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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: RoeDent on February 01, 2011, 10:57:59 AM
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I've had much fun when trying this idea out on other forums, so let's see if it works here. Hopefully this will get creative juices flowing. The idea is to create an imaginary (no need to actually post a video or anything like that) epic song/piece of music, one idea at a time. You could either contribute a line or a verse of lyrics, or an instrumental passage (eg. a guitar solo or something). Let's see how far this goes.
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The Most Epic Epic to End All Epics!
Part I: Introduction
*Hammond organ fades in on a B minor chord, with cymbal rolls from the drummer*
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Organ lightly plays a A Major chord...
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Moog starts a slide up to a C#6 very slowly.
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Lute solo.
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Part II: Avant-garde Bridge
Vocals: A Tibetan Yak during mating season
Music: Shaken-up can of Mountain Dew Red
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13 mellotrons play Dmaj, C#maj, Fmaj7, Amin and other random chords in 7/8, then an Emin chord for .73 bars, then repeat in 5/8
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oboe, viola, violin, cello concerto section in 15/8. Chords are A minor, Dm9, C7, Bm7b5, E7b9
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Tuvan Throat Singers sing Tri-tone chords in ascending minor thirds while tympani and harp trade fours over modulating meters from 5/8 into 3/4 using triplets in the former meter to form the basis of quintuplets in the latter meter.
-Marc.
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Whole orchestra becomes quiet, and two distorted guitars play a 30 notes per second arpeggio in harmony
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a bear roars in the distance
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:lol You don't know how happy I am that you get what I'm trying to do here! :clap:
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*wordless SATB choir vocals*
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*wordless SATB choir vocals*
...Led by Nicky Spanjaards
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Cows orgasming in the background, a reference to Pink Floyd
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Low E organ pedal point
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The entire thing starts over as a progressive band comes out of nowhere and plays everything note for note in a way that is pointlessly similar to the original.
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*choir begins chanting in Kobaian*
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Myung guests by farting into the mic for 2 seconds.
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Myung guests by farting into the mic for 2 seconds.
:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
MP scream duet with Mikeal Åkerfeldt
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Myung guests by farting into the mic for 2 seconds.
:rollin :rollin
Daniel Gildenlow comes on stage, naked, screaming
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Screaming segues into a high C on 4 trumpets
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Nicky Spanjaards F#.
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Nicky Spanjaards does stupid stereotype metal moves, thinks himself cool, and reveals that he is actually Iain
5.6 kilograms of BB's are dropped onto the drums, creating world's most complicated drum solo
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Part III: Look! Over There!
E-Bb tritone in the violins
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Kevin Moore does a 7-minute kazoo improvisation.
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Vuvuzela solo
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Part IV: Bosk1
this section begins with scary chants a la Suite Sister Mary
lyrics:
clinks!... clinks!... clinks!
he is the best them!
he is the best them!
(x8)
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*2 minutes of wine glasses clinking together*
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Conway Twitty's "I See The Want To In Your Eyes", is played faintly in the right channel with "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man", in the left underneath the clinks.
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*16-bar banjo solo over 5/4 guitar/drum backing*
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*Jordan Rudess, while experimenting with his keyboard, finds the Z note, stopping time. Everything goes silent*
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An offstage group of 12 singers (unseen to the audience) intone the '13-mellotron' melody:
Dmaj, C#maj, Fmaj7, Amin and other random chords
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Steven Wilson attacks pop culture
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Part V: Steven Wilson vs Pop Culture
Steven Wilson: I am Steven Wilson and I hate...pop...culture
Choir (representing Pop Culture): We shall reign over ALL!!!
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Gavin harrison plays a drum solo on the skulls of famous pop singers
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Part IV : I <3 Starbucks
JMX's 10 minutes mologue about his dream to buy the Starbucks franchise.
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In the background a jazz band is trying to cover Metropolis Pt 1
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while emperor Nero plays the fiddle
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Then Coldplay does a medley of Meshuggah songs.
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followed by William shatner improvising with a lute
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followed by William shatner improvising with a lute
:rollin :rollin :rollin
Followed by Steven Wilson covering a Justin Bieber song, ironically
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Then Lemmy plays a trombone while Maynard James Keenan and David Bowie do a vocal solo with their male parts
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Part V: The Dragon and the Dishwasher
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it starts out with Neil peart trying to do his dishes on stage
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Lars rolls on stage with a unicycle banging a trash can while throwing lawyers at audience members.
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John myung moves
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BTW, this is Part VII (7) now, not Part V (5).
