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Now that Chris's star is very much in the ascendency, do we (the people) assume The Sisters as a living breathing organism are a thing of the past.

It looks like Chris will have less and less time to spend on The Sisters.

Will call it a day or try and recruit a new full time member or is he happy with the arrangement?

Just a stream of consciousness rant, that's all.

DISCUSS.

Cue replies of - They've been a thing of the past for years etc....

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?

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?

aye, wot they said ^

It was just a thought I had last night when I was walking the dogs.

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

arranges tours, merch, itinary etc

paint it black wrote:Chris is the sisters, he runs the show*. the old guy just turns up and mumbles occasionally

arranges tours, merch, itinary etc

etc, eh?

Joking aside, I think you've pretty much hit the nail here.

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 ...

He doesn't have to be bothered to record anything, like a new Sisters album, so he has lots of free time. Only the occasional gig with old sunglasses.

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 ... ...

Hom_Corleone wrote:
Will call it a day

If only we were that lucky...


Idol... feet of clay... etc.

more like mince

James Blast wrote:more like mince

Only if one were to chop them up!

Erudite wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:
Will call it a day

If only we were that lucky...


Idol... feet of clay... etc.

If does call it a day then that's the end of TSOM that we know.

Chris now in the band only has it plus points all the way but seriously if there is no lead man there is no real sisters.

I'm sure is not feeling that old yet to call it a day anyway!

MadameButterfly wrote:
If does call it a day then that's the end of TSOM

Precisely.

But the records are still fantastic and the t-shirts rock!

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"

James Blast wrote: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"

That's called what legends are made of.

James Blast wrote: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"

... He doesn't.

and apart from that, it is commonly known that the kids are
regularly more intelligent than the elderly please to assume ... ...

"many a truer word spoke in jest"

not on this occasion

says the post counting whore who doesn't even go to gigs anymore

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.

_emma_ wrote: How funny are some of the things that time brings.

Indeed.
I'm glad this thread has raised some interesting debate.

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.