Tagged With "Crowded House Musical"
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Re: Meeting your heroes...
yeah - good point. but i'd also have to agree with....i think it was jenn? when the opportunity comes up to meet a hero, or just a musician you'd like to compliment, i try to take it. case in point - neil finn's gig at the fillmore in san francisco this past july. not only did i get a chance to talk to neil, but also johnny marr, whom i've LONG admired and have wanted to shake hands with. we exchanged few words, and i kinda blushed when he remarked that i "knew all the songs." as a life-long...
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Re: Meeting your heroes...
yeah - good point. but i'd also have to agree with....i think it was jenn? when the opportunity comes up to meet a hero, or just a musician you'd like to compliment, i try to take it. case in point - neil finn's gig at the fillmore in san francisco this past july. not only did i get a chance to talk to neil, but also johnny marr, whom i've LONG admired and have wanted to shake hands with. we exchanged few words, and i kinda blushed when he remarked that i "knew all the songs." as a life-long...
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Re: Nambassa 1979 concert.
Nambasa Festival was called "Festival Music" and out on Stetson Label in NZ 2SLRP12. Frenzy/I see red/Bold as Brass... has a live Enz shot on the cover....(Tim and Nigel from memory). Released as a double LP in 1979. Same reason as most of the stuff, getting hold of master footage...that is in good (hell even average condition)....easy to say harder to do hopefully TVNZ will come up with some good stuff on Holmes!!! Peter
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Re: Relevance of the Finns in the music industry
I don't think this issue of relevance has much to do with music and thats the whole problem. Its tied up in everything else...image, controversy, knowing the right people, etc. The Finns have never been considered 'cool' which unfortunately has always held them back to a certain degree. They've never been mega controversial. If they never had it back in their 20s they're hardly gonna have it in middle-age. The music shouldn't really be an issue. They write songs about things that are ALWAYS...
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Re: Relevance of the Finns in the music industry
On a more serious note, for the last 25 YEARS it has been consistently believed in the music world that the Finn, Split Enz and Crowded House were making music OUTSIDE THEIR TIME. No-one ever called Split Enz relevant in the 70s and 80s - they were always, to quote a music journalist of the day, 'Just outside their time' and just out of the mainstream. To paraphrase Rolling Stone, 'Neil could have written anything, in any style of music and had hits coming out of his proverbial, but he chose...
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Re: Bootlegs, Taboo????
neil talked a bit about downloading/trading bootlegs of live shows during his world cafe appearance earlier this year: question: talk a little about you and the internet, you really embraced the whole wide open nature of this. you don't seem to be afraid of people stealing your music. neil: not really, i have mixed feelings about it obviously. some of my songs have done well and if not for copyright i wouldn't have benefited from them, so i'm not knocking it, but on the other hand i think...
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Re: Peter Garrett Quits Midnight Oil.......
Well, you did, but they have a habit of either getting shot at or dying in plane crashes... Anyways it's a sad day for Australian music. I'd propose a minute's silence but I think the warcry of the Midnight Oil fans would be more appropriate... "O-ILSSSSSSSSS!!!!!"
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Re: Bootlegs, Taboo????
Wow Paul H, you took that WAY too seriously. I can see it now: I'll start my own Neil Finn pirating company, and when I get sued in court my defense will be, "But Neil SAID I could!" Yikes, chill out. The entire POINT of that post was to illustrate Neil's liberal stance on the subject in general, not to condone, or in ANY way imply that Neil condones illegal copying of music. Neil was just being Neil.......chatting comfortably with the hundred or so of us fans that turned up for the free...
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Re: Bootlegs, Taboo????
Without making this any sort of official comment as I always prefer to leave stuff like that up to Neil, all of us have always been fine about fans swapping live material. The main thing has always been to keep it subtle. The times when we will get heavy (put on my Docs now) is when someone takes full advantage of fans. Example: a few years back (no names please) a club member who was one of the first Life members got a copy of "stage talk" with his kit (we included them in a lot, just as a...
