Home | About | Contact | Lyrics | Tabs | Forum
05-23-2007, 07:27 PM | #61 | |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 13
|
Quote:
Now, it's just words and theater - nothing more. |
|
05-23-2007, 07:33 PM | #62 | |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: North of Boston
Posts: 18
|
Quote:
|
|
05-23-2007, 07:53 PM | #63 | |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 13
|
Quote:
To me ("me" being the primary word here) it just didn't have the same effect as when it happened spontaneously, And that, my friends, concludes the first and last post containing a comparison between Damo and DLR. Last edited by Whigged; 05-23-2007 at 07:59 PM. |
|
05-23-2007, 09:42 PM |
bottlebohemia |
This message has been deleted by bottlebohemia.
|
05-24-2007, 02:34 AM | #64 | |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 21
|
Quote:
|
|
05-24-2007, 04:37 AM | #65 |
Insane Eskimo
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 6,151
|
Dave,
any chance we could get an mp3-sampler of Is that my friend and the new one while we wait for the real thing!!!!!!????????? |
05-24-2007, 03:02 PM | #66 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Just north of the Witch City
Posts: 136
|
Did anyone on this thread miss my PM yesterday? If you have, just let me know and I'll re-send. It's in regard to samples.
Dave |
05-24-2007, 03:26 PM | #67 |
Eskimo Friend
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 54
|
|
05-24-2007, 05:05 PM | #68 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Just north of the Witch City
Posts: 136
|
If any of you were trying to PM me today, I was at my limit of 50 PM's stored. I have since cleared them out.
If you have anything to add about the 2 recordings and their quality, feel free to post. I just needed a day to get my feet on the ground before we discussed which one to master etc... Dave Quote:
|
|
05-24-2007, 05:09 PM | #69 | |
Eskimo Friend
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 35
|
Quote:
Listening to Cheers Darling on O, you can tell that he's suppose to be drunk and singing the song. What he did on stage only helped me appreciate the song even more. Even though it might be just theatrics, but it didn't take away from the song. |
|
05-24-2007, 06:22 PM | #70 |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 9
|
I've read this a few times, but maybe people couldn't hear it but Damien did not play Cannonball comletely solo. There was unmiced cello and upright bass being played and, i think, some very sparse drums at the end.
|
05-24-2007, 07:01 PM | #71 |
Dandy little dreamer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,244
|
The night sounds fantastic! Thanks for the recaps and pictures everyone (and the recording daveydave!)
|
05-24-2007, 08:30 PM | #72 |
Insane Eskimo
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 6,151
|
Do you think Never going down is a song?? Sounds to me like an improv/outro using the Volcano music as background... not sure if it's a new song...
|
05-24-2007, 08:41 PM | #73 |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 2
|
With brilliance, Damien Rice arranges and rearranges old songs and new revealing a genius not recognized by me in years. Damien is smart, amusing, and unassuming. Even his t-shirts on sale in the lobby illustrate an unabashed lack of self-promotion. Neither his name nor his cd or song titles appear on the purple and brown cotton jerseys. Only his signature elephant graces the shirt. It's as if recognition of this symbol, to those in the know, permits entrance to a secret club whose one initiation rite is quite simple: grasp the music and you enter a place of astounding, limitless creativity.
