重組樂隊必須注意的事情..... One more time Friday December 3, 2004 The Guardian It used to be called the oldies circuit: troupers your parents, or grandparents, might have known, playing the pubs, clubs and Mecca ballrooms. Walking around provincial towns, one would see posters for groups whose names were half-remembered from brief clips on Pop Quiz, or from the radio stations favoured by bus drivers. Those were the good times, when bands whose time had passed knew that they should aspire to nothing more than comfortable, rent-paying mediocrity. But old bands are now big business. The growth of heritage rock in the past few years - spurred on by the CD-reissue business, nurtured by magazines such as Mojo, which devote 20 pages to the making of the third Yes album - has created a market for any Tom, Dick and Harry that someone, somewhere has acclaimed as hugely influential. All it needs is some hack to assert that Tom, Dick and Harry's fourth album remains one of the classics of the neo-urban folk-funk genre, the influence of which may be heard in everyone from Dizzee Rascal to the Darkness and - lo! - T, D and H will be embarking on a 10-date tour, with original lineup, of some of our more prestigious venues, finishing with a night at the Royal Festival Hall in London, tickets £30 a pop. Which is why we need some hard and fast rules to govern this reunion madness: 1. Make sure enough members are still alive The strength of the brand (and make no mistake, reformed bands are trading as much on their brand as their music) is slashed if the ones who wrote the songs have long since succumbed to drink, drugs or old age. The experience of seeing the elderly New York Dolls tottering around the stage of the Royal Festival Hall in the summer was diminished rather by the absence of the late Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan - himself a replacement for a drummer who had died first time round. If, on the other hand, you can manage to get all the original band members in the same place at the same time without the need for emergency medical assistance, it could work out. Getting it right: Television's classic lineup reconvened last summer for a handful of small-scale shows running through their late-1970s repertoire. All members were alive, and fully functioning. Getting it wrong: Thin Lizzy - Touring next spring. Even though Phil Lynott is dead. Imagine Laurel and Hardy, without Laurel. Or Hardy. You get the picture. 2. Don't compromise your politics If all your band ever stood for was generating enough cash to support the combined rural economies of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, by all means reunite and renew your audience's acquaintance with £150 tour jackets. But what if you were known for your strident Marxist politics, your bitterness about all-pervasive commerce and your refusal to pander to audience expectations? Best not to sully the purity of the original statement, surely? If you paint yourself into the corner of asceticism at 20, you should expect some dismay if you stride out of it at 40. Getting it right: Duran Duran never had any principles to compromise. So making a fortune from a reformation world tour offended nobody. And they were surprisingly terrific. Getting it wrong: Punk-funk pioneers Gang of Four were the most earnest rock band in history. They sang that everything you might enjoy, from falling in love (like anthrax infection, apparently) to going on holiday, was tainted by capitalism. Now punk-funk is back in fashion and you can see their original lineup for the first time in two decades in January - tickets start at £18.50! 