From JAWALK04@ukcc.uky.edu Wed Oct 30 20:17:41 1996
Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 96 22:19:44 EST
From: j <JAWALK04@ukcc.uky.edu>
Subject:      Back from Akron
To: app@roadkill.com
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I'm back! *sigh* My very first concert, and I went alone unfortunately.
But actually I'm kinda proud of myself -- never been to a concert of
anything remotely resembling "rock", and I was afraid I might not be able
to cut loose and really enjoy the show (i.e. scream, clap, stand, dance,
etc.). It's easier to do it when you're surrounded by folks you know.
Well, anyway, it didn't seem to matter --- in fact, I was more alive than
most of my neighbors in the balcony!

Armed with earplugs, backstage pass, my old Pyramid LP, and the seat number
of a fellow listmember (Hello, Gene!), I was READY. I HAD A BLAST!!!!!!

Now please be aware that my comments are the totally unrefined comments
of someone who has never experienced ANY of this kind of stuff before, so
forgive me if I remark on things that might seem UNremarkable to others.
For me, these are some of the things I'll remember:

The opening guitar lines of "Dr. Tarr, etc." -- killer!
Neil's leather pants -- shades of Bono!
Clapping, clapping, and more clapping!  My hands actually ACHE today! Ouch!
Brother Up in Heaven -- the best performance ever!
The drunks in the audience who kept yelling during Ian's intro to BuiH
All the flashlights and cig lighters in the darkened room as we waited
   for the band to come out for encores
The gorgeous ceiling of the Civic Theate complete with glowing stars and
   drifting clouds!
The ear-splitting crescendo of Psychobabble (ear-plugs saved me!)
The amazing "buzz" in my bones, hours after the concert.  COOOL!

It was funny -- with all the screaming and applauding, I figured the crowd
was really wired, that it was a good night.  Nah, says Gene, the crowd
was apparently dead.  Hmmm .... energy level is measured by percentage of
time spent on one's feet, I come to realise.  I'm learning.

Well, afterward it was time for the backstage experience. Thank the Goddess
I wasn't completely alone -- Gene and his friends kept me company and intro-
duced me to the band when the time came. Okay, so here I was, ready to meet
the guys I had worshipped all of my adult life ......I am NOT gonna be a
GEEK, I am NOT gonna be a GEEK!  Jeez!  I was a total GEEK!  All those
well thought-out questions I had, all the meaningful conversation I was
going to enjoy, it all went out the &*%$!! window!  All I could do was ask
them to sign things, squeak out a few words here and there ....

*chuckle*  Actually I'm being too hard on myself. I definitely FELT like a
geek, but I enjoyed myself to be sure. And I did have a few words with the
guys.  I spoke briefly to Alan about how his music is very big with planet-
arium folks, how I had heard his stuff for the first time under the starry
sky of the planetarium and how perfect it was. He mentioned his gig at the
Griffith Observatory back in '76.

I managed to talk briefly with the elusive John Gibblin, & got his sig-
nature on my t-shirt. I told him how incredible his bass-playing was in
"Cloudbreak" (lastnight's performance especially -- Ian was center stage
but John was really cutting loose on the bass). John admitted to not really
doing the "social" thing very much .... he was the most nervous of the
band members ..... and soon after he disappeared back into the dressing
room.

When I met Alan, I was thoroughly embarassed --- but more on this later.

And then there was Ian.  Everything people have said about that guy is true!
He is truly so genuine, so THERE.  The others were distracted, still buzzing
from the performance or worrying about where they had to go next, but Ian
was right there with you, really talking to you and really listening too.
I was very impressed. He told me about the process of song-writing, how
some of the songs came to him in different forms at first but had to be
rewritten for the theme of the album. Which song was it that was originally
called Rio? I can't remember now.  He also talked about his feelings about
TAO and OA -- He definitely prefers OA -- the idea of a strong concept,
binding the album together from one song to the next, was very important to
him.  TAO was too disjointed in his oppinion. He talked about the title of
TAO too --- that they'd thought of just calling it "Turn It Up", but then
Storm showed them this weird photo of these guys all hanging upside-
down and they really liked the photo. It was so weird, it made no sense at
all, this picture, and the phrase that came to mind was "Try anything once!"
So that's how the album was named.

So anyway, I'm totally beat .... I'll write more after I've had some sleep.
Thanks to everyone for your encouragement and enthusiasm, and to Steve for
my chance to meet the BAND -- wow!  Also -- to everyone I was supposed to
look for but forgot where you were sitting, sorry! At least we got a great
show!

