PLAY While we have been scanning and commenting, I've been listening to...

[Dobbin]

...the Trans Siberian Orchestra which can be found on Youtube.

I'm trying to get in a Christmas mood.

I'm surprised. They actually have some range and scope to their music. The usual Christmas songs (like Mad Russian, Wizards in Winter, etc.) tend to the similar. But some of their less heard tunes are quite varied.

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPh...list=ULMqa9EN-fEyw&lf=mfu_in_order&playnext=1 which is Oyeahman's private channel. This is autoplay, probably over an hour's listen. - although you'll have to restart it perhaps when it gets to the end.

Joe

Um. It would seem the channel includes some other stuff than TSO. I skipped the "Alien" one.

 

[dylanM]

Love them. If you get the chance to go see them in concert , do it . It is costly but the show is wonderful.

 

[Vicki]

Thanks Joe. I'd like to dedicate this song in memory of my ex who passed in April. May God hold him tight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1fA59oH7Q&feature=related

 

[night driver]

Love them. If you get the chance to go see them in concert , do it . It is costly but the show is wonderful.

ABSOLUTELY!!!!

Their show is AWESOME!!!!

 

[Dobbin]

I'll probably never be able to see them in concert, but I plan on downloading the music using the online downloaders/mp3 converters.

I use this one a lot http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

VERY awesome with what I see of the Youtube actual shows.

Christmas is coming. I sense it. I have yet to hear Stableboy bring the bells out from the tack room. And no can of Brasso on the shelf. Maybe this weekend?

Snow will bring them out for sure.

Joe

 

[Jake Grey]

We've seen them before, but we went again Sunday in Raleigh and they were better than ever. The light show was absolutely incredible. Wifey said some old women were complaining about their music while in the bathroom. If you don't like hard rock guitar, don't go to see TSO! If you like hard rock guitar, classical music, and Christmas music all combined; you'll think you've died and gone to heaven.

 

[lilsparky]

We're going to see them in Albany, NY Dec 26. First time. Can't wait!!!!

 

[michaelteever]

I'll probably never be able to see them in concert, but I plan on downloading the music using the online downloaders/mp3 converters.

I use this one a lot http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

VERY awesome with what I see of the Youtube actual shows.

Christmas is coming. I sense it. I have yet to hear Stableboy bring the bells out from the tack room. And no can of Brasso on the shelf. Maybe this weekend?

Snow will bring them out for sure.

Joe

Thanks for the link Joe, very handy for what I was looking for. The sweetie bought herself, and us, one of those electric fireplaces. Very realistic visually and heatwise. She has been lamenting the lack of 'fireplace' sound.

I've downloaded a few MP3's with that crackling sound, plug a couple of unobtrusive speakers into the player and I'm good to go.

She'll be thrilled. Love those small things in life which make it more enjoyable.

Thanks,

Michael

 

[night driver]

They have two touring groups....because they do shows in two cities at the same time...

they have a soft spot for Cleveland because this is the town they started their touring in (according to them in their concert 2 years ago).

So basically we get the "A" group....

they MAY have started their touring as Savatage, though....

 

[dstraito]

I discovered them when the Wizards In Winter video with the computerized Christmas lights went viral. I really, really like this bad. The Lost Christmas Eve album is awesome and I play it year round, not just at Christmas time.

I'd recommend this album to everyone who doesn't mind an eclectic mix. I agree with Jake Grey - If you like hard rock guitar, classical music, and Christmas music all combined; you'll think you've died and gone to heaven.

I especially like the songs from that album The Lost Christmas Eve and Christmas Canon Rock but the whole album is great.

 

[Genevieve]

I like TSO, but I have to be in the mood to handle all the guitars. It's too much some of the time. I have a couple of their CD's.

I've been listening to some Adele on youtube today. Love that she doesn't have a "little girl" voice or is whiney.

 

[Repairman-Jack]

I've been listening to them since the Savatage Days. I think it was back in 1996 or so one of the local radio stations played Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) and it drove me nuts because I knew I had heard the song but could not place it, had may ah ha moment after a quick internet search that night.

The live shows are AMAZING, we've seen them multiple times when the come to Pittsburgh.

If you have not seen them I'd highly recommend the show AFTER you've viewed some of their stuff on youtube....why? Their roots are in HARD ROCK/METAL and will be different from the two to three songs that get most of the air time on radio. The 1st part of the show will be the 1st CD with an occasional song mixed in, like maybe opening with Wizards in Winter. The 2nd half of the show will be a mix of their Christmas music, Beethoven's First Night, Night Castle and some old Savatage stuff and if you're lucky a couple cover tunes (I've heard them do, Layla, Immigrant Song and a couple other classic rock songs...if they released a cover CD I'd rush out and buy it) .

I like their Christmas stuff better than their other but the laser light show and pyro-technics along with the wonderful music is just WIN for me.

Also I think on the TSO website they have the liner notes for the CDs. All of the TSO cds are stories with one song leading to the next, but when you read the notes it makes it even better imho and at one time they had them all online.