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06-03-2007, 12:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | just an ordinary day...
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... I was relieved to read this blog entry by stew... it showed no matter who you are and how big you get - bad gigs will happen and sometimes things just don't "sync".
It was refreshing to me and made me feel good ( especially coming off of an "off night" at a gig). Even punk/reggae gods like The Police have off nights. And you know their off nights are little things ...things that only the band members know... but not an audience pumped with adr and alc not really listening but absorbing. We've all been there from your first McCartney/Yes concert in the 70's:Motorhead/ Slayer concert in the 80's to Miller, Reid, etc .... in the audience you don't "hear" the mistakes the band makes.... but on the stage you def hear every wrong note and beat... and cringe. I was smiling reading stew's blog. Smiling because I knew it wasn't a bash (like the mass media wants it to be) at his bandmates but at his observations of being a musician in a band. Simple and said. |
06-03-2007, 12:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Earth | | | Well, they did a bloody good show in Edmonton tonight.
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06-04-2007, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Eublet Compared to some of the down-right awful performances I've seen from bands that are still together and have no excuse, such as the RHCP, these guys deserve a break. | Makes me mad to pay 190€ (the cheapest ticket you can get in Barcelona -closest place to home-) to watch a sad version of The Police.
By the way (and sorry in advance, RHCP lovers) I've never seen a RHCP show that was worth of what I paid for it in whole-band performance terms. The closest to my linking was one in the "One hot minute" tour (with Dave Navarro). John Frusciante is definitely a studio musician (meaning he totally sucks live -mind their live DVD's, where cameras stay away from his guitar almost all the time in order not to evidence the almost entire audio overdubing they have to make-, not only screwing up each 3 measures, but he also sounds like sh*t). And Anthony (studio musician #2), what can I say? Semi-decent rapper, awful singer, can't sing in tune even if his life depended on it. OTOH, Chad and Flea are a charm to watch and listen to and they put power to an otherwise terrible live act.
No offense, but let's put things in perspective, when people pay what they pay for a major live act, it has to be unquestionable. Once you watch much more modest live acts that totally kick some major guys' butts (oldies: Rush, Toasters, Fishbone, Living Colour, Brian Seltzer, Depeche Mode, The Who; newer: Billy Talent, Lagwagon, Mad Caddies) you, as a consumer, start claiming to get what you pay for (a good show, both visually and sonically) and not just a huge brand name. Sorry to rant this much, it's just that I feel scammed too often (too expensive tickets for some really terrible shows).
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06-04-2007, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City | | | Its cool to see someone like Stewart say they sucked...makes me making mistakes seam somehow OK. Les Claypool said in an interview when playing with Steward although he is a very talented drummer he is also a very hard drummer to play with...due to the fact he never plays a song the same way twice.I thought that was very odd for a drummer of his caliber. |
06-04-2007, 08:32 AM
| | | | I was at the Edmonton show on Saturday night and thought it was fantastic. Yes, there were still plenty of clams like the Vancouver shows. Seeing Sting on the jumbotron mouthing the words "well, I missed that" after he booted a vocal cue on Synchronicity 2 was pretty obvious..but still, it was a great show. Andy had another challenging night but he lit it up when he had to.
With some of the rearrangments that were done you could see that they were watching each other a lot to pick up some of the cues. I loved seeing that, that they were flying by the seat of their pants a bit. Who here can say they don't do that.
I appreciate Copeland's comments. You call 'em like you see 'em. Still, if they are going to be near you on this tour, go see them, it's a great show and I learned a whole new appreciation for Sting's bass playing seeing it live. Very tasteful.
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06-04-2007, 08:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia!! | | | In my experience, unless you mess up *really* bad, no one in the audience notices except for other musicians. I'm sure in this case he's just using what's known as a "self-deprecating sense of humour." |
06-04-2007, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by BillMason In my experience, unless you mess up *really* bad, no one in the audience notices except for other musicians. I'm sure in this case he's just using what's known as a "self-deprecating sense of humour." | The truth.
we could either hear nonsensical rhetoric from Copeland, or we could actually hear what is on his mind. This buisness, like politics, is too full of people trying to say the right thing. I for one appreciate a look into the real, rather than taking a page from EW weekly. |
06-10-2007, 01:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Northern California | | | a friend of mine was at that vancouver show, and said they were phenomenal...
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06-12-2007, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Lazylion "We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea."
That makes them the Coast Guard!
Badump, bump.
OK, that was bad... | What the hell was that?  |
06-12-2007, 11:26 AM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | Come on, guys. Each member of the Police is a undeniable perfectionist. What may 'suck' to them would be considered phenomenal by just about anybody else. |
06-12-2007, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by OKStateBass66 Come on, guys. Each member of the Police is a undeniable perfectionist. What may 'suck' to them would be considered phenomenal by just about anybody else. | That's true, indeed. Also remember that some of Stewart's comments are pretty well made just to get a rise out of people. Who remembers "jazz is the last refuge of the talentless?"
Trust me, they are not sucking at all on this tour. At least not in Edmonton.
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06-12-2007, 04:04 PM
| | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | I'll be seeing them next month in St. Louis, and I'll be sure to give a full report after.  |
06-12-2007, 08:34 PM
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06-12-2007, 09:18 PM
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06-12-2007, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bassbully Its cool to see someone like Stewart say they sucked...makes me making mistakes seam somehow OK. Les Claypool said in an interview when playing with Steward although he is a very talented drummer he is also a very hard drummer to play with...due to the fact he never plays a song the same way twice.I thought that was very odd for a drummer of his caliber. | I've been there, man. You can't control the really good ones.
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06-13-2007, 09:14 AM
| | Rockin' the 80's | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Houston, | | | this is cool - now i won't feel so bad when i flub a measure or two on stage. i can just look at my band mates and say, "it's just music". |
06-13-2007, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar What the hell was that? | An ocean-oriented guy like you didn't get the joke?  
Edit: That must mean you didn't read the article offered in the OP.
btw, as a resident of SoCal, when you see "OP", don't you think Ocean Pacific just for an instant?
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06-13-2007, 11:47 AM
| | Bassists do it with 2 fingers...and a thumb | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: East Coast | | | if you think Copeland is blunt, read Andy Summer's book on the group. Interesting. Hard to believe they agreed to go on this tour given all that's been said. But MONEY TALKS and none of them are exactly setting the world on fire on their own any longer. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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