The Dev wrote:Slowly learning the backcatalog folks, sooo much music...will have all the stuff learned soon, please be patient...
I'm excited about Melbourne tonight!!!!! Pls play Universe in a ball!!!
The Dev wrote:Slowly learning the backcatalog folks, sooo much music...will have all the stuff learned soon, please be patient...
Wander wrote:There are a few people saying the show was really loud... But are you using earplugs?
The Dev wrote:Slowly learning the backcatalog folks, sooo much music...will have all the stuff learned soon, please be patient...
Second headlining show ever, working the bugs out. Great sound, lights, visuals etc are works in progress with who can handle it...
Maybe consider this first tour a starting point? I agree about not enough mellow stuff, didn't realize it till I was out here... lots of work to do for the next tour.
2 or 3 more tours and we'll be well versed in ALL the songs, needing to practice this bunch now...
Thanks for your patience with this work in progress all, your comments and observations are very much needed and taken to heart... this stage of it, the 'Devin Townsend Project' is called project as a way of expressing the work in progress nature of it, I need to try things out right now to now what works. The space between the BTBAM tour and Australia was in total about 3 weeks of rehearsal, so I went with the songs we knew and will do the Deep Peace, Universe, Terria, Synchestra, more Infinity for the next tours. (no excuses, just observations!) maybe "Devin Townsend Experience' when it all gets learnt, coreographed, and perfected.I need a constant sound man, crew, lighting designer etc...the nature of this music is 'go big or go home' and it can be screwed up by lots of variables... unfortuantely, we're working with what we can get at this point, so again... EVERYTHING is taken into consideration in terms of what the effect of this show is currently, please bring it, I want this to eventually be what we all want.
Thanks for the support in this early stage guys, give me one or two more years, and it should be where it wants to be!
The Dev wrote:It looks like we're going to do something REALLY special in Australia next year (as of last night!)
The Dev wrote:Cool!
It looks like we're going to do something REALLY special in Australia next year (as of last night!)
I will learn as many of the songs you request as we can.
Have to play lots of Ziltoid here to get ready for Finland, so it's not amateur hour... will not play Z stuff on the 2nd day of Tuska.
Synchestra isn't represented because I could open the files (I did the album on PC, and have been mac now for years...)
I promise we'll catch up on the older stuff, and man...I truly want less heavy in the future as well...
This tour, the crew is trying their best to figure out what the hell to do with me...thanks for everything.
My ears are fucked right now...
Jormungandr wrote:I'm so paranoid about my hearing. How do you deal with it with all the live shows Dev? I assume you wear hearing protection, but do those in ear monitors really work as well as plugs? I've always wondered that. To be a musician do you have to be resigned to fucking your ears up?
manatee wrote:You kids today and your "The music is too loud!"
It's supposed to be frickin' loud, man! If your ears aren't ringing for 3 days then something went wrong.
Just my personal opinion, of course. Take it from a half-deaf 39 year-old
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