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Feb 24, 2013 - 6:39 PM
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Octoberman
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'Allo, 'allo, chaps.
Not only am I the biggest AP fan 'round MY parts, I'm also the ONLY AP fan 'round MY parts! Nice to have the local monopoly on good taste! 
"Tales" is, in one word, brilliant. It NEVER got old. Each and every time I put it on, I am 15 again--walking into yer average hi-fi shop to drool over equipment (as was my habit) and asking the salesperson the name of that amazing album they just got in, with which to show off all their lovely, lovely high-end systems.
Back in '87 I was somewhat crestfallen that after years of waiting, a remixed "Tales" is what we were given on CD. More reverb on the drums? What? Who asked for THAT? Anyway, fast forward to the day that I came across the MFSL edition, advertising that it was the original mix. I just about pooped my pants right there in the store. A dream come true for me (well, a modest dream).
"Tales" is still the CD I take with me to audition new equipment. In fact, when I used it to pick out my most recent JBL's, the sales guy says, "Hey... good-sounding album. Who is it?" I know... idiot, right? Perhaps not-so-coincidentally, the store folded soon after that.
Anyway, there are APP albums that may have been more popular or bigger money-makers ("Pyramid" being MY personal favorite), but "Tales" absolutely hit it out the park at first bat.
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Parsons will play several concerts in Germany now in august. Support act will be german group Picture Palace Music, led by Tangerine Dream-member Thorsten Quaeschning. I guess that may have been the result of the meeting between TD and Parsons in the US a couple of years ago.
PPM - Array Of Fadin' Flowers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4MLopDYWYA
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I love Alan Partridge but not his latest film.
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RIP Chris Rainbow.
I hadn't heard of him, but I understand he did a lot of work singing for APP.
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RIP Chris Rainbow.
Did you know this, Thor?
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Love the work of Alan Parsons, my late recording engineering teacher worshiped the ground he walked on...understandably--glad I was already a fan!
When I was a IATSE projectionist in the '80's, I ran the "4-wall" sneak of the workprint of "Ladyhawke" when the score was solidly APP--making the film more like a pop-opera. When the preview cards came in that evening with negative comments about the music, Richard Donner was openly pissed. He stormed around the projection booth swearing up a storm, saying all audiences were stupid. The film's editor, Stuart Baird, was there and did his best to calm his apoplectic director; however, it seemed to me Donner had been getting this feedback all along and the fact that he was on the losing end of the argument was infuriating him.
RIP Chris Rainbow.
I hadn't heard of him, but I understand he did a lot of work singing for APP.
Very sad to hear that Chris Ranibow is no longer with us. His vocals for APP's title song "The Turn of a Friendly Card" (pts. 1 & 2) are very affecting. My four-year-old daughter requests this album often and sings with them with everything she's got!
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