From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #571 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Saturday, December 3 2005 Volume 04 : Number 571 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:20:27 -0500 From: Brian Andersen Subject: Re: seven-seas: paradiso amsterdam Well my opinion still stands of Paradiso and I thought Life at Brian's was awful too. I guess Mac can't always have great nights but I feel like he a has become more inconsistent recently. If they came to my town or an hour or so away, I would be there no matter what but if I have to drive over 4 hours to see them and make arrangements around that kind of trip I think I'll just sit out based on what I have heard so far. On 12/3/05, Steve Griffiths wrote: > LIfe at Brian's version of 'Silver' - now he really was out of tune and honking too! > SG. > > > Shaz wrote: > Actually, if you listen to some of the live gigs from the eighties > Mac's vocals are awful (out of tune more than lacking in > power) I think he sings more in tune these days even if the power is lost a > bit sometimes. > > --------------------------------- > How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos > > > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > * > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > * > http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 > * > > ====================================================================== > > - -- - -Brian Andersen bandersen65@gmail.com ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:27:21 -0500 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas: paradiso amsterdam At 10:20 AM 12/3/05, you wrote: >If they came to my >town or an hour or so away, I would be there no matter what but if I >have to drive over 4 hours to see them and make arrangements around >that kind of trip I think I'll just sit out based on what I have heard >so far. I just put over 800 miles on my car to see 3 shows....... and I felt they were worth it! :-) The sound at the DC venue wasn't too terrific, Mac was a bit distorted, but you could tell the band was solid and performing well!! NYC and Philly were both stonking shows too! Red ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:41:32 -0000 From: "jswee" Subject: seven-seas Bunnymen gigs & some good CDs O/T Hi, I have just bought the Devlin's new album "Waves" which is excellent. I have also bought the "Thin Lizzy" greatest hits which was a bargain (#9.99). I love the song "Whisky in the Jar" it's riff is amazing, I know it's an old Irish song but I quite like the tracks which are a mixture of rock & Irish folk. I didn't enjoy "Electricfixation" at the Citadel in Warrington because the acoustics weren't great there & we were quite close to the speakers. I'm not sure if the material was as good as "Echo & the Bunnymen". I did enjoy the gig at the Royal Court during the "Evergreen" tour although Macs voice appeared a little shaky at times, I think he was nervous. The old video tapes such as Live at the Royal Albert Hall & "Crystal Days" and live in Buxton Derbyshire look absolutely brilliant. I wish I'd seen them live then ! I love it when groups do things that appear impromptu with the lyrics or alter the song. I saw U2 live at Roundhay Park years ago & was in the pit at the front. I really enjoyed the experience but like more intimate venues & I like U2 but I'm not as fanatical as some other fans. Primal Scream were good live when I saw them at the Royal Court in 1994. I think it depends on the night you see a band! An open mic night can sometimes be just as entertaining if you hear someone with a great voice or listen to great lyrics. Jon Sweeney. ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 08:18:50 +1300 From: "Kristin Smith" Subject: seven-seas themacweekly.com (Minneapolis) http://www.themacweekly.com/article.php?arid=145 The Student Newspaper of Macalester College Since 1914 Echo and the Bunnymen: Dead Comfy Geoffrey Stueven Contributing Writer And judging from certain testimony, they always have. Jack Rabid, editor of The Big Take Over, calls them, apart from a few punk and hardcore acts, "the greatest live band of the past 20 years." Echo and the Bunnymen were from a school of dark and brooding English bands in the early '80s, consistently outselling contemporaries like The Chameleons, The Sound, and The Teardrop Explodes. In the U.S., they played sold-out shows at major venues like Radio City Music Hall thanks to their word-of-mouth reputation. Along the way, they recorded a few classics, ranging from the gloomy, 1981's Heaven Up Here, to the orchestral, 1984's Ocean Rain. Today, only half of the original band remains, and these two founding members were the stars of Saturday's show. The four newer members were hidden on the far right of the stage or behind layers of smoke, while Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant were right out front. Guitarist Sergeant was a silent machine-wielding god on the left, nailing some of the band's greatest guitar lines in songs like "The Cutter" and "Over the Wall." He's no longer a young man, but with jacket collar zipped to his chin and hair dangling in front of his face, he cut a striking figure. Meanwhile, McCulloch was a major presence, having had a quarter century to perfect his stage persona. With Bob Dylan sunglasses and morning hair, right hand perpetually resting on the microphone and holding a cigarette, he was the perfectly aloof too-cool-for-school frontman. His voice is now more of a Lou Reed croak than a Jim Morrison baritone, and impeccable covers of "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Roadhouse Blues" proved his reverence for both singers. The band has always owed more to The Doors' brand of psychedelia and The Velvet Underground's discordant rock 'n' roll energy than the '70s punk scene from which they sprang. When not singing, McCulloch sports a thick Liverpudlian accent that makes all stage banter indecipherable. The band's classic '80s songs dominated over material from the recently released Siberia. Good as the new songs are, it was clear what the fans came for. It's sad really, but at least they're not The Rolling Stones. Early on came "Show of Strength," which was exactly the song I was dying to hear, delivered in an unexpectedly lumbering form. They recovered however with poppier numbers like "Bring on the Dancing Horses" and the majestic "Ocean Rain." The real highlight was the moment when a room full of middle-aged rockers and myself began singing along to "The Killing Moon," a song that no lonely, sensitive teenager gets through high school without. And when McCulloch sung, "I want a song to learn and sing," during Siberia's "Of a Life," he conjured a time when all of the band's songs were exactly that. As for opening act Innaway, they play a meaty space rock with plenty of shimmering guitars and soaring vocals for the lonely concertgoer. While not particularly engaging, they proved themselves a worthy warm-up to a legendary band, if a bit awkward onstage. Which reminds me: When I referred to Echo and the Bunnymen as "dark" earlier, I believe I misspoke. In the words of McCulloch, "I never thought we were dark, I thought we were dead comfy." That's perhaps the most accurate way to describe my Saturday night: dead comfy. ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #571 ********************************