crackfan704
I vote that the next CTS album should be called "Ferrari On The Autobahn". Ah, racin'...
Deb
To "Crackfan" -- nice review. Thanks for posting!
To everyone: CTS is firmly in first place in the ROSfest poll.
To Markus: Pick I date! I'll be there!
Mike
woohoo!! just got my tickets in for the july shows, can't wait. gonna have a stupid grin til then (different from the usual one that is) 
tw
Dan, I'm only talking about the original promo films as well. Most were played, albeit briefly, on MTV. When they played all their videos from A-Z, I printed out their list from their website.
I think Bobby told me they did videos for 4 songs on WiM: BD, SD, TT, MDJ.
Here are the songs from my MTV list:
Crack the Sky- Lost in America
Crack the Sky- Mr. DJ
Crack the Sky- Mr. President
Crack the Sky- Skindiver
Crack the Sky- This Time
Palumbo, John- Blowing Up Detroit
Taylor, B.E. Group- Vitamin L
So, these videos definitely aired during the A-Z broadcast.
markus
Taz and I were thinking about perhaps holding the L&M at our house this summer (as long and L&M are cool with it). We could call it LT2M (work it out). Anyway, if you people can give us some feedback on whether you~re up for it,we will see what we can do.
BTW, I managed to salvage most of the first acoustic set video after all. All I lost was Snow White and Greenhouse....and the beginning of Go is a little choppy.
Dan Stover
But I didn't know there was a "Breakdown" video out there. These were mostly promo videos made by Criminal Records. I'm not sure they were actually broadcast anywhere.
Dan Stover
I was just listing the ones that were "MTV" type videos.
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Rick Romanowski
Crack the Sky has just moved to the #1 position. Let's make sure they stay where they belong. I would hope everyone here would be voting for them. Currently they only have 28 votes. I am sure there were more than 28 CTS fans at RoSfest.
crackfan704
CRACK THE SKY
Having been raised in the northeast United States and hearing about Crack The Sky’s amazing gigs since the late 70’s, the announcement that they had been booked to replace The Flower Kings as headliners got me more excited than ever about ROSfest. Finally I was going to see for myself what the buzz was about back then. I was not disappointed, to say the least.
Drawing on their nearly 35 year history, CTS rocked the Keswick with a performance that was musically tight, yet had a looseness and funkiness that brought to mind a sort of Rolling Stones of prog. Guitarists Rick Witkowski and Bobby Hird contributed mightily to the “Rites of String” with some great soloing and an extended guitar dual, and the rhythm section of original bassist Joe Macre and drummer Joey “sticks” D’Amico drove the band like a Ferrari on the autobahn.
Although his voice was rather rough in spots, John Palumbo fronted the band with a combination of ‘been there, done that’ swagger (“We were prog in…1980? So we’re just gonna play”) and genuine appreciation for the positive reception they were receiving. He also took audience interaction to a new level for ROSfest by actually climbing offstage to join them in cheering on the band, and later in the set spent some time walking up & down the aisle, grinning from ear to ear while audience members strummed his guitar. It was great fun to see a little bit of rock concert mayhem sneak its way into the normally conservative ROSfest. The final number of the set had the audience pressed up against the stage, providing the “woooos” to the Beatle’s “I am the Walrus”.
Although Crack The Sky never achieved the fame that should have come their way after Rolling Stone named them one of the best new bands back in 1975, their performances were legendary. This terrific performance can only add to that reputation.
tw
Dan, I believe there were 4 videos for WiM. Breakdown as well as the 3 you mentioned. Plus, the live Robots for Ronnie from the Recher.