El Jarvo wrote:
Not sure what that even means Mick?
"Better as a live band?"
Simply that they play their instruments more competently?
There's no substiture for the real thing!
Of course you can't beat the real thing, the New Order I saw at the Apollo in 98 will forever be untouchable.
And when they came in Turin they were still great, the set list was really balanced (apart from missing Technique songs) and the performance was still good.
But I got so excited by this wonderful BL bootleg that I just think they may sound more powerful than the New Order I've heard only in bootlegs of their last months. Those New Order sounded a bit tired, these Bad Lieutenant sound on top form.
Then, as the most of you, I've noticed something has probably gone wrong with the recording speed, the songs are indeed faster, and this extra speed adds to the perceived strength of the performance, this could be a tip for the band, to speed everything up a little bit.
But even with this in mind, it's still an excellent performance, Ceremony, Crystal, Tighten Up, Out Of Control and Temptation are all amazing, and the BL songs are better than on record, they sound that bit rougher.
What we hear from the Paris recording is probably better than what we could hear on a bootleg of a half arsed New Order gig played today, with Barney and Hooky ignoring each other and carrying on just for the sake of it.
With Bad Lieutenant, you hear that struggle to emerge typical of a new project which is really cool.
We'll always have the legend of New Order with us, but now we can be happy with Barney and Hooky carrying on with their own projects, of course I'd have had a very different opinion 10 years ago.
bye
let's hope BL release a soundboard of one of these early gigs in some format.
