What a load of weak piss merely turned up loud. The kind of tripe a non writer writes in a rehearsal room or studio.As someone once eloquently put it is " busy but scrap"
the other day i was in town. there was an amazing band playing on the street. after a while a drunkard showed up and started shouting and rambling. at that point they sounded just like this 1:37
Ecstasy at 1,50 pill. L.S.D. at a quid. Amphetamine at what... 7,50 a gram. Pot 15 for an eighth. We collectively fucked ourselves into the ground. But the music was FUCKING excellent. Good times.
everyone always points out Squire the giutarist, but thier drummer was class too for my money. and i know how hard they are to learn to play, tried and failded many moons ago..peace
I saw the Sheffield gig of this tour - Would like to have seen Reni but Maddix did a stand-up job. Squire was on fire but yet he left soon after. Strange world.
Beautiful song and beautiful performance drowned out by an attention seeker! Poor Chris Helme. I would have been so peeved it that had been me. Still one of my favourite songs by a mile.
What is it with Squire picking frontmen who are incompetent at singing live? And don't say Squire was too loud. Countless frontmen do absolutely fine alongside a loud guitarist, simply because they're good at singing.
Audio’s better here. I think there’s a soundboard of this show anyway quite frustrating with this group; there’s a few soundboard recordings out there but this is about the only live video that was released. I was at this one too
John played so loud chris was guessing where to sing he said he could feel his teeth vibrate with every riff john played. I always said ian brown sang loads better in rehearsals but live he had to shout.
Thanks to Peter for posting this video. It's a pitty that the sound is not optimal. Anyways, John's solos are mind blowing. The band plays this song with sublime skill: great singing, powerful bass and epic drumming. Probably the best song of the best rock album of the 90s.
Was there at this gig, and I was disappointed at the backing vocals being so out of tune they seemed to put Chris off, but having read an interview recently, it was John’s guitar sound onstage being so loud , it was putting both the vocalists off, I don’t think anyone at the time was gonna be able to rein John in- he just wanted to play.. and play loud. Cracking band though, they were brilliant at Rock City the same year. The Roses were on another level musically though, the songs, the swagger, the vibe, the ethos. Seahorses were a great Bripop band, a great rock band- but the Roses were a lifesaver and a lifestyle..
Would definitely reccomend James Hargreaves' video on the subject, he goes over the band's entire history but he mentions at one point an interview where Chris mentions how painfully loud Squire's guitar always was and that, combined with the fact he was always riffing, never playing root notes, the wind, the crowd etc. it all just becomes white noise. There was no chance even the best singer could have been able to stick to the right key or keep in time.
