The Cure: Berlin Tempodrom 2002-11-11
Thank you very much to Carlos for this concert, that he got it for me.
Special concerts deserve special reviews so I’m analyzing each part of the trilogy performance.
Pornography: About Robert & Simon the work is brilliant and they sound like
they did 20 years ago, all the music in the right part and as bitter as hell,
but what about the rest of the band, well 1st Perry, why the hell this guy is in the Cure his performance
is close to zero existence, honestly he has to be the most useless guitar
player in the world, maybe you can justify him saying well Pornography was written for just one guitar, well
that doesn’t matter Porl in Paris (Giving you a reference) did an amazing performance of some songs of this album and in many
parts shining much than Robert so there are no excuses for his
ineptitude. Now Roger well I guess he was sleeping at this part
of the show, some keyboards but he is totally inept also for them (Even being great for piano as Disintegration set shows us) & Jason, Oh My God you can think that Lol was a thick well guess what, he was a thick but with feeling and that’s
something you can’t learn, and Jason has no feeling
in his performances, it doesn’t matter if he plays it with different drums
sticks, he can use triggers (I doubt he knows how) and electronic drum or something,
between him and a rhythm machine I will take the last one.
Disintegration: Robert and Simon again doing well their parts, but now Roger shows us what he knows to do, He is an amazing piano player and in Homesick he whipped the floor with all the members of the band simply awesome, I will never understand why he suffers a lot with keyboards, now Perry well again Mr. Nobody at guitars and Jason here is more evident his lack of talent and feeling and you can only wonder why this great concert happened without Boris.
Bloodflowers: Well they cant fail with this so if you like the album
you will love this part of the concert everything in the right place, my
complain here goes for the songs only.
Encores: they sound great for this line up not brilliant but
great
As a whole a great addition to the collection more for
what they mean than the performances, the sounds is good but some distortions over
3 songs from Pornography set. Now if you wonder why 4 CD’s set,
well probably to insert you an extra one since all the show can be in a 3 CD’s
set but after all, all the traders and artwork available are designed for 4 so
it’s not my fault.
Equipment used
for the recording:
MDO Ddd Jesus J. Versión
Live at
Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany. November 11th 2002
Audience
recording, Quality 9
Handmade covers
designed by Ceho and a 2nd
set by MC64