3. If it's about the money, admit it We understand that a lot of great, great bands never get their due at the time. And we understand that after splitting, the members - who may very well have changed the fabric of pop music - will often spend 20 years releasing solo albums no one buys and playing gigs no one bar two fanzine writers attends. So if the drug-addled members step forward and say, "Enough of noble poverty. We want some of the cash that talentless wasters have made by ripping off our sound," it's hard to argue. It's hard to feel quite so sympathetic when the musicians insist that they feel more relevant than ever now and have really got something to communicate to the kids - kids young enough to be their grandchildren. Getting it right: The Pixies named their reunion the Sell-Out Tour. They've made a bundle, and they've played some blinding rock music. Now they and we can go home happy the job is done. Getting it wrong: Jane's Addiction's reformation "came just when they're needed most", according to their website. No, no, no. It came when they were at a loose end. They've split again now, thankfully. 4. Don't trample on your legacy Rock audiences will tolerate an awful lot: sullen, uncommunicative singers; a sound mix that makes the most delicate Bachrach and David number sound like Iron Maiden's Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter; a venue floor so coated in unnamed fluids you need half a gallon of white spirit to free your shoes at the end of the evening. What they won't tolerate is their heroes treating their back catalogue with contempt. Mess with the songs that, as some drunken slob in a curry-stained T-shirt tells you at the show, "were my life when I was 16", and you destroy the pillars on which they have built their subsequent cultural lives. They will never forgive you. Getting it right: Mission of Burma were pretty well unheard of until they reformed in 2002. Which made it that much easier for fans at their reunion gigs - who had never actually heard the songs before - to hail them as the pioneers of the American alternative scene. Getting it wrong: The Velvet Underground turned up in the early 1990s to play White Light, White Heat as such a pedestrian pub-rock boogie that one half-expected Lou Reed to announce the results of the raffle at the end of the song. 5. Wait for the cultural tide to flow in your favour Rock music moves in cycles: what was risible a fortnight ago can be inspirational today, given the right endorsement from a new generation of musicians. But the secret is in the timing. Like playing chicken while driving a car, you need to wait as long as possible before making your move. So reform too early and you risk the world shunning you; choose your moment, after the appropriate number of namechecks from fanboys who have gone on to sell millions of records, and the world, if not Popworld with Simon and Miquita, is your oyster. Getting it right: Slint, from Kentucky, sold about three records and played a handful of gigs during the first phase of their career. After they split, dozens of other bands forged careers from note-for-note rip- offs of their template. Now they have reformed - with enough cultural cachet to curate a rock festival of their own in February. Getting it wrong: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich got back together in the 1990s, yet they have still not secured that season at the Royal Albert Hall or the loving retrospective in Uncut. Why should that be?
