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Re: (TV) "live" music



RIGHT ON!!

Raymond wrote:

> Personally i think this sucks...live rock n roll my arse as Jim from the
> Royle family might say....it doesn't surprise me at all
> though....interestingly i've heard rumours (from a very reliable source)
> that U2 of all people used to have extra musicians playing from under the
> stage during the Zooropa tour (presumably it was to replace the idiot boy
> bassist)...
>
> Ironically the Chemical Bros and Fatboy Slim are in reality actually a lot
> more spontaneous live than The Stereofuckwits could ever hope to
> be -(wouldn't be very hard by the sounds of it all the same)- the technology
> they use means that they can constantly play around and extend their jams
> for maximum crowd-pleasing effect....there's no note for note replication of
> the records going on here.....
>
> It really has to be said that the best  modern dance music takes a hell of a
> lot more chances than "rock" music ever does any more and that is why one is
> flourishing and the other is floundering and why we spend most of our time
> on this list talking about groups from years ago and not bands of today...
>
>  > sam@sospubs.co.uk writes:
>  > > Are you sure they were tapes, and not just a couple of extra musicians
> > >  off the side of the stage or something?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <AndrewMFC@aol.com>
> > Absolutely sure.  And why would anyone do THAT?  Would they still get
> union
> > scale??
>
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