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     David O Mahony Member Username: David_om Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2006 |
I have an old video of the band playing in the Manhattan Club, Bradford, April 1983, which I bought in HMV, London some years ago. There is a martial arts film being projected behind the band during the entire gig. Does anyone know why? Was it part of the show? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 478 Registered: 10-2004 |
I've often wondered that myself. I just assumed it was something that particular venue did to be kind of artsy, you know, show obscure cult films in the background while bands play. I doubt it was something the Go-Betweens had anything to do with, though I could certainly be wrong. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1199 Registered: 05-2005 |
God you can smell the nicotine stained walls of that club just by watching this video. You can smell the poverty of too somehwhere like Bradford would've ben going through at that time too. Its great. I love the way Lindy smiles for the camera! It actually looks like something filmed in 1965, though in colour. Deserves to be YOUTUBED! | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 94 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was the Go between's presursor to Zoo TV. | ||
| david pestorius Member Username: David_pestorius Post Number: 58 Registered: 08-2005 |
Sorry to disappoint, but RF has said that the Bradford projection was not their doing (or otherwise presented in consultation with them). He talks about the Bradford show in the 1999 issue of Axe magazine, which was devoted to his approach to electric guitar playing. You can freely down-load the issue in question from my website. The relevant part is at the top of p.4. http://www.davidpestorius.com/publicatio ns.html | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1202 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.davidpestorius.com/text/AXE_N o14_1999.pdf Great article thanks. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 243 Registered: 11-2004 |
It's a great and very informative interview - good to see it in pdf form. I like Robert's stance on pedals - I think they're a pox on rock 'n' roll at the best of times, a bit like drum machines. Forster is extremely underrated as a guitar player - it's a shame, really. He's takes the best of Reed, Fogerty and Byrne and makes it his own. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1207 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donat well put. When I was a young lad! (here he goes again), I was blown away by the guitar playing, style and overall sound of The House that Jack Kerouac built. Those chords and the way they sound like he invented them and the way they are played, stirring up the passion, its truly remarkeable that song is, to this day. Of course, the rest of the muscicanship was well up to sctratch. Re pedals, yep i've never been a fan, though I can see why they are used. I couldn't see Robert ever using one live could you, its not his style, he's a plug and play magician. Most of the music I liked growing up was pug n play. I also preferred the floating or Bigsby trem to the twisted Sister locking trem, that can make a big difference to your credibility!!!!! I always remember the first time I saw My Bloody Valentine, i thought great, they are playing FENDERS and Jaguars in particular, then all I heard was NOISE! Ugh! Josef K never did that, televsion never did that. I used to watch Peter Astor (weather prophets) closely live, once supporting GoBees at Wolverhampton Poly, and he used a compression box, to fatten the sound out for his guitar breaks (he was an axcellent guitarist), now to me that is acceptable. I used to use a compression box with my Jag, as Jag's have a tendencey to sound thin if you don't habe the right amp, I also had a Turbo Overdive to lift big sounding tunes, and a delay, i was big John 'Solid Air' Martyn fan, and I hung around and played with the Blue Aeroplanes too much not to have a delay pedal, but used rightly, and even for that rockabilly slapback sound, these sorta pedals canenhance guitar sounds. IMHO Have a good week all, wherever you are! | ||
| David O Mahony Member Username: David_om Post Number: 2 Registered: 08-2006 |
Thanks for that great article David. Initially I thought Grant being the film buff had gone for a multimedia style gig but when the camera pans over during ‘Cattle and Cane’ and his wonderfully evocative lyrics are being matched by a six shades melee in the background I thought perhaps this isn’t what he might have wanted. I always thought that the lack of excessive pedal usage helped to give the GBs music a timeless quality. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1302 Registered: 05-2005 |
This VHS only release would be great on a DVD along with the rave stuff and studio 22 by the sounds of it, any chance Lomax/Tuiton? |