Yeah, what they said.
Oct. 8th, 2006 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tenayaThis is a clip from the Variety review of the Roger Waters concert. I'd agree with the whole thing except they thought the quadraphonic sound was good. Nooo, it wasn't. The speaker next to me (stage left, rear) only came on occasionally and there was one bit where the visuals showed a coliseum type structure in LA filled with water, where the combatants were a nuclear sub and something else. The coliseum crowd roared when the sub launched to torpedos and the sound was so loud and muddy and I had to cover my ears from the obnoxious noise. So, no.
"If "Dark Side" showcases Waters' at his most controlled, the new songs allow him to indulge all his worst impulses, cloaking shallow ideas in portentous music, sounding simultaneously overwrought and underbaked. The songs are harshly political and anti-war; he hectors the aud like an Old Testament prophet, reaching his nadir with "Leaving Beirut."
Regardless of the quality of the songs, the quadraphonic surround sound was top notch, as were the visuals, even if their clarity was more impressive than the images themselves. Why is it that when designers are given the most modern state of the equipment, their first reaction is to re-create the light shows from the '60s and '70s?"
And see, I wasn't the only one that grew weary of the preaching.
"If "Dark Side" showcases Waters' at his most controlled, the new songs allow him to indulge all his worst impulses, cloaking shallow ideas in portentous music, sounding simultaneously overwrought and underbaked. The songs are harshly political and anti-war; he hectors the aud like an Old Testament prophet, reaching his nadir with "Leaving Beirut."
Regardless of the quality of the songs, the quadraphonic surround sound was top notch, as were the visuals, even if their clarity was more impressive than the images themselves. Why is it that when designers are given the most modern state of the equipment, their first reaction is to re-create the light shows from the '60s and '70s?"
And see, I wasn't the only one that grew weary of the preaching.
