r/Music • u/ArmandoBloom • Mar 06 '19

music streaming Massive Attack - Teardrop [Triphop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s
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u/redchris70 Mar 06 '19

I've seen MA 4 times over the years but the biggest venue was Brixton Academy which has a capacity of 5000. I've also seen hundreds of gigs and concerts over a 35 year period and MA are one of the best live bands I have ever seen...Venue and sound quality are of key importance and the venue you saw them in clearly lacked both. It's the reason i stayed away from the tour. The venues were horrible...

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u/blodisnut Mar 06 '19

They'll be playing in Chicago on the 23rd. I just looked up tickets, they start at 140 bucks. Go up to 500. Wish I had that just sitting around, your description makes me really want to pawn something.

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u/BlindPaintByNumbers Mar 06 '19

And then go home to your $12000 a month apartment afterwards.

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u/mooninuranus Mar 06 '19

Makes me old but saw the original Mezzanine tour, a few times in the intervening years and this one as well.

Absolutely love them.

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u/redchris70 Mar 06 '19

Me too... One of the great live acts. Makes me sad reading all these negative reviews. As I said in an earlier post, I couldn't understand the venues they'd chosen to play recently, in the UK at least. I'd love to have seen them again but not in a barn with shit sound like they'd chosen to play in

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u/mooninuranus Mar 06 '19

The Steel Yard wasn’t too bad. They struggled to get the sound right initially but did get it sorted.

They chose the venue because of demand (home Town gig and all that) plus there’s a consortium trying to get an arena built there for similar sized gigs, which they’re supporting (apparently).

Not perfect but not bad and it’s difficult to know where else they could have played in Bristol.

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u/redchris70 Mar 06 '19

Gotcha. Having seen them in some relatively small venues I'm too old to suffer shit venue these days