The Medusa Fora

WTF!

Which kind of shoes is Shane wearing while the gigs?

I was wondering in Munich, last year, if i saw right.


But what is this?



Looks a bit like:



The stage is his livingroom

I am wondering if any USA residents ordered the triple vinyl set from hmv.com, and if so, have you received it yet?

Sadly, I still have not received my DVD/CD combo pack from amazon.fr nor have I received the record set.

I'm trying to be as patient as I can be.

FAY wrote:I am wondering if any USA residents ordered the triple vinyl set from hmv.com, and if so, have you received it yet?

Sadly, I still have not received my DVD/CD combo pack from amazon.fr nor have I received the record set.

I'm trying to be as patient as I can be.

We rec'd both combo pack and vinyl. I think I ordered them both from Amazon.fr

Has anyone in the US gotten the "box set" with the DVD & CD from Amazon US? My date keeps getting pushed back?

just got the dvd /cd set for me birthday to go with my blu-ray
asked for vinyl as well but cant see me geting that as kids seem a bit perplexed "VINYL" "whats vinyl"

To find out what popstars are wearing on their feet etc, visit toomuchtimeonmyhands.com

old barney greyheron wrote:visit toomuchtimeonmyhands.com

Ähm, sorry. I have a job alone in an office. I watched it 3 times on Tuesday...with this amount of time, you see everything on a dvd

HELP - What do I oorder & where from (Ideally I would like to go to a shop & buy, but I would like the whole Shebang!!)

WOW Just realised I managed to post at 12.12 on the 12.12.12 - not bad for a novice geek!!!

Iggy Lady wrote:HELP - What do I oorder & where from (Ideally I would like to go to a shop & buy, but I would like the whole Shebang!!)

There's a list of what's available, and links to places to purchase them, on the front page: http://www.pogues.com/

Purchases via these links may help to keep the old raft afloat. Other sales emporia are of course available.

John Doe wrote:Has anyone in the US gotten the "box set" with the DVD & CD from Amazon US? My date keeps getting pushed back?

I ordered from amazon uk and received it almost 2 weeks ago (I think). In my limited experience, buying it as an an import from the US amazon site is much slower than buying it from the UK site. It was also usually cheaper, although I did not check the US import price this time.

Finally got the DVD+CD Box and it's amazingly good
Just one thing the 5.1 sound didn't work as it should
Cheerrss

Watching/listening to this now...my wife got me it for xmas..bless her heart..it's beautiful..

Santa (i.e. my gorgeous wife) got me the CD as well, loving it, great performance and recording.

Been listening to a lot of the official live Pogues releases recently and one of the things that has struck me is the little differences within each performance of certain songs. This seems to be most obvious on tracks like DOT and Brown Eyes, where what's played on the mandolin and banjo particularly seems to vary between different versions. Does anybody know if this just down to the recording/acoustics/mastering or have certain band members changed or amended their parts over the years on certain songs?

Kilmichael wrote:Santa (i.e. my gorgeous wife) got me the CD as well, loving it, great performance and recording.

Been listening to a lot of the official live Pogues releases recently and one of the things that has struck me is the little differences within each performance of certain songs. This seems to be most obvious on tracks like DOT and Brown Eyes, where what's played on the mandolin and banjo particularly seems to vary between different versions. Does anybody know if this just down to the recording/acoustics/mastering or have certain band members changed or amended their parts over the years on certain songs?

Well, that depends. Arrangements evolve over time in the natural order of things. However, "Dirty Old Town" may be a special case as, in 2001, we abandoned the 1985 arrangement we had worked on with Elvis Costello for Rum, Sodomy. Elvis felt that because Ewan MacColl's ballad does not shift anywhere else once the main theme has been stated [that is, there is no chorus or middle eight or other harmonic shift] but just repeats to the finish, that a potential single version needed more colour and variation, so he helped us put some key changes in it. Notably, these are right after the guitar/harmonica introductory verse and coming into the uileann pipes/fiddle/mandolin instrumental section later. Almost certainly, EC's commercial judgement was sound on this but, when it came to do the song again for the 2001 reunion, Shane asked us to restore it to how it had been before that, which is basically how the Dubliners had played it before us. Interestingly, this released a whole new energy into the song, a kind of old-timey string band vibe which we all liked very much. This is substantially the version we've stuck with ever since, although of course this in itself varies depending on whether or not the horns are with us - the trombone, sax and trumpet add their own cadences which affect the overall sound.

But in general, as individuals, it's fair to say we're always making small changes in our work all the time. It keeps things interesting.