RIP 2018
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@mariner4life be prepared to not know a lot of the songs. They have an album coming out and seem to be playing songs from the album with a handful of older ones thrown in. Keep an eye out for Elroy. Neil reckons he is the best drummer and guitarist in the family.
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@crazy-horse said in RIP 2018:
@canefan I have been a fan of Neil Finn since day one and him hating Something So Strong is a new one on me. I have lost count of the number of his concerts that I have been to and more often than not that song was played. The band hated the video though, they thought it looked more like a tooth paste ad.
I expect I won't hear it on Saturday when he plays with Liam in Oxford, but that's OK.
The cultural cringe is strong on the Fern. Is there any Kiwi musician that the majority don't hate?
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TikiTane
ExponentsI'll happily bottle any fluffybunny that doesn't love the Dudes, Dragon and Shihad though....
I don’t hate the exponents , the first two I would be happy to never hear again.
Also Fat Freddy’s drop type music , that’s more from it being thrashed every summer this century than any actual dislike of the music itself.I despise them due to hearing Why does love do this to me about 500,000 times by various drunken pissheads.
For some reason Dragon and The Dudes have held up way better.
I hate NZ reggae with a passion.
I still love Sensitive to a smile
Yeah that's a pretty good tune. The stuff I hate is the really slow dub type shit where there's about 20 band members on stage, half of them playing trumpets.
I don't mind it playing in the background on a Sunday afternoon with friends. But I wouldn't sit and listen to it
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@crazy-horse said in RIP 2018:
@mariner4life be prepared to not know a lot of the songs. They have an album coming out and seem to be playing songs from the album with a handful of older ones thrown in. Keep an eye out for Elroy. Neil reckons he is the best drummer and guitarist in the family.
yea, i am sort of prepared for that, it's not a Crowded House tour. But, the location is really nice, hopefully the weather is good, i'll sit in a landscaped park listening to a couple of talented musicians, and have a couple of beers.
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@crazy-horse said in RIP 2018:
@canefan I have been a fan of Neil Finn since day one and him hating Something So Strong is a new one on me. I have lost count of the number of his concerts that I have been to and more often than not that song was played. The band hated the video though, they thought it looked more like a tooth paste ad.
I expect I won't hear it on Saturday when he plays with Liam in Oxford, but that's OK.
The cultural cringe is strong on the Fern. Is there any Kiwi musician that the majority don't hate?
Lorde
TikiTane
ExponentsI'll happily bottle any fluffybunny that doesn't love the Dudes, Dragon and Shihad though....
I don’t hate the exponents , the first two I would be happy to never hear again.
Also Fat Freddy’s drop type music , that’s more from it being thrashed every summer this century than any actual dislike of the music itself.I despise them due to hearing Why does love do this to me about 500,000 times by various drunken pissheads.
For some reason Dragon and The Dudes have held up way better.
I hate NZ reggae with a passion.
I still love Sensitive to a smile
Yeah that's a pretty good tune. The stuff I hate is the really slow dub type shit where there's about 20 band members on stage, half of them playing trumpets.
I don't mind it playing in the background on a Sunday afternoon with friends. But I wouldn't sit and listen to it
Depends how much beer is flowing.
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@jegga I went to a Ryan Adams concert a while ago. I’m a fan but there’s no doubt he is a bit lacking in the sense of humour department. Some wit up the front took the opportunity at every break to yell “play Summer of 69”.
Eventually Ryan lost patience and made them put the house lights up and he wouldn’t start playing again until security removed the bloke. I reckon Ryan should learn the song and rip into it whenever asked. Life will be much less stressful for him, cause I fully intend to ask him to play it if I ever see him again and I suspect I’m not the only one.
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I'm genuinely uninterested in going to gigs to hear their b-sides. I can certainly understand that musicians can get sick of playing certain songs over and over again but they need to understand one simple thing; it's what your fans like and want to hear. It's what got you into the position you're in so if you don't want to play these songs that got you wealth and fame, go do your shitty gig at the pub with no cover charge.
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@jegga I went to a Ryan Adams concert a while ago. I’m a fan but there’s no doubt he is a bit lacking in the sense of humour department. Some wit up the front took the opportunity at every break to yell “play Summer of 69”.
Eventually Ryan lost patience and made them put the house lights up and he wouldn’t start playing again until security removed the bloke. I reckon Ryan should learn the song and rip into it whenever asked. Life will be much less stressful for him, cause I fully intend to ask him to play it if I ever see him again and I suspect I’m not the only one.
So how long did it take for security to remove you?
