Oilyshark, why don't you do us all a favour,
read a post properly and contribute something worthwhile to the conversation
instead of the dribble you spewed below. You're doing yourself a disservice by
coming across as being an ill informed goon, I'm sure you're not but the
vehemence of your post sure makes me wonder if I might be wrong. If you
revisit my post, that seems to have offended you so much, you will see that
I did not say that I was going to be disappointed, I said I had faith that the
boys would deliver. I raised a legitimate concern that others offlist have
raised with me. I didn't set out to offend you, anyone else on the list or the Oils or their management. Should we
just blinker ourselves to comments made from the Outside World or should we
discuss them in a civilised way?
To provide an example of the sort of
discussion that I have heard over the last couple of days I've copied parts of
an email I received earlier today from a non-list member below.
"Mistakes and lack of match fitness can be forgiven to an extent, like we
did at manly, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to love having garret fumble
through 90 minutes because he can't remember the words or the melody and
hasn't made time to rehearse or think about the gig. It's been more than
four years since they played a note together, and a lot of the stuff they wrote
wasn't easy to play in the first place, never mind after a four year break.
.
I also refuse to believe that Garrett hasn't been able to set aside
enough time (and we're talking 3-4 hours) over the last few weeks to at least
sit in a room with Jim or martin and go through the songs acoustically at least
once. We've known about these gigs for a couple of weeks now. His electorate is
in sydney for god's sake... How hard would it have been to set aside one night
to drive to glebe or wherever Jim or Martin lives and sit for a couple of hours
just quietly singing. I love the oils a lot more than the average joe, but that
doesn't mean I won't feel disrespected for 90 minutes (or less) of unrehearsed
fumbling. I actually believe that
the oils should probably show their fans a
little more respect than that. They made mistakes at manly even
after a few rehearsals.... so who knows what this will be like."
Someone else said to me something along the lines
of "it wasn't advertised as a rehearsal was it?"
I'll reiterate that I think they'll do a good job
(i.e. have faith they will deliver like they have the many other times I've seen
them play), and agree with others that rough edges can make for a wonderful gig
experience (at least in a pub environment they do, at a theatre perhaps less
so).
Hope to see you at the Transit mate, you can buy me
a beer in way of an apology for being so rude to a fellow Oils devotee of some
29 years. ;)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:37
PM
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Sorry, boys,
no time to rehearse- from Saturday's Age.
And you call yourself an avid Oils
fan?? Do us all a favour and don't bother turning up...."we don't
want you to be disappointed".
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:58
PM
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Sorry, boys,
no time to rehearse- from Saturday's Age.
Being an avid Oils fan I'm not too concerned
but I know some of my mates who forked out the $80 and aren't HUGE fans will
be very disappointed if it comes across as a rehearsal. Management
better be prepared for the angry backlash if the gig isn't up to
standard - $80 for a warm up gig is one thing, rehearsal is
something entirely different (although I guess it's hardly going to impact
on future album/tour sales). Surely there was a cheaper venue available (ANU
Bar?) which would have cut costs down? I wonder if they considered
negotiating with a smaller venue at cost "C'mon champ, it's the
rehearsal for the Bushfire Relief Concert, how about doing it at cost and
claiming it on your tax return as a donation to charity" or something like
that (note, not sure if a service can be claimed but at the least the
publicity would have been worth something to the venue). Mind you maybe the
Convention Centre came to the party, seems unlikely though, I park there
each work day and the ba$tards certainly like to bleed punters dry. I have
faith but if the unthinkable happens I'm not standing in front of the angry
mob ;)
Cheers
Daz
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