[Closed] muse - glastonbury

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Wasn't bad. Not a fan of Muse "on the record" but seem like they're more listenable live. Wouldn't exactly call Matt a guitar god or anything though, all he does is piss around with the kaoss pad attached to the guitar and his whammy bar 😆

I could think of a 1000 people I would rather listen to than Zane 'I have a monotone voice' Lowe and Jo 'I also have a Monotone Voice' Whiley!

Thought Muse where awesome, tried to get into them a few times but find the albums good but not great. last one really disapointed, definately one of those bands that are better live

Fearne is fit though so she almost gets away with being annoying!

travellingman - Member

Come on, SFA are far better than just OK!

If you were a real furries fan you would've spotted the joke in kevevs' post. 😉

fearne cotton gets on my man tits. she just grates 'em raw. BBC school of faceless robotic corporate presenting. no opinion, no enthusiasm, no idea.

Had the fortune to catch Muse via 6Music streamed though the stereo, they were pretty awesome really.

Muse = awesome, good to see some guitar music rather than all the rap and dance rubbish

Belamy lacks stage presence though, but I guess he let's the music do the talking (and the drummer)

Waiting for the Muse set to come on the iPlayer, but looking forward to seeing them at [url= http://www.rockwerchter.be/en/ ]RockWerchter [/url]next weekend even more 😀

Cheers, Rich

Ah rock werchter been many times whilst living overseas great fest. Saw Muse about ten years ago there and they were great then 😉

Muse are awesome live. Me and the Mrs went watching them at Wembley arena and Wembley stadium. They are v polished but do not really interact with the crowd (Matt needs to take some lessons from Dave Grohl!) I wasn't bothered about going to this tour as I think the resistance is v weak in comparison to their other releases. I am still gutted I haven't seen them perform thoughts of a dying atheist live 🙁

warton - Member
Theres no better live band IMO.

You need to get to more gigs,

Fair enough, I meant best live festival, stadium band, one to get a big crowd going...

I've tried with Muse but find them mind numbingly dull...never really goes anywhere.

I think they are utterly brilliant.

Anyone got a link to their set ?

Was glued to Muse last night. IMO Muse and Radiohead have popularised progressive rock when it's meant to be deeply unpopular. But it was a nice touch doing SHNN with Edge for all the disappointed U2 fans.

Bellamy's approach to guitar is very interesting and modern, similar to Tom Morello I think. Avoiding anything that sound like blues or neo-classical scale shredding. If you think he's just "p1ssing around", try to re-create it - you won't have much luck.

Resistance was an ambitious progression toward a more thematic/cinematic sound. I think they pulled it off.

Pompous rock.

Pompous rock.

is that a typo?

*Slow clap*

If you think muse are good live, then go see green day and the foo fighters.

I've seen green day twice this year, they are unbelievably good. 3hr set too!

I've nothing against muse, I just think they're massively over hyped, just like coldplay.

+1 for Greenday (especially in the charismatic front man stakes)

would like to green day, not so sure about the foo fighters though. I prefer dave grohl behind the drums.

I found it to be hookless directionless twaddle full of self indulgent pap.

IMO they take bits of Vai/Satriani water down with poor unimaginative time sigs and then anglicise it by cutting out the cajones. It's what would happen if radiohead tried to become King Crimson.

When there are bands like Chrome Hoof out there genuinly making enriched progressive music with balls and intead we end up with this rubish it makes my blood boil. They are to the present what ELP and Supertramp were to the seventies, ie nice 4/4 time non threatening easily digestible MOR AOR for people who like to rock out in a sensible controlled way that will be over by eleven and in easy reach of free parking.

Come on Muse you could be so much more, just try and scare some people just for once eh, or does your nice record label forbid that kind of creative self expresion?

If you think he's just "p1ssing around", try to re-create it - you won't have much luck.

I have played round with a Kaoss pad/pitchshifter and got similar sounds to both bellamy and morello. It's not hard! Morello does it better imo.

Oh and the solo in their (muse) newest song is bloody awful.

+1Tom
non muso types might be impressed, but he wears his classical modes on his sleave and lacks any genuine inovation as a guitar player.
Morrelo's deconstructivism is far greater.

" stanfree - Member

Poor mans Radiohead...."

Ah, are you a journalist from the NME, circa 2000?

"TheFunkyMonkey - Member

If you think muse are good live, then go see green day and the foo fighters"

I've seen Muse be not very good live, at the Dome earlier this year frinstance there was no crowd interaction at all, it was a solid set but not inspiring. Were a little better at the SECC. But I've seen them be absolutely bloody amazing, when they're at their best they put on the best live shows I've ever seen (Leeds 2002 I reckon, immediately before the Foo Fighters incidentally who had no hope at all of following them)

I'm not sure Matt Bellamy's guitar playing's particularily innovative, but then neither is much else now. He's good with FX and he's technically very accomplished though. And also kind of handy on a piano and organ. It's just not fair really.

