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@spicyMcHAGGIS9green Ha Ha! Yeah baybeeeee! "She had a snake for a pet / and an amulet / and she was breeding A DWARF! / but she wasn't done yet / She had grey-green skin / a doll with a pin / I told her she was alright but I couldn't come in /................/ Actually, I was really quite busy a...

@lorriutopia PARADOX for starters. Its a subconcious output of practically every state of mind a person can experience but rarely express - however, Todd can express anything through his music. Just one CD contains a microcosom of the human condition, add the remaining output of this man and his ...

When it comes to painting a musical picture of losing a lover and the often devastating emotional turmoil humans go through after its "time for the wheel to turn", no one does it better than Todd. The middle section of this song with its swirling bright keyboards that are Todd's signature sound, ...

@terirhan I will share with you this personal experience of agony and joy: I had become addicted to Morphine and often ran out of the drug. Withdrawals were HELL. I found this song and the tears just poured from my eyes, I almost choked to death from profound emotional "letting go" drowning. Todd...

@theGazzelle You and I probably agree that ANOTHER LIVE was Todd and his original UTOPIA, save for Roger Powell I believe. I liked that live album much more than this (see my entry down below). Todd could be rather out of sorts at times, lackluster, and his updated UTOPIA lineup just doesn't have...

@cathoderoy Back then it took a bit more technical expertise to apply to an entire mix. I love Todd's guitar tone, its very Hendrix in the songs intro. I think Electro-Harmonix made the best Flanger for guitar, its parametric sweep allows for certain notes and their related EQ freq to suddenly do...

I CALL IT A DRUG INDUCED SONIC COLLAGE OF EVERY POSSIBLE SOUND IN TODD'S GREY MATTER X-FILE FOLDER. This song is like a future astronaut landing on Saturns largest orange hazed moon Titan, being greeted by tiny multi-limbed creatures who are SO HAPPY TO FINALLY MEET A HUMAN BEING, and they go int...

@Zoggiez And he did most of this himself. I remember when I had this album that on the inner sleeve Todd apologizes for the production not being as good as it could have - the reason? He could only put so many songs on VINYL before the sound quality begins to degradate. He really pushed the engin...

@Astrotama AND OF COURSE THE PERFECT DRUMMER TO REPLACE THE ONE I FOUND TWO YEARS AGO DOES NOT RESIDE IN PHOENIX, AZ. NO MUSICIANS OF YOUR CALIBUR EXIST IN PHOENIX. I QUIT THE BAND I FORMED, BASS PLAYER WHO IS AS GOOD ON BASS AS YOU ARE ON DRUMS WANTS ME TO MANAGE HIS NEW LINEUP, USE MY SONGS. BU...

Not MY Todd, its like a tired band came to rehearsal and Todd wanted some music for a song that I hope implies Todd is not worried about Satan or anyone / anything coming between God and him. Todd has said he is an Agnostic, on occasion has not pleased me as I'm Catholic. He's more mature than th...

@Cosklie I love the verses in this song, very late Beatles era kind of twangy riff Todd is playing on that classic rainbow colored Gibson SG guitar. But of course he quickly goes off into hyperdrive and space with the chorus. This was never an easy one for Todd and Utopia of 1970s to pull off liv...

ANYONE ON THIS ASTRAL PLANE RECALL THE BROTHERS JOHNSON SONG "STRAWBERRY LETTER #9"? OKAY, COOL. NOW, FOCUS ON THAT PSYCHEDELIC MIDDLE SECTION WHERE THE KEYBOARDS AND GUITARS BOUNCE ALONG ECHOING, FADING OUT. THAT WAS ACID MOTOWN SOUL, VERY COOL BUT NEVER AGAIN. OH SO I THOUGHT. FRIENDS WHO KNEW ...

I keep saying "now this song etc." when in fact I'm practically going through every song I feel extremely emotionally attached to, like Don't You Ever Listen. As a musician, I recognize what I call "melancholy soul" chords he often plays on keyboards, with that distinct keyboard sound i.e. REAL M...

Zoot Allures was a fantastic yet odd kind of Zappa offering - can't quite pin in down. First time I heard the massive talent of drummer Terry Bozzio. But the guitar on the recorded version was to me, Frank really finding perhaps by accident, the blonde stratocaster's ability to resonate those who...

First time I heard this (I'm a vocalist / guitarist / songwriter) and it jammed to Todd's middle section intro vocal I was ALREADY blown away. Then Todd morphs his guitar into a sonic euphoria sound I HAD NEVER HEARD BEFORE. I was like "this is surreal, like Salvador Dali on guitar". The photo of...

