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             on 2002-05-09 22:02 [#00212848] Points: 4265 Status: Lurker
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 | or why not "The Roots". 
 compare The Roots (one of my favourtie groups) live
 performence to Autechre (one of my favourite
 groups)......hehe.
 
 I apprecitate both those groups equal tho.
 
 
 
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             on 2002-05-09 22:07 [#00212852] Points: 4265 Status: Lurker
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 | "apprecitate" LOL ;) MAN im TIRED!!!!! 
 appreciate
 
 appreciate both groups, they are equal to me.
 
 
 
 
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         |  evolume
             from seattle (United States) on 2002-05-09 22:08 [#00212855] Points: 10965 Status: Regular
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 | i think if you pay 20 bucks, and sometimes even drive a couple hours to see a show you should get some kind of SHOW.
 if it's just about the sound then why don't the artists
 pre-record the shows and send the tapes into the clubs. or
 perform live over the radio.  what's the point of them even
 being there if they are invisible anyway?  at the very least
 they should have some images projected behind them like
 plaid. or dudes wrastling in bear suits like afx.  i saw the
 autechre show in Vancouver; drove up there to a good venue
 (sonar) rather than see them in seattle; and i was very
 dissappointed to see nothing but smoke and glowing apples.
 not to mention the music was pretty 1 dimensional.  i felt
 kind of cheated because these dudes never tour the U.S and
 the one time i got to see them, there was nothing to see.
 i like autechre a lot but they are a couple lazy bastards.
 
 
 
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         |  evolume
             from seattle (United States) on 2002-05-09 22:16 [#00212864] Points: 10965 Status: Regular
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 | an excellent and heavily electronic act to see live is "Man...or Astro Man?"
 these guys are like a surf metal devo kraftwerk thrash
 band.
 and they can put on a fucking show.  i own none of their
 albums but i have seen them live 3 times and they never
 dissappoint.
 
 another great live band who knows how to put on a show is
 fucking GWAR.
 again i own none of their music and wouldn't even consider
 downloading their music but their shows are among the most
 enjoyable experiences of my young life.
 
 these electronic guys must have some friends that know how
 to do some stage antics.  i say, BRING THEM WITH YOU ON
 TOUR.  HERE WE ARE NOW! ENTERTAIN US! you fucking lazy
 bastards.
 
 
 
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         |  urb
             from Trondheim (Norway) on 2002-05-09 22:21 [#00212868] Points: 568 Status: Regular | Followup to evolume: #00212864
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 | I've never seen them live, but their music is nice. Sci-fi surf music :)
 
 Sadly my cd was stolen by some local heroinists.
 
 
 
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         |  evolume
             from seattle (United States) on 2002-05-09 22:24 [#00212870] Points: 10965 Status: Regular
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 | see them live dude. if they ever go to norway.  they do a song where they put a microphone up to a dot matrix printer
 and the noise it makes is a cover of some metal song.  they
 all have it memorized and they "sing along" to it too.
 "wheee beep beep beep wirr wirrrr wirrrr beep beep beep
 jigun jigun wheee wheee beeeeep beeeeep."
 its fucking awsome.... seriously...
 
 
 
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         |  jayphex
             from Ottawa (Canada) on 2002-05-09 22:45 [#00212885] Points: 146 Status: Lurker
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 | ok, I go see rock bands live quite often. They're fun and all, but that kind of music is not really my thing.  I
 recently went to see plaid and mira calix on their north
 american tour.  I loved it.  It's not that the show was
 outstanding, (they actually crashed their computer a few
 times) it was just the fact that ed and andy were making the
 music.  that's why I'll continue to enjoy electronic show's
 no matter what people say.
 
