Re: [LAU] [Music] Prog supergroup's first outings

On 30/11/13 19:38, Will Godfrey wrote: Hi Will You have commented already, although it was over on KVR -- better twice than never :-) You mentioned there that you preferred Time To Go, but didn't go into specifics. I did pass your comments on to Julien. Thanks, I actually take that as a compliment since personally, I'd take studied over improvised any day. It's not really possible to do decent prog improvised, by the very nature of the music, unless perhaps when you get a band like King Crimson. Even then, I bet they had a fair number of misses with their improvs and the ones I've heard haven't had the finesse of their composed pieces. Time To Go is both the exception that proves the rule and an argument against improv. I don't think I've ever before, and haven't since and doubt I would again in the future, improvised a part that I've been able to use whole sections from -- let alone in its entirety as in this case -- on the Nth take, let alone the first. I also had to do a huge amount of editing, correcting timing issues in the drum performance (although the performance itself was otherwise mostly fine), construct an in-tune and in-time bass part and do some serious corrective mixing work on the piano because they were improvised. The piece was essentially recorded in the same way as Cloud and everything else that Julien and I have done individually, with overdub after overdub, just in this case we didn't bother to write and practice parts for it. I know Julien loved the mix of TTG and the overall sound, but I think he preferred Cloud as a piece of music and felt it had more going for it because it was carefully written. It also doesn't help that TTG sounds a bit Floydy and he hated them with a passion :-) It's a shame he won't be able to chip in. But, he has sold all his music gear, emigrated and has effectively dropped off the grid for the forseeable future, although there's a chance he won't be totally incommunicado indefinitely. Sincerely, thanks again for listening and commenting (again) :-)