A Pleasant Shade of Gray former bassist Joe DiBiase, who departed the band in 1995; "A Pleasant Shade of Grey" was the first Fates Warning album without DiBiase. A Pleasant Shade of Gray A Pleasant Shade of Gray is a concept album by the progressive metal group Fates Warning, released in 1997. It contains one song divided into twelve parts and is noted for its darker mood and more progressive style. "A Pleasant Shade Of Gray" is a single song that is divided into twelve tracks. The album is notable for its darker mood and mixture of progressive rock and metal with hints of industrial,
John Shade John Shade John Shade is a fictional character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel "Pale Fire". The structure is notoriously difficult to unravel, but most readers agree that Shade is a poet married to his teenage sweetheart, Sybil. Their only child, a daughter named Hazel, apparently committed suicide some time before the novel's action begins. Shade lives in the college town of New Wye, amidst the Appalachian Mountains. His fame is sufficient for television pundits to often mention him in the same breath ("one oozy footprint behind") as his fellow poet Robert Frost, an association which Shade does not entirely enjoy,