How Much Money Would It Take For You To Listen To All These Asia Albums?

Does anyone here remember the huge MTV special with them in 1983 or so where Wetton left dramatically, like, a week before the thing was supposed to go on (in Japan, I think), and he was replaced by...Greg Lake?!?!! Looking really fat!!! Really, putting the "ass" in classic rock, these guys...

I'll own up to still having the t-shirt from the first Asia tour.

Remember it? I still have my VHS tape of it from when it was on TV originally.

Dave could set up an Amazon want list containing all the albums and people could purchase the album (or albums) of their choice and have it shipped to him automatically.

I don't admit this often.

I would be willing to listen to this at no charge.

reunion of original lineup means more of these live albums on the way(probably already a few on the market by now)

If you consider that each of those albums feels like it's seven hours long, that's one week of non-stop torment. I'd do it for $150 though.

re discussion above i always thought heat of the moment was pretty much just a straight rewrite of video killed etc. you can sing either verse and chorus over the other one.

and now we meet in an abandoned studio
and now you find yourself in '82

but funny how at the time, or to me anyway, "video killed" was New Wave and cool, but "heat of the moment" was embarrassing shit that only the choirboy synth player in my hs rock band was into.

ya know what else is cool about that live album with "Video" is that it also includes a version of the Wetton-sung King Crimson tune "Book Of Saturday". I'd listen to that for free!

For $1000 I'll do a track-by-track analysis

― dave q, Monday, May 17, 2004 12:59 PM

If only this had happened.

If we can raise money to keep ILX afloat in a few hours I think it could be raised in a few days. Similarly, if we had allowed the ILX to have a war chest then we would have done it already

Signed Wall Clocks Available In The GIft Shop
Friday, 18 September 2009
A limited supply of hand-signed Asia wall clocks are back in stock at the online gift shop. There are two models: ONLY TIME WILL TELL and PHOENIX. Both models are personally signed by all 4 original members of ASIA. (Limit 3 per order.)

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And what that band meeting must have been like.

ROCK N' ROLL!!

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/85220705.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193B946C5A518E7D4C133F26BD88DA9C687E30A760B0D811297

One of my very favorite threads. If I was a millionaire, Dave Q would be $1000 richer by now.

But wait - do we have to pay for all those CDs too???

I'd pay money for a Dave Q track-by-track analysis of anything now.

He would have cents for all these Asia albums.

Napoli, Italy (February 26, 2010) – ASIA, rock’s first important super-group of the 80s - featuring members from Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, King Crimson and The Buggles – will release Omega, its highly anticipated new album of original material. The record is due in the spring of 2010 on Frontiers Records.

Geoffrey Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer and John Wetton, the four original Asia members, reunited in 2006, twenty-three years after all four had last played together. The much publicised reunion resulted in highly successful world tours, a double live LP and DVD (entitled Fantasia: Live In Tokyo) and an acclaimed studio album Phoenix in 2008 which debuted at number 73 in the Billboard charts in the USA and entered the top 100 in several European countries.

Begun during the summer 2009, the writing and recording sessions of Omega, immediately showed inspiration and good feelings. “We were looking to create something different with Omega,” says keyboardist Geoff Downes. “Of course, the sound of the 4 band members of Asia will always have a certain hallmark when we play together. That's a given. But we approached the song writing with a mind to getting a degree of variety into these compositions. Hence, you will hear areas of textures where arguably we have never gone before.”

Add lead vocalist/bassist/guitarist John Wetton: “Asia is an English prog-rock band with a pop edge, always has been, and hopefully always will be. Accessible, melodic, anthemic songs with great playing, luxuriating in a bed of lush orchestration, with lyrics that strike a sympathetic chord in even the most cynical heart. There you have it; Omega is a themed album in Asia's fine tradition, without the millstone of a concept.”

Steve Howe adds that “the whole recording process has been inspiring and rewarding, and I’m very excited about the result”. “I would say these are all strong individual songs” says drummer Carl Palmer. “It was a very smooth experience, and arguably one of our best records.”

For the first time since the debut album, ASIA worked with an outside producer, Mike Paxman (Uriah Heep, Status Quo) who managed to create a truly special sounding album with the highs, lows and lots of dynamics. He helped the band to put together a tapestry of sound, which demonstrates the rich strata of Asia's music. Paxman was able to achieve this through the songs which spun real stories of actual events and experiences in locations around the globe. “The songs always have a message, hopefully positive,” says Wetton. “My songs are almost always autobiographical, so there is hope and experience in there, too. The lyric will never leave you on a negative thought. “

As with the most popular of ASIA releases, the cover art specifically designed for the project by acclaimed artist Roger Dean. The concept of the title (Omega) and the 'Year of the Tiger' referencing of the cover art underline the fact that this is real Asia. John Wetton explains: “The title 'Omega', as any fan of the band will tell you is 'very Asia' (as is the album, by the way). It no more means 'final' than 'Alpha' means 'the first' (which it wasn't). It's a great sounding/looking word, and a bookend to 'Alpha'. In many ways, musically and conceptually, the two albums share commonality.”

“We are embarking on our European tour around the middle of April, then straight in to Japan for the middle of May” says Downes. “It's going to be fun working out the new set list because obviously we have another album under our belt now with Omega.”

After touring Europe and Japan, ASIA will embark on a US tour late in the summer of 2010.

Apr. 21 - Helsinki, Finland - House of Culture
Apr. 22 - Moscow, Russia - B1 Club
Apr. 24 - Rome, Italy - Auditorium
Apr. 26 - Prague, Czech Republic - Lidovy dum Kbely
Apr. 27 - Winterthur, Switzerland - Salzhaus
Apr. 28 - Graz, Austria - Orpheum
Apr. 30 - Paris, France - Casino De Paris
May 1 - Uden, Netherlands - de Pul
May 2 - Asschaffenburg, Germany
May 3 - Nuremburg, Germany - Hirsch
May 4 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
May 6 - Reichenbach, Germany - Die Halle
May 7 - Bochum, Germany - Zeche Prinz-Regent-Strasse 50-60
May 8 - Osnabruck, Germany - Rosenhof Rosenplatz 23
May 9 - Bonn, Germany - Bruckenforum

they sound so excited! that's nice for them.

2003 Live in Buffalo

no offense to buffalo and all, but when your live albums get around to "live in buffalo," well...

so, anyway, add Phoenix, Omega, and the double-live Fantasia: Live In Tokyo to the list.

May 7 - Bochum, Germany - Zeche Prinz-Regent-Strasse 50-60
May 8 - Osnabruck, Germany - Rosenhof Rosenplatz 23

are these private homes?

that is a splendid press release

Haven't been around in awhile...I was thinking KickStarter would be a good funding model for the Dave Q track-by-track analysis...

I didn't realize until just now that at some point this band completely split in two with one version (Asia Featuring John Payne) having little-to-no connection to the actual band (I guess John Payne wound up owning part of the name because he stuck around with Downes on about a dozen of the listed albums no-one ever bought)

anyway now I'm listening to tracks from Phoenix and they're ok, you know, for Asia. Probably better than anything since the debut.

oh I was going to revive this to say exactly what I guess I said 3 months ago. never mind.

Asia, forever.

Mentioned on another Asia thread how much I liked "Finger on the Trigger" from the last album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdawHdJKmWM