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beergeek
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 Posted - 05/02/2004 : 00:44:33
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It was a good show, as expected, much like the warm up dates.
Set:
Bone Machine
U-Mass
Isla De Encanta
Wave of Mutalation (fast)
Broken Face
Cactus
Caribou
No. 13 Baby
Gouge Away
Tame
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Debaser
Velouria
Hey
Gigantic (played and sung perfectly)
(Joe says Hi to the crowd)
Nimrod's Son (fast/slow version)
Here Comes Your Man
Vamos
In Heaven -> Where Is My Mind?
Into The White
No special guests or surprises during the Pixies or Radiohead sets. |
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roomloo
= Cult of Ray =
USA
710 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2004 : 00:47:09
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I got home tonight to find "Isla de Encanta" on my answering machine from a Boston friend who I had no idea was even at Coachella. Made my whole night.
Can't wait to hear the DiscLive! |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2004 : 07:29:42
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Are you and mule the same person? It is weird that these two posts are almost exactly the same. The hell?
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <
South Sandwich Islands
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Posted - 05/02/2004 : 07:42:32
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ProverbialCereal
- FB TabMaster -
USA
2953 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2004 : 10:03:58
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So how was the crowd response to the Pixies?
And does the disclive recording sound any different? Since it doesn't have the same acoustics as an indoor show.
Did any other bands give shout outs to the Pixies playing?
These things we need to know.
Just quit a cult / going through withdrawal |
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Kozaru
- FB Fan -
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2004 : 10:16:27
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Originally posted by ProverbialCereal
Did any other bands give shout outs to the Pixies playing?
These things we need to know.
Just quit a cult / going through withdrawal
Sparta played before them, the singer mentioned how Doolittle changed his life 15 years ago and he said if someone told him then that he would be opening for the Pixies he wouldn't have belived it. |
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noexx
= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 05/02/2004 : 10:38:56
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| the show was definitely a lot more fun than the usual festival type stuff. i almost stayed home but instead i made the drive and it was worth it. |
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Kozaru
- FB Fan -
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2004 : 10:45:43
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It seemed like it took FOREVER for them to take the stage, everybody surged forward. We weren’t TOO far back. A few people came from the front and said it was “WAY too packed up there”. After the sound-check Frank asked everybody to stop doing the “squishy pushy” thing so they can start the show.
All in all it was a good show. I think Frank’s show with the Catholics at the Belly-Up Tavern was a little bit ‘tighter’. The Coachella show has a lot more production involved, so it was definitely more polished. As you can see from the playlist, Kim got to do quite a few songs, Gigantic came out particularly well.
The high-distortion solo on Vamos was a trip. I never knew how Joey did it, he played it pretty much just like the album version it seemed. He cranked the guitar up and just set it down, then went to the pedals and did everything with the pedals with the guitar just feeding back. After messing with the pedals David throws him a drumstick and he ran it up and down the neck, you could see sawdust from the stick on the monitor. Pretty cool.
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winnipegwantsfrank
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Posted - 05/02/2004 : 11:32:10
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woodworm
- FB Fan -
USA
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 07:28:29
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we need more info on this show....
please someone, fill us in, for those of us who werent lucky enough to go
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Meatpants
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 07:41:58
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From the NY Times:
Pixie Worship at a Hipster Gathering
By JON PARELES
INDIO, Calif., May 2 — Pity the bands that shared their Saturday-evening time slot with the reunited Pixies at the fifth annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival here. It seemed that the Pixies were the only band that everyone wanted to see among the 45 rock bands, hip-hop groups and D.J.'s on the festival's four stages on Saturday.
Radiohead, the million-selling band that was the festival's nominal headliner for the festival's first day, drew its own packed crowd when it followed the Pixies on the festival's main stage and played a magnificently baleful set. But even Thom Yorke, Radiohead's lead singer, was thrilled by the Pixies reunion. "When I was in school, the Pixies and R.E.M. changed my life," he said during Radiohead's encores. A long-running band that has been dormant lately, the Cure, was Sunday's headliner; the festival's 50,000 tickets were sold out for both days.
Coachella has earned its reputation as the hipster's rock festival. Its lineup brings together the pride of college radio: a few million-sellers along with dozens of acts that have, or deserve, dedicated cult followings. It embraces Latin alternative rock and underground hip-hop along with rock; it also had far more female performers than most rock festivals manage to book.
