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Hitch A Ride is great. ALL of the songs, except for "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" are very good to great IMO. That's the only miss for me - just a banal, generic rock song. I found out years later it was the only one not written by Scholz.

Wish I could have seen them live in their heyday.

Boston's debut was my entry to getting into rock and prog rock. I was 12-13 when it came out and my first 2 LP purchases were Boston, and Kiss's Rock and Roll Over. Both bought at least in part because of the covers, lol.

My favorite track was and will always be not one one of the 2 most people remember and mention, but the longer Foreplay / Long Time. The instrumental opener, Foreplay, blew me away - I had never heard anything like that with the spacey guitar sounds and organ. I always wanted more of THAT but they never really did it. The follow up records were too polished and pop rock for my taste, shorn of energy. But I soon discovered Rush which solved that.

This has been going on for decades in IT. I was told in 1999 to train an Indian replacement who was in Bangalore, and who had zero experience in what I was supporting then and very low knowledge.

My office HERE in the US is basically completely Indian now, too. I'm the only non Indian on most calls I'm on. They are good folks, and most are more competent now than that 25 years ago. But it's still very disconcerting and at times upsetting to walk in that door and feel like I moved to another country. Musk and others have used H1B as an exploitative loophole for their benefit to bring in lower paid workers who owe their existence to the company b/c it controls their visa.

As others have said, way too subjective. Lots of fantastic musicians out there and many mentioned already.

Just to throw out a name I think is underrated but always impresses me with his creativity and just sheer joy of making music:

Adrian Belew

Heart Of Glass:

Either/Orchestra, "Red" by King Crimson is a favorite of mine.

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Opeth

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frick yes. They should be my #1. New record coming and Mike is back to growling and playing heavier.

Zebra is/was fantastic.

If you haven't seen it, Randy & Zebra did a concert with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra a few years back. Here is "Take Your Fingers From My Hair" - it is PHENOMENAL.

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"eco-metal"?

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Well, kinda?

Definitely a fan of the content on AppleTV but agreed with a few who mentioned the interface isn't good. (Assumption: I'm watching on the Apple TV streaming box hardware; I don't know if everyone else is watching AppleTV+ in that way.) Apple did a major tvOS update a few months ago that smashed together the Movies & TV apps and it made both much worse. It's an attempt to be everything to everyone, as it hooks into several other streaming services too in order to show all of your "up next" or "queue" or whatnot in one place.

That's actually a spin on the original AppleTV goal of bringing all the cable and other content into one place, that they gave up on. And with the plethora of streaming services in different apps, that's a pretty useful idea. It just isn't implemented very well right now.