MUSIC FROM SPACE: The Gorillaz' "live" - FEEL GOOD INC.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Welcome to Music From Space, a new, daily feature where we present music videos sure to delight and amaze the discerning Monsters and Rockets reader. These will be songs of science and superstition, blasting out straight from the pit of man's fear or the summit of his knowledge; weird music from a long time ago and a galaxy far, far away... or 15 minutes into the future.
First up, we have the Gorillaz's "live" performance of Feel Good Inc. Unless you've been living up a tree for the last decade or so, you're already familiar with the merry band of cartoon simians created by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and Tank Girl artist Jamie Hewlett. In 1998 the pair launched this "virtual" group, and 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel are still going strong today.
This performance captures the band's brief, 2005-2006 experiment with using 3D holograms in concert. There were plans for a huge tour with the hologram rig, but the tour was called off. "It was extremely expensive," Hewlett would later say, "extremely difficult, a million and one things can go wrong, every second that the thing's playing."
While this song perhaps isn't an instant classic on the order of some of the band's singles, the Gorillaz put on a "live" show few flesh-and-blood bands could hope to match. (Notice how the energy level dips just a bit when the live rappers come out?)
First up, we have the Gorillaz's "live" performance of Feel Good Inc. Unless you've been living up a tree for the last decade or so, you're already familiar with the merry band of cartoon simians created by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and Tank Girl artist Jamie Hewlett. In 1998 the pair launched this "virtual" group, and 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel are still going strong today.
This performance captures the band's brief, 2005-2006 experiment with using 3D holograms in concert. There were plans for a huge tour with the hologram rig, but the tour was called off. "It was extremely expensive," Hewlett would later say, "extremely difficult, a million and one things can go wrong, every second that the thing's playing."
While this song perhaps isn't an instant classic on the order of some of the band's singles, the Gorillaz put on a "live" show few flesh-and-blood bands could hope to match. (Notice how the energy level dips just a bit when the live rappers come out?)
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