They're not 3 chord trick ponies for sure. I feel their music sounds grand and ambitious - perhaps a little dull in the drumming dept.

I agree that Morello is the really innovative guitarist, but AFAIK Morello doesn't compose songs or sing, so it kinda evens out. I much prefer MUSE to RATM and Audioslave, tho I do like several Audioslave tracks quite a lot, but mainly because they sound like Soundgarden.

I don't see the analogy with Queen much though. Bellamy isn't Freddy by a long shot, and the sound and song material is rather different. If you think Muse are overblown, you haven't been following Yes 😉

Awesome!

Downloading the set now

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sz067/Glastonbury_2010_Muse/ ]iPlayer link[/url]

Off to see them at Old Trafford in Sept :)))))

Paul

Muse = Dad rock

I love muse put simply.

I was glad to see older b sides like Nishe and House of the Rising Sun played. Very very nice considering, as far as im aware, they have never been played live.

Yes their later stuff is a bit weak but I still think it has more depth than most shit on the radio.

Was v impressed with that set last night, especially the references to the likes of Zepp in the codas to some of the pieces.

True, pompous, epic stadium rock. Marvellous.

I'm still in shock from the prefer Dave Grohl behind drums comment. Them Crooked Vultures eloquently demonstrates why he is wasted there :O(
+1 for the Billie Jo fan club but seeing Muse in September at Lancs CC and so so glad. Only watching their set now and it's storming.

Just caught up on the Muse set tonight. I'm not the biggest fan as I find them a bit ... I don't know, 'samey' isn't quite right, but as good as they are I lose interest halfway through an album. Watching the Glastonbury gig though, I'm thinking they're going to be one of those bands that are exponentially better live than on disc. Really looking forward to seeing them at Old Trafford now (-:

loulouk - Member

"I'm still in shock from the prefer Dave Grohl behind drums comment. Them Crooked Vultures eloquently demonstrates why he is wasted there :O("

Grohl's not so badly wasted behind the drums of a less awful band, to be fair. Them Crooked Vultures were shockingly bad at Reading, despite being an event everyone had to be at.

[i] perhaps a little dull in the drumming dept.[/i]

I wouldn't say "dull" rather than "steady"; nothing technically adventurous, but IMO you can keep technically adventurous for pompous new-age jazz, thanks very much.

IMO a good drummer is not always about showy rudiments for the sake of it & stupid fills where they're not needed. For example, Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree) is technically very good but his band leaves me (mostly) cold.

I'd rather see a band working together as a whole even if none of the musicians are virtuosos, than a bunch of virtuosos doing their individual thang...

meanwhile, Dave Grohl is a guitarist who can play drums. Better than me, granted, but music has been his day job for the last 20 years...

Grohl's drumming on Songs for the Deaf is absolutely spot on. He also played the drums on the first few Foos albums, My Hero for instance is awesome.

[i]but AFAIK Morello doesn't compose songs or sing[/i]

Yes he does. The Nigh****chman.

Wow it's like being in Q magazine

The Dead Weather's set was the best thing I saw all weekend.

Their set put a grin on my face, it was brilliant to hear their old stuff with the added depth of the synths, Citizen Erased just blew me away.
Been a fan a long time, fell out with them with the pomp and polish but it was good to see them having fun again.

You can't compare them to Greenday live, it's an entirely different... thing.

I found it to be hookless directionless twaddle full of self indulgent pap.

I was just going to say something very similar about them, albeit from a much-less-interested-in-prog-rock perspective.

Mystified why they're so popular. Not a modern day Queen, just as naff but don't have the same tunes or pop sensibility.

More like those pompous goth bands from the '80s, but with added guitar w*nkery.

In answer to OP, yeah it is a seven string.
Don't take them seriously, it's a bit of fun. 🙂

wow 86 responses later and someone has actually answered the question.

I can't say I'm a fan, but was impressed by their performance on saturday. then i'm not a music journalist/expert like some of the STW members. so clearly i am wrong to have be impressed by them. it is now something i deeply regret.

I was beginning to warm to Muse around the time of "Absolution" after watching the Glastonbury set (when the drummer's father died), which I thought was a stormer..

Then I heard the new stuff and they sounded just like U2.

Can't stand U2.

More like those pompous goth bands from the '80s, but with added guitar w*nkery.

spot on, I think that deserves a pint mate. 😀

Re the seven string, yes I beleive it was an Ibenez Gem, twin humbuckers with a single coil in the middle- Designed by Steve Vai.

(slowly walks to the coat rack sellects anorak and walks out into the rain friendless and embarased)

twin humbuckers

Is that legal? 😯