Review: Dream Theater & Periphery live in concert in Hannover 2012
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Sebastian
This was probably my 10th Dream Theater concert, give or take one, and this was in the top 3, along my first ever show back in Rendsburg for the Awake tour and probably one show during my ultimate fanboy-phase. Why? Probably because I was very much looking forward to it, after liking the new album […]
Dear Foursquare, you are idling a bit. Please fix these bugs!
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Sebastian
I love location-based game/service/juggernaut, that’s no secret. I can’ even put my finger on “why”, I guess it’s part of tracking my life (for a detailed intro into tracking look at the ‘Quantified-Self Series‘ from Third Wave). However, there are a couple of things that really bug me. A lot. For a company that has […]
Preview: Reading 2012
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Sebastian
As for the last couple of years, there will be a reading list for 2012. Last year was pretty good, I worked my way through 24 books. Some of them were short, sure, but the ideas still valuable. After 28 books in 2009 and 18 in 2010 two books/month is a nice pace, considering that […]
2011 in Review: Top 10 albums
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Sebastian
2011 marked a year that brought me back to music a bit more. I saw more concerts than last year, played more guitar and listened to more. My top 10 of the year: Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events Amos Lee – Mission Bell Trivium – In Waves Symphony X – Iconoclast Whitesnake […]
How Steve Lukather influenced my guitar playing and learning
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Sebastian
This is going to be a longer and stream of concsciousness-type of post, so if you lose interest just jump to the final paragraph for the morale of the story… My alltime top 5 guitarists are probably Paul Gilbert, Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, who can ever tell. There was a time […]
Der schönste Tag in einem jungen Leben…
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Sebastian
Und auf einmal sprechen Dich die Jungs von Metallica an und bieten an, als Vorgruppe aufzutreten…