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I almost feel like, hearkening back to what you said earlier, that this band almost needs to perform with an actual orchestra, I think, to really get...

the full effect of the sound, you know? And it's interesting because I feel like we had a similar conversation about Scar Dust prior to Prog Power this year about how they have so much orchestration and symphonic elements, like how is it going to come across live? And unfortunately, I think more due to the mix, it wasn't as great as it probably could have been.

I think that it showed signs of... being great towards the end of the set, but it's the first half of the set definitely suffered from that.

And so, you know, you have to wonder when you have bands like this, like, or Rhapsody or whoever, you know, like having these bands, These orchestrations pre-recorded kind of take some of the life out of it, I think, when you see it in a live performance.

And I, I always preferred the original version.

I'd heard it on one of the ProgPower, uh, samplers.

And so I think that just, like, when you hear something and you hear it a lot initially, a, a, a re-recording's just never gonna hold a candle to that in- initial sound.

Now, I'll say I listened to it very briefly, and to me, it, I didn't think that it sounded terribly different.

And so I'm, uh, excited to, to talk about it.

Um, it also just timing wise, um, reminds me of, of Prague power three and, and just, um, you know, kind of what I was listening to at that time, even though I was kind of falling out of, uh, the, the, the, the scene, so to speak, um, you know, stuff like this was keeping me, you know, keeping me with one foot still in a little bit.

So, um, Yeah, this is something I've been looking forward to talking about.

Nice.

But I think that this was an album that like, I thought was okay.

And then like the more I would hear some of the songs, it would grow on me.

And I feel like, the Prague power three performance really put a couple of songs on my radar that I wasn't as familiar with.

And then again, over the years, like more things would pop up.

It feels like days even.

This is going to be our Prague Power XXV at 25, the 2026 version of the Prague Power Festival.

This is our recap.

This was Sean's first time ever going, my second year in a row.

I had a guy who had a reticent shirt in the row, Nick, in my row.

Really?

And then the guy across, there's also a guy from Prague Power there.

So when we were getting up to get our, when we landed in Houston, we were chatting in the aisle while we were waiting for them to open the planes.

Yeah.

I mean, I didn't see them the last time they played at Prague Power, so I don't know if it was a similar vibe, but that was something else.

And I stood on the floor and watched that whole thing, and I was absolutely raptured by the whole set.

And not only that, but it was informative.

I feel like they're a good choice for the classic Camelot opening band slot that so many bands over the years have enjoyed, like Delane and whoever else, or Sabaton or something.

So hopefully... a U S tour is in order at some point.

Um, I know that they only, I think they only played two shows after Prague power.

They had one that was canceled for whatever reason.