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Fictional greatest moments in live music history
Tom:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 23 Oct 2008, 08:25 ---
--- Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 22 Oct 2008, 23:45 ---Jeff Mangum starts playing whole shows in front of crowds larger than 50 people again.
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I hope not much bigger. The last thing we need is for Jeff Mangum to start selling out Madison Square Garden.
I still hate myself for not going to the Elephant6 Holiday Show in NYC. I could have easily gone and I would have seen Jeff Mangum perform (not NMH stuff to be fair but still!).
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By larger than 50 people, I mean festivals and venues like The Famous Spiegeltent (300-350 at the most).
(Madison Square Garden + NMH) = (chalk + cheese)
TheFuriousWombat:
Now that would be excellent. Probably always to be fictional, but excellent.
petmilk:
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 23 Oct 2008, 08:19 ---Why would you only want them to play material off of ! and ..is Terrified?
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fair question. i think these would be the best/most energetic albums performed live. also i would like to see people "dance" to "the standing still."
don't get me wrong, i wouldn't object if some of the wilder songs on emergency & i got played. (8 1/2 minutes, anyone?) the only thing off change i'd want to hear is "the other side." the rest of change, methinks, can stay in the studio.
baroquebleakbrutal:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 23 Oct 2008, 12:24 ---Because I really don't want millions of frat boys blasting NMH, I really don't want millions of "what a sellout" and "I liked him before he was big so fuck you" debates cropping up everywhere I fucking look and I really don't want to have music perfectly suited to intimate settings ruined by commercialization by making it impossible to access out of the stadium. Sigur Ros is going in that direction, for example, and the fact that I have to pay $65 to sit in a huge theater in front of a group of drunken bros that talk the whole time and strain my eyes to see the fucking band which plays the same set every night of their tour b/c it's just become easier and they have to appeal to a fanbase that only knows a handful of songs is frustrating beyond belief. Call me elitist, I don't care, but I hate nearly all concerts in that kind of setting and I think it ruins, or comes mighty close to ruining anyway, a live experience when bands that are not really designed for that kind of scene to be thrust upon it. That's why.
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I've recently run into this problem myself...and I've decided I don't care: I'm an elitist and I don't want the dumbasses who very clearly don't get it there ruining my fun. Yeah, it's great that I get to see [insert band name here] again because they now have enough money to tour regularly, but could they somehow get the money without the jackholes coming along? That would rock.
Johnny C:
--- Quote ---PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (AP) - Killers frontman Brandon Flowers was hospitalized after being attacked onstage by Bruce Springsteen earlier today. When the younger singer attempted to join the rock icon for a spontaneous duet, Springsteen reportedly knocked him out with a single punch to the jaw. "Get [Flowers] out of here," he told security at the event. "I don't want him [on] the stage." Onlookers cheered as the E Street Band launched into a spirited rendition of "Jungleland" while Flowers' prone form was loaded onto a stretcher and carried out of the venue.
The Philadelphia police are declining to press charges.
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