The instruments are obviously miming, but the lead vocal is live. Note that Mick makes a mistake at 1:16, repeating "same old" when the taped backing vocal is saying "story." Love the face he makes shortly before that.
The instruments are obviously miming, but the lead vocal is live. Note that Mick makes a mistake at 1:16, repeating "same old" when the taped backing vocal is saying "story." Love the face he makes shortly before that.
Yeah, the so called "aroused dog" model. But I don't think it was until the mid 70's that they really became commonplace, and I suspect it took even longer to get them to actually sound good. I remember Dave Murray saying he didn't use a wireless system in the 80's because it didn't sound as good as using a conventional guitar cord (or a "lead" as they call them in the UK) and besides which he didn't move around that much onstage anyway.
Hey, maybe that's one of the reasons Bob Weir had such a shitty guitar tone during the 80's, because he was always running a wireless system onstage!
In the book on James Jamerson, there is a photo of him playing a club in '65 (IIRC) where he had a wireless device.
Taal had their two drummers facing each other centre stage and all the other musicians played around them
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
What about Bruford? Wasn't he up front onstage? I can't really remember too well, but I seem to remember there never being anyone in front of him.
I kind of like the Transatlantic layout. I used that a couple of decades ago, on stages that weren't very deep. Drums on one side, keys on the other, with the bassist and I in the middle. Upon viewing the tapes from those performances, I discovered I kind of liked the look. Our keyboardist sat, so there was a balance in the look, with the two guys sitting surrounded by hardware on either side, and two guys standing in the middle. Plus, no one covered up any other player; everyone looked more equal, somehow. It would've been nice to have risers for drums and keys, but we weren't that big...
Gnish-gnosh borble wiff, shlauuffin oople tirk.
I could swear when I saw UK that it was Jobson, Bruford, Wetton and Holdsworth from L-R across the stage at the front all at about the same distance from the edge, and Holdsworth would often step back and off to the side into the shadows.
How is Rick Allen "the star"? Because he only has one arm? You know they use drum machines on the records, right? And most of the "heavy lifting" in live performance is being done by the loops he triggers with his left foot. I'd have been more impressed if he had kept drumming with an acoustic drum kit.
Don't Tool line up with Maynard singing from an upper level and Danny on the lower level?
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Re: Rick Allen
I guess because of his high profile, technology assisted, return to the drum riser after losing an arm in an accident, it somehow made him "the star" of the band. I remember back during the Hysteria tour, seeing a thing on MTV where Joe Elliott (the singer) was taking the camera crew on a "tour" of the band's stage, when he gets to the drum riser, he mentions Rick's electronic drumkit and says something like "So much has been said about that already, I'll forgo explaining it to you any further". Hence, I guess somehow Rick became "the star" of the band or whatever.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I believe Jerry Marotta was up front on one of the sides, facing Gabriel during the Security tour. Then again, that could have been only at the venue I saw.
"I want to be someone, who someone would want to be." Marillion
Cowboy Mouth
The singer is also the drummer...
Not Prog.
sure, not prog but a helluva lotta fun in conert
Your post was kinda harsh, don't you think. Have respect for the handicapped. Only Hysteria has some programmed drum assistance, because Rick was still learning how to use his new kit. Everything else after was totally Rick. He did start using an acoustic kit in '96, but still with the device that stores the sounds that Rick can't play with his missing arm(he triggers those via a foot pedal).
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