Whistle Test got some of the best live performances out of these bands back then....This one for sure and also Severina from the Mish a year or so later....must have been kewl to play that show knowing all the while going in that you were going to sound great..Props to Gary Marx here for flawless Ebow playing. I use one and it isnt as easy at it looks to keep the sustain constant in a live setting but he does a great job here...now how about that original members reunion tour in 2010-2011!!
Yea these guys were a huge part of my teenage years. Visseljarda hit it on the head when he/she said that not many people has the same emotion as Andrew Eldritch. I don't know many (if any) people who can sing like he can. He almost sounds disgusted by his own words in some strange way. Legendary stuff. And dont' forget that they only put out something like 3 studio albums.
Eldritch and Gary Marx have both gone on record saying that Craig Adam's bass sound was one of, if not, the defining sounds of The Sisters of Mercy. I tend to agree, the bass on both Floodland and Vision Thing just wasn't up to scratch - probably because Eldritch wrote and mostly recorded the parts.
I saw these guys at Cheyne Park in Detroit, MI. in 1991. (I live in Australia) We met some girls in the car park and ended up back stage. I however, lost in the alcoholic moment, whilst in in the bandroom, spent some time driving the porcelaine bus.........all the way from drunken bastard AUSTRALIA it seems!!!!
@twilightkinko It's an E-Bow. You can see it clearly at 4:20. They cost about $100 and they are cool as hell. Your strumming hand simply holds the E-Bow over the strings and you get a sppoky, endless sustain.
ego and drugs capsized the group; gary marx your haunting guitar made the sisters come to life, w. hussey did ok to carry it through for another year but after s.o.m sounded too much like a metal hair band. i enjoyed it while it lasted. sisters 4ever
Agreed-I used to have a load of their 12"s. Some of the B-Sides were truly inspiring. Maybe they'll re=release them as an anniversary pkg sometime in the near future?
this has to be the Sisters at their peak - remember seeing this on OGWT and it totally blew me away ? Have you got the other track First & Last & Always from it ? I actually have this and FALAA from this recording on Vinyl somewhere
without husseys superb 12 string sound the sisters of mercy would have no extreme contrast .. the band at this period really suceeded on the sum of its parts .... as lesser solo efforts would bear that out including everything the sisters did after hussey and adams left....
I don't entirely agree with that, theres been some very decent 90's music. The 2000's have had their occasional spurt of good innovative music, unfortuantly nowadays, even 'alternate' is cool so everythings mass marketed. :/
sisters.. scotch and amphetamines.. and 12 hr shifts = divorce.. I lived a real goth lifestyle. Thank fuck I escaped all that.. The music is all that matters.
@wibeseeker Actually I thought the drum track was too regular and almost totally without dynamics. Any real drummer would also note the lack of cymbal crashes at key points in the song. Probably the weakest sound in the track is the hi hat. A real drummer changes the pressure on the hi hat pedal so that every note has just the right tone ,volume and sustain. This hi hat track is just plain lifeless and dull. I like the song however even with boring drum track.
