Originally posted by bearman:crap. i hope there is stuff left for the chicago show.
Ummmm…so I guess there's hardly any merch left because people bought up everything at the other shows. WTF? They better print up some shit and have it shipped to them by the time they get to the Aragon. They could make a FORTUNE from shirts alone!
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Originally posted by bearman:They'd better be making money. Most shirts were $30 and there was something for $125 (the ls button-up in one of the Vegan pics). The merch table was definitely swamped every time I passed it.
Ummmm…so I guess there's hardly any merch left because people bought up everything at the other shows. WTF? They better print up some shit and have it shipped to them by the time they get to the Aragon. They could make a FORTUNE from shirts alone!
I read complaints that the vocals are not loud enough…what a bummer.
I'll agree that the vocals were low in the mix. But, I kinda went into it thinking that would be the case. I don't think that it took away from the overall experience all that much.
Do these people not realize what financial limbo America is in?
Originally posted by jd930:
Originally posted by bearman:They'd better be making money. Most shirts were $30 and there was something for $125 (the ls button-up in one of the Vegan pics). The merch table was definitely swamped every time I passed it.
Ummmm…so I guess there's hardly any merch left because people bought up everything at the other shows. WTF? They better print up some shit and have it shipped to them by the time they get to the Aragon. They could make a FORTUNE from shirts alone!
wow, the merch has a 25% markup from atp prices. i guess roseland(?) takes a large sum of the sales.
I sold my ticket to the Chicago show :( week ended up being a crazy week at work…working 16 hour days = fun (to be fair, I am making a video game so it sometimes IS fun)!!! ugh. pretty upset I can't go, hopefully they will come to the baltimore/dc area sometime!
Originally posted by bearman:They did Honey Power at the first show at the ICA but other than that, I think that's it.
Are they doing "Honey Power" any more? I love that song. I'm a little bummed not to hear "Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)" and "Several Girls Galore", but hey, I'm just happy to see them at all.
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:i certainly do. accordingly, i'm suspending all bboard pursuits and returning to my day job until i see this crisis through. i challenge all other bboardees to do the same.
Do these people not realize what financial limbo America is in?
Originally posted by azaghal1981:I'm glad you enjoyed the show, but it seems odd that a concertgoer would value a concert that "matched everything on the albums note for note."
The recordings I've heard and the show I saw last night matched everything on the albums note for note and with perfect clarity.
Let alone the fact that with MBV's massive sound it would seem to be hard to discern individual notes…
Yeah maybe "note for note" wasn't the best word choice. There were just things I could hear well much moreso than on those old recordings. The lead guitar lines in "When You Sleep" and "I Only Said," for example.
Edit: Just came across the monday NYT interview with Kevin, part of which pretty much reiterated what I posted above:
During the remastering the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California made a big offer for a reunited My Bloody Valentine. â??We could actually buy equipment and rehearse properly and do it really well,â? Mr. Shields said. â??That put the idea into our head. Last time we toured we never had equipment. It didnâ??t sound right. We didnâ??t have control of the environment. So we were kind of excited to play the songs properly.â?
Edit: Just came across the monday NYT interview with Kevin, part of which pretty much reiterated what I posted above:
During the remastering the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California made a big offer for a reunited My Bloody Valentine. â??We could actually buy equipment and rehearse properly and do it really well,â? Mr. Shields said. â??That put the idea into our head. Last time we toured we never had equipment. It didnâ??t sound right. We didnâ??t have control of the environment. So we were kind of excited to play the songs properly.â?
Ok, I wasn't trying to be snarky, I was just puzzled by your statement… note-for-note is what Britney does when she lipsynchs. :) Thanks for explaining.
ok, ended up going last night instead of monday…was pretty good…
i was really disappointed with the crowd though. most of them just stood there and didn't seem to be into the music at ALL. i mean come on. at least pretend to tap your foot or something. it ruined the first part of it.
i had my earplugs in and the sound wasn't as intense as i had wished so i took them out after the first few songs, and kept them out until about five minutes into you made me realise, of course…my trachea was uncontrollably vibrating. i just closed my eyes, breathed, and meditated. it was pretty sweet. when it ended i had this unexplainable feeling, like i had just been spiritually cleansed or something…it was a magical evening.
