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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: MobyDickhole on 22 Oct 2008, 01:28
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I was thinking...
If Jeff Mangum were to play an unreleased (on bootlegs or otherwise) NMH song at a show such as at the recent E6 holiday surprise shows
it would make for one of the greatest moments in live music history
I remember reading (in an old interview) that Jeff Mangum has a bunch of tapes lying around at his home that nobody has really ever heard.
And I would imagine that Mangum probably has written a ton of songs that nobody has ever heard before.
The only thing that would be more insane would be if Thom Yorke, Michael Stipe, and Morrisey all showed up to sing back-up vocals.
Followed by Steve Martin coming out to announce that he is returning to stand-up.
Any other ideas for greatest moments in live music history that have yet to happen?
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Zombie Keith Moon.
You know you want it.
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Pete Townshend
Roger Daltrey
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
SAY HELLO TO THE WHOTLES
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*A'splodes.*
Another good one, I think, would be Dinosaur Jr. playing "We're Not Alone" live, and the everyone's heads exploding from the sheer amount of awesome.
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Pete Townshend
Roger Daltrey
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
SAY HELLO TO THE WHOTLES
Oh yes, becasue we need a combination of the less talented members of two bands who only really worked becasue of the awesome group dynamic they had.
Also, Zombie Freddie Mercury.
You know you want it.
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A few months ago I would have said David Gilmour and Roger Waters decided they could in fact stand each other, and that they loved the music they made together, announcing a new tour with the whole of Pink Floyd. But now Rick Wright is dead. Fuck my life.
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Pete Townshend was one of the less talented members of the Who?
Moon's drumming and Entwistle's bass wouldn't be worth a fuck without the songs they were playing on.
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Excuse= Tired.
I only read the Beatles's names.
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Also, Coldplay breaking up.
We can always hope.
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Also, Coldplay breaking up.
We can always hope.
If Coldplay were eaten by a school of salmon while playing "Speed of Sound" somewhere cold and windy, I'd be sort of happy.
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Jeff Mangum starts playing whole shows in front of crowds larger than 50 people again.
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Zombie Keith Moon.
You know you want it.
Zombie Keith Richards.
Will probably actually happen.
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Zombie Bob Stinson. Zombie D. Boon.
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Kyuss reunion.
Also, GG Allin actually killing himself on stage like he always said he would, instead of dying of some dumb OD.
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Tina Turner kicking the crap out of Zombie Ike Turner?
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Zombie Keith Moon.
You know you want it.
Zombie Keith Richards.
Will probably actually happen.
I think it did happen already.
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dismemberment plan plays a reunion show that is not just in d.c.
also, they only play material off ! or is terrified.
also they go back in time so they have all the youthful vigor they used to.
basically, i need a time machine to complete this fantasy.
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GIVE THE MAN A FUCKING TIME MACHINE
WE NEED THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN
Also, Zombie Ian Curtis.
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Why would you only want them to play material off of ! and ..is Terrified?
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Jeff Mangum starts playing whole shows in front of crowds larger than 50 people again.
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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Actually, wait, yeah... Maybe it's only because I listened to the band's last two albums, but Emergency and I was a fuckin barnstormer of an album. Throw that one in there too!
Things I would love to see happen...
-Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble get Rodan back together and play shows... then June of 44 does the same thing.
-Evens or Joe Lally show turns into full-fledged Fugazi reunion
-David Byrne joins Clap Your Hands Say Yeah onstage... only for him to tell the singer "You're doing it wrong"
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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.
Why?
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The stupid masseses can't haves him. He is ours. He is ours, preciousss!
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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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Kyuss reunion.
Also, GG Allin actually killing himself on stage like he always said he would, instead of dying of some dumb OD.
these things, they are the best.
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Jeff Mangum starts playing whole shows in front of crowds larger than 50 people again.
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!).
By larger than 50 people, I mean festivals and venues like The Famous Spiegeltent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegeltent#The_Famous_Spiegeltent) (300-350 at the most).
