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well - I think what he means is...

if you look back, Karl did have kind of a "costume" specific to each tour (although he wasn't really wearing anything too "costumey" like say... PopMart era U2)

I can't remember each of them off-hand, but like - the "disco ball" style shirt during the OWB tour...

oh - and there was the performance (forget when/where - but I want to say it was in Japan) where Karl came out in a wedding dress

...and he does always wear shell-toe Adidas

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Oh, I see! But I must say, if I had private letters like that from a band I like I would never sell it, never ever!

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Yea well in fact the big wedding dress is not one that I am going to go near because IF it had a meaning then itd certainly be something very conceptual or surrealist or something...

But what I am talking about is what Joethelion was saying, that I feel Karl's choice of clothing has complimented the aesthetic of the show over the years.

For instance if we are to look at the shiney reflective jacket he used in the OWB tour he would use the handheld camera looking in real close to the mirrors on the jacket creating an abstract effect on the big screen as he danced and moved. .. thats just one example.

His black and white striped shirt is worth looking at too i feel especially in relation to a lot of the visuals they were using around that time.. and why he may have started wearing it again on the recent tour.

But im not going to get too bogged down on clothing.. this study is about the show as a whole.

anybody's views on this would be cool to hear though

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I believe the wedding dress was due to a lost bet.

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Thankyou so so much for this!

That makes a whole load of sense!

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Wooo! Just got the go ahead to pretty much focus the whole dissertation on Tomato and the UnderworldLive Show as a platform for looking at the development of Visual Music in Audio Visual Art!

It took ages to convince them that what I had was worth doing and they have finally let me at it!

So happy!

Thanks to everyone who has been helping so far and emailing me on the side, I will definitely be needing more help in the future... you will get an acknowledgement! ;)

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Question: The "wheel of Light" used by Cruickshank at the Oblivion Ball in Japan... was it/or has it ever been used anywhere else??

Check it out here... http://www.facebook.com/video/video....id=21193697848

Thanks to Todd for this video.. nice work!

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i think we had this topic on the chat some weeks ago. i read somewhere that the dress was called 'oblivion ball dress' and he used it cos he needed something fancy to wear at the oblivion ball, since it was, well, a ball.

oh, dunwho, i've a tomato gasbook at home (it's a large format book with tons of pictures, including an exhibition in spain). do you want some images of it?

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DO I!?!?!? That would be fantastic! What was the title of the exhibition? Just so I can look it up.

If there was an introduction essay or a forward to the exhibition catalogue or anything that would be the most valuable thing to me.

But photos would be great!! Thanks everyone for being so helpful. I am really overwhelmed!

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If you're interested in buying the Tomato Gas Book, there are some cheap used ones here (including a UK seller):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used

If you want to buy it new, these guys still have some:

http://www.zakkacorp.com/display.php...gazine=gasbook

If you also want the Tomato Gas DVD (Onyx Pearls), they also have that:

http://www.zakkacorp.com/display.php...agazine=gasdvd