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Post by Reznor on Jul 18, 2007 14:16:29 GMT 7
Now THAT's a blog I'd love to read.
Got a link?
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Post by Cygnet on Jul 18, 2007 15:43:04 GMT 7
www.stewartcopeland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2809: “Whenever you’re ready Mr. Copeland” says Charlie, the production manager, as two crew members hold aside the giant gong, creating just enough space for me to slither onto my percussion stage, which is still down in its pit. I leap on board but my foot catches something and I sprawl into the arena in a jumble as the little stage starts to rise into view. Never mind. The audience is screaming with anticipation as I collect myself in the dark and start to warm, up the gong with a few gentle taps. But I’m overdoing it. It’s resonating and reaching it’s crescendo before the stage has fully reached its position. Sort of like a premature ejaculation. There’s nothing for it so I take a big swing for the big hit. Problem is, I’m just fractionally too far away and the beater misses the sweet spot and the big pompous opening to the show is a damp squib. Never mind.
I stride manfully to my drums. Andy has started the opening guitar riff to MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE and the crowd is going nuts. Problem is, I missed hearing him start. Is he on the first time around or the second? I look over at Sting and he’s not much help, his cue is me – and I’m lost. Never mind. “Crack!” on the snare and I’m in, so Sting starts singing. Problem is, he heard my crack as two in the bar, but it was actually four – so we are half a bar out of sync with each other. Andy is in Idaho.
Well we are professionals so we soon get sorted, but the groove is eluding us. We crash through MESSAGE and then go strait into SYNCHRONICITY. But there is just something wrong. We just can’t get on the good foot. We shamble through the song and hit the big ending. Last night Sting did a big leap for the cut-off hit, and he makes the same move tonight, but he gets the footwork just a little bit wrong and doesn’t quite achieve lift-off. The mighty Sting momentarily looks like a petulant pansy instead of the god of rock. Never Mind. Next song is going to be great…
But it isn’t. We get to the end of the first verse and I snap into the chorus groove – and Sting doesn’t. He’s still in the verse. We’ll have to listen to the tapes tomorrow to see who screwed up, but we are so off kilter that Sting counts us in to begin the song again. This is ubeLIEVably lame. We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea.
And so it goes, for song after song. All I can think about is how Dietmar is going to string us up. In rehearsal this afternoon we changed the keys of EVERY LITTLE THING and DON’T STAND SO CLOSE so needless to say Andy and Sting are now on-stage in front of twenty thousand fans playing avant-garde twelve-tone hodgepodges of both tunes. Lost, lost, lost. I also changed my part for DON’T STAND and it’s actually working quite well but there is a dissonant noise coming from my two colleagues. In WALKING/FOOTSTEPS, I worked out a cool rhythm change for the rock-a-billy guitar solo, but now I make a complete hash of it – by playing it in the wrong part of the song. It’s not sounding so cool.
It usually takes about four or five shows in a tour before you get to the disaster gig. But we’re The Police so we are a little ahead of schedule. It’s only the second show (not counting the fan gig – 4,000 people doesn’t count as a gig in the Police scale of things).
When we meet up back-stage for the first time after the set and before the encores, we fall into each other’s arms laughing hysterically. Above our heads, the crowd is making so much noise that we can’t talk. We just shake our heads ruefully and head back up the stairs to the stage. Funny thing is, we are enjoying ourselves anyway. Screw it, it’s only music. What are you gonna do? But maybe it’s time to get out of Vancouver…Doesnt seem to have the animosity that i read about whereever i heard about it from, probably just poor journalism, doesnt make me want to go though
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Post by sunky on Jul 19, 2007 14:29:25 GMT 7
More Police information:
In a first for Australian concerts, The Police will put tickets to selected seats in the first five rows of their Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth shows to auction.
The controversial practice has been happening in the United States since 2003, with tickets selling at an average of 74% higher than their face value. Premium tickets for the reformed band's Australian shows are selling for $250.
Retailer Ticketmaster – who don't receive any extra profit from auctioned tickets – are facilitating the practice at the request of the band themselves. The extra money from the auctioned tickets will go directly to The Police. Auctioned tickets from the band's American shows featured a "charity component".
Advocates claim that the practice raises a bulwark in the battle against scalping, with the auction providing an indication of the 'real' value of the tickets.
