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Originally posted by gwiz:I think its more of a problem of over-thinking stuff as well, like the last album. They try way too hard nowadays. I miss the time when they had the faith in their abilities to release an album in a quick period of time, and not promote the hell out of it to see it on the charts.

I wish they´d just write some 10 songs regardless of how they sound, get a great artwork and put out... don´t even think about how it would do on charts! They are very capable... Zooropa - a masterpiece finished in 6 months from scratch... If they have the scratch already... put it out in 3 months sounds possible!

wyn525i

15 years

Originally posted by gwiz:I think its more of a problem of over-thinking stuff as well, like the last album. They try way too hard nowadays. I miss the time when they had the faith in their abilities to release an album in a quick period of time, and not promote the hell out of it to see it on the charts.

I agree 100%(even though I love NLOTH) They seem to be way too careful and calculated these days. It almost seems that on this last tour they lost faith in their own abilities, the show was must too choreographed along with copious amounts of click tracks and the guy doing the countdowns that pretty much take out any kind of spontaneity out of a live performance. U2 is probably the only band I've seen live where nothing at all is improvised and get incredibly embarrassed if they make a little mistake. While seeing Gov't Mule on numerous times, they all have a blast if someone messes up a part and play along with it instead of completely stopping, restarting the programming and such.(the whole "one fiasco" on the first show).

As much fun as I had seeing them at Soldier Field(and it was a lot), it almost felt like they were a group of people putting on a play instead of a rock band playing a concert. Kind of takes away from the magic that can only happen in a live performance setting.

NLOTH_Victor

15 years

Originally posted by wyn525i:[..]

I agree 100%(even though I love NLOTH) They seem to be way too careful and calculated these days. It almost seems that on this last tour they lost faith in their own abilities, the show was must too choreographed along with copious amounts of click tracks and the guy doing the countdowns that pretty much take out any kind of spontaneity out of a live performance. U2 is probably the only band I've seen live where nothing at all is improvised and get incredibly embarrassed if they make a little mistake. While seeing Gov't Mule on numerous times, they all have a blast if someone messes up a part and play along with it instead of completely stopping, restarting the programming and such.(the whole "one fiasco" on the first show).

As much fun as I had seeing them at Soldier Field(and it was a lot), it almost felt like they were a group of people putting on a play instead of a rock band playing a concert. Kind of takes away from the magic that can only happen in a live performance setting.

I sort of agree with you. The only part is what you said about Vertigo tour. I saw them twice that tour, one was for the DVD where every little thing had to be tiddy and clean and another one where I think there were lots of surprises, not sure if improvisations though. They played WGRYWH, Bad and Fast Cars! Amazing gig.

Stadium tours seem to be more synched and boring if you´re fanatic, mainly when the band is not so confident about the album (POPMART was amazing but it was as well way too synched etc, just see the lack of change in the setlist). That´s why I like more shows with in smaller venues an more modest stages.

I think what the have done with stages is awesome, but now they should focus more on the music.

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