Cynic interview

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 8:47am #1

Good interview here where Paul Masvidal talks about the early days of the Flodida scene and loads loads more

Ancient1 · 13-05-2005 8:57am

What a great read - cheers for digging that up Doc

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 8:58am

Hmmmmm... suddenly got the urge to listen to Focus again

Ancient1 · 13-05-2005 8:59am

Yup, it's time.

And Pestilence! it's been years...!

Edit - just noticed that mp3 link - will check it out when i get home

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 9:10am

You'll be surprised, possibly not in a good way

Testimony Of The Ancients, of couse?

Ancient1 · 13-05-2005 9:14am

Testimony (of Ancient1

), of course, and Consuming Impulse.

I saw Consuming Impulse and Malleus Maleficarum on CD in original print in a shop a while ago, by the time i raced to the ATM and back, they were both gone

Wait til i get my hands on the bastard who got them minutes before me :mad:

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 9:17am

Buy this and feel better

Ancient1 · 13-05-2005 9:20am

aaaaaaaarrrrrrr :eek: :eek:

Must....control.....self.....

Damn you, just when i decided to take a break from ruining myself financially with this terrible ebay affliction, you throw this at me!

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 9:21am

If you can get it at that near price you'll have saved money... in an odd sort of way

Ancient1 · 13-05-2005 9:23am

I know...it's already on my watch list.

I'm becoming rather good at this bidding business which is very very dangerous...i'm supposed to be paying off my visa bill (monstrous) but then i signed up for ebay

Wanna know what made me sign up?

Showdown! - Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland, 1985.

Beat that.

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 9:39am

Well, there was a Watchtower live dvd I just missed out on... and an original Cynic demo tape

Ancient1 · 13-05-2005 9:43am

Tell me about it...and who said life wasn't hard?

Btw, did you say you had some Aeon Spoke material? Is it worth a listen (i'm sure it is, alone because of the line-up, but you know what i mean)?

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 9:56am

Yeah, got the album... If I didn't know who was playing I'd proabaly hate it

Töpher · 13-05-2005 11:22am

Good read.

Like what I've heard of Aeon Spoke, but thats only 3 songs.

Shred · 13-05-2005 11:57am

Good read, cheers for the heads-up Ancient1

What an absolute crying shame it is that Cynic didn't go on to record more albums, Focus is a fantastic album!

Ancient1 · 13-05-2005 2:50pm

It is a damn shame - after years of gigging, demoing, blood and sweat, they put out a total masterpiece and then go their separate ways.

And we're left with chasing each individual musician's solo projects and related bands...nothing wrong with that

, but they should have gone on together.

John · 13-05-2005 3:50pm

Funnily enough I was having a root around record stores today (as usual) and was just thinking that I should probably get some Cynic. Is their stuff all out of print, I couldn't find any today.

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 3:53pm

There's only one album, Focus, and it was re-issued last year but I haven't seen it in any shops here. You'd get it off cduniverse.com and the likes

John · 13-05-2005 4:09pm

Cheers

It wasn't me! · 13-05-2005 8:10pm

I picked up my copy in France in February.

Apparently they're not making them anymore, which is a huge shame, as I think everyone who can appreciate metal should own it.

Doctor J · 13-05-2005 8:17pm

Indeed, it's an album that almost 12 years later still gets my full attention every time I listen. There are only a select handful of cds I can say the same about.

Karl Hungus · 14-05-2005 12:20am

Excellent interview, I must say.

Damn wish I could've heard that Mahavishnu Orchestra cover that wasn't released, they're quite amazing.

Cynic interview

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