cutuphalfdead wrote:I'm convinced that Pearl Jam's insistence on switching it up every night and, more importantly, making shows longer and longer is directly related to their decline in quality of their playing. Give me a tight, well rehearsed, predictable, 90 minute show over a 3 hour surprise filled slop fest.
I think Pearl Jam's insistence on having a bar band type catalog is to their detriment. I think led Zeppelin proved that you can have a static setlist but still keep it interesting on a night to night basis.
I'd love to see PJ do a 90 minute, static but well rehearsed setlist for a tour with an encore or two of primarily covers. Blow their load on the 90 minute main set and turn the encores into the sing-a-longs.
Think I’m going to try being kind to everyone a chance.
A huge retrospective of artworks by artist Stanley Donwood is coming to Sydney as part of VIVID Live, including artwork produced in collaboration with Thom Yorke.
A friend of Yorke’s from his stint at art school in the early nineties, Donwood is sometimes called the sixth member of Radiohead. He has worked closely with the band since 1994, producing album covers, tour posters, t-shirts and other visual ephemera. He was also responsible for Yorke’s solo album artwork and the LA apocalypse on the cover of the Atoms for Peace album.
The exhibition in Sydney represents the first major retrospective of Donwood’s work. Thousands of individual pieces will show the development of ideas that became OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows and The King of Limbs ̶ some original, some unseen and all bearing Donwood’s beautiful and slightly disturbing imagery.
Yorke collaborates on the visual stuff with Donwood (credited as Dr Tchock, Tchocky or The White Chocolate Farm) so you can expect to see his artwork on the walls too.
The other day I was riding home after work on my scooter through downtown, and "Idioteque" came on the Pandora station I was listening to. I pull up to a stop light, and nearby on the sidewalk there are two people having a VERY passionate and heated argument through sign language. And it was the PERFECT DANCE TO THAT SONG.
