Reunion tours in which the artist performs some glory-day album in its entirety are annoying. But Peter Frampton is touring for the 35th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive! Again, it's annoying. But does anyone else see something odd in the idea of "performing" a live album?
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Finally--proof of the afterlife! Too bad it's just on the hell side.
Full title: Frampton Comes Alive! The Order of Sorcery tour.
Nothing beats Frank Zappa's response to Frampton's insipid "I'm In You": "I Have Been In You."
Doesn't that just make it more "live"?
5:15: if it were being performed by someone other than Frampton, it would certainly make it more 'live.' The performance by Frampton leaves it, at best, an open question.
Here's my problem with this: The website says that he'll also be performing "other songs from his Grammy award winning career." So how is this any different from the shows he's been doing? Doesn't he already play all those songs?
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The victims have been bled
Red velvet. . .
Seriously, I think that the horrible practice of Rush wrt to their famous concert album is relevant here.
In the actual concert they did so much midi karaoke playing along with studio tracks (why anyone would pay to see karaoke is beyond me) that the difference in time between "live" and studio versions was often less than a second.
So for the live album they initially recorded themselves doing their standard karaoke over original studio tracks, actually re-recording the original studio tracks as they midied their way through the mixing board. But then of course that's not good enough, so they too the "live" tracks back to the studio and and overdubbed many of those.
Though, to be fair, when one hears the patchy vocals on the famous Misfits or Dead Kennedy's live albums, one thinks there's probably a happy medium with this kind of thing.
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A median clearly achieved by Black Flag's "Who's Got the 10 and 1/2."
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you guys are just jealous. 40 years from now there will be no demand for any of your philosophical work.
not only that: my book 'scepticism comes alive'...well you can figure it out.
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This can't truly have success, I feel this way.
This can't succeed in reality, that is what I think.
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