By My Side came on my iphone shuffle and I reminded how great that song was The piano parts are phenomenal
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I did get to see them...forget when exactly....but I did.
If I had known then what I know now...
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I can't really believe that they carried on after Hutchence died. I wonder why.
I think mainly because they didn't see INXS as only about Hutchence. They were all key to the songwriting process (some more than others), and I'd guess they struggled with it but I guess they felt like they'd all been part of INXS's success, so they didn't want to end it when they lost Michael.
Me, I think the right thing to do would have been to go on under another name. Or like REM, never officially admit a new member as an official band member, have various drummers, etc. But I also can imagine it's hard, their whole identify for many years became "INXS", and they probably also had mixed feelings about how Michael died and why.
I can't myself imagine going on, but I'll also never be in that situation (unless I sprout some unknown talent in the next few years and leave my family and start a band LOL!).
^^but was there really that much money in it without Hutchence? I mean, did people really want to see them without him? I know I would never.
I actually saw them with their first "official" singer (I think?) after Michael died, Jon Stevens. I got the ticket for free, so technically I didn't "pay" for it, but I was really curious, and I gotta say, they were still fantastic. And Stevens was smart, he didn't try to be Hutchence. He didn't try to put on an act. He just sang the songs with heart and had his own presence that was actually really good. Then when they turned down the lights and showed a film memorial montage of Michael to "Never Tear Us Apart" I was bawling. It was beautiful.
But no, I still don't think it was sustainable, Michael was a one-of-a-kind frontman.
Kick was one of the 1st albums I ever owned. I was 7 when it came out. My older cousin liked U2 and them at the time so that's how I got into them. Didn't have any other INXS albums until that reality series was on the air when I listened to their earlier albums.
Also, Don't Change is one of my top 10 songs of all time by anyone.
Totally agree about Don't Change. Amazing beautiful song.
Ok for us older members who are up there in age, any fans? Original INXS not that reality bullshit they did. That dude Michael hutchence had one hell of a voice. Band was pretty good, no?
I am not UP THERE in age...and I WORSHIPPED Hutch...and I HATE the new singer....and think they should have just disbanded when he died...or at least formed a different band....It was all about Hutch, and I loved him, I mean WORSHIPPED him...I have a painting hanging in my house that I did of him in memory of him....I was a freshman in HS when he died and I swear to God a piece of me died too...I had been listening to INXS since I was little....
Music is my Religion and Pearl Jam, my Savior! Tattooed Dissident!
Michael was amazing.....I was in Junior High when Kick came out, and I remember how insanely cool the album was, and how bad I wanted it. This was my first non-Michael Jackson holy shit I have to get that album, album. Never tear us Apart is as good as it gets...whole album is great. They had a few hits after Kick, but never captured the mainstream love again after it.
^^Yeah, Michaels untimely death must have been hard on them for so many reasons. But it is interesting you actually saw them with a different singer.
And they really were very very good. I mean, Michael was key in writing the songs they were performing so well, so most likely they wouldn't have had all the group of great songs to perform if he'd never been in the band (or it would have been somewhat different songs), but in terms of how the songs sounded and how the band performed, it was different but still very good.
But there is nothing like Michael. Obviously Stone and Jeff were in a similar situation with Mother Love Bone, and for them clearly the best move was to move on with something new, not try to find another MLB singer, because in their view there was not other MLB singer. So they created something new.
Maybe INXS tried that as well, ,though not publicly, to do something new, and it just didn't work, so maybe that's why they kept coming back to trying to find a new front person?
By the way I don't know how or why Jon Stevens came to leave the band, but I really enjoyed his performance while he was there.
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Some silken moments go on forever.
LOVED MH.
(anyone else think he resembles this dude? -
The piano parts are phenomenal
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Me, I think the right thing to do would have been to go on under another name. Or like REM, never officially admit a new member as an official band member, have various drummers, etc. But I also can imagine it's hard, their whole identify for many years became "INXS", and they probably also had mixed feelings about how Michael died and why.
I can't myself imagine going on, but I'll also never be in that situation (unless I sprout some unknown talent in the next few years and leave my family and start a band LOL!).
But no, I still don't think it was sustainable, Michael was a one-of-a-kind frontman.
Tattooed Dissident!
Tattooed Dissident!
But it is interesting you actually saw them with a different singer.
But there is nothing like Michael. Obviously Stone and Jeff were in a similar situation with Mother Love Bone, and for them clearly the best move was to move on with something new, not try to find another MLB singer, because in their view there was not other MLB singer. So they created something new.
Maybe INXS tried that as well, ,though not publicly, to do something new, and it just didn't work, so maybe that's why they kept coming back to trying to find a new front person?
By the way I don't know how or why Jon Stevens came to leave the band, but I really enjoyed his performance while he was there.