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So, last night at his book signing/Q&A in London I asked That Guitarist which performer who he is not currently working with that he'd love to work with again and he said top of the list was Mr E!
We decided it was possibly best that Craig wasn't involved in that! Alas, I may've been a bit tiddly so the nuances of the question/answer are now a bit vague, but it was interesting to hear, considering the many other choices he could've come up with!
He did also joke that of him, Von, Marx and Craig he was the only one still retaining any hair after all these years!
Marge xxx
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness"
So yeah, Wayne "wins" the hair battle, if nowt else. Perhaps Marx being sick on it on the way to Boston was some kind of miracle tonic?
Marge xxx
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness"
hippie-bullsh-t-hater wrote:yes but Von doesnt want to work with wayne. Von didnt even want Wayne at a concert guestlist, ha ha
Wasn't this 20 years ago though. We do have in 2019 a slightly more relaxed looking Von.
People change. Maybe not that much, but they do.
2019 - London London Brussels Brussels Stockholm Paris Utrecht
2020 - Leeds & Nottingham, so far anyway. And Frankfurt. And Manchester with huge thanks to Gothicbiff
Tinker wrote:There's only one way to settle this - oiled-up wrestling.
What for? I can't see how anyone winning over another could mend broken trust.
I personally see absolutely no benefit in Wayne joining The Sister now. The band is complete and they are doing a great job together with a lovely perspective for the future. In case one of the wondeful guitarists should fall ill or in case they decide to have a real bass player again, there is always Chris Catalyst to pefectly stand in, who btw, has been a member of The Sisters of Mercy about ten times longer than Wayne and played ten times as many shows with them through great and not so great years and without the band ever releasing an album!!! Go figure.
The times that Wayne would fit in with The Sisters are long gone.
I remember a saying that struck me when i heard it first time. I think it describes the situation very well and why there is no point talking about it.
"It takes two to tango"
and i see no way to make 'em "dance" in the near future
Goths play Golf too ...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
I think there's 2 things at stake here, and even if Von has mellowed after 30+ years and no longer feels the need to go beating his war drums every time Wayne's name is mentioned, he may still have a preference to not revisit the past for perfectly good other reasons.
Just a thought: if it ever did happen, Von would be unlikely to want to call it "The Sisters Of Mercy" to avoid confusion with the current touring version of the band. They would have to use a different name. How about "The Sisterhood"?
When they used to go on at Robert Fripp to get back together the original lineup of King Crimson (when Greg Lake was still alive), his response was: I would if I thought they could still play the material as well as the new band, but I don't.
This would be my response to any idea of Hussbag rejoining Von on stage. Could he do a better job than Ben Christo and Dylan Smith? I think not.
(EDIT: tbf, "Marian" was the only song I didn't think quite worked in Auckland)
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Being645 wrote:
I personally see absolutely no benefit in Wayne joining The Sister now. The band is complete and they are doing a great job together with a lovely perspective for the future. In case one of the wondeful guitarists should fall ill or in case they decide to have a real bass player again, there is always Chris Catalyst to pefectly stand in, who btw, has been a member of The Sisters of Mercy about ten times longer than Wayne and played ten times as many shows with them through great and not so great years and without the band ever releasing an album!!! Go figure.
The times that Wayne would fit in with The Sisters are long gone.
I completely agree.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
... but we've had almost 35 boring years of this ... 