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  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Saturday, June 10, 2023 6:33 PM

Not familiar with Jeff Wayne...I'll have to dig that up and give it a listen. (Loved the Moody Blues...and I'd listen to Richard Burton reading out a telephone book. What a voice!)

Used to play Wakeman's '6 Wives of Henry VIII' album (on vinyl, of course) as an FM DJ back at my college radio station. All hail WUVT, the musical voice of Virginia Tech!

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by keavdog on Saturday, June 10, 2023 7:16 PM

My brothers were 10 and 8 years older.  I got all sorts of influence from their record collection.  I graduated highschool in 82 so you can figure the music around that time.  But I listened to Skynrd, The Allman Brothers, The James Gang, Yes, Grand Funk Railroad, Eagles along with the late 70s and 80s new wave stuff.  Oddly enough when Nirvana came on to the scene I was kinda relieved.  Don't get me wrong - there's some of my generations music I really like but book end that with 70s rock and 90s grunge and I'm more comfortable.

Close to the Edge was one of my favorite Yes albums.

Thanks,

John

  • Member since
    October 2004
  • From: Orlando, Florida
Posted by ikar01 on Saturday, June 10, 2023 8:53 PM

I didn't know Wakeman did a third album, that means I'll have to listen to it.

Something else to listen to would be the team called Alien Voices.  It was a series of classic S.F. stories from Wells, and other authors that were performed like an an old time radio broadcast with sound effects and performed by members of the Star Trek cast.  That was a requirement, you had to be in Star Trek, somewhere.  At one point they did a live broadcast of First Men in the Moon and televised it on stage, complete with people doing the effects, right on stage.

Did you know that there was more than one War of the Worlds broadcast done?  I watched Orson Wells do an interview and the subject of his radio show came up.  He started by saying he didn't know what troublel was until they did that show and the police walked into the studio.  They had no idea anything was wrong until then and had to put a disclaimer on the air to hopefully calm things down.  People had started listening to the radio and missed it being a play, didn't caatch a detail like the radio station in NYC sent a radio truck to the Jersey marshes, some 30 miles or more away using dirt roads, no paved highways back then, with a music interlude of maybe a minute or two until the truck arrived on scene.  Then there was the famous part where the radio reporter was stationed on the roof of a building describing the Martain machines wading the harbor and releasing poison gas as he started chocking and dropped from view.  It was  ah heck of a pre war night.

Some years after WWII, it was tried again in South America, once again ending in panic.  The public responded badly, burning down the station and killing almost a dozen people.  

In the 60s or early 70s, someone did it again, this time along the Canadian border.  Once again the public fell for it.  Never again that I know of.

 

  • Member since
    October 2004
  • From: Orlando, Florida
Posted by ikar01 on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 2:24 PM

The real reason Pluto isn't a planet any more?  

The dog didn't want the competition and loss of attention.

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