Strangest Tribe

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mastaflatch wrote:Parts were poor, playing was off, song sucks, Pearl Jam sucks, poetry...
I won't be quite this emphatic in my complaints but it wasn't a perfect performance by any stretch of the imagination; the whole band seem fairly hesitant and there's a few blank moments where nobody seems to know where to go next. Ed's vocals aren't bad but they clearly suffer from having already bellowed his way through a few hours of performance; the song really demands a smoothness and control in his lower register that he only really seems to have when he hasn't already pushed his voice to the outer reaches of his current limitations.

Still, it could've been much worse.
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And so we enter into phase 2 of the RM cycle:


That was really cool
Ehhh, it could have been worse
Well at least Eddie didn't rape a baby and then eat it
That poor baby
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Well, at least Ed didn't rape a baby and then eat it.

I mean, he didn't, right?
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I can't listen to this knowing that the guy singing it raped a baby and then ate it. Sorry.

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stip wrote:And so we enter into phase 2 of the RM cycle:


That was really cool
Ehhh, it could have been worse
Well at least Eddie didn't rape a baby and then eat it
That poor baby
we've had our feast; we're wanting more.
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I had high expectations of the concert, and I think the band delivered. Several parts of the performance were as good as I've ever heard them. Ed made mistakes on a few songs, but nothing that ruined the experience, and the rest of the band was on top form. I also love hearing rarities, and Strangest Tribe has been one of my favorite songs for years. I knew the instant they started on it what it was, and that they had never played it before. Therefore it was probably a shoe-in for moment of the show, but it didn't quite feel that way. I think if they work on it, they can do a much better version in the future, one truly worthy of the potential of the song.
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For an old rarity that's never been played before live...well, I thought they nailed it.
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spike wrote:
stip wrote:And so we enter into phase 2 of the RM cycle:


That was really cool
Ehhh, it could have been worse
Well at least Eddie didn't rape a baby and then eat it
That poor baby
we've had our feast; we're wanting more.
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mastaflatch wrote:Parts were poor, playing was off, song sucks, Pearl Jam sucks, poetry...
LOL!

I agree with Spenno - it wasn't great - but it wasn't awful either - for a first time performance - I'd like to hear a compilation of first time performances just to see how awful they are.
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Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I'd like to hear a compilation of first time performances just to see how awful they are.
that'd be pretty cool
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bodysnatcher wrote:
Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I'd like to hear a compilation of first time performances just to see how awful they are.
that'd be pretty cool
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stip wrote:And so we enter into phase 2 of the RM cycle:


That was really cool
Ehhh, it could have been worse
Well at least Eddie didn't rape a baby and then eat it
That poor baby

:haha:

I guess they hate the fact the band did something they liked??
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McParadigm wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I'd like to hear a compilation of first time performances just to see how awful they are.
that'd be pretty cool
ugh. that was awful (and i was there)
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This almost seems like they decided to play Strangest Tribe and Eddie couldnt remember the song, and never listened to it before the performance.
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I was just happy it wasn't rushed.
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numbers wrote:This almost seems like they decided to play Strangest Tribe and Eddie couldnt remember the song, and never listened to it before the performance.
Well, people seem to like Eddie's performances of "I Won't Back Down" and "Love->Building On Fire", which he has never performed correctly once. I don't see why this should be any different. Eddie is living proof that not everybody can pull stuff out of their ass and be good at it. He throws a giant turd at the wall at it never sticks, it just splatters into the audience.
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Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:
numbers wrote:This almost seems like they decided to play Strangest Tribe and Eddie couldnt remember the song, and never listened to it before the performance.
Well, people seem to like Eddie's performances of "I Won't Back Down" and "Love->Building On Fire", which he has never performed correctly once. I don't see why this should be any different. Eddie is living proof that not everybody can pull stuff out of their ass and be good at it. He throws a giant turd at the wall at it never sticks, it just splatters into the audience.
Those are covers, though.
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Of course, that performance probably explains why this song has never been played.
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