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It’s megatime!

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I’ve finally gotten my secret weapon in the mail: a custom Megatar Dragon.

They don’t call it a Megatar for nothing! Just for comparison’s sake, here’s it next to my old bass axe.

This thing is bigger than my torso.

I’ve messed around with it a little bit last night and I think I’ve figured out how to play most of Elephant Talk. I was going from a tab arranged for 4-string bass and had to try and reverse engineer how it would work on a 12-string tapper.

My masterplan for getting the X3 pod met a snag when I noticed that input 2 was an XLR jack instead of the 1/4″ that I was expecting. I’ve ordered an adapter and when it gets here, I’ll record some things to show it off.

Eleventh Hour Playlist for 01-11-09

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Head Control System – “PlaySkin Flick”
Genesis – “PlayLos Endos”
Sieges Even – “Tidal”
Parallel or 90 Degrees – “Embalmed in Acid”
Agalloch – “PlayFire Above, Ice Below”
Peter Hammill – “She Wraps It Up”
Steven Wilson – “No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun”
Fish – “The Company”
Port Mahadia – “Requiem Of The Mind”
Neuraxis – “Memento”
Dream Theater – “PlaySolitary Shell”
Kansas – “PlayThe Wall (live with London Symphony Orchestra)”

Themes for Guitar and Voice – Vol. 2

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I’m pleased to announce the unveiling of my sixth Caustic Reverie album, Themes for Guitar and Voice – Volume 2. This installment is a diverse collection ranging from ethereal drones to crushing walls of feedback.

1 PlayHeatstroke 6:26
2 PlayMeditate/Medicate 8:44
3 PlayPull 10:44
4 PlayNepenthes18:44
5 PlayThe Fountain 8:29
6 PlayLullaby 3:51
7 PlaySmother 5:10
8 PlayUrbex 5:52

I had actually finished this before the end of the year but I’ve been waiting on Jamendo to finish getting it uploaded. It’s been over a week and still no album so I’ll just post this with the last.fm links for now.

The Eleventh Hour Radio Best of 2008 show

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Simon Says – “Tardigrade”
Daylight Dies – “Woke Up Lost”
The Tangent – “Bat out of Basildon”
Steven Wilson – “Significant Other”
Magenta – “Blind Faith”
Canvas Solaris – “Patterns Spiral into Swarm”
Pineapple Thief – “Shoot First”
Ephrat – “Blocked”
Tiles – “Sacred & Mundane”
Demians – “Naïve”
Opeth – “Porcelain Heart”
Moonbound – “Nina”
Ayreon – “Ride the Comet”
Lunatic Soul – “The New Beginning”

And now for my top tens for 08:
2008 Metal Albums

Daylight Dies – Lost to the Living
Opeth – Watershed
Enslaved – Vertebrae
Amaseffer – Exodus: Slaves For Life
Ayreon – 01011001
Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream
Ihsahn – angL
Suspyre – When Time Fades
Pyramaze – Immortal
Andromeda – The Immunity Zone

2008 Prog Albums

Demians – Building an Empire
Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
Magenta – Metamorphosis
Simon Says – Tardigrade
The Tangent – Not As Good As The Book
Ephrat – No One’s Words
Lunatic Soul – Lunatic Soul
Pineapple Thief – Tightly Unwound
Marillion – Happiness is the Road, Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder
Moongarden – Songs from the Lighthouse

Eleventh Hour Playlist for 12-21-08

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King Crimson – “Three of a Perfect Pair (Live)”
Gallery – “Sarin and Airplanes”
Retrospective – “Enemy World Vision”
Greg Lake – “I Believe In Father Christmas”
Brainstorm – “Surrounding Walls”
Genesis – “The Fountain of Salmacis”
Orphaned Land – “Norra el Norra (Entering the Ark)”
Sylvan – “Questions (Live)”
Skyclad – “Fainting by Numbers”
Agua de Annique – “Trail of Grief”

Guitar themes update

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I’m just putting the finishing touches on the last couple of tracks from Themes for Guitar and Voice – Volume 2. I should have the tracks finalized and uploaded sometime tomorrow or Wednesday.

In other news, I’ve just acquired a Line 6 X3 Pod the other night. It’s quite a change playing through either a Peavy practice amp or recording direct from the guitar, as I’ve never really been in a place where I could crank the volume high enough to get some of the extreme distortion and saturation from some of these models. It can record 24 bit/96k digital right to my soundcard, which is infinitely more high-tech than some of the methods I’ve been using to record for Guitar Themes. Speaking of which, I need to stop playing with the new toy and get this album finished.

I’m not sure if I’ll have it before the end of the year, but I do have a new instrument coming. It has twelve strings and will probably turn out to be bigger than my car.

Eleventh Hour playlist for 12-14-08

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Frost* – “Falling Down”
Anubis Gate – “Andromeda Unchained”
Camel – “Flight of the Snow Goose (single edit)”
Deluge Grander – “Inaugural Bash (excerpt)”
The Third Ending – “Eleven”
Control Denied – “Cut Down”
The Watch – “The Border”
Jack Foster III – “Outbreak Monkey”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “The Curse of Baba Yaga/The Hut of Baba Yaga”
Tool – “h.”
3 – “My Divided Falling”

Old songs re-released?

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I have half a dozen or so songs from 2000 to 2005 that I’ve been thinking about re-releasing. At this point, they exist as a series of mp3s uploaded to soundclick or last.fm, often with fictitious album names to go with them. There is a fairly wide range of styles on these tracks, and some of them are experimental to the point of being painful to listen to. The songs are out there and I don’t want to disown them, but would it be in my best interest to officially release them on a compilation?