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samurai7 11:33 pm UTC 05/15/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Land of the Pigs - Wilbury 10:13 pm UTC 05/15/07 |
| I saw them play 'Pig' in Birmingham last night. It was a highlight of a very good show. I know I'm going to get called a 'Loafer' but I honestly was pleasantly surprised, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 'Pig' especially showed how well Meat can sing when in the right frame of mind. He was still frequently pitchy in the ballad-y bits of certain songs, but when he's rockin' out he was really generally pretty good. The TWO gripes I have are that: 1) they didn't play Two Out Of Three (which was the song that got me into Meat and Jim way back when) and that 2) Meat has personally stated that he won't be playing Dead Ringer For Love as it's not a 'Bat' song, but then plays 3 covers for the encore which rather un-coincidentally are obviousy NOT 'Bat' (or even 'Fake Bat') songs. At least Dead Ringer has appeared on Bat reissues as a bonus track, and at least it was a top-5 UK hit single, and would be welcomed by a UK audience! But these are minor complaints... I'm going to see him again next week in Wembley. S7 > Wow, wonder how he handled it. > > And wonder if Paul Crook turned Vai's turd of a wankfest > solo into something interesting. > > > > Apparently Meat did 'Pigs' for the first time live, on > > Saturday night in Manchester, which tends to suggest it > > might be the next single. > > > > Interestingly, excerpts from Animal Farm & Metropolis were > > shown on the back screen during the song. > > > > I thought of Metropolis when Jim blogged about the Batman > > scene description last year, and it seems he may have been > > inspired by this film, to write the song. > > > > Check this out from Wikipedia: > > > > 'The film is set in the year 2027, in the extraordinary > > Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the > > Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two > > rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high > > above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live > > underground toiling to sustain the lives of the > > privileged'. > > > > BTW - Queen used excerpts from Metropolis, in their Radio > > Ga Ga video. > > | |
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