I keep forgetting who (and that makes me feel like crap. But it’s one of those things where you meet face to face once every 5 years and in that 5 years you’ve had at least 6 major life crises, and then it’s like “pop quiz! Who was that guy who showed you that albums 5 years ago, and your ADD is screaming “I don’t even know what I had for breakfast THIS MORNING!!” But I digress…) but I ran into someone from here at the Transatlantic show in Seattle back in 2014 when the Seahawks were winning the Super Bowl, and he insisted I pick up Frequency at my first opportunity, so I did. And I was absolutely floored by that album.
It took me awhile to pick up ROB, because it was a 2-disc import and it was expensive. But I loved Frequency so much that I bit the bullet and picked it up. I was never sorry I did that.
From there I went back to Tales and worked my way forward. I think I can now say that they may have passed up Haken as my #3 all time favorite band. Just really upset that I didn’t check these guys out a long time ago. I always saw their albums on the rack, but I was listening to much heavier stuff at the time and the record store guy was always giving me the “it’s ok. It’s not heavy at all. Sortof on the Styx side of things). Not completely inaccurate from an American perspective, but I would find out later that it fails to do it justice.
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