But fans have lashed out at the move, with many of the best seats only available to those with the deepest pockets. Moreover, it could be argued the claim that the auction provides an indication of the 'real' market price is flawed, due to the fact that the starting bid is the face value of a non-auctioned ticket.
Punters will have 11 days to bid on their tickets, which will go on sale July 23, a week before the other tickets. The auction will end on August 2.
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Do they really need anymore money! ALL the extra money from the auctions should all go to chairty. Its sad that the good seats would just go to the rich bastards who are just there because its on and thats it.
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Post by Josh on Jul 19, 2007 14:35:13 GMT 7
MAKE MONEY MONEY MONEY!!  |
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Post by Steve on Jul 19, 2007 14:35:50 GMT 7
What a bunch of arseholes.
Reminds me of the Backstreet Boys conversation in Sound Opinions.
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Post by Reznor on Jul 20, 2007 17:50:15 GMT 7
Um...linkage?
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Post by sunky on Jul 21, 2007 8:19:00 GMT 7
oh sorry. its from undercover.com.au
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Post by *Shard of Glass* on Jul 23, 2007 21:05:39 GMT 7
ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE AND GRACE
Foo Fighters 6th studio album slated for SEPT. 25th RELEASE!
The Colour And The Shape 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition In Stores Now!
Foo Fighters have announced the title and track listing for their forthcoming new album, which will be released September 25th on Roswell/RCA. "Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace" is the band's sixth studio release and marks the first time the band has worked with producer Gil Norton since 1997's double platinum The Colour And The Shape, which is reissued this week as a remastered 10th anniversary deluxe edition featuring six bonus tracks.
Tracklist for Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace is as follows (sequence TBD):
The Pretender
Let It Die
Erase/Replace
Long Road To Ruin
Come Alive
Stranger Things Have Happened
Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)
Summers End
Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners
Statues
But, Honestly
Home
Yay, the Foo's! (Awsome to see they're working with Gil Norton again, plus an aniversary edition of Color and the Shape)
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Post by toolgasm on Jul 24, 2007 5:28:01 GMT 7
Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running) Haha, bit of a stab at emo culture?  |
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Post by Josh on Jul 24, 2007 6:16:45 GMT 7
Oh and New Order have not split up, they will continue, just without Hooky
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Post by Cygnet on Jul 24, 2007 20:53:18 GMT 7
Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running) Haha, bit of a stab at emo culture? Yep, a pretty poor one at that. Think you missed the point Dave. Oh well, at least you'll have those beaconsfeild guys to keep you company when your cridibility's out the window. |
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Post by Reznor on Jul 27, 2007 17:47:43 GMT 7
Just got the new RS with Dave on the cover.
I admire him so much.
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Post by blue_june_destroyer on Jul 27, 2007 19:38:50 GMT 7
Haha, bit of a stab at emo culture? Yep, a pretty poor one at that. Think you missed the point Dave. Oh well, at least you'll have those beaconsfeild guys to keep you company when your cridibility's out the window. Wow. Emo has a point? No no no. Dave's made his name doing the hard yards (sure, he was a member of one of the most well-known bands in the world in the 90's), has genuine musical talent in several areas, and unlike these emo bands Foo Fighters don't operate on gimmicks. They certainly don't write songs about being mad at the world and being sad. |
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Post by kimbui1 on Jul 27, 2007 21:39:33 GMT 7
They certainly don't write songs about being mad at the world and being sad. Despite of my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. Sorry, couldn't resist.  |
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Post by belfczar on Jul 27, 2007 21:47:54 GMT 7
remember when "emo" was called pop-punk & emo was a completely different genre of music? unless, of course, we're talking about the clothing/fashion? in which case, remember when "emo" was called goth & emo was pretty much "indie" dress? how can anybody, anywhere subscribe to such a blatant phase? shows how much i don't understand kids these days, huh?  |
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Post by Reznor on Jul 29, 2007 11:27:02 GMT 7
I know EXACTLY what you mean.