Saturday's program included a greatest-hits set from the pioneering and famously impassive German synthesizer band Kraftwerk (which has quietly updated oldies like "Autobahn" with newer beats and technology); gorgeous reveries from the Argentine songwriter Juana Molina and from Savath & Savalas; earnest, surging, self-help rock from the Texas band Sparta, including a song denouncing President Bush and "illegal war" in Iraq; tightly wound confessionals from Death Cab for Cutie; clever braggadocio from the Hieroglyphics hip-hop alliance; and punk-funk revivalism from the Rapture, Moving Units and Erase Errata.
But the day belonged to the Pixies. In an hourlong set that charged through nearly two dozen songs, they were anything but a nostalgia act. Once again they were taking on death and love, derangement and destiny. At Coachella, in songs that dated back more than a decade, the Pixies were simultaneously desolate and hilarious, savage and absurd, sardonic and wounded. Along the way they made most of the day's other music sound one-dimensional.
Backstage, the band's leader, Frank Black, who was born Charles Thompson and called himself Black Francis when he started the band, said the reunion was instigated when he joked about it and was taken seriously. Apparently he hadn't realized how many people had cherished the Pixies. Formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992 after making five albums that were far more popular in Europe than in the United States, the Pixies taught alternative rock a trick that Nirvana would carry to a mass audience: follow a quiet verse with a loud chorus. But there was more to the Pixies than their dynamics. Frank Black latched on to familiar styles — surf-rock, folk-rock, garage-rock, punk, metal — and then knocked their structures thoroughly askew, abetted by the band.
The members of the Pixies are balder and portlier than they were a decade ago, and they had little stagecraft beyond a winged P on David Lovering's bass drum. It didn't matter a bit. Onstage, as on the Pixies' albums, Joey Santiago's lead guitar traded heroics for hysteria, with wriggling, sliding notes or cheeky dissonances, Kim Deal's bass tugged at the songs from below, and Mr. Lovering's drumming could be full and brawny or suddenly drop away, leaving skeletal bits of cymbal. Pixies' songs can't be done by rote. They need Frank Black to get all worked up: whooping, cackling, snarling and sometimes yearning with true affection. The gleeful noise never hid a troubled soul. The reunion will continue; the Pixies are booked for New York at the Lollapalooza Festival on Aug. 17 at Randalls Island.
The Pixies had their first life before alternative rock was thoroughly commodified and bands decided they had to stick to one attitude. Somehow many rock bands lost faith that their audiences could handle mixed messages. Recently hip-hop has been more likely to mingle manifestoes, humor and come-ons, though lately underground hip-hop has started to develop its own inevitable formulas.
A few bands on Saturday were willing to scramble things. The Desert Sessions, a dozen musicians convened by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, knocked around blues and punk, jokes and love songs; Kinky, from Mexico, did border-hopping dance-music hybrids; and there was a fierce, grandly cantankerous set from . . . and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. The Pixies reunion doesn't need to spawn imitators, but maybe it will remind rockers of the joys of inconsistency.
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mereubu
= FB QuizMistress =
USA
2677 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2004 : 07:45:30
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Oh, thank you!
 "Join the Cult of Derek/Lest you incur his Tubbycizing wrath" |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 09:34:02
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| i'm still recovering, and i'm busy with work. i'll chime in when i get a chance |
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morgan
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USA
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 11:30:49
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| I went. Pixies were great - but the performance and sound was better at the 2nd show in Eugene. As for the festival... I had a 2-Day Pass but only went on Saturday. I'm too old to be camping out in the heat and waiting in hour-long lines for food in triple digit weather....not to mention that the rave tent completely drownded out the Beck set. I will not do another big festival - but... Pixies were great! |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 12:56:45
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i'll never go to another large festival again either. i said that last time i went to one (Coachella), but made an exception for the Pixies. it would be hard to get me to go to another one.
don't get me wrong, it was worth going.. but only by a few percentiles. i had a good time seeing friends and seeing the Pixies set, but other than that it was pretty undesirable. i'm not a fan of standing in 110 degree heat smashed in between tens of thousands of kids like a piece of cattle.
i would feel that way anyway, but after seeing the Glass House set, nothing could possibly be more opposite. i didn't want to rub it in to my friends about the Glass House show, and how it was 1000 times better, so i just kept the secret inside.
it's just not my cup of tea seeing a band in those circumstances. at clubs, i can always manage to maneuver my way up to the front.. or to a decent spot, if i want to. in this situation it's hopeless. it's just a wall of people. we had a decent position, relatively speaking. but i could still hardly see, and found myself watching them on the moniters most of the time (they were filming the show and showing it at the same time. editing on the fly).
it did sound great though.. they have an excellent sound set up going there. that i will say..
