Interesting stuff! I bought a sheet music book of his, and watched a few videos of him describing the playing. He acknowledged some of the trouble other folks had in playing the stuff—fingerings were just impossible to do at any speed—and he'd just casually be like, "yeah, you just do this." (Plays something…

Yeah, is that Pierce?

Exelsior!!!!

This really makes the character of Susan Storm/Richards a bit more complicated…

Just had to jump in when I saw Mark Isham mentioned. His Film Music album is amazing.

Anyone else ever hear Philip Aaberg's "High Plains"? It's a solo piano album which I'm pretty sure is categorized as "new age", on the Windham Hill label. But it's amazingly evocative, and something which I occasionally find a bit too melancholy, but it's good stuff, and much of it DAMN difficult to play.

I'm guessing there's an element of "how important does the RRHoF think this person is to the legacy of the band"—which may be understandable, but is still somewhat arbitrary. So being the founder and principle songwriter of a group probably carries more weight than being a band's 2nd drummer for 2 album.

I thought there was something about him carrying guns back in the day, too. I thought Glorified G was about him.

I particularly remember Rolling Stone praising him on Vs. upon its release. A big part of their album review was about him, since he'd only recently joined the band.

Funny, he's the only drummer of theirs I know by name, other than Matt Cameron.

I really dig Phaedra, Rubicon, and Ricochet—but I think Stratosfear isn't all that great. The main theme is repetitive in a kind-of-annoying way, and while there are elements I enjoyed, a lot of the performance just seemed kind of slapdash—sort of, "I don't know what else to do here, so I'll just do….THIS!" *cue…

I'll hold off until I see the movie, but I'm already intrigued by the Tangerine Dream reference, as I'm going through a bit of a TD phase of late. I can't even say I like all of it, but I kind of keep listening to it.

Jack. Relax! Get biz-zay with the facts!

When, as we all know, their pinnacle happened almost 10 years later with the rap for Roll the Bones.

Whereas, while I have an appreciation for their 70's output, my interest in their music increases significantly when they start using synths. Some days, Signals might be my favorite album of theirs.

Totally agree about Tony Levin—and he seems like the nicest guy in the world. I was glad to be able to see him play with his Tony Levin Band a few years ago. Even got his (and the whole rest of the bands') autograph on a CD I bought at the show!

It's a little weird to see them doing another documentary so soon after (the brilliant) Beyond the Lighted Stage, but yeah, I'll need to see this.

It's about time Batman thought about making the Batmobile more environmentally friendly. I'm thinking hybrid.

I was just thinking, ironic distance is about the only way this has a prayer of being successful. I guess they have that much, at least.

They've really expanded the game of Clue. Back in my day, it was usually something like "killed Colonel Mustard with a wrench." Had no idea that "veggie sandwich" and "Julian Assange" were added.