Originally Posted by Shannow
Originally Posted by Patman
This is a metal band out of Brazil that I had never heard of until today but I've been listening to their stuff for the last few hours and it's amazing!
Angra ???
Patman...where you been ?
I've posted them singing Wuthering heights for a decade and half and singing along with Lord Bruce before.
Congrats but.
I am definitely late to the party on this one!
They aren't really well known here in Canada compared to more mainstream metal bands like Metallica and Megadeth.
I know that most on here have trouble appreciating anything which is not hardcore, head-banging, scream-O, staccato, death metal, but the finger picking, and fret work on this is just AMAZING!!
Inspired by seeing Robert Earl Keen live @ WCL in Philly last night, and with former Greencard member, Kym Warner now a permanent mandolin player in his band;
The Greencards' excellent reading of REK's "Love's A Word I Never Throw Around", with Carol Young's phenomenal voice carrying it.
Also, Jonathan Edwards' live, fine, very soulful interpretation of Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again".
At the Van Halen News Desk site a bootleg video has been posted of the first concert of the Van Halen World Vacation Tour in March 1979, at the Selland Arena in Fresno. A guy somehow got in with a camera and a tape recorder and the audio really is not that bad for an illegal bootleg. This is very early live VH with Edward playing a white Kramer Voyager/Star Hybrid at the start of the show. You don't see much of Alex or his drum kit due to the angle of the video to the stage but you can tell it's the stainless steel Ludwig set from Van Halen II and you can see a few octabons pointing down. Because of the angle of the camera it is pretty hard to see much of Michael Anthony but you can hear him singing pretty well. Dave is very "energetic" in the concert.
I used to regret never having seen the original VH in concert, until the Interwebz came along and I got to see them on You Tube. The bootleg is done in segments and there are times where there is no video, you see still pictures when the guy was changing the tape reels. The whole concert is at this link: