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Post by ToneBender on Dec 13, 2011 21:01:00 GMT -5
Beady Eye @ The 9:30 Club It's easy to look at a band like Beady Eye and make easy pronouncements about the bombast of their music based on the circus that is the Gallagher brothers. When Noel threw in the towel and walked away from Oasis in 2009, it seemed almost inevitable after years of well publicized public quarrels and multiple band "breakups." But if you expected animosity and bitter feelings from Thursday night's Beady Show at the 9:30 Club, you would have been sorely disappointed. What was on display was a milieu that was equal parts professionalism, bombast and the pure rock 'n' roll swagger that one would expect from a front man who was named the Greatest of All Time by Q magazine in 2010. Like the Lennon and McCartney parting-of-ways, Liam and Noel's divergence has clearly exposed the ingredients that each brought to the successful Oasis recipe. Noel clearly brought a mellower, more folk-tinged version of the psychedelic vintage rock that so clearly draped the Oasis catalog, as evidenced by his solo work with outfit The High Flying Birds and their self-titled debut. In the case of Liam, and the members of Oasis who stuck with him, that set of ingredients is heavy on 60's psychedelic rock but of a harder variety, drenched in distortion and echoing delays of West Coast pop and even some boozier moments of bar-room blues on tracks like the barn-burning "Bring the Light". When experienced live Liam's voice is less whine and more a Mancunian howl, adding a distinct edge that's missing from the band's recorded debut "Different Gear, Still Speeding." "Four Letter Word" launched off the stage with bluesy swagger after Liam's proclamation that it wasn't some "[expletive] folk song." Tracks like "Three Ring Circus" have an added verve with Liam's distinctive glare stalking the stage, reaching up to the mic in his distinctively aggressive stance. On "The Beat Goes On," Liam sings that "it's not the end of the world...it's not even the end of the day" and despite the gauze of 60's pop that wrapped all the chords blazing from the speaker stacks, the guarded optimism of the sentiment seemed downright sincere. www.dcist.com/2011/12/beady_eye_the_930_club.php#photo-1 - GREAT pictures here
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Post by mkoasis on Dec 13, 2011 23:16:13 GMT -5
Nice to see another good review. Thanks for sharing!
I also love TRC very much live.
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Post by lucy520 on Feb 27, 2012 6:55:14 GMT -5
So good ¡¤ ¡¤ I wish you good luck.
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