 
 
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         |  flea
             from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-05-09 22:51 [#00212894] Points: 9083 Status: Regular | Followup to jonesy: #00211999
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 | read mah mind jonesy 
 
 
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         |  smeagle
             from Portland (United States) on 2002-05-09 23:01 [#00212917] Points: 88 Status: Lurker
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 | If I go see a band, it's usually more of the jazzy funky type....and when you see that music, with a ton of
 improvisation, the simple fact that at any moment, anything
 can happen...even the musicians don't know it's going to
 happen....
 
 they can go off on tangents, then somehow come together all
 at once, and everyone's pleasantly surprised.....
 
 Maybe, sometime in the future, we'll beable to somehow hook
 up our frontal lobes to our sequencers, on stage, and
 through some sort of telepathy, be able to improvise our
 beats and tones in real time...right there....that would be
 tight...
 
 
 
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         |  Xanatos
             from New York City (United States) on 2002-05-09 23:41 [#00213016] Points: 3316 Status: Moderator | Followup to nanotech: #00211826 | Show recordbag
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 | I haven't read this whole thread but I agree 100%.  I saw plaid live and the music was simply amazing, but they were
 not.  It made the whole experience less interactive and
 enjoyable.
 
 
 
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         |  wayout
             from the street of crocodiles on 2002-05-10 04:42 [#00213402] Points: 2849 Status: Lurker
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 | if i ever had a live show... i would have all these midi-controlled muppets up on
 stage...either dancing or set up to look like they were
 playing weird instruments...like a dr seuss-ian orchestra
 
 and then maybe have a bunch of people dressed in big fuzzy
 suits like big bird or something come out in run around
 through the audience
 
 or i was thinking if i had a hardcore show...i would have no
 lights..except maybe some strobe lights...and fill the whole
 place with that stage smoke stuff...so no one could
 see...and have people dressed in big fuzzy suits run around
 assaulting people in the audience
 ..and then of course i would use really deep bass
 frequencies to make people throw up...
 
 heh..it would be funny to incorperate these two types of
 shows into one...have it start off funny and weird with the
 muppet orchestra...and some nice quarky music...then start
 pumping in the smoke...and have the lights come off and let
 the madness and confusion ensue... :D
 
 
 
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         |  corn_mouth
             from santiago (Chile) on 2002-05-10 07:05 [#00213463] Points: 1321 Status: Lurker
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 | ...it does have lack of stage presence, but then, if i want a hard live show, i´d choose a punk gig or
 something....just fast and furious...a NIN concert....i
 dunno, it´s like when you choose to go to an "IDM" gig,
 you´re mainly going for the music.....although it sucks
 paying 20 bucks to watch a geek play around with his
 laptop.....
 
 *wee_boy confused*
 
 
 
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         |  john is fast
             from sacramento (United States) on 2002-05-10 10:03 [#00213576] Points: 638 Status: Regular
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 | the essence of a good show is not how the person dances or looks or jumps or any crap like that.  ive seem some amazing
 crap in my life and it wasnt because the band "put on a good
 show" and it wasnt even cause they sounded good but the mood
 just hit hard and made everyone in the room just...(insert
 perfect word here).
 the same can be for electronic music.
 
 i on the other hand get alot of joy watching someone click
 away at their computer and turn knobs.  i dont know why that
 is.
 
 but my point is, a good show has nothing to do with the
 performance.  its witnessing something amazing happening
 that even the artist seems to end up standing in shock from
 what just happened.
 
 
 
 
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             on 2002-05-10 10:18 [#00213585] Points: 4265 Status: Lurker
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 | "Wayout" Seems to have an intresting show..........tell me when u going to play ;) ill be there at your first gig :)
 
 
 
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         |  Meho Krljic
             from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-05-10 10:21 [#00213588] Points: 6617 Status: Addict
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 | My band has a gig on sunday. But I don't think we're any fun seeing live. My guitar and bass players are just nodding
 their heads as they play, and I kick a lot of shit but I'm
 just a drummer, how much of a stage show can I put without
 ruining the seriousness of the overall situation...
 
 
 
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