jean michel jarre

[leaky]

Ethnicolor is amazing spent many a night layed on the floor with a speaker to each ear, listening to those sounds travelling from speaker to speaker Houston was an amazing vid too, i had tickets for docklands back in the 80s, but it got postponed and ended happening when i was away on holiday, to make it worse my m8 turned my room upside down trying to find the ticket, which happened to be in my wallet in my pocket soaked from swimming in the sea lashed in Kavos :$

like Jim said we saw him at MEN last year it wasn't bad but was 20yr too late it turned out to be not much more than an average laser show.

 

[Jiglo]

I didn't really rate his music too highly during the 80's. I thought it was really cheesy even then, but it was the big show that sucked me in, he was doing something new and fresh

I only really got into his work in recent years when I listened to Oxygene in it's entirety in a late morning chillout session after a big night with a friend. I then realised that he was onto the chillout scene when most of us were at the cinema watching Star Wars in 1977. It was a proper head twizzler at the time how amazing this piece of work was

I still love that album, even though i've never really got into any of his other albums

You can't recreate that experience in an arena though, especially when mixing it up with other work that I find rather trite :|

I think he needs to think about how he's going add to the sound with a visual experience that is going to capture people. Roger Waters did it with The Wall tour this year which was as amazing or more amazing than what Jarre did back then, for the time Orbital did it with their tour, Massive Attack did it with their tour, The Prodigy did it too. Even DJ Shadow did it with his Shadowsphere tour and the thing is, Shadow made it work with music that didn't need effects but were all the better for it

Jarre is stuck in a timewarp. He hasn't progressed the visuals, which are now a bit ''Is that it, it's exactly the same shit as 25 years ago, but without the Pyramids and skyscrapers?'' and he hasn't progressed his sound. He seems to be aiming the show at the people that don't get out much and are still living on his old show videos, but people were leaving the stadium in droves at that MEN gig.

 

[Northern Star]

I only really got into his work in recent years when I listened to Oxygene in it's entirety in a late morning chillout session after a big night with a friend. I then realised that he was onto the chillout scene when most of us were at the cinema watching Star Wars in 1977. It was a proper head twizzler at the time how amazing this piece of work was

Done that a good numbers of times Have to say its a perfect album to stick on when everything else gets dull and boring..... bit like league unlimmited orchester.... theres a handfull i can listen too when im in no mood for anything else

That light hand organ thingy he had going on was a bit spesh though...i was like gis a doo agree on the music front apart from some of the oxygene tracks he played i was little bored shame really as he a very talented bloke...mind you i do recall another album of later years which was very good...the name escapes me though but the show was a little dull

 

[bren]

Done that a good numbers of times Have to say its a perfect album to stick on when everything else gets dull and boring..... bit like league unlimmited orchester.... theres a handfull i can listen too when im in no mood for anything else

That light hand organ thingy he had going on was a bit spesh though...i was like gis a doo agree on the music front apart from some of the oxygene tracks he played i was little bored shame really as he a very talented bloke...mind you i do recall another album of later years which was very good...the name escapes me though but the show was a little dull

is the album magnetic fields one and yeah i well agree with how tallented he is and how he playes keys with a lazor is unreal

 

[bren]

I didn't really rate his music too highly during the 80's. I thought it was really cheesy even then, but it was the big show that sucked me in, he was doing something new and fresh

I only really got into his work in recent years when I listened to Oxygene in it's entirety in a late morning chillout session after a big night with a friend. I then realised that he was onto the chillout scene when most of us were at the cinema watching Star Wars in 1977. It was a proper head twizzler at the time how amazing this piece of work was

I still love that album, even though i've never really got into any of his other albums

You can't recreate that experience in an arena though, especially when mixing it up with other work that I find rather trite :|




I think he needs to think about how he's going add to the sound with a visual experience that is going to capture people. Roger Waters did it with The Wall tour this year which was as amazing or more amazing than what Jarre did back then, for the time Orbital did it with their tour, Massive Attack did it with their tour, The Prodigy did it too. Even DJ Shadow did it with his Shadowsphere tour and the thing is, Shadow made it work with music that didn't need effects but were all the better for it

Jarre is stuck in a timewarp. He hasn't progressed the visuals, which are now a bit ''Is that it, it's exactly the same shit as 25 years ago, but without the Pyramids and skyscrapers?'' and he hasn't progressed his sound. He seems to be aiming the show at the people that don't get out much and are still living on his old show videos, but people were leaving the stadium in droves at that MEN gig.

yeah you dont like him jim and i will tell you i dont like dj shawdow and pink floyd so what are they to do with this thread please tell me

 

[Northern Star]

is the album magnetic fields one and yeah i well agree with how tallented he is and how he playes keys with a lazor is unreal

it may well have been that one Bren, if it is then i recall it was very good although i dont have a copy

 

[Jiglo]

yeah you dont like him jim and i will tell you i dont like dj shawdow and pink floyd so what are they to do with this thread please tell me

Who's taken the jam out of your donut, bren?:S

First off, don't be so defensive mate. I've given valid points and stayed on topic, so whinge all you like and slag off clubs and bands I do like if it makes you feel better, but at least i've given my reasons why I think his shows are now a waste of money and through getting out once in a while to see other shows as well as Jarres gives me a good reference of what to expect from a live gig

Second point, you obviously can only read what you want to read as you've missed something glaringly obvious to everybody else that can read what I wrote

Chill dude and accept that we all have differences of opinion :beer: