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Originally Posted by PenguinHead
(Post 1155888)
I'm sitting here watching Blake Shelton's Not So Family Christmas TV show. He started the show by saying to the studio audience "you might be so moved by one of these Christmas classics that we're going to do, that you all actually start singing along with us here on the stage. But don't do that. Because if you do, the mikes will pick up your voices and you'll screw everything up."
That's sort of what has happened to Landslide. In earlier times, you could barely hear a pin drop from the audience; it was a dramatic moment, where everyone was silently focused on Stevie, paying reverence the song and the intense emotion being channeled. But now it's just become an audience participation sing along and sounds like a karaoke performance. I could barely hear Stevie over thousands of off key voices. Unwelcome to the choir sir! And welcome to the social media age where everyone gets to play a part! It ruined the moment.
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Sorry, but I have to disagree. Landslide is a song I watched on YouTube regularly last year - 2013 audience recordings and again this year - audience recordings from 2014.
Landslide for me is the one song that Stevie manages to still sing so beautifully and so perfectly that it does not age, apart from the line "Children get older and I'm getting older, too".
The sing a long is something I really hope Australian fans will participate in late next year when the band will hopefully be touring here, 2 years late, might I add.
Cancer was a good excuse until John was better. Now that he has been in remission for possibly a full year or more, there really was no excuse for not touring Australia first starting September 30, 2014. The Sydney weather was lovely. Melbourne is always four seasons in one day any time of year, but the lovely old Parliament and big four Banks buildings are just gorgeous. I can just see Stevie and Mick and Christine and John travelling past Flinders Street station on an old tram together. They are not as famous here. A lot of people my age (I'm 21) do not know who they are, full stop.
They could get away with more public appearances and receive less media attention here in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, especially Darwin and Adelaide (smaller cities), Perth, Canberra. Not sure if Canberra has an appropriate venue. Hobart in Tasmania? Will that be one of the token half-dozen shows we get?
I feel like this band treats us Aussies like chopped liver. We're an optional add on to a North American world and they can and would give us short shrift if they were sick of touring by the end of September 2015. Australia and New Zealand shows are still more of an if than a when for me, but November 2015 sounded good.
I am sure it must bore Americans to tears to hear me complain but I was due to see them in 2013. They would have been so close that I could have caught one train then a taxi or a bus to them! :cool:
Instead, two years late, they might decide to drop in for a dozen shows. Gee, thanks guys, no new album and you left us hanging for two years! Look, Christine is fine and I'm thankful for her participation but I could nearly boo the three amigos Stevie, Lindsey and Mick with their stacks of cash and Cheshire fat cat grins! John gets a get out of gaol free card because he nearly died. :lol:
Is that joke in poor taste?
