just the little clowny boy singing live, so what are the other two guys doing really?

[dubman]

all those boards they pretend to play is really just a clever disguise for ricks hidden and shameful secret: he loves macaroni and cheese.

it's actually really elaborate. they hire a whole panel of set designers to intricately mimic the knobs and things of Nord Leads, 909s, Korgs and the rest of their vast array of "instruments", and they painstakingly construct a paper mache facsimile so that rick can secretly duck his hands underneath and let his long alien fingers muck around in mac and cheese for 2 hours.

it's gotten so bad that poor darren price was hired purely because rick, getting old and cranky, wanted to stop pushing the single play button altogether, and even briefly considered setting up a mic so that the audience could hear him "jam" with the stickly wet sounds of his fingers swimming in mac and cheese. "what?" he asked, "i love it, and they're fans right? it's only honest, and i'll enjoy myself a lot more instead of hearing this silly thumpity-bump stuffs." fellow bandmate karl almost relented, until the tour crew flatly refused to accept that a bulk of their load would come from the weight of ceramic bowls and boxes of dried noodles.
darren doesnt even know what he's doing up there, just random shuffling about while trying to hide his embarassment at ricks obviously fetishistic enjoyment of his many bowls of cheesy noodles.
those thumbs up at the end of each show? look closely. i have. even though he tricked to lick it all off, those spaces on each end of the fingernails are packed with gooey cheese. i told fellow concert-goer dc_04 to get some video of THAT but he called me a faggot and tried to sic security on me for telling him i was 21 so he could buy me a drink.

[stimpee]

This is by the way on the John Digweed forums it seems, a man who makes a living by playing other people's records whilst bearing the weight of a large helmet of hair. Sometimes people die of boredom.

[TomTom]

Originally Posted by stimpee

(discovered by lloyd) from: http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/...d.php?p=527986

Re: Underworld in NYC 09-14-2007 report
Thansk for the review mate, but I have a question intriguining me , I ve seen underworld two years ago in Zurich and the show was unbelivable , BUT why the hype about their shows, they dont mix songs in tooo each other , its just the little clowny boy singing live, so what are the other two guys doing really?

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he's a waste of time that clowny boy. and those other two guys were just plain lazy in central park. they didnt do anything. i dont get the hype. very intriguining.

The quoted message board is run and owned from my mate Kamal and myself. I hope it is not on the hate list here now. I saw this post as well today and thought it is disrespectful but so are many hasty written careless posts. If your heart does not beat for something and you have no clue what acts like Underworld or other bands do when they play live you ask such questions I guess. But ignorance is everywhere and thinking a DJ makes it to the top because he can push a few buttons is as clueless as asking why Underworld are not mixing the tracks into each other during a live show at least.

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by TomTom

The quoted message board is run and owned from my mate Kamal and myself. I hope it is not on the hate list here now. I saw this post as well today and thought it is disrespectful but so are many hasty written careless posts. If your heart does not beat for something and you have no clue what acts like Underworld or other bands do when they play live you ask such questions I guess. But ignorance is everywhere and thinking a DJ makes it to the top because he can push a few buttons is as clueless as asking why Underworld are not mixing the tracks into each other during a live show at least.

nice one TomTom. We dont take this seriously as you can probably guess. We know Underworld are just great live and it would take more detailed baiting than this to get us going Otherwise we would actually be arguing the point rather than taking the piss! Underworld dont need to "mix" their songs. They actually often do segue songs into each other or use bridging tracks, but as each track is using "live" sequencing its quite complex. Certainly more complex than mixing two records together. As for clownyboy Karl, well he provides us with some stream of words and does his thing. We wouldnt have it any other way.

As for Digweed I saw him right after Underworld on Friday night. He played all night and to be honest was boring for the first 3 hours before really kicking off and melting the place. Why he waited so long I dont know...

[TomTom]

Originally Posted by stimpee

nice one TomTom. We dont take this seriously as you can probably guess. We know Underworld are just great live and it would take more detailed baiting than this to get us going Otherwise we would actually be arguing the point rather than taking the piss! Underworld dont need to "mix" their songs.

Thanks, stimpee. Good to know..I was already worried because opinions are made fast in the Internet without knowing people for real. I know die hard fans can be easily pissed off if somebody acts disrespectful about their most favourite artists and I am glad to see that this board is almost drama free and most things are handled with a good sense of humor..not a given these days and that's why I also like it here though I have to admit that I am more reading than posting.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by TomTom

this board is almost drama free and most things are handled with a good sense of humor..

oh how we wish that were true... lol

check the current OWB t-shirt thread!!!

as for the post it was funny, considering the guy had seen them live too...

why the hype about any band live... what does Keith Richrads do for example... and he's been doing the same shit with that Jagger Clown boy for like 40 years....

its horses for courses and that post, although not scathing, was funnier for its 'clowny' boy reference than anything else...

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by stimpee

just the little clowny boy singing live

As others have pointed out this weekend, he really looked more like a muppet.

[dubman]

oh matt
dont be so butthurt about the OWB thread.
you were just wrong

[Liam]

I dunno, I think the guy's got a point. Why don't they mix their tracks? They certainly used to. Recordings from before 1998 are straight out seamless jams beginning to end; layer upon layer or rhythm, melody, bass and improvisation. Now they just play their tracks and it basically does sound as if they were taken off the the album. I know that they do sequence it live, but they don't do nearly as much with it as they used to. Underworld are still a great live band, but they used to be so much more.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by Liam

I dunno, I think the guy's got a point. Why don't they mix their tracks? They certainly used to. Recordings from before 1998 are straight out seamless jams beginning to end; layer upon layer or rhythm, melody, bass and improvisation. Now they just play their tracks and it basically does sound as if they were taken off the the album. I know that they do sequence it live, but they don't do nearly as much with it as they used to. Underworld are still a great live band, but they used to be so much more.

ahh that'll be emerson....

shame i miss him