Glastonbury via armchair 2023

Jalapeno

If you haven't - watch Rick Astley & The Blossoms playing The Smiths on iPlayer. Ruddy marvwllous !!!!!

monquixote

As mentioned by a few others I thought Lizzo's set was excellent. With a bit more material she could be a headliner.

Guns and Roses were a mixed bag. The band were competent, but felt like a high quality Guns and Roses tribute band, Slash was exceptional and is really just as good as he always was, but Axl just can't hit the notes anymore and he seems to have lost a lot of stage presence (although it's nice to see that he seems to be in reasonable shape these days)

guitars4you

monquixote said:

As mentioned by a few others I thought Lizzo's set was excellent. With a bit more material she could be a headliner.

Guns and Roses were a mixed bag. The band were competent, but felt like a high quality Guns and Roses tribute band, Slash was exceptional and is really just as good as he always was, but Axl just can't hit the notes anymore and he seems to have lost a lot of stage presence (although it's nice to see that he seems to be in reasonable shape these days)

Disagree about Slash - Thought there were many 'cringe worthy' notes, bum notes, miss hit, bad bends - Often the timing/phrasing between one set of legato licks to another was poor - As it happens on November Rain I thought Izzy's solo and licks were far more accomplished and polished - I was just expecting more and to be certainly more professional about going about his work

Agree about Axl's stage presence - He's lost that 'swagger' 

CaseOfAce

Jalapeno said:

If you haven't - watch Rick Astley & The Blossoms playing The Smiths on iPlayer. Ruddy marvwllous !!!!!

Watched this last night. Absolutely superb. The whole band (who were brilliantly on point) looked to be having a ball.

It was everything live music should be (though there was the harmonised sample / playing to track on Who Soon Is Now?).

I had no idea Rick Astley - as in that bloke who sang Never Gonna Give You Up back in '87 - and promptly disappeared off the face of the planet - was capable of doing this.

And I'm embarrassed to admit - though I'm familiar with The Smith's big hits - I didn't know about gems like Girlfriend In A Coma and There Is A Light. That back catalogue is spectacular. 

Offset

CaseOfAce said:

Jalapeno said:

If you haven't - watch Rick Astley & The Blossoms playing The Smiths on iPlayer. Ruddy marvwllous !!!!!

Watched this last night. Absolutely superb. The whole band (who were brilliantly on point) looked to be having a ball.

It was everything live music should be (though there was the harmonised sample / playing to track on Who Soon Is Now?).

I had no idea Rick Astley - as in that bloke who sang Never Gonna Give You Up back in '87 - and promptly disappeared off the face of the planet - was capable of doing this.

And I'm embarrassed to admit - though I'm familiar with The Smith's big hits - I didn't know about gems like Girlfriend In A Coma and There Is A Light. That back catalogue is spectacular. 

Frankly it was the set of the festival for me.  I was (and am) a massive Smiths fan and this was a fantastic homage to them.  I still can't get over how good it was.  RA was a total revelation on both his sets.

MagicPigDetective

guitars4you said:

monquixote said:

As mentioned by a few others I thought Lizzo's set was excellent. With a bit more material she could be a headliner.

Guns and Roses were a mixed bag. The band were competent, but felt like a high quality Guns and Roses tribute band, Slash was exceptional and is really just as good as he always was, but Axl just can't hit the notes anymore and he seems to have lost a lot of stage presence (although it's nice to see that he seems to be in reasonable shape these days)

Disagree about Slash - Thought there were many 'cringe worthy' notes, bum notes, miss hit, bad bends - Often the timing/phrasing between one set of legato licks to another was poor - As it happens on November Rain I thought Izzy's solo and licks were far more accomplished and polished - I was just expecting more and to be certainly more professional about going about his work

Agree about Axl's stage presence - He's lost that 'swagger' 

It wasn't Izzy Stradlin; it was Richard Fortus.

I was blown away by Slash.

Offset

On the subject of Blondie (who I thought were great), what was the lime-green leftie played by the chap to the left of the stage as you looked?

DiscoStu

Queen (or what's left of them) are the obvious choice for future headliner, they have such a massive back catalogue and can do 2 hours of absolute bangers - with singalong - no problem.

