Thursday, October 30, 2008

Some news from the Renaissance front...a New Video is on the way

Well folks, just in time for the end of the year....word has filtered down that there will be a new release for the fansbase. Annie Haslam will at some point announce on her site that there will be a concert DVD from the 1970's. And prerelease information indicates that this will be a combination of two shows: The Scheherazade tour and one from Azure d' Or....

On the latter point, there has been some debate as to what was the song order due to the presence of 'The Vultures Fly High' on the setlist. More often than not this song showed up as the opening piece on two of their last tours, Azure D' Or and Camera Camera. And there is something interesting about the setlists:

Azure D' Or
Can You Understand [instr]
The Vultures Fly High
Day OF The Dreamer
New Song One
New Song Two
Running Hard
Northern Lights
New Song Three
New Song Four
Mother Russia
A Song For All Seasons
Prologue
Ashes Are Burning

Camera Camera
Can You Understand [Instr]
The Vultures FLy High
Day OF The Dreamer
New Song One
New Song Two
Running Hard
Northern Lights
New Song Three
Mother Russia
New Song Four
New Song Five
A Song For All Seasons
Ashes Are Burning

Notice a pattern there folks??? Granted familiarity does help if only due to us hardcore fans. But this also meant that those who were in control at the time may not have had a little bit of imagination. Of course these oversights were corrected for the Beacon shows [previously mentioned] and later tours.

Speaking of later material...

- Someone in another blog had mentioned that 'Chagrin Boulevard' was the best song on 'Time-Line'. Yes I have my faves off of this somewhat uneven album, but for crying out loud, if a song named after a somewhat non-descript street in Cleveland is the best off this album, then there may just be a few things wrong with this planet.

--And while we are at it, comparing Renaissance to ABBA is an insult....to Renaissance. IF one were to notice somewhat carefully, the production on the last two albums on Sire was more like that of mid period Genesis which was not by coincidence. The same production team responsible for 'Duke' and 'ABABCAB' had their hands on 'A Song For All Seasons' and 'Azure D' Or'. Hence the sound was going to be somewhat similar and the overdubbing of synths on 'Azure' was not by accident. But ABBA....only someone who while a fellow Ren fan but smoking rope can make that rather large, if not strange leap of illogic.

Well that is the news, sports and weather for now.....if I do get a copy of the DVD, you will see a review of it here!!!

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