wolfwill23
War Child
IMO, this song is the only song from Bomb that is truly epic. The other songs are good enough, but this song clearly rises above the rest and will become timeless. It's also a great live song.
fredstab said:yahweh is so bad live....i hate it....why people loves this song??? I Don't understand...
COBL and Miracle Drug so far are probably the two songs that need the most work live.
Sorry to rain on your parade but I'd say Neil Young does a hell of a job connecting with the audience. It's incredible, I was up on the grass seats in a large auditorium and he just rocked, and I felt like I was watching him play in his living room. Another band that connects well with the audience is the rhcpregularguy said:
There is always an issue at rock concerts -- the "fourth wall" if you will that tends to exist between the artist and the audience. The fans have paid quite a bit of money, waited in ticket lines, purchased nine dollar beverages, and sat in parking lot traffic to watch millionaires play. I think that in judging live acts, artists that can break this wall effectively earn "greatness" status. (You know, there are always counter examples -- just to take a nutty example, the Replacements were a great live band by consciously going for the exact opposite effect.)
If I had to make a list of the mainstreem acts that do this effectively, there's basically 1. U2, 2. Bruce Springsteen, and then a big gap to everyone else. U2 achieves it's seeming accessibility live in a lot of different ways, but Yahweh is simply a great audience connection song.
It's a song, at bottom, about humility, sung by the band accoustically with minimal special effects, standing out in the center of the floor surrounded by the fans. Now, it may be true that the lyrics are about a somewhat different type of humility than I'm talking about here, but played live, the song is about community and connection with the paying audience. The song took a little bit to grow on me on the record. Live, it is an absolute highlight.
Stingray said:Sorry to rain on your parade but I'd say Neil Young does a hell of a job connecting with the audience. It's incredible, I was up on the grass seats in a large auditorium and he just rocked, and I felt like I was watching him play in his living room. Another band that connects well with the audience is the rhcp
I agree with everthing you said, Ijust had to say it
Stingray said:Sorry to rain on your parade but I'd say Neil Young does a hell of a job connecting with the audience. It's incredible, I was up on the grass seats in a large auditorium and he just rocked, and I felt like I was watching him play in his living room. Another band that connects well with the audience is the rhcp