By mere coincidence, I stumbled across this interview with Rick from 2000 about the making of the EE DVD:
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_underworld_live/
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Rick
On a more sort of spiritual level, I had a feeling at the time that we weren't going to be performing in that way much longer. It was sort of a look in Karl's eyes that I recognized; we've been together for nearly 20 years now. And I just thought, "We're not going to keep this up like this." The way we were performing the material where the energy level had risen to a certain point and the pace of things was really fast. And I thought, "This has got a limited life span," in terms of live performance. As it turns out, with Darren leaving the band earlier this year, I was kind of right in a different way.
|