Richard Robertson

Unseen wrote:
[Beato] has a bazillion followers. For him to devote a segment to them would greatly boost their careers.

Beato and TW have “met”, at least once online, and I’ll bet they’re not ignoring each other. IMO, it would work just as well for both of them if (say) they had a two or three hour interview some day after TW’s skyrocket slows…[Read more]

Seems like a two-guy blog here but it feels like documenting significant rock history. Amongst perhaps a hundred TW reviewers I found another producer/multi-instrument musician to learn from. Here he touches on TW’s Enter Sandman cover from their teen-hood to the pro video to Teatro in just under 14 minutes.

Unseen wrote:
I’m pretty sure that’s fairly difficult to master.

It is like she has two brains, and she’s been pulling it off for years. It amazes other drummers. She’s also responsible for running software on a laptop (near to her but is often not easy to see) that triggers the click track that other players hear, some backing tracks, and tha…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Not all reactions to The Warning are abject genuflections. Not that he pans The Warning, but he doesn’t feel they are quite as important as the members of The Warning Army think they are.

This was his first review, where he seemed to me to be way overgeneralizing based only on one performance. He could have humbly cut his e…[Read more]

In the UK last year, there were just under 3,000 adoptions and 60,000 children in foster care. Ratio 1:20

In the USA during the same period, there were 70,000 adoptions and 440,000 children in foster care. Ratio 1:6

The disparity was studied, and one of the immediate difficulties in analysing the underlying data was that the vast majority of UK…[Read more]

Another late night. But I learned more technically and musically from this guy (see below), again. I noticed months ago and really appreciated subtle “bends” in Dany’s guitar riff in Narcisista, which was also consistent in each performance. Out of several reactors I’ve watched, the reactor below is the first one who’s pointed out that subtle…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
That’s all the humor I need.

No Mr. Bean? How about Peter Sellers as a detective?

Thanks, that’s the most I’ve learned about them in an hour piece.

I struggle to hear more from Ale, and this confirms how she’s adjusted so well to her older sisters talking over her so much! I’ve been there myself, often just giving up, but I never see Ale giving up. She keeps looking up to her older sisters, while deferring to them. I’m…[Read more]

A lot of people feel different things during a reaction, so I’ve picked one that I’m guessing most people can appreciate.

Side-note, very few reviewers point out that the intro to this song, also replayed a few times in the song, is in 7/8 time, which is unusual. If you want to learn to follow it, count the beats one through seven, four times.…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Since The Warning has dumped the full Teatro Metropolitan concert, that means that unless they have more current (new) material waiting in the wings, we’re about to go through a drought of TW material. They have started to get an unbelievable amount of reactions and/or reviews on Youtube. It used to be one every few days, then e…

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I mean come on, Enco, let’s snap out of it!

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Just so you know, there are other videos, other Shuffles, other Playlists, other Jukebox Widgets for your social media page, and just whole other worlds outside of this. […]

[…] This is a good possibility for late-night resting of the mind and keeping the blood pressure down:

OK I hear ya.
Now I see you and I raise…[Read more]

I’m feeling a bit of reversed Fair and Balanced now. Apologies if I’ve posted this before. Plus, it’s from 30 years ago, if you can believe it! This is genuine “woke” history, right? Before the movement was culturally disappropriated, e.g. by “All Lives Matter”.

(IMO, even ignoring the lyrics, it’s a creatively musical maste…[Read more]

I just watched their whole Teatro concert. (Unseen please tell me if you already dropped this link into the thread.)

I tortured myself going through a dozen or so reaction videos on American Flags, trying to see if anyone found satire or humor in it, like they see in Black & White. The thing about flags, with me, is that the last time everyone was waving them in huge numbers was in the rah rah, “never forget 911” stages of invading Iraq, eventually destroying…[Read more]

Good one. Wow, the video’s been up for four years?