Dave , I like the Devin Townsend link , Thanks .  
 
 Peter, I am glad that you like  FAUN , I will try to find some of their work in English, and Instrumental  work and post it .  
 
Wolf

Just came home from watching Faith No More; great show with amazing sound...my friend who I went with asked me how they write and arrange those songs; i told him I had no idea as I don't have the knowledge of all those styles of music, let alone how to make them mesh...truly amazing...Tony

As I promised , With English translation ; Here is FAUN ,  This Cold Night
Faun-Diese Kalte Nacht (with lyrics and English translation)  
 

Steve Gadd . 70 strong. featuring all of James Taylor's backing band including our very own Jimmy Johnson. Great stuff - mostly jazz and JJ gets a writing credit for a very nice tune.

Eluveitie - Brictom  
 

 
I am enjoying exploring new musical escapades and influences for new possible projects and sounds. Life can be a continuous musical class room .

Life can be a continuous musical class room.
 
I've noticed that as well.
 
   
 
Here's the classroom lesson I was studying a few nights ago:  Dream Theater's , live with chorus and pit orchestra.  Very nice integration of the band with chorus and orchestra.  Maybe I was just in a more receptive frame of mind, but this seemed to me to work a lot better than a lot of other similar attempts to add orchestra to rock bands.

Dave , The link that  you provided was interesting.
 
If you liked that , then EPICA , a Female fronted Symphonic Metal band is quite awesome in my opinion.___ She sings quite well ! I like it.  
 
EPICA - Unleashed (OFFICIAL LIVE)
 

 
My taste to what I listen to and would be willing to play and perform in keeps growing . What EPICA is doing and playing looks like fun .  The fact is that there is $$$$ to be made  in Symphonic Metal .  
 
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Wolf; that's kind of an interesting thought, and I started writing a long response, and then deleted the whole thing.
 
Your last post started with If you liked that.  What's interesting is I've been sitting here for a while now trying to figure out what like means.
 
I'll say this about Dream Theater as an example; I greatly appreciate their writing and musicianship (instrumentally; I have no idea what the lyrics are), and for that reason I tend to listen to them every once in a while (I don't listen to anyone often; well, I suppose I listen to Phil Lesh relatively often).
 
But I don't think I have any kind of emotional connection to Dream Theater's music, just a lot of respect.  And again, I'm just using them as an example.
 
So, in response to your query, if I liked it, well, let's just say I appreciated it.
 
I'm going to have to think for a while as to what like means.
 
As a starting point, apparently I like this: .
 
 

Dave , I LOVE  ! , the Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu - Valentina Igoshina.    She shows such incredible virtuosity . I have a friend who is a piano classical pianist who also teaches . He has a different set of pedagogy for teaching Bach & Chopin .  
Thanks for the link  , I will pass it on to him .

Like this

I spent many hours of my youth, seated at the baby grand assaulted by the un-ending 'tick,tock' of a keywound Seth Thomas metronome, beating my head soft with JS and CPE Bach, only to later find out what my teacher was desperately hiding from me:  The guilty thrill and 'sturm und drang' of the 'Short-Tempered Clavier' and the wonder of that Black Dog of the Bach Family Tree:  
 
PDQ  BACH ! ! ! !  
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j6vrcbi470&index=1&list=RD7j6vrcbi470
 
Joey

A lot of people know Mark King for his famous 'building a shed' bass solos, here is a really good clip of him playing his S2 coco bolo is a more restrained fashion and using just about every technique(except tapping) he knows. Very jazzy, very funky and very pleasant to listen and watch.

Enter Sandman - like you never heard before.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1boUYB9LFJY
 
Bassist is 9 years old . . . .  keep you eye on these three.

Wow!  That was a good cover.

On one hand it's sorta depressing to see kids who overall play better than you (or know more songs) but at the same time it's awesome as it shows that not all kids are wasting all their time with video games and facebook and all that crap...yay music!