From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #61 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Monday, March 15 1999 Volume 02 : Number 061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Wire Politics [Craig Grannell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:42:19 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Grannell Subject: Re: Wire Politics > I can also find very little concrete evidence about why Robert left. I > personally believe that he was edged out in a manner that wasn't totally > accidental but who were the main culprits and why? > Despite the occasional sound loop experiment and Thorne's synths most of Wire's 70s output was made up of live playing, even if those live takes were overdubbed. In the 80s, and even more so in the 90s, there was a reliance / penchant for computer technology and sampling. Robert was only ever playing the drums on the live gigs. When the live output was built from samples / tapes etc, Robert became fairly redundant. Mind you, there have been some perfectly good examples of synth oriented bands playing with live drums. The last two Bowie albums had his drummer playing live, augmenting drum loops he'd programmed himself, and I'm sure Depeche Mode had live drumming a few years back. == - ---------------------------- Craig Grannell-------------- www: SNUB.COMMUNICATIONS - http://www.snub.dircon.co.uk Wireviews - http://www.snub.dircon.co.uk/wirehome.html - ---------------------------- cngrannell@yahoo.com ------- "Creativity is the highest civilising faculty - Ben Okri" - --------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #61 ******************************