Thoughts about the MSO show

[PenguinHead]

Since we are being offered several measly crumbs from the MSO shows on the upcoming Crystal Visions, it inspired me to carefully listen to the one full show I have -- Melbourne February 06 (not sure of day...anyone?).

The predominent thought is that the project was essentially shelved because of faulty recording. But didn't they record more than one night?

From what I can discern from my fairly descent recording, the band can also be blamed. They played very loud and aggressively, seemingly indiffent to the orchestra. It appears that very little imaginative effort was put into producing a unique show that fully integrated and featured the orchestra.

No, as usual they just go through the motions, and start the show with a typical opener, Outside The Rain. The strings are reduced to a background drone over a dominant guitar. Rhiannon, with its big string build-up intro, would have been a great opener.

The songs that faired best are Beautiful Child, Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You, Landslide, Beauty and The Beast, and Gold Dust Woman (the latter two should have been included on the new comp).
Sorcerer may be good too, but it's hard to hear through the drone.

Wish she would have thought of performing Kind Of Woman. That song lends itself to orchestration, especially the intrumental part. Also, Everybody Finds Out!