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Post by jumpinjamesbrown on Mar 11, 2008 20:06:10 GMT -5
i think this year for the visuals kanye if he gets that late night spot which im starting to doubt will be visually stimulating and he is just on top of the game rhyming right now and always pulls it off live
pearl jam won't have any visuals as that's not their thing but they will pull out all the stops and i think they will view this show like radiohead talks about their show in '06'
Post by jumpinjamesbrown on Mar 11, 2008 20:18:28 GMT -5
i've seen metallica before and they didn't use pyro and i wouldn't expect it now nor any crazy stage show as they had a very striped down stage when i saw them
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Mar 11, 2008 20:20:28 GMT -5
Yeah, after James getting burned by them i wasn't sure if they still use them, i'm sure they'll have a lot of bright lights and such though, similar to most headliner's shows.
Of the acts that I've seen... it would be between Nine Inch Nails and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult... Tool was nice, as well, and Radiohead had a great lights system to their show.
NIN was the best live show, visually, that I've ever seen.
I saw Metallica about 3 or 4 years ago and there was TOOOOOONS of pyro. For the intro to One, they turned all the lights off and set off explosions around the stage. Instead of the recorded explosions, they just did it all with pyro. After it was all said and done, some of the lights were flickering and there was nothing but red light coming up from the stage, making everything look like it was on fire. As the smoke cleared, you could see that the lighting rig above the stage was now just hanging and swinging like it had been bombed out. Definitely one of the best stage productions I have ever seen.
But from what I've heard, their festival shows do not have the pyro. Pyrotechnics generally take a pretty unique stage to accommodate them.
Post by suspendedzen on Mar 11, 2008 22:02:42 GMT -5
I'm guessing Metallica will win this shiny hypothetical trophy this year.
As far as shows I've seen, with all the lights and hoopla, I'd probably have a hard time deciding between Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails (both from 2006).
^For those who have not seen it, you cannot understand how exquisitely fantastic NIN's light show is... Not because I'm a fan boy, which I am, but their visual show is immaculate.
From what little I've seen of the Glow in the Dark stuff Kanye's been cooking up, that will probably win the sweetass light show award. Whether you like the dude's music is a whole other subject covered in other threads...
Post by Sköldpadda on Mar 11, 2008 22:35:25 GMT -5
mothersky said:
ziggyandthemonkeys said:
NIN's silk screen type stuff is freakin awesome! We need that at bonnaroo.
NIN at Roo in 09 is a must... I'm pulling for it already.
Lol, might as well. I love Nine Inch Nails, but I never thought they'd fit at Roo. But now, after Metallica, we really don't have any business saying a band doesn't fit there...might as well hope for anyone (and NIN is really not a long shot at all). I don't know if NIN could headline the main stage, but I know they supposedly had the biggest crowd at Woodstock '94, so surely it's possible.
Post by Sköldpadda on Mar 11, 2008 22:47:00 GMT -5
ziggyandthemonkeys said:
gleemonex said:
I saw NIN in 2005. The light show was good, but I didn't leave saying "OMG! That was the best light show I've ever seen."
Did they have the silk screen deal when you saw them, i know they used it for 2006.
The silkscreen is great, but I agree with that guy in that I didn't feel like it was the best show I'd ever seen. I love NIN to death, and I'll buy whatever Trent puts out in a heartbeat, but the visuals could have been better. That said - we were the first stop on that tour, so things were still getting worked out.
Tool, for me, was the greatest visual show I've ever seen. And it wasn't totally Dr. Hofmann's fault, either.
As far as visuals go, I think the concert I've seen that was most impressive was Roger Waters in 2006. He had pyro, good lights, a flying pig during Sheep, and a giant Dark Side prism that dropped from the roof during Dark Side of the Moon and spun around shining on the crowd.
But if you like them they will have a cool stage show i'd bet. Could this be the first year we see pyrotechnics at bonnaroo? 