Oh yeah -- one last thing:

I wanted to be "visible" to my fellow listmembers (but apparently it didn't
work)-- so I made a "button" that identified me:  I took an old badge, inked
in the background black, took my gold,silver, and copper metallic pens and
drew a 3-D pyramid in the center.  Then around the edges I wrote "The
Avenue" and "APP@ROADKILL.COM", since I'm a member of both.  I thought it
looked kindof cool, anyway.  So Steve, I think we oughta find a way to mass-
produce these buttons so we can identify eachother at the concerts.  If I
could get them done, would you consider distributing them?

Tired, tired.... more later!

--- Roberta (seriously looking forward to Cincinnati next week)

From Dinodude_J@prodigy.com Thu Oct 31 04:12:08 1996
From: Dinodude_J@prodigy.com (MR DOMINIC M JUDY)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 02:33:00, -0500
To: app@roadkill.com
Subject: The akron Show
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Hi All,
 I drove from Pittsburgh, PA to Akron, OH  to see AP in
concert. It was well worth the trip. I left early to make
sure that I was there in time. The trip wasn't as long as
I thought it would be. (It only took me about 2-1/4 hrs
to drive the 125 miles---- with a long stop). I ended up 
driving around the wrong areas of Akron trying to
find the Civic Theatre. Somebody from the Univ. of
Akron pointed me in the right direction and I finally found the
theatre. 
 I parked in the parking garage on the side street around
the theatre. Because I was so early (I was there at 6PM and
the first to arrive at the garage) , I was lucky enough to be
allowed to park in the garage's adjacent open air lot. The 
space was only 10 feet from one of AP's tour buses!!!!
 Since my wife, Chris and I were early and hungry we
found a nearby restaurant /bar to get a beer and some
food. While waiting for our food, the restaurant became more
crowded with more AP fans.
  A table of 4 people in the restaurant saw my AP Live tour
t-shirt with the pop-spill design.(I got that t-shirt when AP toured
Pittsburgh in Aug 95). They started to ask me questions about
the show. I told them about the show, what songs to expect, what
song they would open with etc. I asked if he had the new OA
album. He said "yes". He found it by accident while going through
an AP rack at a record store. He also said that he had *all* of his
albums. I asked if he had *Freudiana* and he didn't know about
it. I told him the story about what happened to EW and AP
during the recording process of the making of Freudiana. I told him
about *The Avenue" and our mailing list. He was impressed and
he left me his address so I could send him info on how to order the
album.
 The show was fantastic and Ian stole most of it IMHO. Ian got his
1st standing ovation after the extensive guitar work on the
song PrimeTime. He really seems to get into it. After the last song
on the first set, Alan started to mention the new cd OA. He asked if
anyone has heard of it and there was some cheers. Alan then said
"miracles happen".
 I met another couple from Pittsburgh during the intermission. They
had arrived late and were sitting right in frnt of us. They were 
disappointed to learn that the band had already played most of
the older material. I asked them if they had OA and he said no
and that he only liked a couple of the songs on TAO. I told them
that the OA album was very good and I also told him of Freudiana.
 I would estimate the crowd (mind you I am probably not good on 
this)
at about 12 to 15 hundred people who seemed to me like they were a
pumped up group for the small size. There were people dancing in
the isles during some of the songs. There were also some a-holes
who blurted out some nonsense while Ian was telling the story of 
his first cousin. Somebody cheered and said "yeah" when Ian told of 
an American Plane shooting down the plane that his cousin was on.
Did they not *get* the story he was telling? It was the only low 
light of
the show. 
 As we were leaving the show I met up with the couple in front of us 
and
he told me that he thought the new songs were good especially the 
instrumental
Cloudbreak and that he would be bying the OA cd. He told me of a new 
group
from England that has an AP/Pink Floyd sound to it. The name of the 
band
escapes me now. He left me his address for the info on"Fruediana" and 
I will 
get back with everyone on the name of this band. As we left the 
theatre through a
side door I noticed my car right near the exit and I invited the 
couple to listen
Freudiana on my cars cd player. We listened and talked for about 
10min and he
liked what he heard.
  I didn't have backstage passes after the show because I had waited 
too long
to respond to Steve to get them. So Chris(my wife) and I waited 
behind the 
theatre for AP to come out with about 8 other die hard fans. Good 
thing it wasn't
that cold or raining.(It was about 55F) . We waited about an hour. 
Peter Beckett was
the first out. He signed my IR album sleeve(the open leaf inside area 
where AP's
picture is. He said "My god look at him, It scary" at seeing AP's 
photo. Alan then 
came out and apologized twice for making us wait. I found him to be
a very soft spoken gentleman. I was soooo excited I got to shake his
hand twice. I had him sign my IR vinyl album inner leaf and told him
what Peter Beckett said, which made Alan laugh. Somebdy asked what
his fav. album is I said that I KNEW that it was.....and I could not 

