Re: OT: Your thoughts on a David Gilmour Gig, any good? Have presale link if u want it
Date: December 21, 2005 17:52
BornOnTheBayou Wrote:
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> > Sjouke Wrote:
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> > This will NOT be the setlist. He is releasing
> a
> > new CD on March 6 and will be promoting it on
> the
> > tour. When he last toured behind a new solo
> album,
> > About Face, in 1984, he played everything on
> About
> > Face, a couple of songs from his first solo
> album,
> > and a couple of Pink Floyd songs.
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> When will these guys ever learn that what the
> audience mostly wants are THE CLASSICS. I mean
> it's really like "artistic license" for these guys
> to build their reputation on a certain set of
> great songs, which ARE arena-worthy, then they
> come up with some new stuff and they think, well,
> because I'm "so-and-so legendary musician"
> anything new I write is also worthy of an arena.
>
> This is the Neil Young "Greendale" theory or the
> Madonna "drowned world" theory. Mick Jagger was in
> a documentary discussing this with Elton John and
> they both agreed that Madonna should have stuck
> more closely to her "classics" on that tour....
> which is of course what both the Stones and EJ do:
> 80 to 85% classics, 15 to 20% new stuff. So even
> if the new stuff really isn't "arena-worthy", the
> classics carry it and the audience puts up with
> it.
>
Seeing Neil Young has always been a crap shoot. Odds are half the songs will be works in progress that he hasn't even recorded yet, let alone released. When I saw him in '78, Comes A Time had just hit the radio stations (wasn't even in the stores yet) and I was expecting a mellow evening of material from that album and older, similar material like the stuff on Harvest. Instead he blew the place apart with the songs that would the following year become Rust Never Sleeps. It just sounded like a load of noise. It was only after the album came out that I thought "Oh, I guess that was pretty good after all". The point is, anything we think of as classic was at one time the new stuff, and artists are always hoping their new stuff will become classic. When an artist DOESN'T play a lot of their new stuff, it means that even THEY think it sucks!
FYI: There are no Madonna "classics".