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Hom_Corleone wrote:It looks like Chris will have less and less time to spend on The Sisters.
I don't know that that's necessarily the case. Chris has always struck me as the kind of guy who's happiest when he's busiest. I'm sure he'll find time for a month or so every couple of years.
It's not as if the Sisters actually need "full-time members" is it?
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I think Chris is like the Duracell bunny, he could probably do at least 3 or 4 other projects. Maybe each of the Sisters and the Machines fulfils something for him that the other doesn't?
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' last.
it's true- Chris seeems to need to be a part of few projects just look at his band history. and it's also true that the sisters dosen't need full time member because it's just a touring band, ye know cat food and etc.
and as we see Chris did more than just playing guitar doing back-voc, bouncing and jumping on stage (still, arms).
he is one of the best thing that happend to the sisters since 1993, imo.
Bartek wrote:it's true- Chris seeems to need to be a part of few projects just look at his band history. and it's also true that the sisters dosen't need full time member because it's just a touring band, ye know cat food and etc.
and as we see Chris did more than just playing guitar doing back-voc, bouncing and jumping on stage (still, arms).
he is one of the best thing that happend to the sisters since 1993, imo.
Chris is the sisters, he runs the show*. the old guy just turns up and mumbles occasionally
Ah have to disagree is to the Sisters as to what Morrissey was to The Smiths. Both had/has great guitarists, but the Smiths don't exist wouthout Morrissey and the Sisters wouldn't exist without ...
abridged wrote:Ah have to disagree is to the Sisters as to what Morrissey was to The Smiths. Both had/has great guitarists, but the Smiths don't exist without Morrissey and the Sisters wouldn't exist without ...
absolutely seconded ... and The Sisters of Mercy is surely more than
some touring the new millennium with "old" songs and "young" guitarists ...
sometimes, however, I wonder whether they are aware ... ...
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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he kens he can serve 25 year old cold mince to a new generation 'cause they will eat it and blindly ask for more
"What have they done to my Rock n'Roll"
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
who said that the sisters could be call the sisters without Von ?
but.
who thinks that the sisters are more than just touring band nowadays, flogging this very old and tired horse, doing nothing more than just visiting few country for lets say off-break activity ? than it's just a way to collect money for retirement/cat food ?
anyhow it is he/she is just WRONG.
we'll see just a young chaps haveing a good time on stage and being on lift up for their own 'career' and just btw. for most of you festival of remembrance.
i think that i moved meself to JB group - people who does not bother of this so-called band. anymore. and really.
Ha ha.
I've just remembered the majority of initial reactions about Chris joining the band a couple of years ago.
How funny are some of the things that time brings.
Thank God good old AE is still the only certain and incontestable part of it all.
I just hope they both Chris and Ben stay in the band for as long as possible, because they are good and it would be difficult to find somebody equally good to replace them. Not impossible probably, because the world is full of good and skilled and talented guitar players, but these two seem to have the kind of personalities that fit in that band very well these days.
call it a day or try and recruit a new full time member or is he happy with the arrangement?
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