think of ToMAI title so I said the very 1st album which Alan then 
repeated to the other fellow. Somebody else asked if he and EW
are still in touch and Alan said that they were in touch and still
talking. (Chris told me later that see sensed/saw sorrow in his eyes
while talking about EW). I mentioned that I was an Avenue mem. and
that I was on this mailing list and that I knew that Eric's new 
musical
had opened in europe.( I have a feeling that I was the only one 
there that knew of Fruediana and EW's musical intrest). Alan
asked me if there were any reviews of the musical on the WEB
and I said that I saw Alistair's post, but not much about a review.
I told AP to please continue to make albums. He smiled and
said that he would.
 I had to wake up early the nest day and I had a long drive home
so I left but I was on a very emotional high. Meeting my all-time
favorite artist was very exciting. I would've liked to talked to Ian
but I didn't know how long it would have been for him to come out.
 I found it funny that Alan could hold a Bud beer, open my album
cover and write his name neatly in one swift motion with Bud in 
hand!!!
BTW, Alan mentioned that his least fav. album is Eve.
  All in all a very good day.
                            Dom

















 


From 76370.326@compuserve.com Sun Nov  3 15:33:55 1996
Date: 03 Nov 96 18:25:12 EST
From: "m.j.vasko" <76370.326@compuserve.com>
To: app <app@roadkill.com>
Subject: Akron Concert Report
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Akron Concert Report
 
(this message contains spoilers; it's also pretty long... sorry folks, I
get carried away sometimes)
 
Well, work robbed me of the forthcoming Cincinnati engagement, but it
then put me within two hours or so of Akron last Tuesday night. And yes,
I did manage to make the drive, there and back again (a hobbit's
holiday?), safely -- despite some of the nastiest winds I have ever
experienced outside near misses with hurricanes).
 
I got a bit of a chill of anticipation while driving up South Main
street when I saw the big "Alan Parsons" on the Civic Theater marquee.
The street was fairly empty and there was no line in front of the
theater, but as it turned out, that was because the entire theater was
reserved seating.
 
After a bit of a mixup in parking, I found myself a couple blocks away,
but it seemed safe enough and the walk was entirely uneventful.  My
ticket was there, but someone who had apparently hitchhiked in from
Colorado for the show had some confusion which we managed to work out to
the satisfaction of all.  That led to some discussion of the band, and
the albums, and the songs, and then it was time to wait for the doors to
open.
 
Eventually, open they did, and after perusing the view from the first
balcony, I wandered down to my seat on the main floor, about fifteen
rows back from the CT's expansive stage.  There was plenty of room for
the band to spread out, and it looked like a very nice lighting setup.
The theater itself, as one of the ushers told me, was built back in
(before?) the Depression, and it's downright beautiful.  I can't claim
to know what the style is...baroque?  rococo?  something like
that...very ornate, highly decorated, with fluted columns and busts and
statues here and there.
 
But the highlight of the theater was the ceiling...and very a'propos! As
it turns out, the ceiling is an arched dome, and it is painted blue with
some hints of white clouds, and there are a scattering of tiny lights up
there...when the house lights go down, it looks for all the world like
an early evening sky with stars peeking through the clouds.
 
The usher filled me in on the older and more recent history of the
theater, told me that the seating capacity was about 2700 and that he
had heard that it was about half sold as of the time he had arrived.
There are quite a few seats under the balcony that are not ideal, and he
said that the upper balcony goes "way back" and that those seats aren't
ideal either...a typical busy house is under 2000, but they do get
sellouts now and then.
 
I spent the time between admission and the opening number talking to my
neighbors.  When all is said and done, I'd guess that almost half of the
people that I talked to had come alone, and almost all of them had heard
of the concert no more than two weeks before.  Quite a few had first
heard about the tour/concert within the past two or three days.  One of
my neighbors turned out to be quite a character, claiming to know every
album and every song.  He said that he had once been in a band and had
learned most AP songs somewhere along the line in his years as a guitar,
bass, and drum performer (he claimed, and I think I believe it, that he
had some experience with a very notable band of the early 70s).
 