But Brian May and Michael Eavis don't get on so it will never happen.

Philly_Q

Offset said:

On the subject of Blondie (who I thought were great), what was the lime-green leftie played by the chap to the left of the stage as you looked?

I might have missed the lime green one, I only remember him playing a pale blue one, but if that's the one it was made by Sully guitars:

Offset

Philly_Q said:

Offset said:

On the subject of Blondie (who I thought were great), what was the lime-green leftie played by the chap to the left of the stage as you looked?

I might have missed the lime green one, I only remember him playing a pale blue one, but if that's the one it was made by Sully guitars:

Ah that was it - I was muddling my guitar colours up (there was a SFG LP being played on the other side of the stage) :-)

I liked it.  Never heard of the brand before.  Google ahoy. 

guitars4you

MagicPigDetective said:

guitars4you said:

monquixote said:

As mentioned by a few others I thought Lizzo's set was excellent. With a bit more material she could be a headliner.

Guns and Roses were a mixed bag. The band were competent, but felt like a high quality Guns and Roses tribute band, Slash was exceptional and is really just as good as he always was, but Axl just can't hit the notes anymore and he seems to have lost a lot of stage presence (although it's nice to see that he seems to be in reasonable shape these days)

Disagree about Slash - Thought there were many 'cringe worthy' notes, bum notes, miss hit, bad bends - Often the timing/phrasing between one set of legato licks to another was poor - As it happens on November Rain I thought Izzy's solo and licks were far more accomplished and polished - I was just expecting more and to be certainly more professional about going about his work

Agree about Axl's stage presence - He's lost that 'swagger' 

It wasn't Izzy Stradlin; it was Richard Fortus.

I was blown away by Slash.

Sorry - my error and had already commented on him on another thread about playing his Ivison

dindude

guitars4you said:

monquixote said:

As mentioned by a few others I thought Lizzo's set was excellent. With a bit more material she could be a headliner.

Guns and Roses were a mixed bag. The band were competent, but felt like a high quality Guns and Roses tribute band, Slash was exceptional and is really just as good as he always was, but Axl just can't hit the notes anymore and he seems to have lost a lot of stage presence (although it's nice to see that he seems to be in reasonable shape these days)

Disagree about Slash - Thought there were many 'cringe worthy' notes, bum notes, miss hit, bad bends - Often the timing/phrasing between one set of legato licks to another was poor - As it happens on November Rain I thought Izzy's solo and licks were far more accomplished and polished - I was just expecting more and to be certainly more professional about going about his work

Agree about Axl's stage presence - He's lost that 'swagger' 

I kinda agree, realise I’m more negative than positive on this thread, but lots of compliments on Slash here and I wondered what I was missing, that solo bit leading into sweet child was pretty ropy for instance. 

EricTheWeary

MagicPigDetective said:

guitars4you said:

monquixote said:

As mentioned by a few others I thought Lizzo's set was excellent. With a bit more material she could be a headliner.

Guns and Roses were a mixed bag. The band were competent, but felt like a high quality Guns and Roses tribute band, Slash was exceptional and is really just as good as he always was, but Axl just can't hit the notes anymore and he seems to have lost a lot of stage presence (although it's nice to see that he seems to be in reasonable shape these days)

Disagree about Slash - Thought there were many 'cringe worthy' notes, bum notes, miss hit, bad bends - Often the timing/phrasing between one set of legato licks to another was poor - As it happens on November Rain I thought Izzy's solo and licks were far more accomplished and polished - I was just expecting more and to be certainly more professional about going about his work

Agree about Axl's stage presence - He's lost that 'swagger' 

It wasn't Izzy Stradlin; it was Richard Fortus.

I was blown away by Slash.

I’m fairly sure that if there was some kind of technique battle between Slash and Fortus the latter would win. But it’s the mark of a professional that you know when to control your ego and Fortus has had plenty of other gigs to go widdly widdly. 

I went ooh proper rock band giving it some welly, it’s not a recital who cares about a few bad bends FFS. However, the vocal mix issues made it a more difficult watch and the set got very samey so I did get quite bored of GnR. But maybe that's me. 

