I just wanted to chime in that a few months ago I saw Juno Reaktor live
in seattle and it was one of the most hilarious and pitiful displays of
gratuitous stage embellishment crap I have ever witnessed. OK so first
the "ORB" comes out and he is just some guy "mr. patterson" spinning
records, and he isn't very good, more than a few trainwrecks and he
couldn't keep people dancing he sucked so bad... Then Juno Reactor comes
on, which was this tribe of african drummers half naked with crazy
feathers and war paint on beating on all these different drums and
chanting - That part was cool... What sucked was that you could barely
hear them over what the real "composer" was doing, which was basically
playing cheezy metal hard-rock digital cheeze guitar over pre-sequenced
songs that sounded like he was just playing back select tracks off of
the CDs.... THis guy had a cheezy 80's rock star look to him with poofy
hair and a leather jacket and sun glasses... it was really laughable...
spoiled my ability to listen to Juno Reactor ever again..
Don't get me wrong, I used to listen to all the juno reactor albums and
beyond the ultraworld has been a favorite orb CD of mine for many
years... I just thought this show blew live.
So what makes a good live show, in my opinion, isn't just that they do
something different on stage... it's that they demonstrate some kind of
skill and make it sound good.....
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