the crowd was totally into it and, if anything, it was amazing to experience a Pixies show in such surreal circumstances. with that many people.
one girl fainted near me and this guy carried her out during the show. a model human.. missing the Pixies to save someone's life.
for me, i would have been conflicted.
just kidding.
but yeah.. after Pixies ended people rushed the front even more.. and we were insanely smooshed. and, realizing that we were going to be that way for the next 2 hours or so (for set-up of Radiohead, plus the show) we said fuck it and went to the beer garden. when we were sitting on the grass in the shade, sipping cold frosty Amstels from a plastic cup, we all agreed that situation was 10,000 time better than the one we had just gotten out of.
when Radiohead came on we went to check it out.. and even on the outskirts of the crowd, i'd say we were a quarter of a mile (or more) away from the stage. it's just too many people.
and i agree that booking Beck in a small tent was a debacle. bad idea jeans.
the band Jr. Sr. was entertaining. other highlights were Sahara Hotnights and Stellestarr (both featuring serious babes)..
low point: Death Cab For Cutie. i was forced to endure their set because my friends, like many, are inexplicably fond of this band. i sat there gritting my teeth and fighting off the impluse to heave my full 12oz. water at the lead singers head. |
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ProverbialCereal
- FB TabMaster -
USA
2953 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2004 : 14:06:41
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Does the lead singer of Death Cab have one of those voices? You know, one of those voices.
Just quit a cult / going through withdrawal |
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beergeek
- FB Fan -
USA
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 14:24:05
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The crowd on the DiscLive discs seems really sedate. I was way way back (didn't want to fight the crowd / heat) and the crowd was going nuts. The crowd sounds canned on the discs. maybe they couldn't set up their mics very close to the crowd??? Dissappointed in this disc set.
I too am done with festivals in 100 degree heat! Though the crowd was great, the heat was too much for this fat ass.
Also, Thom Yorke dedicated Creep to the Pixies. Said the R.E.M. and the Pixies changed his life in college.
And no, I'm not the same person as mule, I don't think. |
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beergeek
- FB Fan -
USA
81 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2004 : 14:27:18
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Forgot to mention. The local paper mentions that Rolling Stone is going to name this Coachella as one of the 50 greatest moments in rock history.
Not all because of the Pixies - - but I'm sure that has lots to do with it.
Cheers |
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darkoutsider
= Cult of Ray =
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2004 : 16:20:32
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Originally posted by beergeek
It was a good show, as expected, much like the warm up dates.
Set:
Bone Machine
U-Mass
Isla De Encanta
Wave of Mutalation (fast)
Broken Face
Cactus
Caribou
No. 13 Baby
Gouge Away
Tame
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Debaser
Velouria
Hey
Gigantic (played and sung perfectly)
(Joe says Hi to the crowd)
Nimrod's Son (fast/slow version)
Here Comes Your Man
Vamos
In Heaven -> Where Is My Mind?
Into The White
No special guests or surprises during the Pixies or Radiohead sets.
What are you talkin about no special guests? Jack Black and Andy Dick were there, they came out for a while and talked to check them out under and then went backstage. I snapped a pic of them on their way out, but I only got the back of Andy Dick's head. Amazing show though. They got the loudest ovation I've ever heard. Everyone was facing the stage waiting for The Pixies to come out. I feel sorry for the other bands playing at the same time, they probably only had 2 people watchin. I can't wait to get my DiscLive CD.
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ProverbialCereal
- FB TabMaster -
USA
2953 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2004 : 16:55:32
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If I was in one of the other bands playing at the same time, I'd seriously consider quitting just to watch the Pixies play.
Then after I saw them I'd reunite with my band.
Just quit a cult / going through withdrawal |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 16:58:58
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i would have liked to have seen Stereolab, but they were playing at the same time.
during Radiohead we checked out some of the other stages. sad sad turnouts. there was some Brazilian band at one of the stages that literally only had about 20 people watching. |
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 05/04/2004 : 09:02:27
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again...wanted to bump this one too.
Pics anyone?
"So many words, so many ideas. You can sing about anything."
-Frank Black, 1993 |
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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porkbone1
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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desaab
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Posted - 05/04/2004 : 21:07:39
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The Pixies show was fantastic.... I had been waiting for this moment for 10+ year and this show was all above my dream expectation. The sound was powerful, you could hear all instruments perfectly (was right in the middle by the mixing desk....), FB voice was amazing, but above all you could feel the Pixies (and specially FB) gave all they could into the set, packing 20 songs in 60'...full speed, huge sound, great crowd.. with the emotion of the reunion (I will say resurection !).... a new benchmark has been set !
