I was a huge fan of their music when they first came out (the start-up I founded in 1997 had their first album as the “on hold music” on our PBX, by my direction, and the front desk operator had a little card with the ISBN# because people kept asking ‘what is that?’) I went and saw them in Virginia back in (13?) and was terribly disappointed: they had added a drummer and the mix was off, so all I could hear was boom whacka boom and the cellos were completely drowned. My date and I left halfway into the first couple songs. Ugh.
I like pretty much all their stuff, from 20 years ago to now. I love Bittersweet, Sea Song, Helden, and all the instrumentals. I don’t mind the changes, I roll with them. Can’t just keep covering Metallica.
They’re on their 20 year tour right now, and they’re still looking good to me!
I was a huge fan of their music when they first came out (the start-up I founded in 1997 had their first album as the “on hold music” on our PBX, by my direction, and the front desk operator had a little card with the ISBN# because people kept asking ‘what is that?’) I went and saw them in Virginia back in (13?) and was terribly disappointed: they had added a drummer and the mix was off, so all I could hear was boom whacka boom and the cellos were completely drowned. My date and I left halfway into the first couple songs. Ugh.
I like pretty much all their stuff, from 20 years ago to now. I love Bittersweet, Sea Song, Helden, and all the instrumentals. I don’t mind the changes, I roll with them. Can’t just keep covering Metallica.
They’re on their 20 year tour right now, and they’re still looking good to me!
My favorite track of their remains the version of “the little drummer boy” they did as intro music for one of their tours.