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Re: Bootlegs, Taboo????
well said peter. as a moderator of this topic I really do try to make sure you guys are keeping within the limits when it comes to these kinds of things. Most of the time everyone knows right from wrong and there is no problem. I understand how bootlegging could be a real problem and I'm totally against anyone who makes a profit from duplicating bootlegs and fanclub material. Anyway...it is really meant for the fans who love the groups covered in FOTE and if you love SE, CH and Neil and...
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Re: Bootlegs, Taboo????
Nice post, Peter . (I just thought you might have problems sleeping tonight if someone else didn't compliment you on your fantastic post ). Did anyone ever consider that the people paying that sort of price for dodgy bootlegs of fanclub CDs must already be pretty massive fans & would have probably already brought Neil Finn 's complete back catalogue? Just a thought. I'm sure that thought had already entered everyone's minds, but still worth mentioning... at least I thought it was ... The...
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Re: mix cd's for neil
Yeah, a couple of colleagues and I made Neil a sort-of-Mixtape a while back while he was composing the score for "Rain." He was after a collection of hit songs from 1972. I was surprised how many tunes were familiar from that year but had totally unmemorable titles, recorded by forgotten artists. After all that, the "Rain" music sounds somewhat dissimilar to those songs, but at the same time really fits in with the era and my childhood memories of early 70s summer holidays. I love the...
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Re: Split Enz DVD thoughts
Maybe in a perfect world (before it really is too late and the footage in question is either destroyed or damaged beyond repair), the likes of the BBC would release their own DVD collection of Enz performances from 'Sight & Sound', 'Top Of The Pops' and 'The Old Grey Whistle Test', for example, amongst other BBC music shows that featured the Enz. I feel like these TV stations are taking the "dog-in-the-manger" approach to the footage they have in their archives. In other words, they...
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Re: Bootlegs, Taboo????
Thanks for the clarification, Paul H. It was very nice of you to explain your perspective, I really do appreciate it! Now that you mention it, I guess my sarcasm was heavily disguised. I'm sorry I reacted hastily; I just didn't want anyone to think that I would encourage illegal taping. Neil's music means the world to me, and I think the man deserves every penny he gets! So definitely no hard feelings.....in fact you're in my "good" books. It would have been alot easier for you to just say,...
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Re: Your all-time favourite MUSICIANS
1. Neil Finn/Ella Fitzgerald 2. Johnny Marr/Joao Gilberto/John Flansburgh 3. Mark King/the guy from the Brand New Heavies (don't know his name)/Sting 4. Stevie Wonder/Chris Lowe 5. Tito Puente/Stewart Copeland 6. Neil Finn/John Linnell
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Re: Your all-time favourite MUSICIANS
I just think for the amount of experience the guy has, and the amount of talent the guy has, his playing isn't necessarily very original, unusually skillful, or very passionate -- but understated rather than distinctive....things that usually grab me right away. I am referring mostly to his solo work, although can think of a couple CH examples where I felt this was the case. I think moreso than "annoying" with MH (in his case, that's the wrong word to have used...), it's a case where the...
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Re: Photos of YOU
jester and chester - okay. now that's funny. so i see from your pics you are both musicians. jester - none of the music links on the acoustic brownbag link for mac charles was working and now i'm kinda dying to hear your stuff. does it exist anywhere else? and chester - you were playing the guitar in one of your photos there. do you have any webbased tunes? i think i recall you e-mailed me saying you listened to a couple of mine. so now i'm curious to hear these other musicians on this...
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Re: Your all-time favourite MUSICIANS
Originally posted by Anselm: First, I love when Phil Collins does the tandem drumming thing with Chester Thompson. I guess I could have put Chester Thompson on my list too, I think it just kicks a** when they do that!! And, I also like how Phil puts the drums out in front when he produces and does his solo stuff (at least he used to, not sure if he still does). Maybe that has nothing to do with how he plays but, I think it has influenced how a lot of his music sounds. And by the way, just a...
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Re: Your all-time favourite MUSICIANS
Phil's written a lot of great music, and is a respectable drummer.
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Re: Your all-time favourite MUSICIANS
Hmmmmmmm, I take it Anselm you are a fan of the Peter Gabriel Genesis but not the Phil Collins era Genesis. Apples and Oranges my friend! I'm sorry, I adore Phil Collins, I'm not into what he's doing now but I love all his music both Genesis and solo from the 80's...