用翻譯軟體試一下，好像變得更難懂了.....還是自己查字典吧 ^_^ =========== 它(這)過去經常叫做 oldies 電路(繞行): 你(們)的父母, 或者祖父母, troupers 可以(可能)被知道了, 玩這個 pubs , 俱樂部和麥加的 ballrooms 。 在省城鎮周遭行走, 人們為其名字在流行惡作劇上從簡短夾子, 或者從由公共汽車司機喜愛的收音機(車)站半記得的小組看(見)告示。 那些是好時代, 那時帶狀物誰的時間遞過知道他們應該刻意追求僅僅舒適, 租金付款的平庸。 但是, 老(舊)帶狀物現下是大商業。 中遺產岩石的成長超過極少年刺激的用 光碟 - 再次流出(發扛滌虓~, 由例如專用於的 Mojo 的雜誌教育 ,對第三個是 製造的 20 頁為任何湯姆, 狄克和哈里紀念冊- 在上面創造(引起)了市場那某人, 某一地方作為巨大有影響歡呼了。 它(這)需要的所有事情(東西)是斷言那個湯姆, 狄克和哈里的第四紀念冊的某種傷痕保留(保持)城市的民間驚恐 風俗畫 的一個班級(課), 可以(可能)從 Dizzee 流氓到黑暗和- 看 在每個人中聽到它的影響! - T , 五百 和 H 將著手一些我們的更有聲望的案發地點, 在倫敦中完成皇家節日大廳的夜晚, 票 &磅 的 10 - 日期的旅行, 有原始排隊, ; 30 一個流行。 為什麼我們需要一些不容變通的規則控制這個留尼汪島瘋狂: 1 性的是哪個。 確實確信成員仍然是活的商標 (和不犯錯誤, 改革的帶狀物在他們的商標方面像他們的音樂那樣許多(是)交易(經商)) 的強度如果一誰自從以後很久寫了歌曲斜線屈服了於飲料, 藥物或者老(舊)的年紀(時期)。 皇家節日大廳舞台(層)周遭的 蹣跚的 由缺乏晚 男人 雷聲寧願縮小(減少)在夏天看(見)年長洋娃娃紐約的經驗和草率的 Nolan - 自己死(滅)亡第一個時間週遭的鼓者的代替。 如果, 另一方面, 你(們)能夠設法同時沒有需要在這個相同的地方給緊急事件醫學(醫療)援助找所有(這些)原始帶狀物成員, 它(這)能制定。 恢復正常它(這): 電視的對(用 )於 做完他們的晚七十年代指令表的少量的小規模演出(展覽)的班級(課)排隊 reconvened 去年夏天。 所有成員都是活的, 和徹底功能。 使得它(這)錯誤: 薄 Lizzy 旅行的下一次春季(彈簧)。 即使 Phil Lynott 死。 想像月桂和努力, 沒有月桂。 手術室 堅強的 .你(們)得到圖片。 2 .不要妥協(折衷)你(們)的政治如果所有(曾是)產生足夠的現金支援哥倫比亞, 玻利維亞和秘魯的結合的農村經濟你(們)的代表的帶狀物, 用盡一切辦法重新結合和恢復你(們)的聽眾對 &磅 的瞭解; 150 件旅行夾克。 但是, 如果你(們)因你(們)的刺耳馬克思主義政治出名了, 你(們)的苦味和你(們)的拒絕性對聽眾期望對面板者為人所知所有- 普遍深入的商業了嗎? 最好不(要)玷污原始聲明的純潔, 肯定地? 如果你(們)在 20 點到禁慾主義的角落裡畫(油漆)自己, 假如你(們)在 40 點出它(這)跨過, 你(們)就會期望某種驚慌。 恢復正常它(這): Duran Duran 從未對妥協(折衷)有過任何原理(原則)。 從世界旅行的改革使命運那麼被冒犯沒有人。 和他們令人驚訝地令人恐怖。 使得它(這)錯誤: 的。 他們唱歌, 從塌陷到在渡假去以愛 (喜歡炭疽傳染病, 顯然) , 由資本主義感染了。 現下 龐客 - 驚恐在樣式中回來並且你(們)能夠看出(看到)他們的原始排隊第一次在 &磅 開始在1月 - 票中的二十年; 18.50 ! 3 .如果它(這)是關於錢, 承認它(這)我們理解許多很大的, 非常帶狀物從不(絕不)應在時間得到他們的。 和我們在分裂以後理解那, 成員- 誰完全可以(能)很換了流行的織物經常音樂- 將花費發表(釋放)獨奏曲紀念冊的 20 年沒有人買並且不玩輕便快艇出席一個酒吧(條)兩個 愛好者雜誌 作者。 因此如果(這些)藥物變質的成員走傳遞和說高貴貧困的, " 個足夠。 我們想要沒有才能的浪費者由撕開我們的聲音, " 製造的一些現金它(這)難爭辯是。 當(這些)音樂家堅持他們現下比以往任何時候感到更有關時, 它(這)難完全感到那麼有同情心是並且確實讓某事(某物)通知給年輕得足以是他們的孫子孫女們的小孩小孩。 恢復正常它(這): Pixies 把他們的留尼汪島命名為賣- 出(外)的旅行。 他們製造了捆(包), 並且他們演奏了某種瞎岩石音樂。 現下他們和我們能夠回家福祉的做工作。 使得它(這)錯誤: 珍妮的沈溺的改革" 當他們最(多)(被)需要時剛剛(僅僅)來了" , 根據他們的 網站 。 不, 沒(不)否當他們時, 它(這)來了。現下他們有再次分裂, 感謝地 。 4 .你(們)的遺產岩石聽眾上的踐踏將不要忍受可怕: 陰沈的, 不愛說話歌手; 對屠殺使最微妙的 Bachrach 和 大衛 的數字(目)聲音像像一樣處女的你(們)的鐵寶石女兒的聲音混合; 樓層(地板)在沒有名稱流體中那麼塗的案發地點你(們)需要一一半加侖白精神在晚上的末尾擺脫你(們)的鞋子。 他們將不忍受的是用輕視他們的處理他們的背部目錄的英雄。 歌曲的混亂那, 並且你(們)毀壞(破壞)他們在它上建立他們的爾後文化生命的支柱。 他們將從不(絕不)寬恕你(們)。 恢復正常它(這): 緬甸的任務是相當的好沒聽到過的直到在 2002 年他們改革。 哪個成為它(這)對於更容易得多他們的留尼汪島的扇子(風扇)乘輕便雙輪馬車- 誰從未實際上聽到過歌曲在以前- 擁立他們為美洲(美國人)選擇舞台的先鋒。 使得它(這)錯誤: 在早九十年代天鵝絨地下出現(發現)(以)作為這樣的徒步 公用事業局 - 岩石的 梅毒 玩白輕的, 白熱狀態(以)在歌曲的末尾宣佈(發表) 獎券銷售 的結果那一一半期望的 Lou 蘆葦。 5 .等待文化潮水(潮汐)要在你(們)的週期中的最喜歡岩石音樂運動方面流動: 一個兩週以前可提升的今天可能是靈感的, 從音樂家的新生殖(產)給出了正確(右)簽署。 但是, 祕密在當代中。 喜歡在驅使一輛汽車時玩小雞, 你(們)需要在(進行)你(們)的運動前等待盡可能長(久)。 那麼改革得太早並且你(們)冒險世界 shunning 你(們); 選擇你(們)的時刻, 在數百萬記錄, 和世界, 如果不, 是你(們)的牡蠣以後誰繼續(到)賣的 fanboys namechecks 的適當數字(目) Popworld 用 賽門 和 Miquita 。 恢復正常它(這): Slint , 從肯塔基, 出賣了大約三個記錄和在他們的閱歷的第一個階段期間玩少量的輕便快艇。 在他們分裂以後, 數十個其他帶狀物- 為- 註釋(便條)他們的樣板(模板)從註釋(便條)撕裂- 離開鍛造閱歷。 現下他們改革了在2月 , 自己一個岩石節日- 有足夠的文化 封印 副牧師 。 使得它(這)錯誤: 在九十年代 Dave Dee , 想睡的 , Beaky , 容易學的課程 和 Tich 一起變得回, 可是他們仍然在皇家 懷錶鏈 大廳或者未切割中的愛回顧沒確保那季節。 為什麼應該是? 的