the brooklynvegan photos are fucking awful. don't look at them. look at mine. and look at brightest young things tomorrow, they will be up, + a review :)
http://flickr.com/photos/youbebetty/sets/72157607480533013/
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i was really disappointed with the crowd though. most of them just stood there and didn't seem to be into the music at ALL. i mean come on. at least pretend to tap your foot or something. it ruined the first part of it.
i had my earplugs in and the sound wasn't as intense as i had wished so i took them out after the first few songs, and kept them out until about five minutes into you made me realise, of course…my trachea was uncontrollably vibrating. i just closed my eyes, breathed, and meditated. it was pretty sweet. when it ended i had this unexplainable feeling, like i had just been spiritually cleansed or something…it was a magical evening.
the brooklynvegan photos are fucking awful. don't look at them. look at mine. and look at brightest young things tomorrow, they will be up, + a review :)
http://flickr.com/photos/youbebetty/sets/72157607480533013/
enjoy kittens
Originally posted by you be betty:I hate crowds like that, too, but it seems almost appropriate for MBV. That's why they called it shoegaze, right? Well, it was the performers who gazed at their shoes, but surely the '80 audiences were pretty subdued too.
i was really disappointed with the crowd though. most of them just stood there and didn't seem to be into the music at ALL. i mean come on. at least pretend to tap your foot or something. it ruined the first part of it.
80's audiences weren't subdued. Anyone remember "slam-dancing"? And from the whole late 80's/early 90's Brit-era, people went apeshit at concerts. One of the wildest events to this day I've ever seen was an Inspiral Carpets show back in 1991 at the Metro in Chicago. There was no opening band, and by the time they came out on stage, the audience was pretty antsy to begin with…and once they started to play it was like something out of a Black Flag show. People get thrown around, there was stage-diving, bouncers tackling guys…and a big part of it I think was how psychedelic the slide/light show was. It was like Willy Wonka on steroids. I'll never forget that night as long as I live. So yeah, I can kind of relate when an audience is lame, but sometimes it's nice to not have to worry about getting a Doc Marten boot in the head.
On further reading, I see you meant 80's MBV audiences. Good question…they probably weren't totally mellow, but not wild either. They were probably too far out their heads on E.
"i was really disappointed with the crowd though. most of them just stood there and didn't seem to be into the music at ALL. i mean come on. at least pretend to tap your foot or something. it ruined the first part of it."for the most part, that's how atp was for the first few songs but two pits on each side of the stage emerged and i managed to join in on the fun. but if their was one thing i noticed was how alot of the females in the crowd simply looked sorta pissed and bored. they were the ones usually walking away. at one point during the 3rd song or so, people kept cheering for vocals between songs and shields whispered into the mic that "you can't always get what you want" followed by some british dude in the front yelling "what the fuck do you want, karaoke?". well said.
but talking to the few audience members that i did afterwards, their was mixed reactions. one guy thought the show was great and better then the last time he saw them but was disappointed with the audience. he described how back in 91 or so, when they opened for dinosaur jr, the crowd went completely ape shit and the entire floor turned into a pit. a group of 17 year hated it and felt mogwai not only played better, but sounded better. the group i came acquainted with during the last three days loved it though.
and i completely agree with the spiritually cleansed feeling afterwards. i had my eyes closed nearly the entire time, just focusing on how textured the sound was and trying to find patterns within them. i've never heard something so loud, with such force, yet having such fidelity. during "do you realize", i held my hand in the air and i could literally feel how heavy the air was from the sound. very very intense. the show felt like 5 minutes for me. i have to find a way to see them again.
Shields said in that NYT interview that they paid 200k pounds for the equipment being used on this tour. Makes sense that they'd use their own PA; no standard concert venue PA could withstand such a beating.
Damn, that sounds awesome. I so wish I could see them. I should have got a ticket to the New York show, but I didn't really want to make the trip by myself. Chicago was really tempting too. I guess I'm just hoping beyond hope that this is just the beginning of some kind of MBV resurgence and that they'll eventually play the 9:30 Club. I'm worried that if they don't get a good audience reaction though that they'll just pack it in again. Any rumors of adding more dates to the tour or having a follow on tour?