Tape is definitely not a song. Guess at the time the live album was released they considered "intro" to boring , and as "tape" is actually coming from tape (especially at this time) a name was born …
Post by nausearockpig on Jun 30, 2016 1:26:55 GMT 1
It's a song in the same way Eyemou is a song. It's a piece of music made up of notes, chords, bass and drum parts & Robert's vocals. The fact that it's never played live and ONLY used as an intro does not preclude it from being a song (in the true sense of the word). It was used as an intro to SDS and The Kiss during the Wish tour so it's not attached to Open all the time.
If you have a lead on Brisbane 21 August 1992 - CT version, for the love of Bob, let me know. Please!
And "it's not a song" is 3 votes in front. Is Steve going to invoke article 50 to make this a binding fact?
He can invoke whatever he wants. It still won't change my opinion. And if Tape is not a song than neither is every instrumental song The Cure ever did. If you can live with that, perfect! But keep in mind some of those would be
Another Journey By Train Carnage Visors Cloudberry all The Lost Wishes tunes... Lost flowers tunes... etc etc etc.... Lets just say lots and lots of tunes.
But The Cure don't perform Tape? We never see them play it literally themselves, other instrumentals like Descent they have played live. Tape...nope. Because it's just intro music.
Although unnoticed, 'Tape' was taken from the Wish sessions recorded at the Manor (09/1991-02/1992) Engineer – David M. Allen,Steve Whitfield Band members : Smith,Gallup,Thompson,Williams,Bamonte. Having said all that, from then (1992) until today (2016) it is only used as an introduction piece played automatically and not live by band members on stage during Cure concerts. Somehow it is connected with 'open'. I'm sure Robert Smith knows!
Having said all that, from then (1992) until today (2016) it is only used as an introduction piece played automatically and not live by band members on stage during Cure concerts. Somehow it is connected with 'open'. I'm sure Robert Smith knows!
It is very connected with Open & here is the proof. You'll note that Robert starts playing the harmonics & continues well into the start of Open.
Having said all that, from then (1992) until today (2016) it is only used as an introduction piece played automatically and not live by band members on stage during Cure concerts. Somehow it is connected with 'open'. I'm sure Robert Smith knows!
It is very connected with Open & here is the proof. You'll note that Robert starts playing the harmonics & continues well into the start of Open.
It's just an extended intro to the song
haha... this will keep us busy til year's end! and i totally agree, actually will listen to it now