Ahrt Roke. (Reeeeelly.)

[By-Tor Blackwing <96aander@ultrix.uor.edu>]

I don't know guys; I really like 70s concept albums.  _Hemispheres_ by 
Rush is a wonderful almost symphonic example of a great, well-put and 
-held together album/story.  Rush is very well known for their live 
shows...In fact, they're playing the first part of Hemispheres on their 
current tour.  It does get a little silly to compare classical music with 
rock...but compositional techniques can be similar, if that's the 
direction that the artist is willing to take.  Yeah, lots of concept 
albums are cheesy and lose the point they are trying to get across in the 
details of the story.  But lots of it is wonderful, engrossing stuff.

My fiancee is harpist and opera singer.  She has put together a bunch of 
folk songs under the title and story of _The Dark Eyed Sailor_.  It's a 
love story which capitalizes upon the storytelling aspects of folk 
music.  She's making a short film of it(Yes, it is something like TLTCTC, 
but she's been working on this for a lot longer than we knew about Kate's 
offering); perhaps someday you guys can go see it at the UC Berkeley 
theatre =).  The point being that a lot of this stuff is really neat, and 
calls to the fiction lover in us all.

By-Tor Blackwing, Slayer of Dozens

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