Television - the Drug of the Nation was a great part of the pre-show build up. I remember seeing Disposable Heroes live at ZOO TV Outside Broadcast Saratoga Springs and they were a great support act.
Of course back the world was emerging from Gulf War I - the first war that was (selectively) broadcast real-time to the world and their armchairs 24hrs a day and set the path for the news network coverage from the likes of CNN that we are still seeing from Iraq.
If this aspect of the world seemed a bit twisted then it is doubly so now - definitely still a relevant song and theme for the show. Now we have internet to some extent replacing or at least feeding television as this wild medium is used, in its most ugly form, to show the execution of hostages etc. You see so many dead bodies on news bulletins now that you just wouldn't have seen back in '92. It makes me in this respect that life is getting cheap and we're slipping back to the Dark Ages.
On a brighter note... can't wait for the next tour! Some of the ideas posted here are really imaginative. And I echo the sentiments of PowerSurge back on pg 4 of this thread when s/he said "PLEASE make this tour be more than just the music....make it more...please....I don't care how you package it, or how it sounds, this is the eye of the hurricane, many bad things are on the horizon please use this tour as a megaphone for those who barely are a whisper in this world of static and chaos."
Of course back the world was emerging from Gulf War I - the first war that was (selectively) broadcast real-time to the world and their armchairs 24hrs a day and set the path for the news network coverage from the likes of CNN that we are still seeing from Iraq.
If this aspect of the world seemed a bit twisted then it is doubly so now - definitely still a relevant song and theme for the show. Now we have internet to some extent replacing or at least feeding television as this wild medium is used, in its most ugly form, to show the execution of hostages etc. You see so many dead bodies on news bulletins now that you just wouldn't have seen back in '92. It makes me in this respect that life is getting cheap and we're slipping back to the Dark Ages.
On a brighter note... can't wait for the next tour! Some of the ideas posted here are really imaginative. And I echo the sentiments of PowerSurge back on pg 4 of this thread when s/he said "PLEASE make this tour be more than just the music....make it more...please....I don't care how you package it, or how it sounds, this is the eye of the hurricane, many bad things are on the horizon please use this tour as a megaphone for those who barely are a whisper in this world of static and chaos."