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Three differently-pitched tam-tam (gong) strikes
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BOOM MYUNG TACKLE
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by Orbert
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John myung moves
:eek :eek :eek
James Labrie and John Travolta double up in a dragon suit and traverse the stage
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MP plays a E chord on a Trombone
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Gloria Gaynor plays all the notes on a xylophone
Simultaneously
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Spock's Beard (with Neal Morse) and Gentle Giant launch into a mind-boggling 10-part vocal fugue on the lyrics:
Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
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Part VII: The John Petrucci cup of tea
Mike Portnoy plays blast beats. No instruments but drums.
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Samples from The Room.
"Oh hi," "Oh hai," "Ohai," "YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA!!" "Oh, Hi," "Oh hi Johnny, I didn't know it was you." "I have breast cancer." "Oh Hai," "Oh Hai, Denny,"
Segues into the next part with "Ha Ha Ha."
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Part VIII: Carrots
Cathedral organ (all stops out) chords: Ebm-Bm-Dm-Fm-Cm-G#m-Bm-Dm
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Part IX: The John Petrucci cup of tea (Reprise)
Mike Portnoy plays blast beats. No instruments but drums.
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Wait, where did Mike come from?
19/32 Bass solo
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Choir (acapella): Seven hundred... (huge chord from rock band, orchestra and organ) POOOOOOSTS!!!
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Jazz solo.
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*crowd of girls bored out of their minds*
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Acoustic reprise of the riff from part 2.
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Kevin Moore shows up and opens himself again.
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mozart is resurected and does a crabcore solo while singing a tribute to my band by playing a piano melody of a song i covered written by the same man (mozart)
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Michigan J. Frog does pig squeals on Mozart's head.
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han solo and chewbaca come out for a 49 minute fap unison and ends with the sound of a splash of their dick juice covering the face of a thousand hitler clones sent in to play a flute solo instead.
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Clinks63 descends from the sky and stops the music for a 30 second yodel solo from Spanjaards.
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Clinks then proceeds to take out his theremin and plays every part of The Dance of Eternity on it at once
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Then all the music starts to fade away, except for the bass. A whisper saying "We all Love Bacon-Flavored Bacon" repeatedly starts to be heard at the background. In the beginning it's just a whisper by a Warm-Voiced man (Think of Morgan Freeman) but then it goes louder and louder and being whispered by a lot of people at a chorus. Men, women, children, all of them. Then it becomes a huge unison of people saying it with defiance. Hundreds of people. The bass is still sounding. It lasts 5 minutes.
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Antigoon and I sing an acoustic rock ballad... needless to say, it floors the entire audience.
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then Cannibal corpse covers more than a feeling
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Part X: Sure as bacon is bacon
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:rollin :rollin :rollin
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Sopranos/Altos: I...smell bacon. Does anybody else smell bacon?
Tenors/Bass: We smell bacon toooooo...
S: Baaaaaa....y
A: ......Baaaaaaa......y
T: ..........BAAAAA.........y
B: ...............BAAAAA.........y
All (E flat major from full organ) COOOOONNNNNN!!!!!
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Daniel gildenlow comes up to do the bacon dance
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A throbbing rhythm in 19/8 begins in the double basses, with wordless grunts from the bass section of the choir and thunder rumbles from timpani/bass drum
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20 cello's play a low e note staccato
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On top of the cello staccato, violins play a sliding glissando between the notes of E and Bb
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Now I gotta tell ya about the video idea…your really gonna love this.
We start out in one of these rural churches in the middle of Alabama somewhere and they’re havin’ this gigantic rave up gospel church festival with fat women with their hands in the air yellin’ amen and hallelujah.
And our boy, our hero, he’s right in the middle of it and religious fervor is just exploding off of his body behind the alter of this church there’s this gigantic icon of a black Jesus Christ…who our boy later licks.
Smash cut to him on a hillside dancing wildly, half naked, with his undulating midriff sweating profusely in front of hundreds and hundreds of burning crosses Smash cut back to the church only now it’s not a church right, it’s a courtroom and the priest has become a judge and the choir’s become the Jury and black Jesus is on trial for raping our boy.
So this really angry contingent of fat trucker lookin’ guys sweeps up black Jesus, beats him senseless and throws him in prison, where our boy takes pity on him, goes to him, weeps in front of the bars and then gives him a hand job through them.
But it’s all shot by Herb Ritz so it’s really beautiful and you feel sorry for both of them.
All right, all right…so that we don’t offend everybody in the whole fucking world at this point, these two gigantic beautiful red velvet curtains close from either side of the screen and then reopen and the whole cast of the video takes a bow like it was a play or somethin’ right!…get it? All right well, if you don’t get that you’ll get this…when those receipts start tearin’ in from all over the world you’re gonna kick the almighty god ass my friends because sixty billion flag waving fans in every stadium in the fucking planet are gonna be yellin’!…
Sequins, bell bottoms , peace and hope and love
OJ and VR and Elvis Jackson with a Blue Suede Glove
:hat
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Lol
Daniel Gildenlow, in his bacon dance, accidentally steps on the time machine button and time is rewound to the 1970's, when he and many others didn't exist yet.
