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Imho it would be a great idea if Von would invite Andreas Bruhn to perform More, Ribbons, Vision Thing and Doctor Jeep/Detonation Boulevard at Wiesbaden, Berlin and Köln in January.
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... honestly, I want to see them as they are now with Von and Ben and Kai and Chris and I'm utterly looking forward to this ...
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If a 90s nostalgia reunion act is so bitterly needed, they might play some additional gig in Hamburg to commemorate their olden days ...
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Also, I'd prefer Adam anytime to Andreas...
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If a 90s nostalgia reunion act is so bitterly needed, they might play some additional gig in Hamburg to commemorate their olden days ...
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Also, I'd prefer Adam anytime to Andreas...
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Extra nostalgia gig? Ok, maybe the better plan. But sorry, I would prefer Andreas over Adam.Being645 wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 20:12 ...... honestly, I want to see them as they are now with Von and Ben and Kai and Chris and I'm utterly looking forward to this ...
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If a 90s nostalgia reunion act is so bitterly needed, they might play some additional gig in Hamburg to commemorate their olden days ......
Also, I'd prefer Adam anytime to Andreas......
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No worries, Andreas was surely great as well. No bad blood against him.Cedarjet wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 20:52Extra nostalgia gig? Ok, maybe the better plan. But sorry, I would prefer Andreas over Adam.Being645 wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 20:12 ...... honestly, I want to see them as they are now with Von and Ben and Kai and Chris and I'm utterly looking forward to this ...
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If a 90s nostalgia reunion act is so bitterly needed, they might play some additional gig in Hamburg to commemorate their olden days ......
Also, I'd prefer Adam anytime to Andreas......
Also an extra nostalgia gig with Adam would have to take place in Berlin, I guess...
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Well, with the obvious exception of Chris Catalyst (who in one sense never really ceased to be part of the Sisters), I don't really get the impression that Eldritch is that interested in prior lineups.
The guest spots he's made room for lately generally seem to have more to do with his personal history than they do with band membership. Teri Nunn, Duncan Kilburn.
Which rather makes sense, imo. I don't really think there's much to be gained from dragging someone back up on stage just for the sake of "hey look it's the person from the record", when one of the most compelling aspects of the Sisters is the way the songs are never frozen in time and thus generally don't resemble the records anyway.
That said Adam Pearson has largely vanished off the face of the earth so I'd probably welcome proof of life at least.
The guest spots he's made room for lately generally seem to have more to do with his personal history than they do with band membership. Teri Nunn, Duncan Kilburn.
Which rather makes sense, imo. I don't really think there's much to be gained from dragging someone back up on stage just for the sake of "hey look it's the person from the record", when one of the most compelling aspects of the Sisters is the way the songs are never frozen in time and thus generally don't resemble the records anyway.
That said Adam Pearson has largely vanished off the face of the earth so I'd probably welcome proof of life at least.
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Is this him?!?
"While music was my former profession, and I want to do more of this as a hobby in future, my main m*****n now is to get the world “konnekted”, whereby everyone will learn, train, and use KONNEKT - a universal psychosocial operating system which I have uncovered - as a lived part of daily culture."
ETA: if this *is* him, he's become a hardcore Islamophobe
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Well, I looked at his profile pic in that weird "Konnekt" business and I thought, that doesn't look like our Adam. But I've had a look at this and I now have a feeling that yes indeed, our Adam is now an evil lunatic:
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That's a shame. Wrote a hell of a riff. Maybe someone connected to the band will see this and opt to remove his songs from the setlist to avoid subsidising him with performance royalties, necessitating the premier of a few new tracks to make up the runtime.
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That's a shame. Wrote a hell of a riff. Maybe someone connected to the band will see this and opt to remove his songs from the setlist to avoid subsidising him with performance royalties, necessitating the premier of a few new tracks to make up the runtime.
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Basically,, everybody has the right to have his own opinions, and everyone should respect that to a certain point. But if this IS really him on Twitter and in the YT video, this whole picture plopping up here is rather spooky.
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Well, his Twitter ranting about Israel/Palestine is sadly not very far from what you see in the German mainstream - although it means he won't be working with Von, who wore a keffiyeh on stage, any time soon.
But let's face it, this "Konnekt" stuff is pure crankery. This Adam Pearson (assuming it is our guy) appears to believe that he's discovered the secret cheat code for human civilisation. He's not the first person to come up with an idea like that, and not the first person to get bitter and twisted that the globe won't recognize his genius. And I would say that anyone who has come up with a practice that he thinks should/must be adopted by "every being capable of symbolic thought" has no business criticising Islam or any other religion!
But given all that, *no* to cutting his songs out of the set. I am not prepared to lose "Summer" for anything - and the measly performance royalties Pearson gets will not be anything that will cause an effect on his behaviour. If bands had to stop playing songs written by previous members who'd "gone a bit wrong", then David Gilmour couldn't play any Pink Floyd songs again.
