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in no particular order (and more than five...sorry!): Horacio Hernandez (Jazz) Tomas Haake (Meshuggah) Martin Lopez (Opeth) Stewart Copeland (Police) Elvin Jones (Jazz) John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) David King (The Bad Plus) Billy Martin (MMW) Dave Lombardo (Slayer) Neil Peart (Rush)

...i'm really digging eclectic musical taste range in this forum!

just sampled some goreguts. pretty cool stuff, polarity3! now that i think of it, the latest Cannibal Corpse is pretty interesting.

Sample playlist for "complicated" music: Meshuggah - Catch 33 Naked City - Radio Mahler - Symphonies 5, 6, & 7 Berg - Lyric Suite Coltrane - Sun Ship, Giant Steps Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns The Bad Plus - Give Goblin - Profondo Rosso Soundtrack Keith Emerson - Inferno...

Benighted Joe... i predict that (like me) you will slowly but surely find your way into the jazz genre. opeth constantly allude to their "progressive rock" roots (YES, ELP, King Crimson, etc.) but go back a little further and check out what Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stanly...

no, it was definitely Baying of the Hounds.

i hear ya on the lower back thing my friend! i was trying to do stretches in between songs. luckily i was at the bar and had some room. my non-metal appreciating girlfriend was quite the trooper and hung out for as long as i wanted to. she deserves 2 or 3 chick flicks for that one. luckily...

now you're talking! Opeth has the BEST collection of PRS guitars i've ever seen. their tone is amazing. is it me or did i see Peter with one of those discontinued EG models? btw, i think Mendez's bass is taller than he is :grin:

well, i agree with you on certain points. first and foremost, it WAS a great OPETH show. Mikael was hilarious with his ad libbing. FOM was probably the best song performed of the night (BWP was equally amazing tho). on the flip-side, the sound was terrible. which made both opening bands...

saw them in philly at the TLA last night and the sound was mediocre at best. the acoustics in the room make it tough enough to mix a regular band let alone a metal band. add to the fact that Opeth are constantly shifting their tone and volume throughout the set and it's easy to see why any...

yep. i will be there. my first opeth show. any truth to the rumor that they're saving "ghost of perdition" for tonight's performance??