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Well, I guess if you can name drop the college they played it the show must have been better than anything done since.

harmless wrote:So whose second account is this guy?

This is not a second account.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

harmless wrote:So whose second account is this guy?

This is not a second account.

Oh OK. It's getting hard to tell.

Lament wrote:Also, U2.

Ahh, here's one I can speak about through first hand experience. I saw U2 on the ZOOROPA tour (mid '90s?) and the OCTOBER tour (1982). One was in a massive arena and the other was in a small student union. Uhhh, they were far better live in '82. You should have been there.

My thesis has been proven right because you should have been there.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Wishlist wrote:

Lament wrote:Radiohead.

Yeah, go ask the people who saw them at the University Of Warwick back in '91.
Sorry, son, you've got to do better than that.

Radiohead wasn't even that special of a band the first five or six years of their career.

No, they were quite good then. But, I'd agree they got better later.

EJ wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Wishlist wrote:

Lament wrote:Radiohead.

Yeah, go ask the people who saw them at the University Of Warwick back in '91.
Sorry, son, you've got to do better than that.

Radiohead wasn't even that special of a band the first five or six years of their career.

No, they were quite good then. But, I'd agree they got better later.

Yeah, they were a very good band to start with, but they didn't achieve legendary status until the OK Computer through Amnesiac run.

I guess you started to hear it in The Bends.

Either way, the band touring for Kid A was an a whole different playing field than the one touring from Pablo Honey.

I prefer The Bends to OK Computer personally but only because OKC kind of meanders and I find TB more focussed.

harmless wrote:The fact that there was no TV or Internet doesn't negate the probability that performances on average were sometimes great, sometimes awful, just as they are now.

Of course. But back then to make it you had to have live chops. Nothing else was going to get any record company's attention. One's live performances created massive buzz for both The Stones and The Beatles. Did they have awful live nights back then? No doubt. But the majority of their live performances killed otherwise we would never have heard of these bands. No youtube, no 'American Idol', no Ellen Degeneres promoting you... You had to kill live back then to become something someday. Why is that concept foreign to you?

I'm starting to think Wishlist is just another old guy who is mad that I slept with his daughter...

Live chops! Of course! It's all so obvious. Thanks Wishlist I've been enlightened.

This is fantastic.

Definitely the Illumineddie account. He just won't let shit go.

You should probably just listen to the avocado album at this point.

Lament wrote:I'm starting to think Wishlist is just another old guy who is mad that I slept with his daughter...

No, you are starting to realize that Wishlist is a rock fan who knows his stuff. Been to a million shows, bought a billion records.

Wishlist wrote:

Lament wrote:I'm starting to think Wishlist is just another old guy who is mad that I slept with his daughter...

No, you are starting to realize that Wishlist is a rock fan who knows his stuff. Been to a million shows, bought a billion records.

But never seen a band twice huh?

Yeah, but I've been to a million shows times infinity.

Can he at least edit the title of this thread? It's really hurting my eyes. AVOCADO