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Re: Your all-time favourite MUSICIANS
Don't be sorry Jenn, I'm right there with ya and got your back. - As suenotsusan pointed out, Great minds think alike. The guy can't have done too much wrong to stay in the business almost 30 years, win a ton of Grammys, and hell, even an Oscar.
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Re: Your all-time favourite MUSICIANS
Oh, don't worry geddy, I guess my being sorry was kinda just an expression - like, "sorry to disagree" I guess. As a matter of fact, I feel really feel the urge to go home and listen to some Phil Collins music for some reason... And, much appreciated that you've "got my back"!!
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Re: Photos of YOU
like rain: Iv'e had a lot of complaints about being scarce on the net,as for that acoustic brownbag show,I don't know why it's not working. that's okay though because I never liked that show anyway, I wasn't quite awake for that one. unfortunately a lot of people booted it and passed it around.blech! I wish I had a faster connection so as to hear everyones music properly.
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Re: Photos of YOU
Overall, it has become clear to me that we, "the Frenz" are a very handsome bunch, a group of unique, cosmopolitan and actually very "presentable" fans any music group should be very proud to have! That said, get ready, because here comes an onslaught of my unsolicited opinions about all the piccies on this thread, so far! Here goes: Silke – You give the impression of being a VERY good friend. And cute, too!! My favorite is the pic of you at the playground. Brandi – not that I need to point...
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Re: Most over-rated MUSICIANS
The only person I feel really strongly about right now as an over-rated (non-)musician is Jennifer Lopez. Puh-leeze! I always thought she was a wonderful actress, but she should no more have started a recording career than Eddie Murphy (remember "My Girl Wants To Party All the Time?" lol). All her spoiled, whiney, Selena-fantasy, ex-'hood rat gyrations have made me lose ALL respect. If there weren't videos, and/or if sex didn't sell, nobody would've ever given that voice a second listen. Off...
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Re: Most over-rated MUSICIANS
Originally posted by Sweet Secret Peace: Couldn't agree with you more! She is so appealing as an actress, I don't really get why she has to do this music thing. She is going to over-expose herself so much that no one is going to want to hear about her again! God, and now her and Ben Affleck, is there ever a time when she is not being flashed across the tv screen? I am sick of hearing about her, she should keep some of her private life private IMO...
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Re: Anyone else upset about the state of the world?
Thanks Heidi. Yes, at times it all seems so frustrating. I think that some things that we can do are (in no particular order) join Amnesty International write your Senator/ Congressperson/ President/ PM VOTE (just vote, period, I don't care who for.) join Greenpeace be nice to each other Of course, reuse, reduce, recycle. play music, loudly, and dance around. Hugs help too.
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Re: Anyone else upset about the state of the world?
Originally posted by Heidi: 9/11 itself is what got me into music again in such a big way - music can be a really great comfort. Also, I found this community of people with so many similar likes, and not just in music. In general, I spend as much time as I can with my family and friends and I try to laugh. Or go for a walk. I think exercise helps so much too. If you are religious, pray, go to church. Or explore another spiritual path if that is a comfort to you. Talk to people, hug your...
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Re: Stereolab singer killed in London accident
yep, a very sad day fans of music..... I saw them live not too long ago and they were absolutly amazing. it's a big loss for fans of music that still challenges listeners. donovan.
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Re: Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe!
Opening night is at Melbourne Concert Hall on New Years Eve - thank you Hairy Bird. It's quite an extravaganza and the songs sound wonderful. I don't think Phil has written all the words but he has done all of the music. Which is just magical. I don't know about a soundtrack just now. Cheers.
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Re: Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe!
'Tis the other way around, Lozzemelad. Phil's done the lyrics - music is by a guy named Ian McDonald, who has worked for various state theatre companies here for ages. Not a musical as such, but a big show with eight original songs. Soundtrack recording - I doubt it. Eight songs wouldn't make much of an album, but I guess you could add some underscoring and incidental music as well. The other thing is that cast recordings don't happen here as a general rule, though in recent years some...
