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Posted: Oct. 26 2003, 14:08 |
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I was certainly suprised by how sequenced the TB2 concert was when I heard it (but then again so is the albvum), even some of the percussion work (notably the bell sounds) sound like they are just coming straight off the master tape. A lot of TB3 is synth based as well so thats excusable, I did think the miming of the big bell sound during FATC was a bit naff. It depends where you want to draw the line beween what you want to do for purely theatrical purposes and what you want to do for musical purposes. Mike has often said he wants his live performances to sound as much like the album versions as possible, however there comes a point where you may as well just press play on the CD player and have everybody miming. Personaly I prefer live versions of Mike's music to be either subtly different or very different to the album versions, I've never really liked any of the recent bells albums live for this reason, although TB3 was better live because there was more power to it than Mike captured with his album production.
Whenever Mike says that Amarok would be impossible to perform live I always think why don't you just re-write certain sections and do a live interpretation of it, just pick one or two themes from it and re-work them.
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