Philly_Q

Offset said:

Philly_Q said:

Offset said:

On the subject of Blondie (who I thought were great), what was the lime-green leftie played by the chap to the left of the stage as you looked?

I might have missed the lime green one, I only remember him playing a pale blue one, but if that's the one it was made by Sully guitars:

Ah that was it - I was muddling my guitar colours up (there was a SFG LP being played on the other side of the stage) :-)

I liked it.  Never heard of the brand before.  Google ahoy. 

Incidentally, I enjoyed the Blondie set - hard rocking and lots of lead guitar.  I don't think they'd have sounded like that in the '80s!  I suspect true fans probably wouldn't regard the current lineup as a true representation of the band, but it worked for me.

I also belatedly watched the Manics set last night and although I've never really been a fan, there was a ton of lead guitar from Bradfield.  The guitar might be dead(ish) in terms of chart music, but it certainly isn't in a live setting.

Fortheloveofguitar

Slash has always been an extremely loose player or sloppy as some would define it.  He’s always been this way with bends out of tune and bum notes all over the shop. 

During the first album recordings it drove the producer mad that his bends were so awful. It’s said he was sent away to pull his finger out and get it sorted. 

Jalapeno

QOTSA win the guitar GAS award - never seen so many 12 strings !!!!!

guitars4you

Philly_Q said:

Offset said:

Philly_Q said:

Offset said:

On the subject of Blondie (who I thought were great), what was the lime-green leftie played by the chap to the left of the stage as you looked?

I might have missed the lime green one, I only remember him playing a pale blue one, but if that's the one it was made by Sully guitars:

Ah that was it - I was muddling my guitar colours up (there was a SFG LP being played on the other side of the stage) :-)

I liked it.  Never heard of the brand before.  Google ahoy. 

Incidentally, I enjoyed the Blondie set - hard rocking and lots of lead guitar.  I don't think they'd have sounded like that in the '80s!  I suspect true fans probably wouldn't regard the current lineup as a true representation of the band, but it worked for me.

I also belatedly watched the Manics set last night and although I've never really been a fan, there was a ton of lead guitar from Bradfield.  The guitar might be dead(ish) in terms of chart music, but it certainly isn't in a live setting.

agree with the last comment - And agree that the 2 guitar guys in Blondie made it more slick and polished and I think it worked - Certainly sounded more impressive IMO, yet never took over such classic songs - Just enriched them

EricTheWeary

7.3 million people sat at home and watched Elton. Macca had 2.5 (although he didn’t let it go out live so it  was on a lot later). That’s big by modern viewing figures. 

lustycourtier

CloudNine said:

Yeah, it’s a bit of a shame with the Arctic Monkeys… I saw them on their first tour and the punk energy was awesome, and while I don’t expect that to last their entire career, the whole image and posturing thing has taken over the music now… He was one of the great poets of modern day music, it’s just a bit of a shambles now. We can maybe blame Josh Homme? They started hanging out with him and whilst some the initial music was amazing (AM was a phenomenal album imo) that is where they also started trying to be as ‘cool’ as him, which was never going to happen really… Still reckon they will produce another incredible record at some point, as he is just so talented.

Im not particularly a fan, but Tranquillity base hotel and casino is the best record of last 25 years. Top 5 alltime for me.If Alex was from somewhere other than Sheffield (where hes not lived for over 15 years, hed be lorded as one of the best writers.
 Hes changed style, same as Weller has numerous times, and hopefully will continue to do so and TBHAC will be the record Artic Monkeys will be remembered for.    

Vintage65

Vintage65 said:

Black Country, New Road on at 2PM @ West Holts Stage. Best to avoid if you don't like Jockstrap, as their singer is in this band too!

Also, the original singer left 2 days before their highly praised album was released, so I'm not sure how good the new vocalists are compared to old one who was pretty good.

Flipping 'eck they can all sing, what a talented bunch they are, and they totally ignored their acclaimed album choosing to play all new stuff instead. The Pigs song is a charming little ditty.

The caution still stands though, stay away if more than 4 regular chords in a song bother you