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Re: Tim and Phil - Will we ever see them team up again?
Tim was at Caulfield (Periscope) and Phil was living at St Kilda still (I think from memory) and possibly Chris Gough (Mana Music) approached them both...... I think that's what happened, so they gave it a shot. To be honest I forget if it was recorded at periscope, seems ages ago....all I can remember is laughing at Phils hat and Tims obsession over orange clothes ... At one stage in that clip doesn't Phil look like Bernhard from Suede? PG p.s. the single was a total flop. No airplay, very...
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Re: Aussie Music Fans Please Help!!!
Ahem... well start off with a truckload of songs from INXS Oh and just because you can count in Crowded House... (no arguments plz ) Bands like Cold Chisel and ACDC although thats not really in my taste, Kylie Minogue would have to be played like here or not, its fitting party music. Oh and Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly, the Cruel Sea I would thouroughly reccomend. More recent bands/artists I would give the thumbs up to are Alex Lloyd, Powderfinger, Something for Kate, Silverchair... and umm you...
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Re: Aussie Music Fans Please Help!!!
Thanks guys!! I must stress that the nature of this party is a bit of a giggle, basically we have to decorate our office in an Australian theme, and the music is just to add to that. While the neighbouring office has another theme, then the head of the division will vote on who wins!....it's just like being at school! LOL Anyway...my CD is done and the tracklist is as follows. (Remember it's all about setting an aussie theme, rather than actual...eh...quality!lol) I split it into sections,...
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Re: Aussie Music Fans Please Help!!!
Ok.....take bono's list and kill nearly all of it!!!....or at least recycle it, i think they'd go in the back compartment! i know they're "classic" songs.....but why are all the most famous australian tunes so ****!?!? I remember when i had a 'classic chocolate milkshake.....and let me tell you....it was pretty crap. moral to my fantastic story....its a fine line between classic and crap! The amount of times I heard 'down under' when i was travelling around america and europe was sickening!
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Re: Donny Osmond and DDIO
...Hey, lighten up on Donnie. He lived in Chicago back in the 90's for 3 or 4 years doing Joseph and I heard him say in an interview what a fan of CH he was. His style is WAY different than Neil's, but at least he is doing his part to get the Finn music out to the public....he recorded a few years back selections from "Rent" that kinda freaked me out, too, but...he's Donnie Freakin Osmond!!! He is 100% nice and looks good for a 46 year old...it would be like hating your brother for singing a...
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Re: Aussie Music Fans Please Help!!!
Good list, Bono . I think you pretty much covered it. Most of those songs are probably the ones you'd use to get someone into the artists. Donovan - Your list wasn't really all that much different to Bono 's (the one you ripped shreds into) - you just selected different bands with basically the same style... although your selection must be way superior! The Mavis's - cry george (probably not "party music", but classic stuff) Paul Kelly (take your pick!) Savage Garden (again, take your pick.
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Re: Special Guest @ Chicago Show
I don't know anything about him, but he's supposed to be very good. There have been threads elsewhere on the forum discussing how great he is. He's also part of a band who's name escapes me at the moment. I might try to check him out before the show. It's always more fun when you know the music.
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Re: Anyone else upset about the state of the world?
While frenz.com is really about MUSIC and musicians, we sometimes let other topics sneak in. However, when it comes to things that have to do with politics and religion (or other really hot issues), we tend to shut these topics down. They are too hot with people on very diverse sides and it sometimes gets personal and ugly. So if you're going to continue, make sure it stays open and friendly. Too heated or disrespectful and we'll have to close it down. Thanks.
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Re: KGSR-FM webcast
I'll be sooooo excited by the time they finish I won't sleep!!!!! Trying to log on to Yahoo , Silke, but no go!!! It would be fun but, ....shall just ahve to enjoy the music instead, poor Addictedagain having to miss it.
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Re: Gig injuries
When I was a teenager, I went to see punk groups like the Dead Kennedys at this legendary hole-in-the-wall, chicken-wire type of club called the Electric Banana (long gone, now). (There was this old goth couple who everybody called Johnny and Judy Banana, who ran the place.) I snuck out to see Corrosion of Conformity at the Electric Banana (I was seventeen, but had a friend's ID...). I was wearing my new beret that I'd bought at an Army Surplus store. I was standing near the back, listening...
