The Beatles Bible - Topic: My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 DrBeatle on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64297 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64297

parlance said
Congrats on your latest edition. I'm passing on the info to a Blur fan friend.

parlance

Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for passing the info along! I hope they like it if they decide to check it out. :-)

 

]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:29:23 +0000 parlance on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64186 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64186 Congrats on your latest edition. I'm passing on the info to a Blur fan friend.

parlance

]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:05:22 +0000 Long John Silver on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64185 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64185 Exactly, and the best version I saw of that song (live one that is) is their T Park concert:

 

but mostly because of the audience.

]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:59:45 +0000 DrBeatle on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64130 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64130 No idea, you're right that live it's more of a "WAAHHOOO!" That's one song where not a single live version comes close to the studio version. Every band has songs like that and that's one of Blur's.

]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:42:53 +0000 Long John Silver on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64109 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64109 Do you know why Damon changed his "woo-hoo" for live concerts (Song 2) to different sound? Now it just sounds weird... Oh and good luck with book, i like 90's music and therefor Britpop too :) .

]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:41:16 +0000 DrBeatle on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64092 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64092

meanmistermustard said
Thats incredible and a real labour of love. So whats you're favourite live show and why? Have Blur improved as a band over time when playing live; some artists find it a slog to keep going live but have to for finance and fanbase or just keep doing the same type of live performance all the time. They might change the odd song but the actual gig is incredibly similar to the other 99 recently.

Did you get any input/feedback from the band before, during or after?

I will admit i know little of Blur.

I've heard so many shows that's it's ...]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:04:41 +0000 meanmistermustard on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64091 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64091 Thats incredible and a real labour of love. So whats you're favourite live show and why? Have Blur improved as a band over time when playing live; some artists find it a slog to keep going live but have to for finance and fanbase or just keep doing the same type of live performance all the time. They might change the odd song but the actual gig is incredibly similar to the other 99 recently.

Did you get any input/feedback from the band before, during or after?

I will admit i know little of Blur.

]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:58:58 +0000 DrBeatle on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64089 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64089 It sure was! I started collecting their live recordings in 1997 and in 2003 I started cataloguing everything just to make a database for myself, but it kept growing and growing so I decided to make it into a full-blown book, which was finally published in 2009. I literally started working on the collecting, revising, correcting, and rearranging for the 2nd edition the same week the 1st edition was published, so that took an additional 3 years. It's definitely a labor of love...I didn't get paid one cent to do any of this! :-)

...]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:43:10 +0000 meanmistermustard on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64082 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64082 Wow. Sounds incredible and far down delving. How long did it take you to get this together DrBeatle, sounds like a long term project?

]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:20:12 +0000 DrBeatle on My Book: Black Book: The Live History of Blur http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64072 Pimp your stuff http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/pimp-your-stuff/my-book-black-book-the-live-history-of-blur/#p64072 Hi everyone! I know this is a Beatles forum, but Joe invited me to pass along some info on a book I've recently released, less than a month ago, on another band I'm as obssessive about besides The Beatles, Blur.

My book is Black Book: The Live History of Blur (2nd Edition). It's an expanded and updated "sequel" to my original 2009 book. It's just under 500 pages long and is a history of the band's live performances from their beginning in 1989 to the present day. I managed to collect over 250 concert recordings of theirs (and have ...]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:28:01 +0000