Don't know if I can find the words right now. It was quite emotional. From where I'm sitting, it had little to do with it being the final concert. It's just the performance. I knew this concert would be better than the the first two shows of the tour that I witnessed but I really had no idea. Pete is really the star of the new album live as he was on the studio albums. Never got to the CDs yet, but I will. Didn't think the Whirlwind Tour DVD could be topped because of the set, but the performance this time is just... Can't wait to find the time for more.
I thought about the signed pass but I've gotten enough his work signed over the years that it wasn't worth the hassle this time, so I decided against it. I've only ever has a shipping delay problem once. I don't usually order from them anymore due to the postage.
The first Testimony is one of the most organic and honest pieces of work he has ever done. Listening to that after hearing Snow pretty much explains why he left Spock's Beard. Testimony 2 was mostly a rehash until maybe the last third or so. (It's been quite a while since I've pulled it out so I'm not exactly sure where the break occurs.)
The only time that became distracting for me was when it was close to 50 percent of the screen image. I did like how it overlayed with some of the crowd shots.
Didn't see anything on the menu. It may have been planned but the "drama" surrounding the final shows likely killed any chance of that. I still wonder what the "incident" was that nearly boiled over in public.
The magic most definitely rubbed off. It's a transformative experience. Very impactful. Can't imagine how it will affect you since you were there.
I got the two emails. If I lived there I'd have considered certain festivals over the years. Still haven't made a Marillion weekend either, although we almost went for it this year.
Although the graphics were unnecessary and a little intrusive, I'm thankful that the video isn't plagued by an excessive number of crowd shots.
Thanks. There are closeups of me twice. It’s more than enough! I’m that bald guy with an expression of pure bliss on his face. Oh wait…that sums up about half the audience!
Got my set Friday. Very good value for the money. Only criticism would be the occasional screen graphics and lack of a tour video. (I got used to those and found them to be a lot of fun.) There’s been a whole year since we’ve seen any new music from Neal, so this was a nice bonus while the wait continues..
There were a few cryptic tweets by band members that alluded to the band being suddenly over. I think it was in the main Transatlantic thread or maybe a Neal Morse thread. Whatever it was that may have boiled over never became publicly known.
Tweets do have a habit to be blown out of proportion. As if to reassure us, the liner notes state that "There is no problem between any of us".
Nothing boiled over. They just agreed together it’s a good moment to put Transatlantic aside. Exactly. At the gig in Paris I saw a bunch of musicians whom were having a TON of fun together. In a way that only friends can have fun. The reason they aren’t committing to a follow up is simply because they aren’t sure when, how and if they could top it. And they also expressed concern if they could make it all work again given their progressing age. All this can be heard in various interviews with various band members, and the messages between them are very coherent about it. If this is indeed the end of Transatlantic, they went at a high and with a bang. IMHO that’s the best way to end a band. There are plenty of (prog) bands out there that have become a boring repetitive shadow of themselves.
Let's address the elephant in the room - the reason they say it's over and it is a last flight (wow how creative!) is to come back in 5 or 7 or 10 years and call it a great and unexpected reunion and record one last album and go on a Farawell Ultrafinal Tour. We've seen it before, it's all just pure marketing move. Yaaaaaawn.....
Honestly this is why I stopped listening to new prog about 12 years ago. I was dutifully buying all the albums by the bands I'd enjoyed in the '90s and 2000's and suddenly realised they were doing absolutely nothing I hadn't heard from them on 15 previous albums. Thread tangent but I'd be genuinely interested in what "prog" artists are still doing something you've not heard before, every time they release something. The only one that easily comes to my mind is Steven Wilson - whether you like things like "The Future Bites" or not (and I do!), you do genuinely get something a bit different from every album he's involved in. Even the band in your avatar I'm sorry to say, seem to have fallen into a bit of a pattern with their music, which wasn't the case up to "Marbles".
I used to love progressive rock with all my heart but having learned about all the major bands and familirize myself with their catalogue from A to Z I know hate the music. Not the old one but new progressive rock. This genre has become the most regressive of all genres in the world. Same old same old. Inside Out and Kscope should be burnt into the ground.