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Post by Aristocrat on Jun 17, 2022 8:23:03 GMT 1
Me?
The last show I went to was the Still Corners. It was horseshit. A vocalist, a guitist (admittedly with great tone), a drummer. The keyboards and bass guitar were tracks. The bitch singer would stand at a keyboard pretending to play, but her fingers weren't consistent with the music. At times, she'd walk away from the keyboard, but the parts still played.
This is supposed to be a rock band. It's too bad. I really liked their last album. I closed my tab and left during the second song.
The Nobleman
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Post by *ech* on Jun 17, 2022 8:42:41 GMT 1
Yeah, I kind of dig what they do on records but I can't imagine it being all that exciting on stage. This backing tracks epidemic is really out of control.
A few years ago I saw The Mission (they were crap) and they had a drummer on stage who played a few fills here and there but mostly just remained motionless while the synth drum tracks played in the background... Very puzzling to watch.
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Post by Aristocrat on Jun 17, 2022 8:51:57 GMT 1
Yeah, I saw Cold Cave at a small bar in San Diego about 10 years ago, and it was just the Cold Cave dude with what was essentially a karaoke machine. He was singing karaoke to his own songs. Pretty funny, actually. It didn't annoy me because that music is electronic, and he owned it. Good way to keep overhead down and keep all the gig money.
The Cold Cave dude is an shrewd businessman.
The Nobleman
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Post by *ech* on Jun 18, 2022 9:10:30 GMT 1
Yeah, I saw Fad Gadget open for Depeche Mode twenty years ago in a huge arena, and it was the same thing: Frank Tovey singing dancing and singing to backing tracks. In front of 18000 people. It looked weird. But the funniest one was around 2015. Opening for Ariel Pink was weird dude called Harry Merry who sang (and played some keyboards) along to a CD. But when he came on stage with his Sony Discman to plug into the PA, the thing just fried. Different voltage maybe. Anyway, the PA shut down, smoke came out of his CD player and they had to scramble to find another device from which to play his backing tracks. That took 20 minutes. I have a few pics from the show, unfortunately none are from the pre-show debacle: electriceyephoto.blogspot.com/2015/03/harry-merry-trabendo-paris-march-2nd.html |
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Post by Aristocrat on Nov 5, 2023 20:30:48 GMT 1
Revisiting Still Corners being a horse shit band. Stick to the studio. Don't fake it on my stage.
Shame on Still Corners. Shame shame shame.
I'm taking this to the internet.
The Nobleman
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Post by Ron Burgunfeces on Nov 5, 2023 21:20:12 GMT 1
I played with an Avenged Sevenfold tribute band last night on the bill.
Skilled players, but a refrigerator sized case of gear that sent all their sounds to the PA. Not an amp in sight. All in ear monitors. And get this - The 2nd guitarist just had a baby, so he wasnt there and all his parts were on track. As well as a lot of lead/backing vox.
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Post by *ech* on Nov 6, 2023 15:15:39 GMT 1
Same thing when I saw Between The Buried And Me last March: one of the guitarists was absent (it has since transpired that he is accused of sexual misonduct, hence his quiet eviction) and all his parts were pre-recorded. It's definitely weird, but at least they're upfront about it and no one is up there pretending to play. But it does make you wonder what other tricks they could be trying to pull over the audience...
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