RIP 2018
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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.
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@salacious-crumb Yeah, but TBH it was more of a pilgrimage thing than anything else. I'm not a musician so the instruments and recording stuff didn't mean that much to me. I wasn't with anyone who could explain the significance of what I was looking at, beyond the "Elvis used this microphone" stuff. For anyone who's into music history though, yeah it'd be a shame to go to Nashville and not visit. I understand you have to book now?
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No idea about the booking, it was a couple decades ago. The piano was the real beauty. I was with my buddies, all long hairs (at the time, we had hair then!) and a guide simply assumed we were a band and asked if we wanted to play. (On same trip in Memphis a black guy stopped us on the street and asked us if we were Bon Jovi. We told him no, and despite our strong accents he then started insisting we were bullshitting him, and that we really were Bon Jovi. All we could ask ourselves afterward was, Jesus, do we really look that awful??)
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@salacious-crumb ... so one of you had an enormous nose then?
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Deep Purple in 06 was a classic concert of two halves. They opened with 'Pictures of Home' which is a lesser known 70s track then played all the 90s 00s shit before an hour of ' Space Trucking' 'Highway Star' 'Woman from Tokyo' 'Black Night' etc.
Gunners last year got the balance way better.
I'm already tired of wanky self indulgent FB posts about what the Cranberries meant growing up in the 90s and how devastated people are that she's dead.
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Deep Purple in 06 was a classic concert of two halves. They opened with 'Pictures of Home' which is a lesser known 70s track then played all the 90s 00s shit before an hour of ' Space Trucking' 'Highway Star' 'Woman from Tokyo' 'Black Night' etc.
Gunners last year got the balance way better.
I'm already tired of wanky self indulgent FB posts about what the Cranberries meant growing up in the 90s and how devastated people are that she's dead.
Who are these people who’s Facebook posts you vent about here?
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Deep Purple in 06 was a classic concert of two halves. They opened with 'Pictures of Home' which is a lesser known 70s track then played all the 90s 00s shit before an hour of ' Space Trucking' 'Highway Star' 'Woman from Tokyo' 'Black Night' etc.
Gunners last year got the balance way better.
I'm already tired of wanky self indulgent FB posts about what the Cranberries meant growing up in the 90s and how devastated people are that she's dead.
Just stay off Facebook?
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Deep Purple in 06 was a classic concert of two halves. They opened with 'Pictures of Home' which is a lesser known 70s track then played all the 90s 00s shit before an hour of ' Space Trucking' 'Highway Star' 'Woman from Tokyo' 'Black Night' etc.
Gunners last year got the balance way better.
I'm already tired of wanky self indulgent FB posts about what the Cranberries meant growing up in the 90s and how devastated people are that she's dead.
Just stay off Facebook?
Na too risky, I might miss a good dank meme.
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Deep Purple in 06 was a classic concert of two halves. They opened with 'Pictures of Home' which is a lesser known 70s track then played all the 90s 00s shit before an hour of ' Space Trucking' 'Highway Star' 'Woman from Tokyo' 'Black Night' etc.
Gunners last year got the balance way better.
I'm already tired of wanky self indulgent FB posts about what the Cranberries meant growing up in the 90s and how devastated people are that she's dead.
Just stay off Facebook?
Na too risky, I might miss a good dank meme.
A what?
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Deep Purple in 06 was a classic concert of two halves. They opened with 'Pictures of Home' which is a lesser known 70s track then played all the 90s 00s shit before an hour of ' Space Trucking' 'Highway Star' 'Woman from Tokyo' 'Black Night' etc.
Gunners last year got the balance way better.
I'm already tired of wanky self indulgent FB posts about what the Cranberries meant growing up in the 90s and how devastated people are that she's dead.
Just stay off Facebook?
Na too risky, I might miss a good dank meme.
A what?
What he said!
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Deep Purple in 06 was a classic concert of two halves. They opened with 'Pictures of Home' which is a lesser known 70s track then played all the 90s 00s shit before an hour of ' Space Trucking' 'Highway Star' 'Woman from Tokyo' 'Black Night' etc.
Gunners last year got the balance way better.
I'm already tired of wanky self indulgent FB posts about what the Cranberries meant growing up in the 90s and how devastated people are that she's dead.
Just stay off Facebook?
Na too risky, I might miss a good dank meme.
A what?
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Cranberries will always have a special place in my heart in that in my first year in Uni I managed to land a perfect 10 chick in my quan study group. All because I lied about loving the Zombie song and she was a massive fan. To be honest I used to get the Cranberries and Garbage confused all the time. But I mananged to get my bullshit straight enough to get the job done.
Thanks Dolores.