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Right from the start there were
things going wrong:
- Mike couldn't get his mike (...) right. It gave a high squeaky
pitch every now and then until halfway the gig
- Roadies had to swap a mike at Billy's rig while playing
- Sean didn't look too happy, his sound did not come forward in the
mix too well.
- Roadie fiddled with Mark's monitors all the way through the gig
The band had some cockups previously with the sequencer, but that
was, as far as I can recall, only on one song in a gig. Not tonight....
But here's where their craftsmanship comes in! Where other bands
surely would have stopped a song and started over, not Level 42! So
here's a big cheers to the guys, well saved lads!
The sequencing went all wrong in several songs, amongst which Hot
Water and Lessons in Love... and in several other songs they skipped
some counts to get into the sequence again. Mike was looking annoyed,
and Mark looked past annoyed, looked like he'd accepted they'd never
got things right again. For the encore (TCW), Mark started off with
a small bass solo where Billy could pick up, so at least that one
went well...
At the end, Mark apologized and thanked the audience for their
patience. And Billy Cobham even grabbed the microphone, saying "it
was a war up here!".
Billy Cobham's drumming was impressive, but it was all too clear
that he hadn't practiced the songs very often. Billy did a 1-2-3-4
countdown for Hot Water, but that didn't prevent them getting
off-sequence. Nathan gave a hand signal every now and then, to point
out to Billy a break was coming up. And during Lessons in Love, Mark
even put the entire band to a stop, until the point where you could
only hear the sequencer so he could pick up again and the band with
him - impressive though, (review Robert)
(concert fits one 80 min CD with
overburn) |
