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[Jbb]

Jbb -
Don't want to jack the thread, but I saw the Trans-Siberian Orchestra show in Sacramento last Saturday afternoon. This was my first chance to see them live. I can report that they can play almost everything on the CD's live.
Great musicianship across the stage, and what a stage it is ! Huge light rig,
pyro, multi-color fire. After applauding the band, crowd turned around and gave it up for the techs at the boards. This was a 3 pm show, and they had another show at 8.
If you get a chance to see "Christmas Eve & Other Stories" performed live, don't pass it up. Show was worth far more than the $ 50.00 floor ticket...
Thanks....
I have been wanting to see them......and If I do ..Im gonna have to fly where they are playing,as they dont come to Atlanta.....I have read nothing but rave reviews...

[FMluvswater]

Not only do I like them......But I went to Ebay and bought the TSO cd the song was on...And I considering flying to somewhere they're playing to see them live....I gots culture ya know...
I downloaded Christmas Eve And Other Stories on somebody's recommend and I love it. Future purchases are intended - they're phenomenal! I shared that link with my son Jacob and he loved it also. He played it 4 times in a row. Thanks again for posting it, bro. :smile: (BTW no surprise to me you gots culture - it runs in the family. :wink: )

[cola]

This sucks he shut it down.
DEERFIELD TWP. — Sheriff's deputies asked the owner who lit up his house with 25,000 Christmas lights synched to music to turn off the display after a traffic accident Tuesday night.
Deerfield Twp. resident Carson Williams agreed to shut down his holiday decorations indefinitely.
Williams told a Cincinnati television station that sheriff's deputies could not reach the traffic accident because of the traffic lined up in his neighborhood.
The display caught attention across the nation on network TV and on the Internet because the lights on the Williams house and filling their yard are synchronized by computer with music broadcast to car radios. There are three songs in the 12-minute display: Frosty the Snowman by the Jackson 5; God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood and Wizards of Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Williams turned his display on the week of Thanksgiving and motorists have lined up between 6 and 10 p.m. ever since.
For the time being, the only place to view the Williams' display will be online.
"He told us if we start having traffic problems that he would shut the display down for a while," Warren County sheriff's Lt. Ed Petrey said Wednesday morning.
Two cars collided in a minor accident at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Simpson Creek Drive, which leads to Winding Creek Court, where the Williams live near Mason in southern Warren County. No one was injured.
Williams is an electrical engineer who said his family spent about $10,000 on the display. He had promised his neighbors they would shut it down if there were problems.
"If I get a single complaint I'll shut it down," Carson had said Monday night.
He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
See Thursday's newspaper for more about this story.

[KACHINA KEN]

It HAS to be someone in our community ( show production ) Maybe Charley knows whos house it is. I can tell you how they did it though.
All individual strandings of lights were on seperate dimmers
dimmer were controled by a lighting console that utilized SMPTE timecode to lock up with a playback device that also had a SMPTE generator.
Judging by the piece i would say it took between 4 to 6 hours just to program, thats how long it takes me to program one good song.

[Jbb]

It HAS to be someone in our community ( show production ) Maybe Charley knows whos house it is. I can tell you how they did it though.
All individual strandings of lights were on seperate dimmers
dimmer were controled by a lighting console that utilized SMPTE timecode to lock up with a playback device that also had a SMPTE generator.
Judging by the piece i would say it took between 4 to 6 hours just to program, thats how long it takes me to program one good song.
look here (http://www.wonderlandchristmas.com/wizardsofwinter.php)

[h2oski2fast]

Name of the song is "Wizards in Winter".

[Jbb]

Same song.........Different house...this one in Canada (http://media1.Break.com/content/houselights3.wmv)

[FMluvswater]

That was cool also. The original was still the best IMO.

[Tom Brown]

Hey Tom ... Jbb likes them!
I am now forced to hate them.
Those lights kick ass.

[Tom Brown]

Same song.........Different house...this one in Canada (http://media1.Break.com/content/houselights3.wmv)