I saw Damien Rice's concert Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at the Opera House in Boston. The show was about an hour and 40 minutes long with no opening act. How to put his show into words? I should earn a Pulitzer if I do him justice. I suspect I am not up to the task before me. Nonetheless, I will try. On a small, dark theater stage, a group of five musicians including Damien file out from the wings and take their places: drum set, bass, keyboard, microphone, grand piano, cello, and guitar. They begin playing as the lights come on here and there creating visual effects supporting and combining with the vocals that whisper to us, shout at us, and soar above us in graceful arcs. The drums rumble, they snap, they clang and clash with cymbal bursts and ripples. The guitars strum and pluck and chant with chords and voices of their own. The bass moans, thunders, and opens our bodies from underneath traveling upwards. And the cello soothingly scratches our skin relieving an itch with which we'd long ago learned to live. Once relieved, we crave the mewling bowing crossing strings heavy and delicate straining high and bellowing low. Damien stands center stage before a stand with two microphones: one standard, the other affected. Darkness around the band suggests ghostly spirits at work, at play. Two bright, white stage lights illuminate Damien on either side from behind. Unsaintly backlit, he confesses his sins, his pains, his longings, and his humanity. Crying out to God and to us, do we hear him? Do we feel him? Do we know him? From his lips to our ears, our eyes, and our skins, how can we not love him and see ourselves and our own sins, pains, and longings? How can we not love ourselves as a result of his naked offerings? Light changes. A funnel of dusty, saintly light pours down around him from above. He and we are forgiven and continue on to a new song. Full stage is visible now with a bright background of red light. Later now, the background is bright blue and yellow-green sunflower pollen dances upon the musicians. His "one happy song" as he announced pours over us. It is hard to stay seated. My body wants to be up and moving with another. But enough of that, there is more human fumbling to reveal. Anyone can sing a happy song, but who can so honestly expose frailties, delicacies, moments we'd prefer to forget but resign to die over and over again as our memories attempt to impose a childlike "do over" upon our human disgraces. Love, rejection, insecurity, cowardliness, desire… it's all here bolded and unfolded before us to behold with him or through him as his silhouette, now the height of the building, mimics him from behind. My pain was his pain too once just as my passion and my love, my feeble attempts to attract an other, my hits and my misses. Damien presents them all to us on soft and clanging metal trays made of cymbals bound with cello strings. Bold and bolder, meek and meeker on he goes alone without Lisa Hannigan who some thought defined his sound only for us to discover that she was merely another instrument wound around his rhythms. Although I did not miss her last night, I would welcome her return if she should per chance visit. I look forward to the cd she is presently recording. Damien, however, proved that he is the man behind the curtain in all respects. It's been a day since his show, and I already crave another. In the meantime, I have his cds and a purple t-shirt with an elephant on the front to help me pass the time. |
05-24-2007, 08:43 PM | #74 |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 2
|
Corey, It's been said all over this thread, but I have to say it to: Amazing photos! Thanks for sharing them.
|
05-24-2007, 09:00 PM | #75 | |
Eskimo Friend
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 54
|
Quote:
There's two I have questioned actually: what he does after "Volcano"? and then what he does after "Me, My Yoke"? Because they were two different things. Like abumchuck pointed out earlier, I think "Never going down" is actually after "Me, My yoke". Which means, what is after "Volcano"? I can't "formally" decide what it is... Last edited by bottlebohemia; 05-24-2007 at 09:24 PM. |
|
05-24-2007, 09:50 PM | #76 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Just north of the Witch City
Posts: 136
|
Just before he steps into Me My Yoke , my boot, my toothbrush and my blah my blah blah, he goes into something that I recognize & I can't put my finger on it. I don't think it's from Damien.
I'm thinking he was covering someone else's song for a few bars. What's killing me is that it's familiar to my subconscience but, because it's out of context, I can't figure it out. It's something like: "said that you feel" & "you know" & "I'm there" and "happier" - all googled for nothing. This might bother me for a while. dave Quote:
|
|
05-25-2007, 12:25 AM | #77 | |
Eskimo Princess
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 216
|
Quote:
and yes, Adelaide is indeed my actual name..... |
|
05-25-2007, 01:35 AM | #78 |
Insane Eskimo
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 6,151
|
Dave, I cannot identify the bit at the end of Volcano. Must be some cover but doesn't sound familiar to me. For a sec the music sounded like Portishead but the lyrics don't match. I'm lost.
By the way, V3 faaaar better than V2... |
05-25-2007, 01:47 AM | #79 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Just north of the Witch City
Posts: 136
|
V3 - Version 3 of Boston - sample recording
I agree. V2 is not bad, but V3 is crisp and clear. V3 was done with the better mics.
I think I've heard from 5 people and all liked V3 better. Well, the cats out of the bag i'd say. Any discussion of the recording should be fine here. I'd still love to hear other opinions. It is still bothering me as to what snippet we got at the end of Volcano. The melody is so familiar, but I can't be sure the words correctly go with the music. Still thinking and listening to that one... Dave Quote:
|
|
05-25-2007, 02:07 AM | #80 | |
Eskimo Friend
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 54
|
Since this seems to be driving us all crazy...I'm voting that Damien was just doing improv after Volcano. All I get is "said that you feel/ what you're looking/ you know I will/ happier/ I can" and him humming/mumbling.
