Rock the Bells 2011: A Backpackers Dream!

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  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    djkingotto said:
    Herm said:

    On a somewhat related now, Earth Wind & Fire is playing the local casino this week. It's walking distance from my house. Should I go?

    yes. though i've never been to casino shows... how bad can they be?

    does maurice white perform with the group anymore?

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    crabmongerfunk said:
    djkingotto said:
    Herm said:

    On a somewhat related now, Earth Wind & Fire is playing the local casino this week. It's walking distance from my house. Should I go?

    yes. though i've never been to casino shows... how bad can they be?

    does maurice white perform with the group anymore?

    i dont think so

  • AndreBretonAndreBreton 344 Posts
    This is like the 80's kids that got into that reto hippy shit back in 87.

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    these "artist X performing X in its entirety"

    for the fans: kinda cool.

    for the artists: I'd be embarrassed to do it. it amounts to an admission that they haven't produced anything worth hearing since this one album (usually their first or 2nd) came out. kinda sad IMO.

  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    It's really shocking (to me, anyway) how far this past-their-prime artist does classic album in its entirely thing has come... it sounds mad fucking robotic to me, I've never seen one of these shows and have no desire to (even for an record that I love).

    I have seen past-their-prime artists do sets of varied (mostly popular) material and loved it though, so the distinction may be arbitrary.

  • i just saw Rae like a month ago. he did most of the show playing cuban linx almost in its entirety and some wu classics, doing a lot of other dudes verses, too.

    all i can say is i was waiting in line for the bathroom right next to the stage so i was looking at dude directly from the side..... his stamina is pretty impressive/surprising!

  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    bull_ox said:
    It's really shocking (to me, anyway) how far this past-their-prime artist does classic album in its entirely thing has come... it sounds mad fucking robotic to me, I've never seen one of these shows and have no desire to (even for a record that I love).

    I have seen past-their-prime artists do sets of varied (mostly popular) material and loved it though, so the distinction may be arbitrary.

  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
    vintageinfants said:
    batmon said:
    DB_Cooper said:
    batmon said:
    Ive never seen a bangin Hip Hop arena show.

    My best EXPs are in medium to small venues. Ballrooms, High school gyms and shit.

    Has anyone seen a great live show with a large ass outdoor 'woodstock' type crowd?

    I saw Soundgarden and Metallica kill it one year at Lollapalooza. Unless you meant hip hop acts. Can't say I've seen that.

    I meant Hip Hop

    beastie boys.............. MAYBE.

    He meant Hip Hop........Boom.....Tish.

    That line up makes me feel really old. And depressed.

  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    rootlesscosmo said:
    these "artist X performing X in its entirety"

    for the fans: kinda cool.

    for the artists: I'd be embarrassed to do it. it amounts to an admission that they haven't produced anything worth hearing since this one album (usually their first or 2nd) came out. kinda sad IMO.

    I don't entirely agree with your second point. Acknowledging a widely-accepted creative high-water mark shouldn't automatically constitute an admission that you're artistically barren. I'm sure there are plenty of performers of all stripes who say "Our new stuff is the best we've ever done", and who genuinely mean it. Besides, even if you are over the hill, who can say there's nothing to be gained from revisiting your finest hour now and again?

    Obviously, indie/rock acts have been doing this sort of thing for a minute now, and there's at least one fascinating aspect to these "play the whole album" shows, in that, quite often, some of these songs won't ever have been performed live before. In performance terms, hip-hop is a somewhat different discipline, so it'd be interesting to see what kind of approach some of these acts would take to presenting this shit - just rhyming over the original record (not even the instrumentals)? Re-creating it with a full band? Pressing up instrumentals for each track and doing it two-turntables-and-a-microphone style? Those possibilities alone are enough to make it a worthwhile enterprise.

  • BurnsBurns 2,227 Posts
    I've seen the whole Liquid Swords thing two years ago at the Forecastle festival here in Louisville. It was a bunch of white
    kids cheering for a black dude. There was no black folk to be found in the crowd, they no better. When I saw Wu-Tang
    they to played to a bunch of white kids, no black folk to be found in the venue either. Too much screamin' and yellin' on
    stage at a Wu concert. It was sweet though hearing the Liquid Swords skits and intros, I could had done away with
    the vocals during the live performance if you ask me.

    I saw S.O.S Band and The Dazz band two weeks ago for free outside. There I was the minority and with people
    who wanted to get down. I'll take that anyday.

  • bluesnagbluesnag 1,285 Posts
    DB_Cooper said:
    batmon said:
    Ive never seen a bangin Hip Hop arena show.

    My best EXPs are in medium to small venues. Ballrooms, High school gyms and shit.

    Has anyone seen a great live show with a large ass outdoor 'woodstock' type crowd?

    I saw Soundgarden and Metallica kill it one year at Lollapalooza. Unless you meant hip hop acts. Can't say I've seen that.

    Beastie Boys killed it at Lollapalooza '94.

  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts
    I saw the Roots at a massive rave once. It wasn't outdoor but was a huge crowd (thousands). I remember it being banging but I was frying balls so my recollection is a bit scrambled. I recall J-5 rocking a huge crowd at a rave once as well. I don't know that I'd count a rave as a hip hop show but these were hip hop acts rocking arena size spaces.

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    DocMcCoy said:
    rootlesscosmo said:
    these "artist X performing X in its entirety"

    for the fans: kinda cool.

    for the artists: I'd be embarrassed to do it. it amounts to an admission that they haven't produced anything worth hearing since this one album (usually their first or 2nd) came out. kinda sad IMO.

    I don't entirely agree with your second point. Acknowledging a widely-accepted creative high-water mark shouldn't automatically constitute an admission that you're artistically barren. I'm sure there are plenty of performers of all stripes who say "Our new stuff is the best we've ever done", and who genuinely mean it. Besides, even if you are over the hill, who can say there's nothing to be gained from revisiting your finest hour now and again?

    it was my understanding that Gza basically did a liqud swords "tour" wherein he played the whole album every night at each date. this is not a matter of "revisiting your finest hour now and again."

  • cookbookcookbook 783 Posts
    Burns said:

    I saw S.O.S Band and The Dazz band two weeks ago for free outside. There I was the minority and with people
    who wanted to get down. I'll take that anyday.

    i figured that show got rained out. :icegrill:

  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    It's sad [to me (and boring)] any time I see a musical performer do a predetermined set list that they repeat every night.

    At least when I saw Muddy Waters in his last years he was working with out a set list.
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