Oblivion Sun performing some new tunes wow. . .

Befrost,

At the 8X10, they performed one of Stanley's new tunes named, Dead Sea Squirrels. It was quite amazing. I look forward to what else they have up their collective sleeves. I know that I am not the best reviewer of music in the world but I will provide a synopsis on the 6th.

Dead Sea Squirrels, that's a really cool title! I want a new OS album !!! I'll be around checking your synopsis soon then, thank's guitarnut!

As promised, here I am writing about the latest feats of this remarkable band. I am always at a loss for words when I see these guys play. They did perform Dead Sea Squirrels and it seems that it changed slightly from the 8X10 show. What an amazing song. It is a rockier harder song than anything on the first album. I am really looking forward to the new album if this song is any indication of the songs that will be going on it. They also played every song from the OS record. They played Everything from PGA, Leave That Kitten Alone, Armone from HTM days. They also played Service With a Smile just before the improv encore. The bass riff that Dave started with on the encore brought some nice funk rythm that Stanley flailed over the top of. Bill and Frank had lightening fingers on their keys and Chris laid down the monster beats. I really cannot say enough about these insanely talented musicians. Every show they get better which I thought was impossible considering how good they were at the original Orion show. I do know that Bill did record this show so there should be some progress getting some of the video of their past performances out there for all to enjoy so you guys do not have to read my mangled reviews. Cheers

^ Well, I think your review is great..gives me a very good overall overview of the show. Thanks very much! The band promised to play more stuff from the new album..so did they play any more than Squirell then?

Befrost,

They only played Squirrels last night. I have heard that the band is working on new material but did not feel that it was ready to go for last night. I am sure that a few new tunes will be ready to go for the Orion gig in September.

Great show last night. My audience recording was better than at previous shows. Give me some time, and I'll get some copies out for sharing.

There's some photos here:

www.flickr.com/photos/naga3717/sets/

Mark C.

Well OK, the guys did promise to play new stuff, but in a way it's really good not to play too much of the forthc. CD. I only hope there's some symphonic prog too, not just hard rockers
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Thanks very much Mark for sharing the photos!!

Thanks guys for the impressions!

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out on the holiday weekend. It's always great to see so many familiar faces when we return to a venue. From my perspective, it's been really cool getting to meet all of you, especially those who have been around since the HTM days. Some of you are legendary (in a good way!). Plus it seems that every show, someone else comes out who has been away from the scene for 20+ years and is now discovering OS.

As for new songs, we'll certainly try to have something new to play at every show, but can't guarantee it. Without giving away anything, the new songs thus far are rather "grandiose" so we want to make sure we have them just right before sharing with the world. It was fun and rewarding to be able to collaborate w/ Stan on "Dead Sea Squirrels" and finally contribute to the songwriting. Our writing sessions have always been a lot of fun; we bounce ideas around and then when someone contributes something that really makes the song (i.e. Frank's descending organ part in DSS), we all laugh like kids, pump our fists and high-five each other. You'd think we just found a bag full of money!

Anyway, thus concludes this long post. Thanks again to everyone for keeping the prog scene alive and thriving and hope to see you soon!

Dave

Hats of for you guys not sharing the new songs..well that's my opinion though..I wanna hear them the first time on the new CD.

Thanks to you for keeping the "good" prog music alive

Dave, it was great to see you twice in 1 week and a bonus to meet your wife on Saturday night. You and Joe had a fabulous night at the Irish Channel and then to top it off on Saturday with OS. WOW!! What a week of great tunes and wonderful people. Looking forward to Ram's Head Roadhouse. I talked to Chris M. and he said he will be with you guys that night. He even offered for me to 'sit' in on drums. Well, I don't know about that, but it would be fun. Anyway, take care and see you soon.

George

Hi Dave,

Well, I guess we have to thank you guys for keeping the scene alive Speaking of the scene, I just visited your site and found out a CD your playing on with Brett Garsed and Frank Gambale. I listened to the album (Tolerance from Marc Norgaard) on CDBaby and I must say, I'm impressed! Great!!

George - thanks for coming to both shows. It was one of those good weeks of fun gigs that carried all the way to Sunday. I think it would be great if you sat in at a DDB gig sometime, but no pressure.

Steamingears - thanks and glad you dig Tolerance. That was a fun CD to do and even more so because it was recorded concurrently with the Oblivion Sun CD. Many times I went back and forth between studios on alternating days. Marc is talking about getting Brett up here from Australia to do some gigs at some point but that could be logistically problematic w/ Brett being so in demand. Here's hoping.

Cheers, all........

D

Really wish I could have gone, sounds like it was great. Unfortunately I haven't gotten to see Oblivion Sun play yet. =[