Doug on Demand - Session 33
Added 2025-11-10 02:09:49 +0000 UTCI'm pleased to share another great zoom session. This was recorded on November 9, 2025 and features this repertoire:
Nobuo Uematsu - The Extreme (Final Fantasy VIII)
Radiant Quest - Spain (cover)
Bowser & Blue - Polka Dot Undies
The Waifs - London Still
October Project - Falling Farther In
Steppenwolf - Monster/Suicide/America
Moulettes - Picture // Frame Pt. 1 (Electric)
Shadowfax - A Song For My Brother
Charles-Valentin Alkan - Etude in A Minor
Steve Hackett - Twice Around the Sun
Richard Thompson - Al Bowlly's in Heaven
Riverside - The Curtain Falls
Comments
I swear I remember Flanders doing backing vocals, as she has done in the reformed group. That said, I no longer own physical copies of either album for liner notes, and the Wikipedia page is thin on that info. Though I believe you- that timeline makes sense. And I do remember Belica with Adler on keyboards.
Tom (the soggy one)
2025-11-10 19:07:25 +0000 UTCA couple of thoughts on the Alkan piece- 1) I think he was trying to invent ragtime but juuust missed it, 2) In 1840, this must have seemed like absolute heresy!, 3) This piece sounds to me like an Adiemus piece with way too much echo effect. There, I said it.
Tom (the soggy one)
2025-11-10 04:03:40 +0000 UTCGlad to see you checking out October Project - they may just be my favorite band from the 90's. Those 2 albums are both must-hears. One correction on the chat - the backing vocalist was Marina Belica (who also plays keyboards along with Emil Adler, who composed the music), she became the lead vocalist when they reformed (Julie Fanders was a non-performing member in the 90s - she was to OP what Keith Reid was to Procol Harum).
Russell Maddox
2025-11-10 03:46:22 +0000 UTC
