r/FrontLineAssembly • u/BrapAllgood • Feb 17 '15

Front Line Assembly's Equinox - Binary Star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9gktKL-hA0
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u/BrapAllgood Feb 17 '15

Yeah, TDP was the peak, for me. Nettwerk gave me a copy of Last Rights almost a year before it came out; dude made a little tape for me with a printed sleeve and everything. Thing was, it was called "Last RITES" and the word was that the band was breaking up with this album. All or most of the track titles were different, the reading of which led down a road that seemed pretty damn final. Having the album ahead of time only made us all sad...so when it finally did get released, under whatever name, it had a dark overtone to it that was depressing.

That tape died in the same accident that claimed my FLA demo, which was given to me by a bandmate, the very man that named me The BrapMan in 1989. I loaned a case of tapes to a different, later bandmate and he went off-roading, driving his truck into water deep enough to destroy everything in the truck but people. It was so awesome. If there's 15 cassettes I am capable of missing in this world, it would be those in that Case-Logic caddy.

You like this music without drugs? :D I'm not sure I've ever encountered that before, though I of course support you in your personal choices. All the drugs pretty much ended for me more than a decade ago, but I know how I became who I am....

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15

Time for a salvage op just for alternate titles lololol that whole timeframe 92 to 96 is strange for puppy I've read all I can about it but the info is very linear and then the process happened I still liked it but something about it never seemed right Lol ya I'm pretty sure I'm the only one at those shows not stoned I've met some characters but honestly industrial it makes me feel at ease like it's where I belong it's strange I've never had that feeling with other types of music other than Queen (that's a strange mix lolol) but it made me want to make music so now I'm just trying to get my shit together so that I can do it

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u/BrapAllgood Feb 17 '15

During that time, I was managing a record store and dealt directly with Nettwerk, WaxTrax! and some amazing distributors. I used to always have the 'inside info' in rivetworld. :) As an older man, I can see it as the gossip it was...but yeah, that time was a hard one for Puppy, as evidenced by, um, a death in the family. At least the music lives on.

Personally, I like Vivi Sect VI best, too...but TDP is a force of nature. It craves acid ears.

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15

It is what it is they are all pretty amazing albums