Part -V: The Miracle of Birth
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Breathing sounds from the choir, while high strings play a tremolo E
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Sudden cease of any and all noise. Pink Floyd synth slowly fades in.
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Through Her Eyes-esque duet between female singer and melodic electric guitar over the Floyd synth
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Rick Astley beams in from the future for only a split second, but then disappears again
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Suddenly a telephone booth drops from the sky, and none other than KrotchRaut comes running out, instruments and all!
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Krotchraut immediately leaves and after a forty-minute period of emptiness, a hologram of the glorious face of George Michael fades in. For an hour he just smiles at everyone and says "coo".
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A sweaty swede named Yngwie shows up for an hour of indecipherable shred, topped with a myriad of high kicks and pelvic thrusts.
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*End of song 1*
Next song :biggrin:
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MIZZL
YOU RUINED IT
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James LaBrie sings
"MIZZL
YOU RUINED IT"
Eight times in F#
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4 solo tard faces intone a sweet vocalise: :neverusethis: :neverusethis: :neverusethis: :neverusethis:
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After a wardrobe malfunction, KrotchRaut returns and plays their 20 minute epic Akerfeldt's Cat... Cause we heard you like epics, so we put an epic in your epic so you can epic while you epic.
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After a wardrobe malfunction, KrotchRaut returns and plays their 20 minute epic Akerfeldt's Cat... Cause we heard you like epics, so we put an epic in your epic so you can epic while you epic.
:rollin :rollin :rollin
KrotchRaut then asks their friend, Jesus, to join them on stage.
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Jesus Christ himself* comes down amidst a choir of 2 billion angels singing Handel's Hallelujah chorus. As KrotchRaut shred randomly on guitars made of dragon bones using picks made from God's kidney stones, Jesus heals a blind woman who promptly gives birth onstage to a creation of pure light.
*Yes, Jesus Christ himself. Nothing less will do.
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Jesus Christ himself* comes down amidst a choir of 2 billion angels singing Handel's Hallelujah chorus. As KrotchRaut shred randomly on guitars made of dragon bones using picks made from God's kidney stones, Jesus heals a blind woman who promptly gives birth onstage to a creation of pure light.
*Yes, Jesus Christ himself. Nothing less will do.
:lol :lol :lol :lol omg
Sig'd
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and yet myung doesnt move
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:rollin
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Kanye West does a 4 minute vocoder solo and some how keeps the white girls in the crowd interested.
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:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
This thread is epic. Great idea OP
Mehrunes Dagon then proceeds to play a broom solo
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Vuvuzela solo reprise
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free-time polka jam with 12 different accordions.
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eminem eats a frog while lemmy, rob halford and ozzy osbourne take footballs and start tossing them into the crowd while 30 eighty year old men sing Celebrations by kool and the gang
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Part II: Fireballs of Vengeance
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Super mario theme duet with banjo and theremin
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The band Dream Theater begins to play their hit Pull Me Under just like on the album
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claudio sanchez devours everything into his hair
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You are all absolute legends. You know that, don't you? :lol :rollin :lol
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The 'bacon' leitmotif (B-A-C-A-G) is sounded by 12 horns placed in the four corners of the concert hall.
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A choir of rasta's begin to sing "I don't like bacon, oh no. I love it"
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Ke$ha is scalped and then buried alive while Steven Wilson plays a funeral dirge on the mellotron.
was that a bit too dark?
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Mikael akerfeldt joins him with a bass
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Ke$ha is scalped and then buried alive while Steven Wilson plays a funeral dirge on the mellotron.
was that a bit too dark?
Nice :lol
Mikael Akerfeldt's cat then begins to sing Mozart's famous hit I Will Survive
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gloria gaynor sews mikaels cat and starts a musical
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Black Sabbath start a bar room brawl in D Minor whilst Geezer Butler kneels before a cop who has a gun to his head and exclaims "Go on!! I'd die for Aston Villa!"
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Hansi Kursch and Jon Schaffer spin around on stage in tutus singing ''Kiss Me'' while Russell Allen and John Petrucci saw down a tree and fart in harmony.
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Jon Shaffer begins to play that same chuggy riff he's been playing since the 80s. He does so for 24 minutes, when suddenly Matt Barlow smashes into the room in a cop car, drunk, knocking Shaffer unconscious. The crowd cheers.
Matt Barlow then lets out a drunken shout, the lights dim.
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Desires of the Unknown
*unaccompanied guitar solo*
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the guitar turns out to be a melodic raccoon
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Kevin Moore blows his nose in the mic
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100 trumpet players play an E note for 12 consecutive hours
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"Part the Fifteenth: Why Does this Wound Smell of Cheese?"
