Brent L. White

Pastor. Georgia Tech 🐝 alum & fan. Main musical interests: Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Yes, the “Great American Songbook” & heavy metal. Husband & father of 3.

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@landofthe80s Love them both, but Don Knotts did his best work as Furley!

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@primarily_prog Love it, of course… but my appreciation for all of the David Hentschel-produced albums (from 1976-1980) has skyrocketed in recent years. And Then There Were Three, especially! I’m convinced that some people are turned off to ATTWT because of that horrible Hipgnosis cover!

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@jrgray Bigger profile. We were willing to match the money

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@steakshapiro “Mexican Radio” by Wall of Voodoo. Not sure if I loved it, but it was memorable

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@primarily_prog The band in top form. Definitive recording of “Supper’s Ready.” Collins does right by the Gabriel stuff. I like “Three Sides Live,” but the hamminess—which was probably fun if one was there that night—distracts from listening experience. David Hentschel was band’s best producer!

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@Mika1928333 @Kelly_Quinlan You win the internet this morning. Thanks! 🤣

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@Mikehomeseller This is tough! Both are wonderful. And the Duke side-length epic (although it happens to be split over two sides) is a great achievement standing alongside “Supper’s Ready.” But I would say W&W by a nose. All these David Hentschel-produced between 1976-80 are masterpieces

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@KeithMcilwain An electric guitar in “Queen Jane Approximately” is out of tune, but I take your point 😉

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@primarily_prog Poor Eric… Like Pete and Roger, Mick and Keith, and a handful of others, he made the mistake of not dying in his prime, as expected. Not that he didn’t give it the old college try! (Heavy sarcasm!) Still, I can’t imagine an actual guitarist saying he’s overrated!

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@JonahDispatch We have a springer. Exact same thing

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@DanEdMill @primarily_prog ATTWT is a masterpiece—beautifully produced. I’d miss Hackett later on; not here

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@primarily_prog And Then There Were Three is one of my three or four favorites from the band. I love it so much! I think it would be more highly rated if it had a more interesting album cover! That second Gabriel album is a snooze for me. So 1. Genesis 2. Hackett 3. Gabriel

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@Kelly_Quinlan I said this on the original post, but I still worry—even after a couple of years of watching the same replay over and over—that Leary’s knee is going to touch the turf before the end zone

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@MikeTilburn Of the two major prog albums featuring men’s bare buttocks, this has always been my favorite. Seriously… my second or third favorite Yes album. A masterpiece. One might wish Eddie Offord were twiddling the knobs, but this is a very minor criticism.

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@primarily_prog Maybe so… the slightly back-loaded RÖKFLÖTE has also, I think, been a great highlight of Anderson and band’s latter day career

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@MikeTilburn I dislike it. 🤷‍♂️ For one thing, it’s lacking the English aesthetic for which the band was famous. Side 3 is a stone-cold bore. The actual story doesn’t move me at all. But I only care about the story because I’m bored by the music!

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@primarily_prog I inherited this album on vinyl a couple of years ago. It’s in my office. I play it in the background. To my surprise it’s taking root. Its charms are… subtle? But growing on me!

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@primarily_prog Unqualified triumph!

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@primarily_prog @TheJonAnderson @Rich_Castellano A masterpiece, plain and simple. The epic, “Once Upon a Dream,” moves me to tears. What a gift for a man pushing 80 to give us an album like this! (Yes, I, too, hate the cover. If any Yes-related album deserves a Roger Dean cover, it’s this one!)

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@primarily_prog Maybe so, but Yes albums during their classic period are sufficiently diverse. It never sounds like they’re covering the same ground. Like many on here, I do thoroughly enjoy TFTO (even Tormato, for that matter). I don’t know… I came to both albums long after Yes’s heyday.