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Post by Ernie Ball on Sept 27, 2022 17:51:28 GMT 2
His what?
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Post by Ernie Ball on Aug 5, 2022 2:54:32 GMT 2
Some technical issue right after the intro and they're not able to start playing Walk the Earth. Crazy stuff! I'm curious what went wrong. Maybe the backingtrack isn't playing? Which makes Ian not being able to do a 4 count and start the song? Joey handles it like a pro though
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Post by Ernie Ball on Jun 5, 2022 2:31:28 GMT 2
Any Dutchies going to this festival? PS most bizarre line up incl Dolly Dots for Europe to play with!! Yeah thinking about it! But like you said...it's the weirdest lineup ever. Actually, it's so weird that I'm not even sure if I'm gonna drive to other side of the country just for that I dont even understand why Europe is playing there haha.
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Post by Ernie Ball on Apr 7, 2022 4:07:42 GMT 2
Radio broadcast of the 1989 Hammersmith show during the Out of This World Tour. Not the whole show unfortunately, but still 1 hour in great quality!
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Post by Ernie Ball on Feb 12, 2022 4:04:23 GMT 2
For me still their best album since the reformation. Is it really 15 years (!!!) ago?! I fully agree with that! A true masterpiece. I remember very good the contrast between Start From the Dark and this one. When Europe came back, I reeeeaally had to get used to SFTD with it's dark/depressing sound and downtuned guitars. I didn't like all the songs, maybe half of them. Maybe not even. I missed the melodies, the big choruses. The keyboards! But then Secret Society came out and I remember I liked it immediately. It opened kinda weird, I mean SS is kind of a weird song , but a cool one. With cool keyboards! Mic's little solo even sounded kinda progressive...which I thought was super interesting. Always the Pretenders had this awesome chorus that you could sing a long after one time hearing it. Exactly the things I missed on SFTD! The Getaway Plan, awesome. Let the Children Play, super awesome. (They should play that song again now that I think of it!). Forever Travelling and Brave and Beautiful Soul, just lovely. Such nice songs and hooks. And then the cherry on the cake: closing the album with this masterpiece called Devil Sings the Blues. Such a beautiful song when I heard for the first time. I remember it immediately got to me. It sucked me in. And ofcourse Norum's brilliant 2 minute solo to end it all in a fade-out... All of the above: I didn't had that with SFTD. This was a new style but also with much more classic Europe things in it. The things I missed. I also still think Secret Society is their best produced album to date (since the reunion). It sounds great! So, there you go, my two cents on Secret Society By the way, SFTD really grew on me but it took quite a while. Years actually. But looking back now, I appreciate it a lot more than in 2004. It has a lot more melodies than I thought at the time. I guess that's the fun part and beauty of music, isn't it? First you dont like it, but years later you do
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Post by Ernie Ball on Dec 11, 2021 3:10:58 GMT 2
Amazing. Just amazing...
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Post by Ernie Ball on Oct 1, 2021 19:19:46 GMT 2
Ian brings that up in a a recent interview with 80’s Glam Metalcast (you can watch that interview here): Hey thanks for the link Stein! Interesting. So it is a rights issue...
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Post by Ernie Ball on Sept 29, 2021 23:22:56 GMT 2
Cool! Such an interesting read! Actually some stuff in there that I didn't know. Thanks Stein for taking the time to translate it all I wonder... Were they all in the same room? (Or Zoom meeting perhaps). Cause the interview suggests that. Like Joey reacting to Kee about that Rod Stewart story for example.
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Post by Ernie Ball on Sept 27, 2021 23:26:41 GMT 2
What was up with Kee's short/missing hair these years??? Well Kee has been wearing a wig for years now. You can see it clearly. I thought it was pretty obvious, right? He already had a big bald spot during the PIP Tour in '92. You can see that in several videos.
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Post by Ernie Ball on Sept 23, 2021 19:38:46 GMT 2
Wow, 30 years! Amazing. Still a great album with some great tracks on there. I was 11 when it came out and for me this record still resembles some great childhood memories. I guess for a lot of us here. Listening to it always takes me back. Still have the t-shirt from the 1992 concert! Such a shame though that the band kinda "ignores" the anniversary's of Out of this World and PIP. I dont expect a tour like they did in 2016 for TFC, but a re-release/remaster would be nice. (By the way, it could be a rights issue also. Maybe Sony still owns them? Maybe they're not releasing any remasters simply because they can't? I dont know.)
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