(Madison Square Garden + NMH) = (chalk + cheese)
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Now that would be excellent. Probably always to be fictional, but excellent.
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Why would you only want them to play material off of ! and ..is Terrified?
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.
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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.
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.
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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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Johnny C wins.
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Oh man. That is almost legitimate.
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So apparently there are rumors of a possible Smiths reunion?
which I thought was like an abosolute zero on the possibility scale...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1849030.ece
I honestly don't buy it. but I'd really like to.
It'd be a reason for me to buy Coachella tickets.
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There are these rumours, and I'm supposed to get a phone interview with Johnny Marr, so I am REALLY pissed off that no details are through for it yet because an interview now would be amazing.
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A few months ago I would have said David Gilmour and Roger Waters decided they could in fact stand each other, and that they loved the music they made together, announcing a new tour with the whole of Pink Floyd. But now Rick Wright is dead. Fuck my life.
Syd died years ago. :(
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Only two years, and he'd been long gone before that anyway. I doubt any kind of Syd-era line-up reunion could ever have ended well.
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ZOMBIE RAMONES.
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ZOMBIE CHUCK SCHULDINER
MUST HAPPEN.
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ZOMBIE BEETHOVEN.
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ZOMBIE WAGNER VS. ZOMBIE BEETHOVEN
To the death.
Again.
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ZOMBIE TRAVELLING WILBURYS
Ok, so you'd actually have to kill Dylan, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty first, but it'd be so worth it.
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Are you kidding. Zombie Wagner doesn't stand a chance. Now Zombie Debussy vs. Zombie Bartok, that's a fight I'd pay to see.
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Bartok couldn't hold his own weight in a fight. Debussy would beat him hands down.
Now Shostakovich, he's a fighter
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John Lennon would be a shitty zombie.
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His eyes hanging out of his skull behind his circular glasses...
I'd pay to see Tool singing Disney songs.
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Bartok couldn't hold his own weight in a fight.
But he'd only need to stare at his opponent for them to back down.
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Zombie Rachmaninoff?
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... had big hands (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w).
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... had big hands (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w).
Bigger than Liszt's?
Also, I remember watching a doco a while ago about Chopin. At one point they showed his piano, which still exists, and an interesting feature of it was that the keys were narrower than the keys on a modern piano. Which might explain all those crazy-huge intervals you find in Romantic piano music. Or not, I dunno.
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The change in key width isn't enough to make an appreciable difference, I think.
(Did you click the link? It's actually a rip-off of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nWzC19Iq_c); but I think it's better done.)
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I did click the link, but I couldn't be bothered watching the whole thing, let alone the original. Internet ennui.
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The change in key width isn't enough to make an appreciable difference, I think.
(Did you click the link? It's actually a rip-off of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nWzC19Iq_c); but I think it's better done.)
I just like how the original one has a lady talking about a man turning her into a brilliant penis in the first 12 seconds.
But the actual sketches are pretty funny, too.
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Bartok couldn't hold his own weight in a fight.
But he'd only need to stare at his opponent for them to back down.
Jonathan Papelbon?
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Johnny Cash collaborates on an album with Calexico, includes a cover of "The Hungry Wolf" by X.
World explodes.
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Zombie Johnny Cash would be one badassmotherfucker.
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I'm pretty sure Johnny Cash wasn't that much of a badass in the conventional sense of the world. I'm pretty sure he did some drugs for a while, cultivated a rebel persona which kind of caught on like crazy, but was mainly a committed Christian with a strong social conscience who spent several decades in a strong marriage to a woman he adored.
Just sayin'.
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What about that crazy shit he did in Reno?
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LOL.
But yeah... Johnny Cash + Calexico would be AMAZING
actually Johnny Cash + a lot of bands would be way cool
Wilco, Okkervil River, The White Stripes, and Rilo Kiley come to mind
I also want to say Iron and Wine.
and... Battles?