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frutiger75 last won the day on May 12 2022

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  • Birthday 12/18/1984

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    currently working with lasers/design (and keys, to keep it musical) as side gigs to law practice.
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    #murica
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    like, stuff and such.
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    law.
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  • Favourite Bands
    jacob collier | free | elton john | radiohead | rachmaninoff | lizst | stevie ray vaughan | jeff buckley | skynyrd | marvin gaye | philip glass | local natives | nothing but thieves | RATM | sia | troye sivan | st. vincent | beach house | michael jackson | TØP | megadeth | harry styles | years & years | tame impala | johnny orlando | ruel | tyler bryant & the shakedown | gallant...and hodgepodge of other stuff.
  • Favourite Films
    silence of the lambs | the big lebowski | there will be blood | fargo | parasite
  • Favourite TV Shows
    breaking bad
  • Favourite Books
    freakonomics -- all iterations
  • Muse Releases Owned
    extensive list, but, unfortunately, exceedingly far from complete. over 550 items. i'm an idiot.
  • Muse Concerts Attended / Attending
    too many times. -- starting in 200?... worthy farm | dallas (x7) | fairfax, VA (x2) | D.C. (x2) | williamsburg, VA | charlottesvile | raleigh | philly | houston (x4) | ft. worth | austin (x5) | new orleans | phoenix | san diego | anaheim | sacramento | red rocks | tucson | LA (x6) | oakland | vegas (x2) | OKC | tulsa | NYC (x5) | NJ | chicago (x3) | lolla (x3-ish) | london (x2) | berlin | paris | oslo | sydney | adelaide | melbourne | perth | madrid | stockholm | copenhagen | helsinki | SBE 2017 | a bunch of north american ST tour stops...and i'm prolly missing quite a few.

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  1. yep. finally came in after hours of waiting.
  2. do you still hate exo-politics? haha. just checking. anyway: verona is interesting because as the arpeggiated synths move down; everything else moves up. that's hard to compose and make it not sound like a mess. ghosts should've been on cryosleep. halloween is a better panic station. i have other opinions on other songs, but will have to share them later, because i have a vested interest in the expanded upcoming tour production (tba), as i have the last few. finally, i was a lurker before i officially joined here, and each is entitled to his/her/he/she/they/them/it (whatever i missed, sorry), but i take people's opinions who join here after a few songs have been released in a given album cycle and then trash the album in full when it's released with a grain of salt. you know who you are.
  3. do you still hate exo-politics? haha. just checking. anyway: verona is interesting because as the arpeggiated synths move down; everything else moves up. that's hard to compose and make it not sound like a mess. ghosts should've been on cryosleep. halloween is a better panic station. i have other opinions on other songs, but will have to share them later, because i have a vested interest in the expanded upcoming tour production (tba), as i have the last few. finally, i was a lurker before i officially joined here, and each is entitled to his/her/he/she/they/them/it (whatever i missed, sorry), but i take people's opinions who join here after a few songs have been released in a given album cycle and then trash the album in full when it's released with a grain of salt. you know who you are.
  4. part of the "problem" is that the band plays songs so well live that come closer to studio recordings more than just about any other out there. i agree, on KOBK studio, the mids are too high, the bass isn't nearly heavy enough, and the vocals are too compressed. but these are probably matt-approved (and maybe dom-approved) stylistic choices. i can hear influences from every album they've released from showbiz to date...even ST at the end (it's probably a lead-in to the next track) -- and i think that's what they were aiming for with KOBK. or, at least the label wanted them to do so with at least one song. oddly, my biggest gripe with KOBK studio is that there should have been a full half (or even quarter or eighth) rest of all music (i.e. complete silence) between Yah, Yah Yah Yah, Yahweh Yah Yahweh Yah Yah Yah, and the next Yah Yah Yah in the first part of the breakdown. but i'm really nitpicking here. silence can be golden. i agree that the first half of drones probably does capture muse "live" in studio at its best -- alongside the dead star/IYW b-side release -- but at least this comes somewhere close (ish). there are a few others out there, but few and far between. but again, the issue is how well a band can replicate itself live when trying to mirror a studio recording with minimal backing tracks -- a hallmark of great bands. i remember the days when muse basically refused to use virtually any backing tracks (hence having to add morgan, and now dan) when more operatic stuff required the inclusion. if i were an octopus and had toes and fingers on each extremity, i think that would cover most of the bands in history that can actually come close to pulling off live versions that approximate studio recordings, and muse is one of them.
  5. i'm older school than that. i've not listened to anything/watched any videos, and won't until album release day. i just like reading commentary until then. sounding mostly negative, but that's reddit and discord for ya. preordered my physical copy / bundle / what-have-you, and i'll probably just pass judgment after i buy FLAC files off qobuz on the day when i have the chance to listen to the album front to back, short as it may be, all in one fell swoop (and then watch live videos). i don't do these shenanigans for any other band, even though it's jumped the shark as far as i'm concerned. 😑 i have a ticket to a theatre gig in october, but i need to book a flight, and my main airline that i use just canceled like 90,000 flights today. i'll tackle that bear tomorrow.
  6. thankfully i purchased harry styles pit tickets and for front row for two NY shows at face value. those will be sold and resale proceeds will applied to a ticket and airfare/lodging for one of the three US gigs. budget: a few thousand for a 3 day-trip...anything beyond that is nuts. and it may be nuts to begin with...esp. if they end up playing crap. but, the US has never truly gotten a deep cuts gig, despite contrary opinion, so i'll hope for the best. had to cross the pond a couple times for recent-ish club/theatre gigs.
  7. fwiw, i have used the piano breakdown in RBS as my ringtone for as long as i can remember. i also made multiple tones that i use for multiple alarms (i tend to sleep through quite a few each day, so i set them up back-to-back-to-back over a series of minutes (hah)) with parts of: AP, bliss, exo pt. 1, exo pt. 3, mk ultra, UD, USoE, uprising, reapers, and...defector, lol. i also made a tone from MGMT's metanoia at some point a long way back. i think i must have had time to kill and spliced parts out of 'em.
  8. figured out my problem with trying to pay by paypal: it's only an option from the UK/EU store, not for people in the US, which is where i am. weird.
  9. i couldn't even find a way to pay via PayPal on any browser or device -- only by card. and i never saw any language about instant downloads of the first two singles...
  10. is this the general consensus of the title of the closing track? also, if this is only a 10-song album, i'm thinking of a late may digital release and a physical release mid-to-late summer.
  11. based on the wildly mixed reviews, i'm tempted not to listen to this until the album comes out. what i don't want is four singles before a probable mid-summer album release that contains only, say, 10-11 tracks...
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