@mystikrhythms61 Yeah, kind of a stupid notion on my part. I must admit having seen Todd during his RA album tour was a bit much. He risked his neck climbing up that pyramid and he broke countless guitar strings on the Egyptian Symbol Guitar. But, Todd being a highly intelligent dude did TWO conc...

So mom intro'd you into this world same time of record's release? So you are Mr. Triscuits incarnate! I have listened to this song so many times I can hear every note, every wild Todd whammy bar, REVERSE GUITAR HENDRIX and keyboards dueling in my head.psychedelic dual and go into the song's first...

I had every Todd record. I changed, life changed. Todd changed. I changed my mind. Here I am sitting alone with a frickin' Kleenex box (don't tell my football buddies!!) and hearing everything with fresh ears. I get off on Another Live, being a vocalist / guitarist, from start to finish and Todd,...

@shrew972 I'm a typing fool, one superlative won't do. I followed Todd all through high school, went off him here and there, and like so many of us, have come back home to Todd and his Alice In Wonderland set to music. He's such a New Yorker, and I'm glad he's still true to his roots. Bearsville ...

I am neutral on Todd's choice of soulmate, same withThe Beatles' marriage partners. Rockers like Steven Tyler who I as a man don't consider ugly, just Boston tough looks,well he gets a BEAUTY+ another in Liv Tyler. Todd had ex-porn star Britt Eckland (!) not to last, got him a hit song in Can We...

YES, TODD'S TIME BEING MANY TODDS IS STARTING TO SHOW. I don't expect him to sound like Utopia Another LIve Mister Triscuits soaring guitar and synths. I am glad to see he still has multi-colored hair, like me. But I believe much of what he did on those great albums, The Ikon's LIVE VERSION UTOPI...

Basically it comes down to which Todd he wants to be at any given time. Back when he released Something/Anything many loved his pop genuis and SOUL. It often sounds like Motown on acid with Todd's swirling, panned keyboards and THAT SOUND, like on REAL MAN. Its like boyish love for a girl gone ba...

Mr. Holdsworth, to me, was at his finest with Bill Bruford, Dave Stewart, Jeff Berlin. His guitar tone on UK's first release I felt had reached that "other worldly" state hard to pin down. It had a rounded, full-stereo split character with basic Marshall JCM's, rack-mounted digital effects and hi...

My first album by The Clash "Give "em enough Rope" They did get their fair share of abuse from The Sex Pistols and a few other hardliner narcissistic punk bands for sounding "too refined, too rehearsed" among other things. But they ignored their detractors and did what came naturally which just h...

@kironchi Basically irrelevant. Fact is, he used Heroin. Sorry I got the exact date wrong, but WTF does it matter? This is the problem with these forums; it shows how incredibly different all of us here are as people and if we were all forced to spend a week together camping, I'm sure there would...

I've had many albums that introduced me to the Legato King and Ministry of Shovel Hand Chords From Jupiter. For whatever reason however I've always enjoyed Allan most when he's, uh, "confined" to a Dave Stewart / Berlin / Bruford / U.K. format. The solo on In The Dead Of Night is disciplined lega...

Part of me is thinking "this can't be, he's nailed it; tone, legato chromatic scaling, especially when he shifts up to "insanity fingering" on the F#. First time I heard this song I believe I had already several Van Halen records but this was a solo like nothing I had ever heard in the "legato ca...

@FedskaTheOne YES, YOU CAN! Aside from being right with ya on the "dislike" button, the business could use a kick in the ass from all in a position to do so. A Revolution of sorts, to give Rock n' Roll back to the fans who literally supported it out of their own working class pockets back when it...

Do some good chemicals late at night, alone, RTRtv ch on an A-Team episode with volume turned down, slap on some Rob Zombie at Club Gothic audio levels, sink back into yer $1000 Sharper Image Football Lazyboy Chair and ya got virtual ELEMENT a440. As for my band, I expect the same blunt honest c...

WHY WOULD ANYONE, EVEN A TRULY MASTERFUL METAL / ROCK SHREDDER WANT TO PLAY A VIRTUAL COPY OF THE REAL DEAL - OF WHICH ONLY DESERVES PLAYING BY THE REAL DEAL BOTH THE MAN AND THE GUITAR!

Take 6 metal guitarists with their faces hidden in shadow. Let them all play their wild rapid fire "beyond the pentatonics" dive bombing solos. This scenario includes having seen them in their respective bands, met them and know their names. Despite all this, I seriously doubt anyone would be abl...