Videophile Magazine - Legendary Pink Dots April 20, 1989 - Live in Texas (Legendary Pink Dots)
Concert list:
Casting the Runes
Maniac
The More It Changes
Green Gang
Black Zone
Talent Contest
Thursday Night Fever
Blck Castles
Blacklist
poppy day
princess coldheart
I Dream of Jeannie
The quality of the video was ok, but the shaky camera made it quite
unpleasant to watch. But as for the performance - I was not too impressed.
There were three people - EKS on vocals and occasional keyboards,
Silverman on keyboards, and Niels Van Hoorn who was playing
woodwinds (clarinet and sax).
Edward gave a great performance, and was quite energetic, and the silverman
handled his end quite well, but the clarinet player was obnoxiously loud
and unnecessary - they used the clarinet/sax in place of almost every
other instrument except synths (and sometimes even in place of synths!),
and he was so loud and piercing that you couldn't hear the rest of the
music without blasting it, and then the clarinet really hurt my ears.
oooooo I hate that!!! Even my favorite songs, "The More It Changes" and
"Poppy Day" were butchered. Strange though - the live version of Poppy Day
on Greetings 9 sounds so much better. I think he was just trying to show
off how great of a sax/clarinet player he was, and I suppose he really was
good, but he was playing at the expense of the rest of the band.
The final song, I Dream of Jeannie, is available on Traumstadt 1 and the
ltd edition CD3 from Maria Dimension, btw. The two recorded versions are
quite different (the CD version is better IMHO, especially since it has
violins in it), but the live version was not bad at all; the first time I
heard the song was on this video, as a matter of fact.
The version of Thursday Night Fever is totally different from the one on
the Pink Box, and I think it is much better.
There is a very lame interview with all 3 members of the band, which lasts
over half an hour, tacked onto the end of the tape.
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