The lights went down and a local DJ arrived to introduce the act.
Apparently this is the first "rock" concert at the renovated theater,
but hopefully not the last.  He did a nice job of running down APs
history, from his youthful engineering days to the current time.  I'd
say that anyone who had been dragged along by a fan got a pretty good
idea of just who AP was...and they were about to find out who he is.
 
The lights dimmed to the max, shadowy forms took their places, and the
(by now) familiar sounds of this year's opening number began to issue
forth...yes, it was Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether into the breech as the
crowd broke into a very nice round of cheers and applause.  As I
suspected, the lights were superior in almost all respects to the two
west coast shows that I had seen earlier, and though things weren't
perfect, I was also happier with the sound.  But on with the show.
 
The end of DTaPF was greeted with further crowd response, and the band
launched almost directly into a solid performance of You Can't Take it
With You.  This was followed by an even more solid Wouldn't Want to Be
Like You, in which John (Giblin; bass) and Gary (Sanctuary; keyboards)
spent the beginning of the song pumping up the energy, and then
everybody cut loose to make it the (very) early highlight of the show.
So far, so good...in fact, almost perfect.  The sound was a little muddy
where I was sitting, but it seemed like they had pumped up the volume a
little since the west coast swing, and you could -feel- the music
better.  And the light work was staying very consistent, with good
spotting, nice color selections and contrasts, and very well-coordinated
motion.
 
After the high energy of WWtBLY, the band slowed down a bit for Peter
(Beckett's) emotional vocals on Old and Wise.  The light work on this
song was really good, with each mention of shadows, etc. paralleled just
about perfectly with the right light motions.  The colors were subdued
now, and the lighting was mostly just white and shadow.  Very nice, very
appropriate, and Peter did an excellent rendition with the lyric.
 
The band launched into Money Talks with little hesitation, and the
energy they had built up two numbers ago was still right there despite
the slowdown necessary for Old and Wise.  John was really hitting the
bass licks for this song, and was grinning from ear to ear.  I've heard
rumors that each night one of the performs gets to "feature" their
instrument, and if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that Akron was
John's night to feature, because he was on, on, on...really putting on a
show, twanging and thumping, grinning almost constantly when he wasn't
squeezing his eyes shut as he got into his groove, and doing his little
semi-trademark "feet close together, bending with the beat at the knees"
Giblin bass playing.  Money Talks segueued smoothly and energetically
into La Sagrada Familia, and this combination seemed to really stir the
crowd, leading to the best applause so far as the number came to a
close.
 
The band next performed Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) and Gary threw
in some extra keyboard work in this one.
 
That brought us up to Prime Time, and prime time it was!  Stuart
(Elliot; drums) had been right on all evening (perhaps inspired by John,
or perhaps simply in tandem with him), but he started PT off with some
of the best work I've seen him do...crisp and full of energy, throwing
his sticks into the drums so that you could really feel the beat.  If it
weren't for Ian, this would have been Stuart's big shine of the evening,
but it appears that Ian has been practicing for Prime Time...as he
really ripped this solo!  I'd heard that a week or so ago he started
putting some extra oomph into PT, and was looking forward to that
prospect.  But all I can say is that if this solo wasn't the best one of
the tour, then the folks who heard him a few nights ago (Kansas City?
Little Rock?  St. Louis?) -really- got a treat, because Ian just about
brought the house down.  The crowd really got into it, and I think maybe
he extended his solo two times because of the crowd response, but it may
well have been the other way around...he may have been playing the crowd
just as well as he was playing his guitar.  In either case, it was a
real rush, and it earned the band the first full standing ovation of the
evening. Damn fine performance, by the whole band, and by Stuart and Ian
in particular.
 
Limelight followed, and Neil (Lockwood) had his chance to shine. Perhaps
unwilling to be upstaged by our favorite axe-man, Stuart brought the
drum work back to the front for this tune as well.  As with Old and
Wise, the lighting for this song was particularly effective, with a
single, pale green spot concentrating all the attention on Neil and the
lyrics at several very appropriate points in the song.  This is one of
my favorites in the tour, since it always reminds me that AP and company
didn't tour for so many years...and now is their chance, one and all, to
shine in the limelight.
 
(One band member in particular shines in the limelight...literally!
Stuart was wearing his flourescent orange cap and there were certain
lighting combinations where everyone else was almost impossible to see,
intentionally, and he shined forth in phosphorescent splendor.)
 
