claypool Lennon Delirium? Sean Lennon (as in, John Lennon's son) and Les Claypool from Primus teaming up to play some totally awesome psych-proggy stuff