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Post by Cygnet on Jul 29, 2007 21:03:12 GMT 7
Yep, a pretty poor one at that. Think you missed the point Dave. Oh well, at least you'll have those beaconsfeild guys to keep you company when your cridibility's out the window. Wow. Emo has a point? No no no. Dave's made his name doing the hard yards (sure, he was a member of one of the most well-known bands in the world in the 90's), has genuine musical talent in several areas, and unlike these emo bands Foo Fighters don't operate on gimmicks. They certainly don't write songs about being mad at the world and being sad. What i meant was, dont have a go at emo music because they wear makeup and sing about sad stuff. If you do that then you are also targeting such amazingly crap musicians as: Micheal Stipe, David Bowie, one Mr. W.P. Corgan and a plethora of others. Attacking the fashion is really rather reminiscent of the culture itsself, superficial and concerned only with image. By the way, I'd like to know what Kurt would have thought of 'In Your Honour' which if im not mistaken consists of an ok acoustic disc and then the same song repeated several times over at different speeds with moneybags Grohl screaming "alright!!!" at close intervals. I love everything until that album, colour and the shape was one of the first albums i ever bought, i even went to melbourne to see them last tour desite my feelings on their latest efforts, but ive now lost pretty much all hope of anything substantial coming out of there. Lets face it, even the guy who made Doolittle isnt going to save this trainwreck. |
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Post by Reznor on Jul 30, 2007 6:33:14 GMT 7
Stipe and Bowie are amazingly crap?
Get out.
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Post by boelsen on Jul 30, 2007 8:46:43 GMT 7
i do believe as he included billy that it was sarcasm. No one in their right mind could bag REM
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Post by Steve on Jul 30, 2007 14:25:34 GMT 7
Anyone going to see The Killers. I think i might, i like a few tracks.
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Post by Reznor on Jul 30, 2007 14:42:12 GMT 7
Oh FUCK YEAH.
I worship that band.
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Post by Cygnet on Jul 30, 2007 15:49:07 GMT 7
Just to clarify, wearing makeup + singing about forsaken love does not = crap, those were my examples why not.
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Post by foxy on Jul 31, 2007 9:16:28 GMT 7
Kaki King (a great guitarist, i've plugged her work for years. CHECK HER OUT) features on the beaconsfield minders song on the foo fighters record, thats a +1 in my book.
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Post by Steve on Jul 31, 2007 14:37:23 GMT 7
Ah yes, i remember seeing her on your myspace (hehe)
In other news - JJJ will announce a big British bands tour on Thursday.
I'm predicting Muse. Remember Bellemy saying they would be back later this year where they could do shows with their full stage show?
And i will be there!
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Post by Cygnet on Jul 31, 2007 19:12:27 GMT 7
Wicked, but shit ast the same time. stop shoving all these tours together, its insane! I hope tix dont go on sale til like the end of august :s
Also, if it ends up being Radiohead instead, then fuck. (not that it will)
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Post by boelsen on Aug 1, 2007 7:38:26 GMT 7
have muse released any new shit recently? going down to soccer my cd player cracked the shits and put the radio on and they said that they just played some newer then new muse song.. wasnt sure what it was.
Not sure if i'd go to see muse or not. only play 20 minutes more then BDO.. and not a big fan of their latest album.
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Post by Cygnet on Aug 2, 2007 9:48:05 GMT 7
Muse it is (surprise ) someone just sent me a msg saying theyre playing here november 14, i dont know further details though |
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Post by Cygnet on Aug 2, 2007 9:50:14 GMT 7
oop, found it PERTH œ Saturday 10 November œ SUPREME COURT GARDENS Tickets: Tickemaster 136 100 or www.ticketmaster.com.au 78 Records, Mills, Planet Video, Beat Music ADELAIDE œ Wednesday 14 November œ ADELAIDE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Tickets: Ticketek 132 849or www.ticketek.com.au MELBOURNE œ Thursday 15 November œ ROD LAVER ARENA Tickets: Ticketek 132 849or www.ticketek.com.au SYDNEY œ Saturday 17 November œ SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Tickets: Tickemaster 136 100 or www.ticketmaster.com.au BRISBANE œ Wednesday 21 November œ RIVERSTAGE Tickets: Tickemaster 136 100 or www.ticketmaster.com.au TICKETS ON SALE 9am Thursday 16 AUGUST |
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Post by Josh on Aug 2, 2007 10:04:50 GMT 7
i wouldn't actually mind going to the muse show
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Post by Reznor on Aug 2, 2007 14:05:36 GMT 7
Muse can't fill the Entertainment Centre.
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