[kj] ot. new bauhaus C.D, ;( what a let down! NO

[jane.shadforth at shell.com]

I'm with Sade on this one. Bauhaus were the first band I ever saw (Hammersmith Palais in 1983), and I will always remember what an overwhelmingly awesome experience that show was for me.
 
When they reformed in 1998 I had to catch a couple of shows again, (Manchester & London I think??), and it was like I was 15 all over again. Sure the band have aged, (haven't we all?), but for me it wasn't about what they looked like. PM still wove a spell over the audience with his atmospheric stagecraft, and the music was just perfect. In 2006, we went to see them in Manchester, Birmingham, London, Berlin, Barcelona & Madrid, and I thought the stripped down show was fantastic, (Manchester & Madrid being the two stand-out shows).
 
I probably never get my old vinyl albums out to play, and I don't yet have the new album (maybe get onto amazon shortly), but all my memories of seeing them live are all good ones...
 
I'm a bit of a live junkie with all bands though. I rarely get time to play music at home, (and can't listen to stuff whilst I'm working - to distracting), so have to get my fix at live shows.
 
Just my penniesworth, Jane

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: 17 April 2008 04:48
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] ot. new bauhaus C.D, ;( what a let down! NO


   Bauhaus for me is an experience, more than just the music (which i regard 
as summa tha best stuff I've ever heard). 
   Personally that revolves alot around their live presence and performance of their 
work, because it's the only way 
I got to know'em,right from the start: 
                                                    -gig-concert-concert-gig-concert-etc.etc. 3 gigs in '98, 
                                                    -3 gigs in '05. Peter twice, L&R their farewell gig at the
                                                    -Roxy in '96 (didn't knowthey were Bauhaus-sans-Peter.
 
   But i get your comment too. I absolutely loved Gang Of Four when I saw them 
live (IMO the most moving live performances I've ever seen) BUT . . . I buy their cds, 
I'll put'em on = and they sound like total shit on disc. 
  Woulnd't and haven't played those discs since i first bought them - but if they announce
a tour, i'm there in a hummingbird's heartbeat.  Weird, i know.

 
GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com> wrote:

Havent' heard much Bauhuas beyond their college (US) radio "hits", but I don't "get" them. SOund like David Bowie singing non-songs, just lame slightly dirgy limping rants (not nearly as good as "It's a Dreeeeegs" by the Joke)...



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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:34:52 -0700
From: saulomar1 at yahoo.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] ot. new bauhaus C.D, ;( what a let down! NO



> I call it the Edgar Allan Poe meets a Glam undertaker look........ 

 
Whenever i looked up at Peter's bleach-blond cone-shaped hair on his last <http://www.flickr.com/photos/prudenceneverpays/360234801/>  solo tour 
i kept thinking, " Doctor." <http://www.ear.fm/Encyclopedia%20D/dr_and_the_medics.jpg>  
 

> anyone looks better next to Trent Reznor...

 
And will sound better, too. Or better put, he'll sound horrendous singing next 
to anyone else. 
 
Case in point:
  for Halloween '96 I went to see NIN opening for David Bowie. The last song NIN played 
was "Hurt," and at song's end the stage and venue went pitch-black as Trent Reznor held
 ("held") the last note in the dark. Soon the most impressive Voice chimed in imultaneously
and sings that same note, and Reznor sounded absolutely, embarrasingly, oh-god-no-please HORRID. 
  Me and my friend looked at each other and agreed no way would we have publicly 
embarrased ourselves like that by sharing that note with Bowie's oh-so-flawless tone-&-
sustain. We actually felt sorry for Trent, and not in any patronizing manner but, didn't he
know Bowie is 3 light-years beyond him, we wondered.  I mean, we felt it when Bowie chimed in on that same note. He sounds stellar.
 
  ...so the lights went up, all NIN gear was gone and Bowie's band was in place, rocking.
They closed with "Under Pressure."
 
Bauhaus asides...
--- Doesn't the Gotham album cover look somewhat genitalic, even from any angle? 
Noticedit when i first got it: http://thesentinelsoftime.club.fr/Images/Bauhaus%20Gotham.jpg
 
--- A million dollars to whoever can explain to me the significance 
    of the Head in the Lightbox effect Peter uses during "Double Dare":
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z9djjD2XnM <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z9djjD2XnM&feature=related> &feature=related 
                       (Baphomet is the closest i can get to explaining it)
 
--- And the rehearsal for that box effect:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEsJh4hHWEc
 

Bette Dillinger <bettedillinger at live.com> wrote:

"When I saw them in '05, that was also a damn good show but they basically 
did their show on a bare stage with no props unlike the '98 tour and Murphy 
frankly looked like he'd aged about 20 years, looked really unkempt with a 
pot belly and badly bleached scraggly hair complete with a big bald patch."
 
I call it the Edgar Allan Poe meets a Glam undertaker look........ I read he was very angry at the rest of the band, and felt his looks were being focused on to the exclusion of everything else (yeah, wah wah wah, Murphy).  But, I mean, he didn't look that horrific.  He even did a runway thing.....look up a video under "Peter Murphy Buckler".....he sang and spiffed himself up more......kind of in keep with my theory that he distorted his looks so much to upset the other members of the band.  Whatever.  No one is 25 forever.
  
"He looked somewhat better when I saw them open for Nine Inch Nails a year 
later but his best days are clearly behind him and he looks like a right 
twat when he does those goofy goth aerobics moves these days."
 
Goth moves?  All he did when I saw him was swing his jacket.....but then, that band fell apart during this last tour so he could have been hopping around like in the beginning of "the Hunger" for all I know on the first leg.
 
IMO anyone looks better next to Trent Reznor in 2008..;0  They should make a cardboard cutout of him for insecure peeps.......
 
-Bette
 
 
 
rom: Partyslammer at socal.rr.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:05:18 -0700

> Subject: Re: [kj] ot. new bauhaus C.D, ;( what a let down! NO

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "sade1" wrote:

> 

> 

> >> these types of reunions reek of desperation for acceptance and cash.

> >

> > Not Bauhaus'. Both the '98 and '05 tours prolly scared the shit out of 

> > wannabe

> > bands into quitting music and go back to school. I want to think it also 

> > halved the

> > lifespan of the Emo genre:

> > how could one see Bauhaus live and dare to spin emo from the same 6 

> > strings.

> > Sacrilege, heathens...blasphemies! *evil Jaz eyeglare*

> 

> I kind of missed the boat when Bauhaus was first around at the beginning of 

> the 80's. Beyond picking up their two compilation cds "1979 - 1983" and 

> liking a few of their more significant singles, I really didn't listen to or 

> know much else about them. I actually got more into Love and Rockets through 

> the 80's due to their self titled album with the single "So Alive."

> 

> However, when Bauhaus reformed in '98, I saw one of their Hollywood 

> Palladium shows on basically a whim and it turned out to be one of the all 

> time best concerts I've ever seen and I quickly went nuts and bought 

> everything they've ever released on any format.

> 

> When I saw them in '05, that was also a damn good show but they basically 

> did their show on a bare stage with no props unlike the '98 tour and Murphy 

> frankly looked like he'd aged about 20 years, looked really unkempt with a 

> pot belly and badly bleached scraggly hair complete with a big bald patch. 

> He looked somewhat better when I saw them open for Nine Inch Nails a year 

> later but his best days are clearly behind him and he looks like a right 

> twat when he does those goofy goth aerobics moves these days.

> 

> T.B. 

> 

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