Weener, youre one step closer to loving it forever! Im jealous because thats a thrilling climb but you can only make it the once.

Enjoyed it live (first night in London) but such a full and studioey recording is obviously going to lose something in performance (or better put, translate into something different). Theyd need to wheel-on a second band for the Holy Trinity part to carry the same clout. If Im carrying something Im usually careful to put it down when he starts singing about Jesus being the resurrection man, especially if its valuable, because the recorded version kinda incapacitates me. Jarvis was very committed in his singing and posturing at the gif though - it was still special.

(Related note: I was interested reading just how many tracks they used when recording Common People - 49 or something - and they still needed to bounce down. Quite a step up. No wonder my hammering C, G and F on a tinny piano never quite hits the spot. Heard an interview with Butch Vig about how he tricked Kurt to keep repeating his parts for SLTSpirit. Studio trickery wasnt terribly punk, so he kept saying thered been a technical problem or glitch - eventually he had ten or more guitar parts to stack)

Itd help if 10-15% of the crowd didnt see it as an opportunity to nip to the bar, but the material was still very, very new back then

Sorry

Ah I'm never going to love it (damn that slap note) but lyrically I do. It WAS going to be the 'go and get a pint' part tbh but I'm probably not going to drink today/tonight* as I'm on a stricter budget these days. 

*but the bar at the station will be calling to me saying 'christina christina why are you not coming to say hello to me today' as well as the rutland arms and fagans

Where do people go now after gigs now the leadmill is no longer.

-- Edited by weener on Friday 25th of July 2025 09:36:59 AM

-- Edited by weener on Friday 25th of July 2025 09:37:50 AM