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

Tue Jun 17 22:08:08 PDT 2003

oh yeah - i loved that article. it amused me highly.

lou
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>From: marta <redgilda at garbage.pl>
>Reply-To: marta <redgilda at garbage.pl>
>To: trash-talk at tcp.com
>Subject: [Trash-talk] abandoned pools opinion on Garbage and their audience
>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:00:33 +0200
>
>Warsaw/PL, 17-06-03
>
>this is from the abandoned pools interview
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>"DMG: That's actually funny that you mention that because I first saw you
>guys when you opened for Garbage at Bronco Bowl and that happened to them.
>Their whole computer system went down. All of their samples and 
>pre-recorded
>tracks were gone and they didn't know what to do. It was amazing how much
>wasn't actually being played live.
>
>TW: It was awesome. It was as if I had gone behind the curtain and…
>
>DMG: (Laughs) Did you go behind the curtain and pull the plug? Was that 
>you?
>
>TW: Yeah, totally. (Laughs)
>
>DMG: They played an acoustic version of "Wild Horses" and then they tried 
>to
>fix it, they came back and then it went down again.
>
>TW: Yeah, it was on this one song, "I Will Love You 'Till The Day I Die" or
>something and it starts out with vocals, a drum loop, and everything.
>Basically their set up is that there are no amps on stage. All the guitars
>are on an amp simulator; the drums are muffled so when you hit the drums
>it's just triggering something else. The only live mic is Shirley's 
>(Manson,
>lead vocalist) and two overheads for the symbols and the rest of the drums
>and that's it. If the tracks go down or they lose power, there's not gonna
>be any sound. They don't even make feedback! That's my bread and butter 
>just
>to hit the distortion pedal and be able to hear that… (makes a feedback
>sound). That's rock! That song starts out with vocals on tape and it was
>skipping like… (imitates skipping sound). I was laughing my ass off. The
>rest of the tour, I'd be walking around and as soon as we'd pass their
>dressing room, I'd be like… (makes skipping sound again- laughing). It
>happened 3 or 4 times that tour! Play the song normal; you know what I 
>mean?
>Well, it makes for a good show sometimes, but I wouldn't want to be that
>reliant on it.
>
>DMG: The strange part was that the audience, rather than being shocked, was
>just happy the equipment was working again and seemed to not even realize
>what was going on. Shirley was just like 'Sorry, all the stuff broke down.'
>It was like a total Milli Vanilli moment.
>
>TW: What's going on with audiences these days? Let's talk about that for a
>second. Like if tracks go down people should go 'Hey, wait a minute, 
>they're
>not playing. What a rip-off!' but no, they're like 'Okay Shirley, whenever
>you're ready- we'll still be here!' You know, those audiences…let's talk
>about Garbage audiences some more because I am self-aware enough and I'm
>aware of my band. I've been doing this long enough to know if we suck or
>not. If we suck, I'll be the first to tell everybody. So we do a lot of
>those Garbage shows and the front row, they'll all get excited and they'll
>all get up there early. They're not really music fans, though; they're
>Shirley fans. So when we're on stage, we're not Abandoned Pools, we're just
>not Shirley, basically. That was kind of a drag to go out there and have a
>good set and just have people staring at us like, 'Where's Shirley?' I feel
>like a lot of fans these days aren't really "music fans". That thing that
>was going on like '92 or '96-7 maybe? Those sort of fans are becoming more
>and more scarce. People that would listen to things to know what's going on
>with the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana and also know what's going on with 
>DJ
>Shadow when Entroducing came out in '96 and Radiohead came out with OK
>Computer in '97. They would listen to all that stuff. I think fans now are
>more about persona and flash. Maybe it's because they just don't know, or
>it's just some sort of a phase or something. Maybe it's just a difference 
>of
>preference but it certainly doesn't work for me. Audiences right now seem 
>to
>be gravitating toward that and that's not what we are so it's sort of a
>challenge
>------------
>what do you guys think about that?:-)
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