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.....going to arrive December 15th.
  ;D  Orders can be placed late next week at www.pedalgiantanimals.com Sales initially will only be done at the website. There will be samples for folks to listen to and milk and cookies for Santa.
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Great news .... at last ....... my order is placed !!
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Whoa, those samples is awesome. What a huge variety of music and everything sounds so good. I will order it next week, pronto.
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It's funny, but when I'm sure I'm gonna buy a CD I seldom listen to samples. I guess I don't want to spoil the surprise to listen to the music for the first time.
Placed my order and longing for December already! Very cool site, b.t.w. I like it when it's something different. |
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Thanks for the compliments everyone. That website took me nearly all week to put together. It's a good thing I don't do web work for a living. Hmmm, come to think of it, I would probably make more money than I do recording! Thank you for your orders, and I am looking forward to shipping them out.
Frank
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An order from Estonia is placed as well.
Btw, can you sign those pre-ordered CDs? That would be very cool! |
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gulliver said: Btw, can you sign those pre-ordered CDs? That would be very cool! Yeah, I would also like the CD to be signed, please! ;D Ps. I will order the PGA CD tonight. |
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Stan and I will be happy to sign the CDs as long as we have your permission to break open the packaging to get to the contents. The shrinkwrapping will be removed when you get them....okay?
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Just ordered mine. Looking forward to hearing this again. Frank-you played a rough mix for me at the office when we were selling your house. Hope all is well.
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canefire said: Stan and I will be happy to sign the CDs as long as we have your permission to break open the packaging to get to the contents. The shrinkwrapping will be removed when you get them....okay?Frank This is absolutely okay with me. Otherwise how would you sign them? Thanks! |
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canefire said: Stan and I will be happy to sign the CDs as long as we have your permission to break open the packaging to get to the contents. The shrinkwrapping will be removed when you get them....okay?Frank Although I'm very honoured to be in contact with you Frank directly, I'm not very interested in an autograph on the artwork. In my view the cover-art will more or less be spoiled by it. In other words: I like your musical autograph better than your handwritten one  René |
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Frank, you've got a PM including some order info!
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Just got notice that the CD is shipping. yee haa!! Can't wait....
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I received the CD today and just had my first listen. First impressions:
Pedal Giant Animals seems to be the project- and album-name, not the band-name. The cover suggests this is a duo-project from Stan and Frank. In the ballads (there are quite a lot of them on PGA) Stan sings in a beautiful way, which often reminds me of the slow stuff of Peter Gabriel (which is funny, considering HTM's history). Especially in Love, when he sings those low notes with a bit rasping voice, you can hear the similarities. I don't hear a lot of HTM-moods, except for the keyboard-lines and of course in Stumpy Shuffle, so this project has a sound of its own, which is important to know, because else you would see it as a project which could have better be released as a HTM-record. Frank & Stan can make a sound which is familiair with HTM, but they can make something unique too. |
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A small addition: Stan plays most of the bass-parts; they are very clear produced and sound very fine. Peter Princiotto plays on three track an instrument which sounds like a fretless bass. Can anyone confirm that?
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Got my copy today. Listening right now. Wonderful!!
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So far my favorite is the title track...last cut on the CD.
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bubinga said: So far my favorite is the title track...last cut on the CD. Yeah, that's a remarkable piece of work. |
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Yes, Pete plays a fretless bass on the project. A few of these tunes will be done by Oblivion Sun with some added parts and slight re-arrangements.
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bp said: Yes, Pete plays a fretless bass on the project. A few of these tunes will be done by Oblivion Sun with some added parts and slight re-arrangements.Thanks Bill. Always nice to get the confirmation that my ears haven't lost their ability to define sounds after more than 40 years of hard listening Curious about those reworkings. I notice Oblivion Sun have played Chapter Seven, Pink Sky, Mists Of Babylon and Everything during their first gig at the Orion Sound Studios. I should listen to those recordings more often. |
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I've had the new CD on while I've been reorganizing my studio/office space. This is a masterpiece musically and lyrically. Great to hear both Stan and Frank in such different contexts.
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Too bad I still didn't get mine...
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gulliver said: Too bad I still didn't get mine...I suppose the signing-action takes more time than expected; too many requests? |
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..... my copy arrived in the UK on Dec 27th ... (thanks Frank !! )
After a couple of listens, i think it's great ..... It's HTM ...... and yet it isn't ... so you get the best of both worlds ..... long may the guys continue to turn out great music whether it be as solos, duos, HTM, Oblivion Sun, or anything else !! |
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Great, a very spacey sound for PDA on my system here. Excellent sound quality, kudos to Frank and Bill. Superb musicianship. Got my copy from Stan. Damn, I should of gotten it signed. ;D
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Just wondering: is Blue Sun (or one of the other acoustic guitar-based tracks) a Stan & LeeAnn-song? Since they are working on an album now (at least, that's what their webpage mentions), I can imagine it will sound like this.
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Yesterday got my (SIGNED!
) copy and already sent an email to Frank... After two listens I regard this CD as quite mellow yet fine sounding affair. An ageing rocker in me might be a bit disappointed... but an experienced music listener in me is very thankful for such a nice musical ride.  |
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steamingears said: ... I'm not very interested in an autograph on the artwork. In my view the cover-art will more or less be spoiled by it... René I think it depends on the artwork... Imo, the one on PGA is very friendly to any kind of autographs and signing.  |
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gulliver said: steamingears said: ... I'm not very interested in an autograph on the artwork. In my view the cover-art will more or less be spoiled by it... René I think it depends on the artwork... Imo, the one on PGA is very friendly to any kind of autographs and signing. Well, you're right about the space to put an autograph: there's plenty. But that's exactly my point: that space has a reason for the painter and I can't imagine that the reason is to put a autograph on it. I once got an autographed cd from Kenso and the guitarist nicely signed on a white paper which he included in the cover. |
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Just received the "Pedal Giant Animals" CD on Thursday. There is no music on the planet that compares to this. For years I have been waiting for music with intelligent, spiritually uplifting lyrics and Zen vocals such as Stan's. The lyrics have a quality of sophistication that leaps out at the listener with brush strokes of expanded imagery. I never knew that vocals could add such an expansive atmosphere to the music. Suddenly one is transported to a celestial place where Bali Nahoo is riding "the lion, curving space and breaking time..."
There are other catch phrases like: "In my pyramid construction, I do it all. Changing waves into particles, I've watched the fractals grow...from a single seed into complexity, it's been a marvelous show"... The music seems to encompass yet surpass the very best of HTM... But the best part is, THE BAND HAS EVOLVED into a new entity, ascended to a new level. When I was in my early teens, my mother would frequently ask me what music that was that I was playing...the complex arrangements of Happy The Man and the pastoral, softer pieces of Camel would often grab her attention. I have no doubt that if this music was played in some public place like a coffee house, people would ask who it was. Play them the piece, "Pedal Giant Animals" and see what happens! Happy The Man's music has always evoked powerful, personal images and feelings in me. It runs deep. I can not even begin to describe the feelings I have had when listening to "At the Edge of This Thought, While Crome Yellow Shine and Hidden Moods / New York's Dream Suite. And of course ALL of Kit's solo work... New York's Dream Suite takes on a whole different dimension when Dan Owen sings it. Please, please, please guys...now that Stan has developed his own unique Zen vocal style, record a new version of New York's Dream Suite! The band is better than ever now. You could easily do a mind-blowing version with a jazzier, more melodic mid-section and the wondrous, mind expanding vocals that it was meant to have! I just can't wait for the Oblivion Sun CD now! cheers, chris |
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