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Reforming Bands
With the current trend of old bands getting back together.What band or bands would you like to get back together?
Mine would be Carter USM (circa 1990)
Mine would be Carter USM (circa 1990)
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I'm really not a fan of bands reforming because they - and we - have all moved on.
As John Lennon memorably said when asked why he would bever want to re-form The Beatles - "It wouldn't be The Beatles, it'd be four guys who used to be The Beatles ..." and that is exactly it.
Note to Axl Rose - give it up, you're an embarassment.
As John Lennon memorably said when asked why he would bever want to re-form The Beatles - "It wouldn't be The Beatles, it'd be four guys who used to be The Beatles ..." and that is exactly it.
Note to Axl Rose - give it up, you're an embarassment.
I sometimes think the Floyd, and was hoping after Live Aid they would.
But then I thought here are 4 guys who are now extremely wealthy off the back of writing music containing social commentary.
'For want of the price, of tea and a slice, the old man died' wouldn't quite sound the same coming from an outfit who now drive around in Ferraris.
But then I thought here are 4 guys who are now extremely wealthy off the back of writing music containing social commentary.
'For want of the price, of tea and a slice, the old man died' wouldn't quite sound the same coming from an outfit who now drive around in Ferraris.
I disagree BigDogsWang - i don't think a musician's bank balance dilutes his artistic expression, or his views on the world in general, and war in particular. Roger Waters' work is hugely infomed by the death of his father, and has been since his earliest writing - unchanged by the success, and probably demise of Pink Floyd.
The general view is that Waters is the sticking point in the reformation, but in fact it is David Gilmour who has said that he has no interest in working with Pink Floyd again.
Tragic - but his choice.
The general view is that Waters is the sticking point in the reformation, but in fact it is David Gilmour who has said that he has no interest in working with Pink Floyd again.
Tragic - but his choice.
Andy. Most of the �artistic views of the world in general� are protest songs about the �me, me, me� element of human greed / avarice.
Surely it is hypocritical for an artist / band to later reform and write lyrics about such things, when then themselves became exactly what they protested against in the first place?
Much as I love their music, you cannot possibly agree that it is tasteful to write lyrics of a similar nature when your Drummer has a collection of cars worth the debt of a small country.
Surely it is hypocritical for an artist / band to later reform and write lyrics about such things, when then themselves became exactly what they protested against in the first place?
Much as I love their music, you cannot possibly agree that it is tasteful to write lyrics of a similar nature when your Drummer has a collection of cars worth the debt of a small country.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this issue BDW.
I see that there is a massive irony in protesting about war and poverty as a multi-millionaire musician, but to have it any other way means establishing some arbitrary cutoff point, a level of success beyond which a view about the world is deemed irrelvavent by virtue of a level of fiancial comfort and security. This surely cannot be right? John Lennon was already obscenely wealthy when he wrote and sang 'Working Class Hero' - is its validity as a message, and the power with which he delivered it any less because of that? I don't think so.
A social concience is an attitude of mind, and it is not diluted by success, money, or indeed lack of either. Humanity doesn't recognise pound signs. And amen to that.
I see that there is a massive irony in protesting about war and poverty as a multi-millionaire musician, but to have it any other way means establishing some arbitrary cutoff point, a level of success beyond which a view about the world is deemed irrelvavent by virtue of a level of fiancial comfort and security. This surely cannot be right? John Lennon was already obscenely wealthy when he wrote and sang 'Working Class Hero' - is its validity as a message, and the power with which he delivered it any less because of that? I don't think so.
A social concience is an attitude of mind, and it is not diluted by success, money, or indeed lack of either. Humanity doesn't recognise pound signs. And amen to that.
answer to the question is Stone Roses for me.
I saw Roger Waters this year and it was amazing his voice much better than it was at Live 8 - but I dont really want a lecture by him on his view on the war or poverty or anything else to be honest when I go to a gig - it was a bit too much he is entitled to his view but dont labour it sing a f**king song! I dont think a bank balance should stop people writing about what they want but I suppose at a certain stage of success and money the rawness hunger and passion goes out of the writing and it can get lazy or the same -Gilmours last album was nothing new
I saw Roger Waters this year and it was amazing his voice much better than it was at Live 8 - but I dont really want a lecture by him on his view on the war or poverty or anything else to be honest when I go to a gig - it was a bit too much he is entitled to his view but dont labour it sing a f**king song! I dont think a bank balance should stop people writing about what they want but I suppose at a certain stage of success and money the rawness hunger and passion goes out of the writing and it can get lazy or the same -Gilmours last album was nothing new
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