Then it was time for Time, with Peter handing in another fine
performance.  All in all, I was feeling like this was the best of the
three shows I had seen this year, with almost everything working
together, lots of fine energy from the band, and what seemed to me like
very good technical performances from all of the players.  The sound
seemed to be mixed a bit differently to me...the background vocals and
instruments were not as clear as out west, and as I said, sometimes it
sounded a bit muddy, but still, the energy level was high and
well-sustained, and the overall effect was pretty darn good.
 
After Time, Alan introduced the Audiotechnica team (they apparently have
a local presence), who are responsible for the miking for this year's
tour.  And then it was time to...
 
Turn it Up!  Once again, another stellar performance.  The whole band
"came up front" for this one, but even against that background, it was
John who really shone forth, giving a rousing performance that lasted
through his solos all the way to the end of the song.
 
If my notes are right, and they are a bit sketchy at this point (I
jotted down the songs and one or two key words as appropriate on the
backs of two of my business cards), the first set wound up with Standing
on Higher Ground, which was another fine performance by the entire band.
 
The band then left their positions, and Alan informed us that there
would be about a fifteen minute break; the band departed as the lights
came up.
 
During the break, I canvassed more of the attendees, and found that my
stats seemed to be about right...lots of solos, most people had not had
a lot of notice about the concert, although a fair number were returnees
from last year's Nautica Stage performance.  Far more than half of the
people that I talked to had not heard of the new album before they
arrived, and probably close to a third had never heard of Try Anything
Once, even the ones who said they were long time fans.  Most humorously,
the usher I had talked to earlier (think "Red Buttons") asked when Alan
was going to do some solos.  I explained that Alan was more of a "behind
the scenes" kind of guy, sort of combination composer/conductor.
 
I quickly checked out the souvenir station, and was pleased to see that
this time they were selling copies of On Air, and that there were a few
new items, including a pretty nice On Air tour shirt, with the pix from
the two CDs as front and back.
 
The audience had mostly gotten back to sitting, when I caught the first
chirps of On Air.  The birds had arrived, and I was scowled at soundly
by a number of my neighbors when it turned out that I was right -- the
show was about to resume.
 
As before, Neil and Ian took the stage and the spotlights for a sweetly
acoustic performance of Blue Blue Skies 1 and we were back underway.
 
I'd heard the On Air material before, of course, and I've listened to
the album many times by now, but none of that prepared me for what
followed.  The next number was Can't Look Down, featuring Neil on
vocals, and once again, the whole band came up front for this one.  Neil
really poured his heart into the tune, and energy level was back up as
high as it had been for any of the first half numbers.  I don't think I
would have guessed that this song could have been performed as
powerfully as the band managed to do.  Zounds!
 
Lest we faint from over-exertion, the next number was the smoother and
calmer, So Far Away (Welcome to the Mission), with Peter singing the
song under a beautiful veil of rainbow colored spots that seemed to be
always moving.  And when they played out and upward, over the audience,
we were all bathed in that rainbow colored light and it seemed like we
were all ready to take to the skies.
 
As it has two other times, the intro to Fall Free fooled me.  For a good
minute or so, as John dug into that powerful bass line that starts it, I
kept wondering "which of the instrumentals is this?".  But of course, it
wasn't an instrumental, it was another opportunity for Neil to kick some
*ss, and there was that energy level again, way up there, and the
audience was falling for it hook, line, and sinker.  Falling free.
 
While the audience was learning to breath again, Alan took the
opportunity to mention Digital Theater Systems, the (main?) sponsor of
the tour.  And, of course, he mentioned that On Air would soon (in a few
weeks, he said) be coming out on the new format.  He then introduced
Cloudbreak.
 
Cloudbreak is an instrumental.  All instrumentals should be like this
one.  John and Ian shared the spotlight on this number, allowing me to
overuse my favorite phrase for this concert once again.  It was kicking.
I even got into the paisley patterns they were showing on the BRT up
above the band.  (BRT=Big Round Thing...a large, white disk that was
positioned more or less above the center of the stage).
 
Now, I know that I have been waxing enthusiastic.  All I can do is repeat
myself.  I thought this was the best of the three concerts I've been
fortunate enough to see this year, maybe the best of all the AP I've
seen.  Perfect?  No, not quite that good, but definitely headed in that
direction.
 
