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Quiff Boy wrote:
ruffers wrote:Whoever is on "lead" guitar duty comes in too early, there was supposed to another chord before that then he should come in after that.
havent listened back but if you're right then it wouldnt surprise me. presumably adam would have been busy rehearsing with mc5 and chris was a fairly late recruit... maybe their minds were on other things...

listening to the recording of tilburg, they make a right hash of dr jeep too. by the time of thr 1st chorus eldritch is completely out because of the guitars :lol: :roll:

still, its rock and roll innit? who cares if its planned or not. :von:

It also shows the absolute control-freakiness of Andrew. Everything can be as meticulously planned as you want to, but when something goes very wrong, he just misses some beats, start a ten-second thinking procedure and says "what the Hell, let's start some seventies lyrics. The rest will join in I hope. Those anoraks before the stage will love it as always".

Another artist would start stammering and hide behind embarassed laughter. Von just goes on with the show.

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I wonder if he dishes out instant fines for bum notes like James Brown? :lol:
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Dark wrote:And even that was then given a regular outing for a few gigs after.

Even at the Pukkelpop Festival in 1992 where it wasn't sung a capella, Von fitted it in nicely to Sister Ray.
Where's the weed for that? :innocent:
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Just took another listen. I won't be offering mine for weeding, because Sister Ray is cut at about 9:20 and fades out instead of the full 11:30 or so version I heard elsewhere.
Ah well. I have a sneaky suspicion it was mp3 sourced too.
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i stand corrected :notworthy:
an official source wrote:The cover was meant to be Uptown Top Ranking, fused with a bit of Emma for good measure.
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Oh.

It was still a bit of a mess though....!
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Dark wrote:
Hom_Corleone wrote:
Dark wrote:And even that was then given a regular outing for a few gigs after.

Even at the Pukkelpop Festival in 1992 where it wasn't sung a capella, Von fitted it in nicely to Sister Ray.
Where's the weed for that? :innocent:

To be honest, it's not a great gig anyway, just Sister Ray is worth it.
I disagree :innocent: That night in august 92 was my first Sisters gig and it rocked my world! They opened with Comfortably Numb/ Some Kind of Stranger and was a complete surprise! Very good moshin' during Alice & More, Bricheno let his guitar see all corners of the stage during Gimme Shelter and they used Fix (!), 1969 (!) & Sister ray(!!) to top it all off... SMASHING! Still in my top 3...next to Dour 97 & Lokeren 05.

About a weed: I have a dvd with that concert, but I can't copy dvd's... (the recording is pretty amateurish too)
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Quiff Boy wrote:i stand corrected :notworthy:
an official source wrote:The cover was meant to be Uptown Top Ranking, fused with a bit of Emma for good measure.
Google wrote: Your search - " The cover was meant to be Uptown Top Ranking, fused with a bit of Emma for good measure." - did not match any documents.
Must be inside info that you're getting Quiffy ;D

Not that we didn't know that, of course ;)
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Motz wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:i stand corrected :notworthy:
an official source wrote:The cover was meant to be Uptown Top Ranking, fused with a bit of Emma for good measure.
Google wrote: Your search - " The cover was meant to be Uptown Top Ranking, fused with a bit of Emma for good measure." - did not match any documents.
Must be inside info that you're getting Quiffy ;D

Not that we didn't know that, of course ;)
unless google can see my emails these days you're unlikely to find that anywhere else on t'interweb ;)
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Quiff Boy wrote:unless google can see my emails these days you're unlikely to find that anywhere else on t'interweb ;)
Were you emailed by the man himself or one of his minions?
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Dan wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:unless google can see my emails these days you're unlikely to find that anywhere else on t'interweb ;)
Were you emailed by the man himself or one of his minions?
'twas "an official source", meaning someone from within the sisters camp...

without wanting to be overly cryptic, i cant say any more - loose lips and all that :|
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Quiff Boy wrote: without wanting to be overly cryptic, i cant say any more - loose lips and all that :|
pelvic floor exercises can do wonders for that sort of thing... :innocent:
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ruffers wrote:I'm aware it's a cover, I may even have the original somewhere. But when the Sisters are doing "mash up's" then it truly isn't the band I first saw in 1985.

NB this is not necessarily a bad thing.

<edit> rethink. It probably is in this case.
"gimme gimme gimme" anyone?
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I don't have this song, anyone care to stick it on you-send-it?
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huh?
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I couldn't understand his comment, there's no need to patronise me.
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robertzombie wrote:I couldn't understand his comment, there's no need to patronise me.
Whenever you have a problem, you should ask "the Big Man" for help :wink:

But i'll let you off this time as you're kinda new round here. :D
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robertzombie wrote:I couldn't understand his comment, there's no need to patronise me.
Did you not get warned that some bite in here sometimes?

Don't worry about it I still got marks all over. :wink:
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robertzombie wrote:I couldn't understand his comment, there's no need to patronise me.
Sorry. I had a bad day yesterday. I know that's no excuse for taking it out on you. :urff:
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Thanks for the link Big Si :D

markfiend, that's ok :)
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I just noticed that Von sings a line from Uptown Top Ranking during the start of Lucretia-Tilburg 6.8.05.
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The lyrics that Andy signs are far from the original lyrics... was he just improvising or doesn't he know the words? :P
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