Hi Jeffrey,
Alas, no pics. One of these days I'm going to have to get a cell phone.
I will tell you a tale of tour frustration, though. Tangerine Dream was scheduled to play in Boston (for the first time in 10 years) in October 2001 in a tiny jazz club called Scullers. I had tickets to both shows, front table. I couldn't wait! Then, guess what? 9/11, and pretty much everything by anyone from Europe got cancelled. And as a result of all the increased border security/harrassment a lot of acts either never came back here or took a long time to, like TD.
I certainly sympathize with you, though. I have a friend in Wichita who regularly complains about the same thing.
Chris
From: "Jeffrey Collins" <jeffreycollins1975@gmail.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 12:28:54 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Tangerine Dream
Another group that says they are doing a tour and come to 5 places in America. Damn.
I wish I could have gotten to see this but alas, I didn't even think they would be doing a tour. It really bothers me that they, along with just about any other group or soloist seem to pass right over the midwest region, and they should know there's a LOT of fans out here.
As for him using Dell computers. I really don't think there is much of a difference between a mac and win machine these days except for user interface and all the damn updates you always have to do with windows products. I (being a mac user) have actually grown tired of all this apple bull, especially with apple trying to tell me what I need in a computer. I need a freaking dvd drive. And I also need a blu-ray drive, both of which they don't do in laptops anymore. All I can tell you is this...my next computer will be made in pieces I buy from computer stores and it will run windows. Cause I need something super powerful for video. And I'll just use this (computer i'm on now) for web stuff.
Cheers Christophe. BTW, Any pics???
Jeffrey
On Monday, July 9, 2012, Christophe wrote:
Good Morning All,
I was lucky enough to be in the first row at the House of Blues last Thursday for the first Tangerine Dream concert in Boston in 20 years. A great show! I'm writing though, because I thought you might find their setup interesting. They're touring as a six piece - guitar, precussionist, violin/cello/theremin player, and three keyboardists, one who doubles on woodwinds. The three keyboardists Edgar Froese, Thorsten Queschning, and Linda Spa each had a Nord synth (an older Nord Lead, a Lead 3 and a Wave, respectively) and Froese and Queschning each had a Korg Radias as well as a MIDI controller I coudln't quite see. But they also had 2 big plasma screens on which they were running softsynths (Arturia Moog Modular, Minimoog, Massive, and a few more. But what I found couldn't help but note after all the recent Mac talk is that they appeared to be running the lot off Dell laptops.
Edgar is pretty much the granddaddy of live electronic performance, so it might be interesting to hear his reasoning on computer choices!
Chris
