Looks like my plan of keeping my money in my ass pocket instead of buying a ticket for one of the UK shows was the right choice then lol
Michigan's MLive.com (www.mlive.com) has issued the following report.
You'll thank modern technology for the overdubs. When MOTLEY CRUE's much-hyped live DVD - filmed Wednesday night in Van Andel Arena in front of a near-capacity crowd of more than 10,000 - hits the store shelves, don't be surprised if Vince Neil's voice sounds, you know, surgically modified. Kind of like his face was recently. The dirtball-rockers' inexplicably popular reunion tour has been, and will be, packing hockey barns all year. Too bad Neil has been subjecting rabid audiences to his half-hearted, watery warble. He doesn't just skip words when he sings, he skips consonants, choosing to sing mostly vowels. Who knew Bob Dylan has been giving him enunciation lessons? Crue's weakest link... All night, Neil was off-cue and off-key, either out of breath or just not giving a rip. Any notes he hit were most likely accidental. With bassist Nikki Sixx, guitarist Mick Mars and drummer Tommy Lee pounding away competently, Neil had all but neon arrows pointing at his mouth to designate the weak link. Of course, I'm not being fair here. The Crue's big-top-circus-themed show was entertaining in every other aspect, being an exercise in nostalgic rock-radio hits and casual nudity (more on that later). Sure, Neil exhibited a fair amount of physical energy and frontman demeanor - he didn't want to be upstaged by a flame-spitting midget, scantily clad dancing girls, contortionists, crew members in evil-clown suits, etc. - he just had a hard time vocalizing his enthusiasm. What the film crew captured and the crowd experienced was a no-surprises run-through of Motley's best Hollyrock, a good balance of spunky glam and street-level grit."
Looks like my plan of keeping my money in my ass pocket instead of buying a ticket for one of the UK shows was the right choice then lol
No way I'm spending ?30 to stand at the back of Wembley watching a tv screen.
Carl...that brings to mine that Live cd Slaughter put out a while back. Live my ass....It was Dana recording in the studio live and then placing the fans cheers faded into and out of the song....hahaha!
The coolest "Live" album story out there is the one for the Dead Boys "Night Of The Living Dead Boys". Stiv was holding out for money from the label, so when they went to do the live album, he purposely sang off mic so that they wouldn't have crap to work with. He told them he would go into the studio and record the vocals to be laid on top, only once he got his money. So, the label agreed, Stiv entered a dark recording booth (two punk ladies in tow with him), and emerged after recording the newly done vocals, stage banter and all. If you listen to the album and know that, it is pretty amazing how well he does do it, but some of the banter also makes perfect sense then.
The story is told better in the liner notes, but regardless, it shows how friggin' cool the guy was. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
The most interesting post-production/foley story
I've read, is probably how they pieced together
Val Kilmer's live stuff in 'The Doors' movie.
It's pages and pages long, but well worth digging
out.
As for all this audial verisimilitude (as its
professionally known, don't you know - well,
by over-wordy ponces like me, anyway) on 'live'
CDs, some of it is probably necessary (if only
to compensate for bad mixing during performance),
but if Vince is that bad, I'm surprised Motley
Crue aren't just tempted to use Autotune, live,
and be done with it. Although, I think Autotune
still has a tiny latency (of a couple of milli-
seconds) during live performance, and also,
it sounds like people wouldn't believe Vince
was that spot on, for so long, nowadays. Shame.
D.
<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ May 03, 2005 05:01 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>
So the night of the Crue gig at the nec, Ginger plays an acoustic gig! No contest now then!!!???!
Eh?
<font size="4" face="Arial">Same as.Originally posted by glamster7:
Looks like my plan of keeping my money in my ass pocket instead of buying a ticket for one of the UK shows was the right choice then lol
Ginger looks to be the likly night out
That sounds like the correct choice to me Andy lol
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