tl;dr, I was 
It was Dale Plevin for both.
When all you need is a regular ol’ P bass.
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I’m a big Rush fan…and can’t wait to see them next year…but they led me to Porcupine Tree and this band…Opeth…
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I’ll also throw out there…if you havent listened to Colin Edwin who was the bass player for Porcupine Tree his new colab album came out on the 7th…
The Edmund Fitzgerald started its tragic journey 50 years ago today.
LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 50 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become her doomed final voyage.
Once the largest ship on the Great Lakes, the 728-foot Fitzgerald left Superior, Wisconsin at 2:15 p.m. on Nov. 9, 1975. Her crew planned to cross Lake Superior to deliver the load at Detroit’s Zug Island.
But a day later, she was gone, broken in two and laying on the lake’s bottom in 530 feet of water, all 29 souls aboard lost.
Gordon Lightfoot’s poignant song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” helps keep alive the memory of what’s become the Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck.
But her captain and crew were also sons, brothers, husbands and fathers. They hailed from Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and beyond.
As we remember them, here are the highlights of the Fitzgerald’s final trip and the fierce, hurricane-like storm that sank it.
(see link below the song attached.)
Investigators would later say that in the big freighter’s last hour, it battled sustained winds of 60 mph, and waves higher than 25 feet. It may have even encountered “The Three Sisters” - a trio of rapidly-hitting waves that are higher than the others around them.
One thing the marine experts agree on: The Fitzgerald was in the “worst possible place” as it tried to make for the shelter of Michigan’s Whitefish Bay.
More timeline information is outlined in the synopsis copied from THIS WEBSITE which was published 2 years ago… I updated the post to reflect the 50 year anniversary.
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An awesome tune from my days of living in Upstate NY near Lake Ontario
I love Opeth!
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My tendency is bass driven music.
Two lead bass masters together on the same stage. 
They are still devolving!
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It’s 7 years old, but it’s still too bad YouTube crushed the audio. Great song, must have sounded amazing live! Kinga Głyk is also an amazing bassist.
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Miss World Chile IGNACIA FERNÁNDEZ’s band: Traitor | DECESSUS
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50 years ago today.
The church bells will ring 31 times today. Once for each sailor, one time for all the sailors lost at sea, and once for Gordon for bringing this to our conscience in song
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TDP and Last Rights are peak Spuppy for me, for sure.
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This was the first SP cd that I bought. I got it and Psalm 69 at the same time, right before I started 9th grade in ‘92.
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My li’l brother had Too Dark Park and Last Rights when I was back home after my first year of college. I listened to his CDs a lot.
For me it’s the Bites and Remission combo release at #1 with Too Dark Park at a very close #2. But that’s mostly because when Remission came out there was simply nothing like it.
The TDP tour was the best live concert I have ever seen, by a very, very wide margin.
Rabies has Worlock (one of their best songs) and Tin Omen but the album was overall just too Al-influenced, so when TDP came out it was phenomenal.
The Doubting Thomas album in that time frame was great too.
Mind: TPI, Cleanse Fold and Manipulate, and ViVisectVI all had some really great songs but also some more filler stuff. I feel like all three could be combined in to one really killer album and then a B-side album of more experimental Braps.
Last Rites is of course great.
I need to listen to Weapon more! The new version of Solvent is pretty different. I like the original a lot more but the new one is good in its own way too.
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That happened to be the first year that I started smoking weed. I can’t tell you how many times , and what kind of effect listening to Download had on my little 14 year old brain.
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We got lake effect snow across the entire great lakes today too.
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