Poor 90 year old woman still can’t get away from men telling her how to behave and what she should like. At her own party.
Unseemly.
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OMD is one of the great intellectual synth pop bands of the era. While not as prolific or overly political as Pet Shop Boys, they definitely compare in many ways.
I actually saw OMD twice last week when they stopped in Seattle for their US tour with back-to-back shows. Andy McCluskey still sounds excellent and is still doing his awkward math teacher dance moves.
Speaking of politics, Andy took the time to make an anti-Elon joke before Tesla Girls, and it was no coincidence that he followed it up with the song Kleptocracy.
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Self plug - there’s a little OMD in the new mix I just uploaded, and more coming soon in the next volume…
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She hated Hal Blaine.
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(Moving discussion to not derail the other topic as I can talk about this stuff all day…)
That’s my understanding as well, that he was never the same after that. He was said to have felt immense guilt and personal responsibility for the TLB murders. For anybody who doesn’t know the history, this is the meandering path from Dennis Wilson the Manson Family murder spree: It was Dennis that introduced Manson to Beach Boys’ producer Terry Melcher. Manson knew where Melcher lived (10050 Cielo Drive), and wanted revenge after Melcher rejected him for a record deal. What he didn’t know was that Melcher had moved out months prior at the urging of his mother, Doris Day, after he revealed to her details of Manson’s antics and that Manson knew where he lived.
That would be a hell of an emotional burden to carry around so it doesn’t at all surprise me that it would have such a profound effect on him.
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I’ll bet they’re a tough group! Something you can really sink your teeth into.
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Hahaha!
My €20 Mosky Silver Horsey gets no cease and desist letters!
Nor should it. The Klon crap is ridiculous, it’s a bog standard circuit than any and everyone can and did copy - his IP protection was glooping the circuit with epoxy type thing.
Behringer copy the trade dress of lots of things that they copy though. This doesn’t even look particularly bad by their standards. Though there are originals which look more like the Behringer one than the one shown in that video so maybe it just is the most perfectly ridiculous ripoff by Uli ever.
I don’t think anyone is mixing up a €200 Behringer Model D with a €5,000 Minimoog though. It’s a total different market. He doesn’t sell it with boutique wooden cheeks which, as we all know, is where the legendary Toan of those vintage classics really lies. Or maybe they are real laminate cheeks on the Behringer. Who knows?
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Didn’t have a graph in there on the proportion of money spent on live music spent on giant overpriced tickets like Swift or Oasis and how that has changed over time.
I go to a fair amount of live music and there is a huge appetite for it. A friend couldn’t go to Kim Deal the other week so we went and the place was packed on a Monday night. I happened to be in the main bar looking at old posters for this venue (like 10 or 15 year old ones): Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon were prominent. They now all play ginormodomes (or did before retirement).
Sure there’s me and 20 other people for a midweek set of jazz piano quartet with modular synth and sampler but that’s always been the way of it.
And more fool them, that was one of the best shows I’ve been to this year.
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Interesting. The story told in that video is not the story I hear in the lyrics, but that happens in music. I do find it a really odd choice to set that video in Kentucky, a state I associate in no way with Lynyrd Skynyrd. Alabama or Florida, or really anywhere in the Deep South, but Kentucky? Ok.
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I have owned two albums on that list: the Tom Petty one, which I honestly can’t remember. I just remember the album cover. And Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans, because Yes is my favorite band of all time and I’ve owned all of their albums. It’s a weird album, even by Yes standards, and they’ve made a lot of weird shit. I hate to admit it, but it probably does belong on that list.
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My problem is that anyone moderately successful typically will have concerts at a price range that just doesn’t make sense to me so I end up skipping out on a lot of artists I would love to see. One example is Andrew Bird, I did buy the ticket for his concert later this year but it was because it’s a 20th anniversary of one of my fave albums and it worked out that my partner does not care for his music so I only had to worry about buying one ticket, but the ticket I bought ended up costing me 150 bucks I think? Could’ve paid more but that’s just too much, and because of that it’s a much harder sell for me to want to spend money on other concerts.
I’ve already passed on 2 artists i’d love to see because I can’t justify the expense.
And yes there is plenty of more affordable live music available locally, but I’m still working on being more outgoing 
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I go to a lot of concerts and it definitely adds up. The joke I tell others is I don’t go on vacations anymore, I just buy concert tickets instead.
Some artists do it right. The Cure’s recent arena tour through NA had reasonably priced tickets and merch.
Others do it wrong. Nine Inch Nails tickets in the GA pit were $400. Nosebleed seats for Lady Gaga starting at $200. That’s highway robbery.
Unfortunately, there’s a classic supply and demand problem with concert tickets. People will pay these ridiculous prices. The Ticketmaster app will happily let you finance those ticket through Klarna if it’s too much for you to afford. How nice of them.
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That’s primarily because Robert Smith fought with ticketmaster to ensure they had decent prices.
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That’s insane.
Like Taylor Swift cost that much here. Andrew Bird would be maybe €30. Up to €50 perhaps. Depends on the venue.
Need I mention that live nation/TicketBastard are monopolist scum and the guillotine is too good for them?
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