Colin I couldn't agree moreepsilon75 wrote:Just watching the DVD again i just love those Optical Race,Melrose tracks here especially the totally sublime "Mother's of rain" at the sign of the first note my arms were flailing telling the band to play up.
Ive got to be honest in saying i would willingly sit through a whole concert of Optical Race,Melrose and parts of Rockoon with the punchy rhythmic sounds that they had.................bloody great stuff and vastly underated
Chris Monk wrote:The other morning my brother came around to distribute Christmas presents and was utterly shocked to hear the end of the Tempodrom DVD, where Edgar is clearly heard to say "Burn the Bible". After a lot of umming and ahhing on my part we realised he'd misheard Berhard Beibl.
certainly sounds like the former 
No flamming from me...but I'll point out that if you watch TD in 82, 86, 90, 92, 96, 97, 2001, 2003, 2004, or 2006 they're performing exactly the same way (and that goes for Chris Franke in th London as a solo artist).JD wrote:I have to admit to being a little dissapointed with this DVD. The picture quality was great mind you, you could really see those keyboard hands not playing anything remotely like the music you can hear
I think the main problem I had is that there were 2 stunning guitar players on stage who had to spend almost 3 hours picking around for something to play, and geralds funk riffs get a bit irritating at times when they are spoiling some of the classics, just like Iris's relentless hitting of anything at arms reach without much thought as to whether it fits or not .Sometimes less is more.
I know I'll either be flamed or banned for this but I find watching Edgar Thorsten and jerome rocking back and forth or looking over at each other or pretending to be changing a synth sound while looking a little lost ....quite unbearable, and I feel cheated because its so obviouse that they are in reality doing nothing live at all.
Shame really though guys. I'll have to follow the words of Edgar and not buy anymore of the live shows on DVD
Please.... Not this again......JD wrote:I have to admit to being a little dissapointed with this DVD. The picture quality was great mind you, you could really see those keyboard hands not playing anything remotely like the music you can hear
I think the main problem I had is that there were 2 stunning guitar players on stage who had to spend almost 3 hours picking around for something to play, and geralds funk riffs get a bit irritating at times when they are spoiling some of the classics, just like Iris's relentless hitting of anything at arms reach without much thought as to whether it fits or not .Sometimes less is more.
I know I'll either be flamed or banned for this but I find watching Edgar Thorsten and jerome rocking back and forth or looking over at each other or pretending to be changing a synth sound while looking a little lost ....quite unbearable, and I feel cheated because its so obviouse that they are in reality doing nothing live at all.
Shame really though guys. I'll have to follow the words of Edgar and not buy anymore of the live shows on DVD
It's certainly not forbidden, it's only that it's been covered a zillion times before on the earlier version of this forum and a hand full of others. It's one of the few times Edgar has written a reply in answer to the 'M' wordJD wrote:"Please.... Not this again...... "
Oh has this already been covered ? I read through the thread but didn't see any comments about it. Maybe its forbidden to mention it in which case you have my sincere apolgies ? I guess everybody else is Ok with a live but not live gig.
. So I guess this is why a few fans get bored if quite a few threads always end up with 'TD, are they playing?' theme.
