ERT - Epic Rock Talk (angra1 and JRundquist new experiment)

Youtube? well, while I can follow the increased exposure, that might be a pretty different animal. I suppose you are right, it might be worth trying once, and if it doesn't work, that would be the end of it.
 
The comments by the kids on Youtube of course are expected to be pretty mindless, but perhaps controlling comments would be something to consider.
 
Video, that also might be a bit adventurous, although the idea of my face plastered over youtube, I have mixed feelings at best about. But it's something to think about I suppose, thanks.

If you have a camera, I'd be up for it next time. Good way to start off the 2012 series.

that I do not, I suppose I could look into one, depending on cost. It's weird though, would we record it both ways? because you coming down for The Root anyway at KFAI, I suppose it'd be available in both formats.
 
Although One issue could be not having someone to actually film it/monitor the camera, but if it's set up in the right angle while we're in the studio, it might work with us just remaining stationary the whole time.
 
I suppose one advantage is we could include album cover art, etc to give a better visual idea of the band/album we're talking about.

All very valid points. I do like what we are doing. once we get everything finalized in studio, we should be all good.
 
I guess I can say it here. Tim wants me back on the Root...bad! Apparently a few record labels contacted him on facebook while I was playing and loved what I did, and they loved what I had to offer on The Root.
 
I'm not sure how often it will be  but anytime I go in for the Root, as long as you can make it, we can record a ERT.

that's great news! I wonder what labels. I guess once you know your next scheduled appearance we can start planning. I'll have to start doing a little research into Digital Cameras, perhaps it being post-XMas Return season, there might be some deals at some retail outlets.

It was Metal Blade for playing 3 and Relapse for playing Revocation.
 
 

bump.
 
Newest episode; a little over 2.5 hours. Long list of notes for Each hour's band name drops, etc are there.
 
http://epicrocktalk.blogspot.com/2012/04/epic-rock-talk-april-19th20th-2012.html

Bumping this so others see.

I would say this is our best show so far and most definitely worth checking out!
 
We are hoping to do this on a possible monthly basis now. Maybe which will lead to shorter shows, but just as informative and worth checking out.

Honesty wish I had the time to listen to this, but right now I don't. Please put me down for "interested" :P

 
thanks Staker.
 
I suppose 1 simple thing to do would be to listen to the 1st 20-30 minutes or so, where we talked about my album of the year right now, being Pepe Deluxe's album "Queen of the Wave" and JRundquist's album of the year right now being Alcest's "Les voyages de l'âme"..which may not be things everyone will dig, but we both have strong feelings about those 2, and I imagine not everyone around here has heard (of) either/both.

Scratch that... fourier series revision will have to contend with interesting-music-chat. Oh, and I put Sunn O))) on in the background. Ooops.
 
This is judging from the first episode.
 
Comments in terms of mix - probably better than before. Microphones are good, clipping errors still out there. Just do a sound check before, I guess. If you added minor instruments in the background (not sure if you did), I might have mistaken it for my neighbour's music :l also, the voices don't appear to be the same volume for me (left > right). It's not that bad, but given that angra1 (hope I got that right) appears to do most of the talking, having him louder seems odd. Maybe it's my set up.
 
Comments on the chat - usual stuff, good :) interestingly, the time difference between releasing this and recording this becomes important - e.g. the Storm Corrosion single is out, and you don't mention hearing it, and I'm sure you guys would have said quite a bit about it. Otherwise, you appear to have covered tons and tons of stuff and I can barely think of any release of a reasonable size within your genre that I can't find on the page.
 
Things you perhaps missed: The Omega Experiment, Atoma, or Loma Prieta (but that's a slightly different fan base).
 
Ideas you could throw around - review albums as a pair (take a little longer to cover one new album, both give different ratings), get things out more reguarly (short snippets ~10 mins, via skype or something).
 
An excellent music reviewer that posts stuff on YouTube is The Needle Drop. He reviews/discusses a larger range of music than you guys, but he's got a really professional style and doesn't fall into the trap of repeating the same thing about his reviewed albums (unlike some YouTube metal reviewers who spend their whole time saying "It's so heavy man!"). Putting stuff on YouTube would get you to a wider audience, certainly, and I think that should be done because this is discussion that should be heard.
 
Given their length, I can't say I'll hit up the next ones, but thanks for the first one.

Actually, I checked out your bit on the new Mars Volta album, just because I wondered what you thought of it. One observation (that cropped up a bit on the previous one) was that if only one of you knows the album, the chat is still interesting but a bit weaker. Sticking to stuff you both know is a bit more interesting.

Thanks for all the input man. Glad you checked out at least one segment of the show.

As for the suggestions:

Angra does the editing at home after we are done recording so I can't speak much for that. everything sounds level as we are recording.
 
Drag Ropes wasn't out as a single when we recorded this, nor did I get my promo copy of the album before hand. just the Storm Corrosion (Of Love and Emotion) trailer.
 
I have  the Omega Experiment and Atoma, but I haven't had the chance to give the albums Top 20 play yet.
 
Since the only time we do get to hang out is during this show or once in a while at shows, this is the best we got so far. Since are both into different styles of music while having middle ground in Prog. I think it's good we both have the different outlets to showcase as much different music as possible.

I actually did talk to Angra about putting this up on Youtube, and I think it is a good possibility.
 
Thanks again for checking it out man.

thanks Staker. We've been kind of oblivious to the quality of the sound, but I suppose one thing I think we should do is do some more extensive mic checking before hand and actually record and listen back. But I think there's a good chance the next time we do this, we'll be switching up the mics a bit.
 
The point about comments about albums we both know is a valid one, but it often is a case of a lot more prep (and knowing ahead of time) what we both have heard and not heard.
 
I guess we should do some outlining to focus on more stuff we both have a decent amount of background about. And I think if we end up discussing live shows and older music, namely from bands we do both know, there will be more mutual discussion. Like 1 band I don't think we've mentioned much, but I'd say we should/will is King's X, bc I know Josh is a very big fan, as am I. And they're an example of a band we both know their whole catalog pretty well.
 
As far as the Youtube thing, that's just a matter of having a camera, which I think Josh mentioned he does. If we do that, I am assuming we'll just end up putting up an excerpt of the whole discussion; filming maybe around 45 minutes. Which in a lot of ways, might be more appealing (relatively) in terms of length. Kind of an ice-breaker per say.
 
And that I'm sure will be like this, very trial-and-error. But the point about Youtube, certainly it would find a larger audience. Which might be for the better, or might not. We're not professionals of course, how much goes into this is certainly unclear. But it is an experiment, as the topic title says, that we're both interested in continuing to try and do.
 
1 comparison might be Used Bin Radio, bc those guys every week have a similar length and kind of discussion, that for the most part, works pretty well.