....Smiths play their last UK gig:
Same here, over in the rural eastern backwaters of the Netherlands. Only regret I have is I didn't get to see them play live -- they played the Netherlands only once, in 1984, when I was all of 12 years old, and in an Amsterdam suburb at that.Echoing what many of you all have said over these boards, I feel lucky to have spent my pre-adolescence and early teen years with The Smiths. The songs really did make me feel like someone understood me. Ah, they gave a lovely light.
Johnny played Stop Me live.
All reggae is vile. Except of course for Redondo Beach.
In what way did popular music change?
Do you mean it became more commercial?
I think they would have changed their eighties sound.
In a quite natural way because they wanted to do more adventurous music. Musically they wanted to grow.
That is very much apparent on the last album Strangeways Here we Come. Unfortunately, due to the split those songs were not played live by The Smiths.
Moz playing them live solo isn't exactly the same, although very good.
Does anybody know if Johnny Marr played songs of that album live? In one of his bands or even recently?
And why not? Moz did.
They both stated it was the best album of The Smiths.
all reggae is vile ? because M said once ? God M fans can be so sycophantically pathetic it's positively nauseating . shut up bed wetter
I still have this secret wish they could work together again musically and that if it were somehow possible to have those Strangeways sessions, or at least the songs they both liked so much, as a starting point again, to have a platform of mutual musical enjoyment.
I appreciate this may be sacrilege, but this was not a great show. And I was there. The sound in the hall was terrible. The bass sound was barely audible at times and Morrissey seemed out of breath from the beginning. I saw the band six times from Meat is Murder onwards, and they were often hampered by a poor live mix. At Northampton, the sound was so bad people left in droves - all you could hear was the distorted lead and drums - Morrissey sounded like he was singing from the tour bus six streets away.
Yep, these days live sound has really improved thanks to technology advances. However, as they say, you had to be there. Gigs are about the experience and that will never truly be captured by recordings...
Yep, these days live sound has really improved thanks to technology advances. However, as they say, you had to be there. Gigs are about the experience and that will never truly be captured by recordings...
I appreciate this may be sacrilege, but this was not a great show. And I was there. The sound in the hall was terrible. The bass sound was barely audible at times and Morrissey seemed out of breath from the beginning. I saw the band six times from Meat is Murder onwards, and they were often hampered by a poor live mix. At Northampton, the sound was so bad people left in droves - all you could hear was the distorted lead and drums - Morrissey sounded like he was singing from the tour bus six streets away.