That is a great idea though, he really should learn it - he can mix it up completely.
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BTW, the Ryan Adams concert was in Nashville. Everybody should try and get to a concert in Nashville if they can. I went there for work for a couple of weeks back in the early 00s. Being a C&W town I had preconceptions about the audiences and acts but in the end I went to several shows including Stone Temple Pilots, Aerosmith and Adams, and the venues and fans were amazing. I even went to the Grand Ole Opry and saw some old country legend who I can't remember now. He was OK, but the crowd was a hoot. Cowboy hats and boots everywhere, even on the women, and for every hippo in Walmart chic there was a goddess in tight denim. Loved it.
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I disagree, and there can be a happy compromise between playing the hits and some deeper cuts. Personally I think it is great when bands add a song(s) to the set list that they haven’t played in 10 or 20 years. The casual fan probably doesn’t care but the real fans will appreciate it, especially if the song wasn”t a regular radio hit.
Take Bruce Springsteen as an example who usually plays completely different set lists in cities with multiple concerts. Artists with a small catalogue and minimal “hits” don’t have that choice. 😊
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BTW, the Ryan Adams concert was in Nashville. Everybody should try and get to a concert in Nashville if they can. I went there for work for a couple of weeks back in the early 00s. Being a C&W town I had preconceptions about the audiences and acts but in the end I went to several shows including Stone Temple Pilots, Aerosmith and Adams, and the venues and fans were amazing. I even went to the Grand Ole Opry and saw some old country legend who I can't remember now. He was OK, but the crowd was a hoot. Cowboy hats and boots everywhere, even on the women, and for every hippo in Walmart chic there was a goddess in tight denim. Loved it.
Are you Peter Pan?? A couple of weeks ago in the 00's??
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@jegga I went to a Ryan Adams concert a while ago. I’m a fan but there’s no doubt he is a bit lacking in the sense of humour department. Some wit up the front took the opportunity at every break to yell “play Summer of 69”.
Eventually Ryan lost patience and made them put the house lights up and he wouldn’t start playing again until security removed the bloke. I reckon Ryan should learn the song and rip into it whenever asked. Life will be much less stressful for him, cause I fully intend to ask him to play it if I ever see him again and I suspect I’m not the only one.
You’re right, he should own it and bust out his own take every now and then .
A mate went to see Bryan Adams and he played summer of 69 twice that night.He seems like an interesting guy apart from the vegan thing.
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I disagree, and there can be a happy compromise between playing the hits and some deeper cuts. Personally I think it is great when bands add a song(s) to the set list that they haven’t played in 10 or 20 years. The casual fan probably doesn’t care but the real fans will appreciate it, especially if the song wasn”t a regular radio hit.
Take Bruce Springsteen as an example who usually plays completely different set lists in cities with multiple concerts. Artists with a small catalogue and minimal “hits” don’t have that choice. 😊
Bruce was great, but as a fair weather fan I would have been happier seeing him play the entire Born in the USA album (the people the night before got it, first time he's played it in ages apparently) than Born to Run
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I disagree, and there can be a happy compromise between playing the hits and some deeper cuts. Personally I think it is great when bands add a song(s) to the set list that they haven’t played in 10 or 20 years. The casual fan probably doesn’t care but the real fans will appreciate it, especially if the song wasn”t a regular radio hit.
Steady on. As an example of what I'm talking about: Metallica toured just after the Black Album. As you'd expect there were kids and new adult fans who came along to listen to Metallica - the band they knew based on that album. The rest of us wanted to hear their back catalogue.
So as soon as they start an acoustic intro into Four Horsemen, rows of new fans all looked blankly at each other and sat down.
They got the balance right.
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I feel very bad for Dolores, she was much too young, and she was probably a lovely person. But I’ve given a day out of courtesy, and now have to say artistically the Cranberries music sucked.
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Did you get to the RCA Museum? I’ve been to Motown museum in Detroit where the main studio floor is roped-off and you can’t even walk on it, let alone touch anything; I’ve been to the Sun Studios in Memphis and Muscle Shoals studios in Alabama where they will let you walk mostly everywhere, but it’s “Look - Don’t Touch” unless you book studio recording time. But in Nashville (at least a few decades ago was the case) they will invite you to touch and play pianos and guitars in RCA Studio B (if you’ve seen Roberty Altman’s epic “Nashville” you’ll know what I’m talkin’ about) that were actually used in recordings by Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. They’ll even let you twiddle on the knobs inn the studio where Chet Atkins basically invented “The Nashville Sound” and record it, which me and my mates did. If you’re a musician or a fan it’s an incredible experience.