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It wasn't so bad. They sounded fucking great considering it was on the telly. The audience was hilariously shite and I even shouted "Squares!".

GypsumFantastic wrote:Michael Moore is preety good on geetar

This is so exactly what I thought. But without the funny spelling.

Rick Reuben wrote:I don't think Adam was appointing himself as the 'decider of what the Stooges should do'- I think he was pointing out that if they intended to add to their legacy, they needed to make a really great record. And if they didn't, then they risked tarnishing their legacy.

Like it or not, the legacy of a band is in the control of the audience. That's a contract a band makes when they say 'buy my music'.

any reason to why you've decided to resurrect a dead argument 'Richard'?

I simply can't view the footage. "Forbidden".

fantasmatical thorr wrote:It wasn't so bad. They sounded fucking great considering it was on the telly. The audience was hilariously shite and I even shouted "Squares!".

I'm with you there. The lame-o audience made the performance come off like that scene from the Office where David Brendt tries ending a motivational seminar with a lip sync and dance routine to "Simply the Best". I genuinely felt bad for the Stooges.
I'd really like to see the audience in this clip of the Jesus Lizard on French television, just for a comparison.
Sometimes, many times, I feel TV doesn't do many bands justice.

Long ago, Adam CR wrote:My objection is this; The Stooges as an idea where magical, mysterious, alien, filthy, exotic, enigmatic, other. Now they reform and prove that, yes, The Stooges were actually just a band. No magic, no mystery.

Eeeeesh.

As an idea, they were nothing.

As an idea, they were something for rock critics to make shit up about. Which you could read and then make conjectures about how mysterious and magical and alien they were. So what.

They are something as a band. Or "just a band," as the case may be.

This new Dylan movie, it's all "the IDEA of Dylan." WTF? What IDEA?

He was/is a guy. Person. Walks on two legs, etc.

He's a weirdo, oooh, weird. So...what. Lotta weirdos in the world. Him being a weirdo, changing his wardrobe and the sound of his speaking voice every six months, what difference does it make?

The "idea" of something that exists--hey, look at it. It's right there. Listen to it. Hear that? Sound waves. You don't have to imagine anything. If you pay attention, you won't be able to imagine it--you will be forced to apprehend it instead.

tmidgett wrote:Eeeeesh.

As an idea, they were nothing.

As an idea, they were something for rock critics to make shit up about. Which you could read and then make conjectures about how mysterious and magical and alien they were. So what.

They are something as a band. Or "just a band," as the case may be.

Are you genuinely stating that the air romance/tragedy/fucked-up-ness/comedy/whateverness of a band/songwriter (whether genuine or imagined) has never in any sense been a part of your appreciation of rock and roll?

That for you bands are simply men and songs are simply sounds?