bear66
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Moody blues are the best single band live concerts I've been to.Inspiral carpets (with Tom Hingley)
The Smiths
The Cure
Marillion
Moody Blues
Glen Campbell
Moody blues are the best single band live concerts I've been to.Inspiral carpets (with Tom Hingley)
The Smiths
The Cure
Marillion
Moody Blues
Glen Campbell
Marillion produced some excellent studio albums- Misplaced Childhood is sublime. I never saw them live in their pomp. I could imagine the Smiths were excellent.Inspiral carpets (with Tom Hingley)
The Smiths
The Cure
Marillion
Moody Blues
Glen Campbell
I saw The Smiths the night they recorded the live 'Rank' album ... I think they were better in the studio...Inspiral carpets (with Tom Hingley)
The Smiths
The Cure
Marillion
Moody Blues
Glen Campbell
Indeed, the Radiohead 'From the basement' sets of live takes on some of of their albums is excellent - Thom Yorke does some solo sets which are equally epic.Radiohead fall into the "equally amazing but very different" category for me.
I think that stunning is exactly the right word. I saw them with The Jesus and Mary Chain and Dinosaur Jr. back in 1992 at Whitley Bay ice rink and I couldn't hear properly for about a week afterwards. Hell of a gig that. But no bar. That was a bit of a b***r.My Bloody Valentine were stunning live, but a bit fey on record.
In general I agree but very much depends on the venue. I've had some great gigs ruined by terrible sound (Pulp at Hyde Park a few years was laughable, ditto the Stroke at Victoria Park).I'll go against the flow here and say I way prefer recorded music to live music.
Live music: usually the sound quality is appalling - almost always volume takes precedence over fidelity, so you end up with just noise just short of distortion, or even exceeding it. That and the noise of people around you talking/shouting/screaming.
A sound engineer who has different bands on every night is expected to get the perfect sound for each one even though they're completely different - not going to happen.
Acoustics inside most venues are usually terrible, they're made for housing large crowds of people first and music quality last - if thought of at all.
Recorded music: by and large the records you hear are exactly how the artist wanted you to hear it. Granted this isn't always the case as some people have commented but it usually is, especially for projects with bigger budgets.
What's more, with a record at home you can tailor the sound to your own tastes, including your own choice of hifi and then you can use EQ, volume and speaker positioning etc to make it exactly how you want.
An example...stay with this - it bangs...but later...Indeed, the Radiohead 'From the basement' sets of live takes on some of of their albums is excellent - Thom Yorke does some solo sets which are equally epic.
They are on YouTube.
Purely going on what music writers say, The Faces.
I seem to remember Radiohead doing a brilliant cover of a Joy Division song at some point. Did I just dream that or make it up?An example...stay with this - it bangs...but later...
They did a few - Thom also did one (I think) with Atoms for PeaceI seem to remember Radiohead doing a brilliant cover of a Joy Division song at some point. Did I just dream that or make it up?
I used to have a Telecaster that looked exactly like that one that Jonny Greenwood is playing in that video but mine was a cheap Japanese copy made by 'Fenix' I think. Sold that years ago though. Actually I didn't sell it. I traded it with the bloke who came to fix my boiler. He didn't charge me for the job and I gave him the guitar in return because my Rickenbacker was already in the post from Reidys so I didn't need the telecaster any more.