Music

Its kinda funny because the concert I paid to see in chicago theater after having loved the band for ages was horrible but now I know its sorta a well known thing where anderson got sick and his voice never recovered. I likely heard him at his worst. Later though the flutist society had them for a free concert and I think because of the sponsors they played their most flute heavy stuff. Literally had a comrade fan at my side with tears in both our eyes we could not get over how good it was. The music has always had a lot of feeling and philosophy and such and I had someone tell me they did not like them because they were too political (we were talking about music from the 60's and 70's though which is like. dude it was all political at that time). Anyway anderson reformed the band and I was blown away by the first albumn that was influenced by trump1 and covid called the zealot gene. just summed up the feel of the time to me so much. They had this crazy outsized effect on music in general realtive to the popularity and recognition of the band. They had a lot of membership changes through the years and past members ended up in so many bands and they experimented a lot with stuff that you kinda see in other music genres later. Besides anderson, martin barres guitar in particular but its quite the rabbit hole. As you can tell im quite the fan. Getting away from the band, one thing that is kinda funny is at one point I thought I really liked a wide variety of music. Over time I realize I sorta tend to like a type of music that is related across time spans. progressive rock, new wave (the real stuff as it feels like in modern times they list all eighties stuff as new wave), alternative, no idea what the modern name would be.