Steven Wilson swallows a cornish game hen. In E flat.
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Didgeridoo solo.
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Gildenlöw starts to do a beatbox while you can hear Geddy Lee's steps coming closer and closer.
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Kirk Hammett runs onstage screaming
"OHNO OHNO
THEY'VE TAKEN IT
THE'VE TAKEN MY WAH-WAH PEDAL :dangerwillrobinson:"
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Steve Howe does an interlude on a ukelele.
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keith moon does a violin battle with John Bonham
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'Bacon' leitmotif (B-A-C-A-G) played fff on 4 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba
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Mike Portnoy eats an apple in 5/8.
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John Petrucci eats a 70 pound tuna in 11/16,
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John Myung drinks a Starbucks in 21/8
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the New york Philharmonic covers Ace Of Spades in 19/6
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Madonna and Britney Spears makeout and Janet Jackson flashes a boob. Armageddon ensues....... In 5/8
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Apocalypse ensues....... In 9/8
Genesis'd for you.
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Suddenly...
A two day-long Mellotron Solo!
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Rest.
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a piano comes in and gently plays undertow by POS
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a piano comes in and gently plays undertow by POS
This would actually be epic
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which goes right into Undertow by Mr. Big
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followed by the tool song
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The Producer (a bass-baritone) cuts the tool song and sings an aria (What's with all the covers?) bemoaning the lack of originality in this part of the epic.
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And then Tony Kakko joins the epic via yodeling.
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Kakko is gradually joined by a choir of 150 yodellers, split into 10 groups situated around the concert hall. They build up an almighty crescendo...
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Myung tackles everyone on stage.
By the grace of God above, everyone survived.
STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS
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Primus takes the stage to play Wagners lothengrin
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Nicky Spanjaards sings It's Raining Men in 7/12
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John Myung burps
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A dark god from another dimension then appears out of nowhere and chooses John Myung to be his successor
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A dark god from another dimension then appears out of nowhere and chooses John Myung to be his successor
To which Myung replies,
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Keyboard/Bass unison in 5713/8,192; Guitar comes in after 7.45 measures.
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Devin Townsend sings a death metal version of "I'm a Little Teacup"
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Akerfeldt then growls out "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", but played in a jazzy 7/8.
-Marc.
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Jordan Rudess plays 'Ride of the Valkyries' on the pipe organ.
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Jordan Rudess plays 'Ride of the Valkyries' on the pipe organ.
because of this Wagner is resurrected
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In the center of all this chaos, an angry child is tearing apart a napkin.
(scream if you get the reference)
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In the center of all this chaos, an angry child is tearing apart a napkin.
(scream if you get the reference)
*screams*
lolitcrowd
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Mike Portnoy runs to the stage to sing "The Dark Eternal Night" a capella, but JMX tackles him again. Then he invites Yo-Yo Ma, who does a pretty sweet cello solo.
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Proggy riff in 7/16.
And then 7/8.
And then 7/4.
And then 7/2.
And then 7/0.
*loldivisionbyzero.*
And then the universe explodes.
In 7/8.
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Proggy riff in 7/16.
And then 7/8.
And then 7/4.
And then 7/2.
And then 7/0.
*loldivisionbyzero.*
And then the universe explodes.
In 7/8.
Then God recreates the universe and creates the Earth in 7/Days, then sends a choir of angels to cover the opening of "Watcher Of The Skies"
-Marc.
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And then the owl from Fly By Night swoops in and ass-rapes Chris Collins.
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And the famous King Crimson album cover is born.
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The ladies of the choir scream at the ugliness (not necessarily a bad thing) of the KC album cover.
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:lol What do i add to that...
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At first God creates the Light. Because the Light is not enough, he then proceeds to create Steven Wilson and Daniel Gildenlow.
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And Peter Gabriel said "Let there be awesomeness." And so, the book of Genesis begins.
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Suddenly, everything is William Shatner.
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David Hassellhoff breaks the spell by singing a lovely german seranade..... In 4/4 :P
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Transatlantic, Spock's Beard, Marillion, Dream Theater and The Flower Kings all play coda of 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' for 3 hours.
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As the song is about to hit its reprise, Freddy Mercury raises from the dead and serenades the audience with the most beautiful improvised vocal melodies known to man.
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Claudio Sanchez' hair plays a guitar solo
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Suddenly, Randy takes a huge shit
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Lars Ulrich takes a crap and suddenly.. the book of Exodus.
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*Album Art by STEVETHEATER*
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And then the thread is resurrected.
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Keanu Reeves, Hulk Hogan and John Myung battle to the death for the bass player position, while gurgling the theme from Spider-man.
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Fred Astaire does the Butters tapdance dance of Death