Natural Science, from the Bubba Bash in January. YYNOT with Jason Bittner from Overkill on the drums.
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SammyChevelleTypeS3
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Wow. Very talented musicians to say the least. The singer fits perfectly to the music. That is special and not always the case. Many times I find one or the other overpowers making what could be real good songs almost unbearable. Very impressed. I know zero about them.
Glad you liked it. YYNOT is a great band, they are kind of a Rush tribute and kind of not a tribute band. They play some concerts where they will do some of the older Rush material but they also have 3 albums of original songs too. Youtube has a lot of YYNOT videos. The current singer is Patty Pershayla, she has a band of her own too called Patty and the Mayhaps but I have never listened to them. YYNOT had another female singer before Patty, all I know about her is her name was Rocky and she left the band all of a sudden during a tour in support of their second album. Rocky was good but did not have near the stage presence Patty has. Patty has a broader vocal range too.
The band is all heavily influenced by Rush, even on their original songs. The Natural Science video comes from a concert back in January called the Bubba Bash, it was in Pennsylvania to raise money for brain cancer research at Cedars-Mt. Sinai hospital. There were a lot of guest musicians there that night, Mike Portnoy and Jonathan Dinklage were there. I think the show raised about $50,000.00 for cancer research. YYNOT is not trying to take the place of Rush, they are not trying to be Rush but they do a great job on the Rush covers and at least for me anyway, they help to fill the void that Rush and Neil's death left behind. I remember I listened to the latest YYNOT album "Light and Shade" three times in a row when I first found out about the band.
I have posted these before but if you liked Natural Science, check these out:
This is the song/video that started it all:
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A different kind of "solo":
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SammyChevelleTypeS3
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Just recently watched a streaming documentary on E.L.P. Very informative and moving. Aside from Lynyrd Skynyrd / The Outlaws / Marshal Tucker Band and (real southern fried rock fans will know the next ones by initials) A.R.S , the main music I played in youth , over and over again was the music of E.L.P. alternating with those southerners n Allman Brothers + my favorites out of Canada , "The Band."
The last twenty minutes or so of the E.L.P. special got really touching when they interviewed Keith Emerson's son and his grandson. Both of them are playing at incredible professional levels. The granson is actually far better than his own dad and tours non stop. Keith's son, father of that very talented grandson only plays mostly in support of his son and special occassions. He is clearly still dealing with the loss of his Dad.
One of my all time favorite pieces of music they took from another composer (Aaron Copland) and re-did with their permission.
E.L.P. Fanfare for the Common Man Montreal Canada in 1977 with live orchestra:
The Pragmatic
Part of an interview with Greg Lake: LAKE: I remember we were rehearsing in a basement beneath the Olympic stadium. It was the only place large enough to fit the whole orchestra in to rehearse. A phone call came in and I had to go up and take it, and everybody took a coffee break. So during that break I took the elevator up to the ground floor, which actually took me to the Olympic stadium. We had just heard that they wanted to release it as a single. My initial reaction was like, 'Well, no, we're too busy doing the rehearsals with the orchestra.' And I went up to the stadium and I was looking at this absolutely mind-blowing site, covered in virgin snow, with the Olympic rings lit up in neon lights at both ends. It was an eerie sight, begging for something to happen, and I thought, ‘Video.’ We got the crew to move the gear up to the stadium the next day to start recording. Of course, what we didn’t plan was for it to be way below zero. My fingers would literally slip through the strings. So we had to record it in fairly short bursts, but it was a lovely film in the end.
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