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Post by More Play Time on Nov 13, 2014 9:12:44 GMT -5
All I hear is 'he's a founder member who cant read music, cant produce, cant be ill, and cant be part of a live set'. This is just silly. There is only one Nick Rhodes on the whole planet, now, before or since. I'm glad he is there, even if he cant perform on stage (except for the 'Www' in Wild Boys). I've seen so many artists miming to backing tracks lately, I am very happy this band insists on using the live sound At All. Perhaps we should tie Nick to a keyboard and spin him over the audience inside a rusty cage, while JT bangs his head on a car, and Simon performs dangerous Houdini stunts on a wheel-of-death?? I'd pay money to see that.
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Post by oakey on Nov 13, 2014 15:04:14 GMT -5
I've seen so many artists miming to backing tracks lately, I am very happy this band insists on using the live sound At all The trouble is that Nick actually is miming, the moves he makes during songs like AVTAK are more like playing air keyboard than hitting actual notes. I don't think he is able to play his instrument well as he has never been interested in learning to. I remember a tv interview with Nick and John from the mid 1980s I think where the interviewer asks them how much they practice on their instruments these days. John starts laughing and immediately says to Nick something like "I know you don't". Of course there are more examples of lazy or incapable keyboard players. Fletch from DM is a good example of the latter, but he does not mime, he only plays occasional sound effects. Vince Clarke in Erasure is more a programmer than a live musician. Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys is actually lazy; he is a trained musician who can play well (see e.g. The A LIfe In Pop documentary where he plays It's A Sin live on an oldfashioned music hall organ). During live shows he barely plays anything with the exception of some tours (Pandemonium). He used to mime as well, for instance during their 1991 Performance tour. To me it is not relevant whether a musician is able to read music.
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