Now I'm back again (and baby it's gonna work out fine!).
Hiya, you'll understand that the word: 'Baby' has to be used in terms of artistic accuracy.
Anyway, here I am once more. Back after quite a while away. Is Jersey Joker still here as well? The best thing about this forum is the 'drop by' feel you get from it.
Since I have been away it was BAD KARMA about Phil and his crushed vertebrae last October, what? Did you know over there that he announced in the UK papers that his spine has been so compressed after all the years of sitting at a stool he can't drum no more or his back will give up completely.
Do you remember a post I posted one time about saying Phil looked as if he wasn't going as hell for leather on the last tour? Now we know: the poor sod must have been in agony on that tour!
Phil, if you are reading this, thank you for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess a live track in tribute could be: "Bad back in NYC!"
Hope all is well with you guys. Thanks, Martinus for the gig review! Sometimes gigs do disappoint slightly and sometimes even down to how you are feeling at the time.
Good to chat and post once again.
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Originally Posted by martinus
In Munich, of course - literally only half a mile from my luxurious flat (TV and internet in all rooms except for the bathroom). It was odd - certainly a bigger production than the Secret World tour, and very impressive, too. But at the same time ... I find it difficult to express what I mean even in German. I'll try... at the same time it felt less alive. Part of it may have come because the circular centre stage is essentially static. Yes, it rotates, but the band all remain on his small island. On the Secret World tour the band moved to and fro, from centre stage to end stage and back. The other thing about the Growing Up tour being less alive is because less of it was actually performed live. Let me give you the most drastic example: Signal To Noise was the end of the regular set. You know how the song develops from a minimal arrangement to the really big thing. I did not mind Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's voice being sampled in - Severa's voice is not the same and his contribution is what makes this song complete - anyway, that sample was not the problem. So Signal To Noise builds, builds, builds, then the sound wave breaks and everything is washed away by this giant flood of sound which can of course then be repeated ad lib. And they did. And during this extremely big sound the musicians began to leave the stage. Tony Levin put down his bass and left, yet the bass sound could still be heard. Whatsername left the keyboards, but the keyboards could still be heard. The guitarists left and yet... Melanie left and Peter left and yet... there was still full foaming sound! So when they all had left and only the drummer was drumming his heart out and we could still hear the full sound it was obviously because there were samples playing. I must admit I felt cheated. It makes you wonder how much of the rest was sampled in. And instead of the last song being the wave on which you float out of the venue going "what a fantastic show" it was a kind of anticlimax.
Mind you, I am not against sampling in general. But if musicians feel the need to do that, they have to show (at least once) that they can do it without sampling.
Mercy Street was wonderful, though. Secret World, too. Darkness absolutely rocked. And Growing Up.
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