[Trash-talk] abandoned pools opinion on Garbage and their audience

Stefanie Schwartz sms52 at drexel.edu
Tue Jun 17 09:56:52 PDT 2003


personally i think his statements are almost hilariously ironic 
considering how much tommy uses totally pointless samples on the 
humanistic record... granted i think ap are a great band and wonderful 
live, but i think his statements were totally out of line considering 
garbage were taking them on the tour that exposed them to such a huge 
audience... and they did make a shitload of new fans off that tour that 
wouldn't have given them a second glance otherwise (hey let's face it, 
how many of you heard 'abandoned pools' and thought 'what a stupid band 
name; that band has to suck' ?  i know i did until i heard them..).  
still i suppose since it's a one-man project he's due for a bit of 
egomania.  garbage are a technology-oriented band, and it's necessary 
for them to use all the gadgets and samples to bring their incredibly 
studio-tweaked sound into a live performance.  we all know how kickass 
hammering in my head is live, and it's just as solid as the album 
version (if not more).. and it's the STRIPPED DOWN version!  if 
something screws up it screws up; they're good enough musicians to play 
around it and work it in.

still.  tommy has totally replaced the members of that band about three 
times since the garbage tour.  i guess all of us who fell madly in love 
with leah have yet another reason not to bother seeing them live again :P


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