![]() If you read ‘A Christmas Carol’ in August, it’s still a great book,” he said. ![]() “If you see ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ in June, it’s still a great movie. O’Neill believes in his product, but he also believes in magic. Thank God the fans understood what we were trying to do, and it worked. “But we decided to roll the dice and have one half of the band go east, one half go west. “Even large ones like Earth, Wind & Fire, Lynyrd Skynyrd, it just had never been done before,” O’Neill said. No rock band had ever tried long-form division. O’Neill wasn’t sure splitting the band in two would work. “I know a lot of shows like ‘The Nutcracker’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’ would run in October and in February, but it just didn’t feel right to me.” “To me, the holidays end the last weekend after New Year’s where everybody has to go back to work,” he said. ![]() It allows the band to reach more audiences without stretching out the holiday season. Trans-Siberian Orchestra can be at two places at once during the late autumn and winter tour because there are two bands on the road. They kind of rolled their eyes, but they wrote a blank check.” We’re going to do six rock operas, a trilogy about Christmas and one or two regular albums. “Full symphony in the studio, not the whole symphony on the road. it’s going to be prog rock band,” O’Neill said. “The whole plan, when I first sat down with Atlantic. ![]() TSO gets most of its media exposure in November and December, but that doesn’t bother O’Neill. O’Neill calls the “attic” production a bunch of little adventure stories with a happy ending. She discovers a trunk where she reads all these letters from the past, distant glimpses of how the holidays affected people decades and centuries ago, and a glimpse into the future.” “Anyone who has been in an old house with an attic knows it’s filled with all kinds of treasures. “It’s about a kid who goes into an attic where people have been throwing things for decades, if not centuries,” said O’Neill, during a phone interview from Florida. MORE INFO: 487-2000, Mystery is part of the “Christmas Attic” music. Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Christmas Attic ![]()
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