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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2757275" data-attributes="member: 2205">For a primarily synthesizer-based band, they do a really good live show.  David Gahan's charismatic stage presence being primarily the factor there, I think.  Of course, they switch to a lot more live instruments too--they had two tour musicians they hired, including a live drummer, and Martin Gore just hangs out with his guitars.  Fletch stands there behind his keyboard, but he's a charisma non-entity anyway.  The live versions aren't always the same as the studio versions either; they meandered through a handful of guitar solos, and a really rockin' drum solo at one point too, and they make other subtler changes here and there at times.They also hired a tour musician keyboardist too, to get all the synthlines out there live instead of pre-recorded, I suppose.  And Martin Gore had probably the stupidest hat I've ever seen when he first came out; it was a knit cap with big earflaps and a mohawk (!) down the middle.  He didn't really wear it that long, though, and besides, he's notorious for looking stupid at live shows from what I've heard.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Oh, and did I mention they had a topless picture of some blond chick in braids on the jumbotron during "I Feel You?"  You don't get that from listening to your CDs...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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