After Cloudbreak, Ian had to do a little audience convincing so that he
could introduce his special song.  For anyone who doesn't know the
details, see the CD-ROM that comes with the On Air disc.  At any rate,
Ian finally managed to get the crowed to hush a little and introduced
Brother Up in Heaven.  He seems to have gotten a little more relaxed
about this, but it is still quite emotional.  There were some odd
(well, let's be honest: rude) audience reactions at this point, but
there were definitely some pockets of rowdiness in this crowd (someone
near me got to get to know a bouncer a bit more closely than they might
have liked to, for, shall I assume, lighting up in a non-smoking
facility).
 
The song itself featured Neil's vocals and some solo keyboard work by
Gary, but as an ex-wanna-be bass player, I kind of liked how Gary used a
bow to play the standup electric bass during BUIH.  All in all, a very
good rendition of a deeply emotional song.  The crowd showed their
appreciation to Ian at the end, and in what seemed like one of those
genuinely spontaneous moments, Ian walked over to Neil and they stood
side by side with their arms over each other's shoulders to take the
cheers and applause from the audience.
 
Alan then took a moment to plug the new album, mentioning the free
CD-ROM, of course, and then the show continued with some classic AP.
 
Seven or eight minutes of Psychobabble.  Followed by about two and a
half minutes of Sirius.  Immediately followed by about six and half
minutes of Eye in the Sky.  Call it almost twenty minutes of
rock-the-house-down, burn-the-unused-synapses-up, serious, serious rock
and roll, or if not rock and roll, then whatever it is that Alan calls
his music.  It's not quite performed as a single number, but it just
about feels that way, and the crowd...went...wild.
 
With that, there was nothing more left to give.  The band took their
bows, Alan said his thank you's and the stage went clear and dark.
 
Oh, they came back, but I'm going to tell the truth...they had really
played their souls out and the encores were not as good as they were out
west.  I am surprised they had enough energy left to come back at all.
 
But come back they did.  They finished the evening with Don't Answer Me,
some very good intros of all the band members by Alan, which included
some cute little "Paul Schaeffer-style" keyboard(?) accompaniments for
the vocalists (as well as other cutenesses -- Alan: "on vocals, number
one of two...Peter Beckett" and "number two of two...Neil Lockwood"),
and a very funny intro of Alan by Peter ("and lest there be any mistake,
the man on the riser in the middle of the stage...why, he's Alan
Parsons", said with a very cheerful smirk).  And at this point, the
crowd erupted.  I am not sure if that was the single loudest moment of
the entire evening (some of Psychobabble is very loud), but it seemed
like it was to me.  Another full standing ovation at this point, and
then it was off to the very end.
 
The band burned again, as best they could with the energy left to them,
performing Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned (and don't get me wrong, it was
great, but that earlier stuff was awesome, and nearly flawless, and now
they were getting tired, and maybe even a bit silly).
 
Finally, and really finally, Gary and Ian eked out a few more solos in
Games People Play, with Neil and Peter both singing, the crowd clapping
along, and everybody basically letting it all hang where it may.  At
last, the band truly left the stage, the lights came up, and the Akron
concert was history.
 
As we started to make our way to the exits, the strains of Blue Blue
Skies 2 issued from the speakers, our last Akron farewell, and a fond
look forward, to Alan Parsons and Company.
 


From Dinodude_J@prodigy.com Mon Nov  4 20:25:15 1996
From: Dinodude_J@prodigy.com (MR DOMINIC M JUDY)
Date: Mon,  4 Nov 1996 22:10:46, -0500
To: 76370.326@compuserve.com, app@roadkill.com
Subject: Re:Akron Concert Report
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Hi All
Just a few thoughts about Akron.

Martin:(I believe that is your first name Mr. M.J. Vasko)
Great report on the Akron show. Wow you seem
to remember the details of the show. I only seemed
to watch Alan, Ian and Stuart play. I didn't pay much 
attention to John and from where I was sitting( 14 rows
back on the far right of the theater), the large column
of speakers block my line of sight to Gary. Do You have 
any idea what the rude fans were yelling at Ian during
his intro to BuiH? I was cringing in my seat. I thought
that the show was great throughout  but it was the only AP
show this year that I saw and I have no other show to
compare it to.Do you really think that they were tired
at the end? Was Ian's PT solo longer than other shows?
I Did see them in Pgh(Aug95) and it was on that tour
that Richard Cottle did the sax at the end of Old & Wise.
I missed that on this tour. But it was a good show was 
it not?
					      
Dom