Live Music Matters - Part 1

Live music is extremely important for a number of reasons and therefore needs to be written about. A band you may like on an album can either be awesome at a show, or shit. You may come away from a live performance with a greater appreciation for the artist's music, or, a bitter taste in your mouth, resulting from shit music ruining the taste of your precious ten dollar beer. An evening tainted by an atrocious act does not go away, it leaves a burn-mark in your brain that inflames every time you go to listen to that artist again. An evening graced by an awesome act does not go away either, it leaves a similar mark that instead scorches pure awesomeness upon future listens. The topic of live music will be a continuous segment on this blog and with each successive post I will provide a short video from YouTube containing some great live performances from some great bands.

The topic of this inaugural Live Music Matters update is the beast from Germany known as Rammstein. Their live shows are generally reputed as one of the best around and one can see why in this video. Lead singer Till Lindemann is a madman on the stage, he'll bludgeon himself with the microphone, light himself on fire, anything to provide entertainment. The other band members are equally strange, especially the guitarists who are statuesque in this performance of "Ohne Dich". You also get a sense of the enormity of the performance in the video, European crowds are some of the vastest in the world when it comes to live shows. Check out some of the other songs from the show in the info section of the video, "Du Hast" is a good one too.