But let's face it, this "Konnekt" stuff is pure crankery. This Adam Pearson (assuming it is our guy) appears to believe that he's discovered the secret cheat code for human civilisation. He's not the first person to come up with an idea like that, and not the first person to get bitter and twisted that the globe won't recognize his genius. And I would say that anyone who has come up with a practice that he thinks should/must be adopted by "every being capable of symbolic thought" has no business criticising Islam or any other religion!
But given all that, *no* to cutting his songs out of the set. I am not prepared to lose "Summer" for anything - and the measly performance royalties Pearson gets will not be anything that will cause an effect on his behaviour. If bands had to stop playing songs written by previous members who'd "gone a bit wrong", then David Gilmour couldn't play any Pink Floyd songs again.
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Further discussion in the Where Are They Now? forum. I should have checked that thread first, because there was a mention of him using the KONNEKT brand as long ago as 2011.
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Our initial discussion is getting quite eerie by now…Being645 wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 23:33No worries, Andreas was surely great as well. No bad blood against him.Cedarjet wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 20:52Extra nostalgia gig? Ok, maybe the better plan. But sorry, I would prefer Andreas over Adam.Being645 wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 20:12 ...... honestly, I want to see them as they are now with Von and Ben and Kai and Chris and I'm utterly looking forward to this ...
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If a 90s nostalgia reunion act is so bitterly needed, they might play some additional gig in Hamburg to commemorate their olden days ......
Our initial discussion is getting quite eerie by now,,,
Also, I'd prefer Adam anytime to Andreas......
Also an extra nostalgia gig with Adam would have to take place in Berlin, I guess......
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How many in the current setlist did Pearson write the music for? Is "Crash and Burn" one of his?
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Crash and Burn and Summer as far as I know.. but what do you suggest? „Let‘s pretend he never existed.“?H. Blackrose wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 00:13 How many in the current setlist did Pearson write the music for? Is "Crash and Burn" one of his?
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Romeo Down came back in briefly last year tooH. Blackrose wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 00:13 How many in the current setlist did Pearson write the music for? Is "Crash and Burn" one of his?
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Crash & Burn and Summer are so good they should really be played twice at every gig. Maybe starting in Germany in January, just to try get thread back on whatever its original track was.
If you were asking my opinion then I would say delete that.
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Well, it started with me wishing a guest appearance by Andreas Bruhn at the rescheduled German concertsPlanet Dave wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 13:29 Crash & Burn and Summer are so good they should really be played twice at every gig. Maybe starting in Germany in January, just to try get thread back on whatever its original track was.
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Cedarjet wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 19:17Well, it started with me wishing a guest appearance by Andreas Bruhn at the rescheduled German concertsPlanet Dave wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 13:29 Crash & Burn and Summer are so good they should really be played twice at every gig. Maybe starting in Germany in January, just to try get thread back on whatever its original track was.![]()
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If you were asking my opinion then I would say delete that.
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Romeo Down is an underrated classic, we can't lose that one eitherFallon wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 12:51Romeo Down came back in briefly last year tooH. Blackrose wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 00:13 How many in the current setlist did Pearson write the music for? Is "Crash and Burn" one of his?
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Nor Top Nite Out ...H. Blackrose wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 21:40Romeo Down is an underrated classic, we can't lose that one eitherFallon wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 12:51Romeo Down came back in briefly last year tooH. Blackrose wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 00:13 How many in the current setlist did Pearson write the music for? Is "Crash and Burn" one of his?
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I love the song too - its got such a weight and tension to it.H. Blackrose wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 21:40Romeo Down is an underrated classic, we can't lose that one eitherFallon wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 12:51Romeo Down came back in briefly last year tooH. Blackrose wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 00:13 How many in the current setlist did Pearson write the music for? Is "Crash and Burn" one of his?
I tend not to weigh in on the lineup v lineup stuff, I think that the Sisters are a band that is largely about who they are now, and how they reconfigure the songs for now, so please take this as nothing more than personal taste but it's a song that works less for me when you separate it from Adam's bass playing style.
Eldritch seems to recognise that it's a song which requires the bassline to be played, and you won't catch me joining in on the "Ben sucks" crowd, but I do think he plays the Romeo Down bassline a little less percussive, a little less wind-up and release, or something. It's still a fabulous song but something of the mood is lost and it seems to come down to little more than the personality of the player.
Which is nice, really.
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The discussion about which songs "must stay" or not is one of the reasons why I will always mourn the lack of new recorded output. If these songs existed on a record, we would never "lose" them. They would be there to enjoy, think about and groove to until the end of time, regardless of which songs the band chose to include on the setlist.
Oh well.
Oh well.
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