Didn't he say one time either at a show or in an interview or something that how he wrote songs whilejust sitting there with the guitar, strumming and it just came to him and came out like vomit- I believe is how he put it. So that's why my vote is for him doing improv! Haha. Quote:
Last edited by bottlebohemia; 05-25-2007 at 03:26 AM. |
|
05-25-2007, 02:41 AM | #81 | |
eskiphotographer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Newburyport, MA
Posts: 137
|
Quote:
|
|
05-25-2007, 03:51 AM | #82 |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 13
|
Definatly V3 daveydave. The sound, and the instruments especially, are so much clearer. It's such great quality
|
05-25-2007, 04:10 AM | #83 |
eskiphotographer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Newburyport, MA
Posts: 137
|
dave - you know my vote... matrix of V3 and V2 with a 70/30 mix towards the former... V2 just has such a natural and pure tone to it... but V3 is a lot crisper in the highs...
stoked to hear the final version... i know you'll do something nice with it... |
05-25-2007, 04:44 AM | #84 | |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: North of Boston
Posts: 18
|
Dave,
I think I can speak for all of us who were fortunate enough to hear the samples of your magnificent recording: Thank you so very much for sharing! Great job! I have listened to V3 nearly non-stop today and am just blown away with each listen! I think I'm enjoying the recording more than being there at the show, if that's possible. What an orgasmic performance....Damien is a freakin' genius! Quote:
|
|
05-25-2007, 11:57 AM | #85 | |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 13
|
Quote:
|
|
05-25-2007, 05:04 PM | #86 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Just north of the Witch City
Posts: 136
|
Tylerm,
What did you use to do this? Just curious. I tested out the recommendation you and Corey had (via Acid Pro), and there will definitely be a matrix of the two recordings - probably later this summer. Of course, it will only come after I master V3. I'll start mastering that recording this weekend. The 4 tracks mixed with a 70/30 or 60/40 balance is just amazing. Is it me, or is V3-May a better sounding recording than December's? BTW - Jen - your pics are pretty good. Always take them, you might take a hundred shots but capture something just perfectly. I've used the same type of camera you were using to shoot U2 (via heart) and Pearl Jam and I can tell you that out of 100 - 150 shots, there are only 15 - 20 that are worth being seen. It's hard to capture a moving event unless you have a great camera. Personally, I don't think Damien should ever play another venue in Boston besides the Opera House. I hope that's where he plans to play in September. Can you imagine Cannonball (no mic) at the Orpheum? Did any of you get to the Frames show in Somerville a few weeks back? I'm surprised I haven't heard more talk about that or the movie "Once." dave Quote:
Last edited by daveydave; 05-25-2007 at 05:09 PM. |
|
05-25-2007, 05:14 PM | #87 | ||||
eskiphotographer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Newburyport, MA
Posts: 137
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
||||
05-25-2007, 06:00 PM | #88 |
Eskimo Baby
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: North of Boston
Posts: 18
|
Is it me, or is V3-May a better sounding recording than December's?
Yes, totally, though May is certainly not chicken liver. Can you imagine Cannonball (no mic) at the Orpheum? Actually, didn't Jamie Callum sing without a mic at the Orpheum during last tour? I know he's done that before for "Nature Boy." I might have my venues mixed up since I saw him several times last year. Now that I think of it, it might have been the Opera House!! lol Did any of you get to the Frames show in Somerville a few weeks back? I'm surprised I haven't heard more talk about that or the movie "Once." I am so stoked to see that film! It's gotten stellar reviews from people not familiar with their music. |
05-25-2007, 06:50 PM | #89 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Just north of the Witch City
Posts: 136
|
Yes - May is better, or Yes December is better? Confused.
= Cullum did that at the Orpheum, though I would have to go back to that and listen. I have a time traveling machine that helps me do that ;-) = yeah, I've been haunted by the songs "Falling Slowly" and "When your minds Made up" since that show. This might be a good weekend to get to Harvard Sq. for that film. dave |
05-25-2007, 07:02 PM | #90 | |
eskiphotographer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Newburyport, MA
Posts: 137
|
Quote:
for those who wanna watch the trailer: |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|