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drbryant
I saw Kiss at Tokyo Dome earlier this month - rising platforms, Paul flying out over the audience on wires, Gene breathing fire and spitting blood, topped off with an encore of "Rock and Roll All Nite" featuring a little school girl J-pop band. I guess that's what Gene views as "real" rock and roll these days.
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buffalo7478
Hopefully they only use on Sympathy - though even there I prefer they use none.
LIVE should be LIVE.
I doubt they use backtrack tracks elsewhere as they are so sloppy they could not keep up with the on-time track...Jaggers change vocals, Keith's missed riffs, Ronnie's smoke breaks with missed notes.
Sloppy but we like it.
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Kurt
I've seen U2 plenty of times live...
Admittedly, I absolutely DESPISE their model of selling tickets.
Man, those guys collect and hold their fans' money for months and months and months and months and months before they deliver a live performance. I grew tired of that years ago.
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GasLightStreet
I see that you're plenty fine OK with the Stones doing that though. Have you not read the Forbes issue where Keith, of all people, talks about taking the money from ticket sales months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months before the show occurs and putting it in an extremely high interest rate account so they make A TON of money from the interest?
Well there you go. Where do you think U2 learned it from.
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whitem8
It is very sad that The Stones started using backing tracks since Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tour. I remember being mighty pissed with the Sympathy drum track. Paint it Black you little devils... and I think even the cowbell for Honky Tonk was a tape.
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Kurt
I've seen U2 plenty of times live...
Admittedly, I absolutely DESPISE their model of selling tickets.
Man, those guys collect and hold their fans' money for months and months and months and months and months before they deliver a live performance. I grew tired of that years ago.
I see that you're plenty fine OK with the Stones doing that though. Have you not read the Forbes issue where Keith, of all people, talks about taking the money from ticket sales months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months before the show occurs and putting it in an extremely high interest rate account so they make A TON of money from the interest?
Well there you go. Where do you think U2 learned it from.
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GasLightStreet
The STEEL WHEELS/URBAN JUNGLE tours the entire percussion part of SFTD was all samples on a loop (which they seem to have not changed since). The cowbell for HTW was from the album, recorded and processed to have 3 different notes, and the harmonica in Miss You was a @#$%& keyboard.
That's it. No backing vocals were done in a studio and triggered.
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Kurt
I've seen U2 plenty of times live...
Admittedly, I absolutely DESPISE their model of selling tickets.
Man, those guys collect and hold their fans' money for months and months and months and months and months before they deliver a live performance. I grew tired of that years ago.
I see that you're plenty fine OK with the Stones doing that though. Have you not read the Forbes issue where Keith, of all people, talks about taking the money from ticket sales months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months before the show occurs and putting it in an extremely high interest rate account so they make A TON of money from the interest?
Well there you go. Where do you think U2 learned it from.
Reality check, Street:
(1) Stones ar set to start tourin end of may
(2) their ticket sales will not start before april
Even if you'd replace all the "months" in your post by "weeks", you'd still be way of mark -
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UndercoverLovingcup
Beth features a string orchestra and piano...on tape...and t sounds like the same tape they have used for 40 years.
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swimtothemoon
Gene Simmons seems to have a huge ego. Speaking for myself, I would not waste much thought on anything comming out of his mouth.
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UndercoverLovingcup
Beth features a string orchestra and piano...on tape...and t sounds like the same tape they have used for 40 years.
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swimtothemoon
Gene Simmons seems to have a huge ego. Speaking for myself, I would not waste much thought on anything comming out of his mouth.
His ego isn't bigger than Micks or anybody else's. He's just promoting his band in a different way, it's his trademark. I think he's pretty clever and the whole idea of Kiss as a mix or real rock n roll and something else, is genius.
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UndercoverLovingcup
Beth features a string orchestra and piano...on tape...and t sounds like the same tape they have used for 40 years.
I gotta defend Gene on this one. Did they use tapes for Beth in the 70s? YES! But, when I saw the current lineup play it in 2010, they did a slightly different version, wit acoustic guitars.
Also, I used to think they did use some vocals tracks, but I'm starting to think they actually do not. A recent show from Charlotte was streamed online, and they vocals seem pretty legit. For the opening song (Psycho Circus), they were late getting Eric Singer his mic, for the chorus, and you can hear the absence of his voice, CLEARLY.
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UndercoverLovingcup
Beth features a string orchestra and piano...on tape...and t sounds like the same tape they have used for 40 years.
I gotta defend Gene on this one. Did they use tapes for Beth in the 70s? YES! But, when I saw the current lineup play it in 2010, they did a slightly different version, wit acoustic guitars.
Also, I used to think they did use some vocals tracks, but I'm starting to think they actually do not. A recent show from Charlotte was streamed online, and they vocals seem pretty legit. For the opening song (Psycho Circus), they were late getting Eric Singer his mic, for the chorus, and you can hear the absence of his voice, CLEARLY.