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Re: POLL: Finn On Finn>> Influence On Woodface's Success
Much as I adore Neil's music and (if I'm honest) don't think much of Tim's work (with a few exceptions), it can't be denied that a) CH's (and therefore by connection, Neil's) most famous song was mostly Tim's, and b) CH's most succesful CD was mostly co-composed with Tim. I think it just shows that they work very well together, rather than that Neil needs Tim to get commercial success. Clearly that didn't happen with the Finn CD. Its simply that the with-Tim Woodface was the right record at...
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Re: POLL: Finn On Finn>> Influence On Woodface's Success
I pretty much agree with what you say here, P.F. I can't really describe the effect that Neil's songs have on me, other than to say that they reach somewhere deep down inside me and wrap themselves around my heart in a way that I haven't experienced with any other songwriter. But having said that, that can be an intense feeling that can get overwhelming in large doses. I don't really feel that Tim adds what Neil is "lacking," but rather he adds a different dimension to the music, that breaks...
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Re: Relevance of the Finns in the music industry
Only thing wrong with your definition, Secret God, is that MTV NO LONGER plays videos. Neither will VH-1. At least here in the good ol' USA. Even MTV2 (or whatever it's called) doesn't seem to be what it touted itself way back when it debuted. We're certainly not going to see Our Neil on video channels here. Oh..wait...I think the country music video channel manages to play all music all the time....might be our only hope. I hear there's still music channels out there in isolated corners of...
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Re: POLL: Finn On Finn>> Influence On Woodface's Success
Your description is the right one, it's exactly what I ment. Forget the "lacking". Neils songs are perfect within themselves. I too like TA is even better than Woodface, mainly because of its atmosphere. I also think that Crowded House wasn't ready to make an album like TA when they started on WF. Therefore it was good that Tim came along on that moment, it give CH a great album and a breakthrough in Europe. It's true CH ows a lot to Tim. Did you notice the difference? On Woodface Tim sings...
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Re: LOTR (Non-spoilers only)
I found this review in the Daily Telegraph (UK) - written by a woman (as if that needs to be said after reading it, LOL). I particularly like the first paragraph............... (not sure exactly what constitutes a 'spoiler' so if worried please skip this post!!!) Is this the longest computer game in cinematic history? The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is like being trapped in a nerd's bedroom. Whenever you take a step toward the door, he cries: "No, you must watch this bit, this really...
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Re: New Car
You could have bertha, at least then i'd know good music would be played on her stereo! LOL!!! Good bye sweet sweet bertha!! LOL!!!
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Re: POLL: Finn On Finn>> Influence On Woodface's Success
Go Kill Eye ! It doesn't look like you'll be on Valerie 's Christmas card list this year! Honesty is best. Good post. I half-agree with you there. I've said many times before that I REALLY don't like that song, but the real reason for that is because it's WAY too catchy & annoying & looks like it belongs in the frickin' charts! There's no denying that Tim Finn did write a classic song, but when you've heard it that many times through your music-deprived childhood on commercial radio,...
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Re: POLL: Finn On Finn>> Influence On Woodface's Success
As I have said before on the forum Woodface was the first proper CH album I bought. I LOVED IT. Next I bought Together Alone. I remember the day I bought very vividly in detail like what shop, the person who served me, the phone call I made and etc the sitiuation I first played the CD in. IT WAS AWFULL!!! Later I learnt to appreciate TA and it is a GREAT album. But first impressions were truly bad. Maybe your emotional pshycological state, mood etc and external circumstances INFLUENCE how...
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Re: Relevance of the Finns in the music industry
For someone who is ambivilent about being an agnostic, you sure do bring religion up a whole heck of a lot, W.C.I.B.N.. I frankly don't agree that it makes any difference one way or the other to an artist's relevance in the industry. And Neil's values fit with all sorts of religions, not just judeo-christianity. He even wrote a song for a Buddhist. Neil and Tim are widely respected among fellow artists. There are plenty of people who think that they both craft great music. But here in...