I would have never dreamt it could be that good, but it was! I did not even care that they did not play some of my favorite (river, brick, holiday etc...)
Over the past 10 years, I have seen so many shows... all the greatest US/UK bands of the 90s... and though the Pixies are my all time favorite band...I could never imagine the best performance I'd ever seen would be in a 50000 festival btw 7 and 8, pixies or not !
but never say never.....
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
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Posted - 05/05/2004 : 14:09:55
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well the Mogwai boys were also impressed by the Pixies gig - this was posted on their frontpage of their official site (www.mogwai.co.uk)
We're back from California and I am still in awe of the Pixies gig. I cannot stress how good it was. There's even embarrasing telephone-camera footage of me commenting on how legendary it was, during the gig. Yes, I was in some nick. Ashamed, I am not. I do believe we commented on how fantastic Radiohead's light show was also, quite a spectacle. Honestly.
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formeremployee
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USA
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Posted - 05/05/2004 : 20:04:23
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I agree, the coachella show was just fantastic. I really thought my experience would be the opposite of what it was (I was looking forward to an amazing intimate set for the warm-up tour, and a so-so festival follow-up), but the festival show was definitely the highlight. It just seemed like proof that the "warm-up" tour really was a warm up, and that they've probably been looking ahead at the dates from Coachella and beyond as the important ones, without full concentration on the warm-up dates. I could be wrong here, but that's just how I perceive it.
As opposed to Kozaru's comment, I was surprised when they actually came out early, about 5 minutes early (in contrast to the flaming lips nearly half hour late set). It was Radiohead's set that seemed to take forever to come on afterwards. I agree with desaab, the sound was fantastic. It was more present, clear and rich than the sound I heard at davis (and especially the disclive recordings I've heard, which lack a lot of bass).
The Pixes pretty well ripped straight through the set. They looked comfortable and ready. Joey didn't look extremely nervous and self counscious as he had in davis, and frank didn't glance disapprovingly every time kim made a mistake. Any mistakes that were made weren't obvious as they covered them up well and played straight through. And Frank was putting more into his vocals than I've heard yet on this tour. I'm looking forward to hearing the disclive cd to compare: was this the best show by far? Or was it just the excitement of the festival skewing my opinion? Who knows.
As for the rest of the festival, good times all around. Saturday I didn't bother with Beck because the crowd streched so far that you couldn't see him and could barely hear him. Junior Senior was a little too happy for my tastes. Death cab for Cutie was as lackluster as I've seen them before (I like them enough because I think they always ALMOST have it, but never really do. It's a tease). Sparta was decent, but I'm not familiar with their newer material, and I can't help but place them as the nice-guys-runner-ups to their annoying-but-amazing ex-mates Mars Volta. Radiohead was fine, but it was the same set and show as I saw on their last tour, so that combined with near heat-exhaustion tempered the excitement (mind you, radiohead is one of my favorite all time bands). I don't know Kraftwerk despite all the kudos I hear, and missed them simply because I thought they were on at the same time as Radiohead, which was not true. Bummer.
Day two had me even more exhausted from a second night with no sleep, so I took it easy and checked out short chunks of muse (sounded promising), thurday (not nice at all), belle & sebastian (so nice, you could bring the whole family), and bright eyes (I liked what I heard, but they made a mistake in choosing a solo guitar ballad to finish up with as everyone's attention veered to the more prominent AIR show starting up on the main stage). I wanted to check out more, but traffic made me miss the stuff I was most interested in, and I had to cater to my girlfriend's desire to check out merch booths during other parts of the day. In the evening we checked out AIR (I don't know them, but it sounded fantastic for a genre I'm not really into), the first 30 minutes of Flaming Lips (totally disappointing, but a miracle in disguise because...), then off to the Mogwai tent, where they performed an absolutely amazing set. Ended off with the Cure, which was a complete disappointment. The sound was awful from where I stood, nearly a football field away, and I kept working my way forward but finally gave up and left because they just sounded old and tired anyway. Mind you, I love the Cure, but I think they should have ended it during their farewell tour four years ago.
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porkbone1
= Cult of Ray =
USA
390 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2004 : 17:48:25
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I just want to say that I found an audience recording of this show (not the disclive version) and it is fucking awesome. I was really hoping that they would kick ass in front of this giant crowd and they blew it away. It almost brought tears to my eyes to hear. I wish I could see a video of this performance, and I can't wait for the tour in the fall.
If you are looking for the boot, check out sharingthegroove...
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