Junior Boys explain Webster Hall mishap - reschedule date

Yeah, real musicians hit buttons on samplers, which is so much more musical than hitting a button on an iPod. And then when the button doesn't work you have a stage full of bullshit.

that is a perfectly good explanation

perhaps now the idiotic girl in the audience who was knocking people over with the peacock feathers the she wore in her hair and who kept flipping off the band and yelling at them to keep playing will now understand.

I don't push buttons, I have buttons to do that!

10:16, go lightly from the ledge.

@10:16

It's actually very different, and much more complicated than hitting a button on an ipod. You might know that if you've ever used a sampler or a midi-controller to control instruments.

That's a good explanation. Technologyfails totally suck- hope they've been able to fix/replace their stuff.

I've seen shows where the band (with no button pushers) had to stop because the clubs electrical power was shit and kept blowing. At least these guys tried to keep the show going.

Button Haters:

It's like calling a conductor "not a real musician" because he does not physically play an instrument on stage.

Still directing emotion through sound in real time ... pushing a fret or a button doesn't really matter...does it?

I guess this argument applies to DJ haters as well.

no, it doesn't. these dudes are sick. Dj's are still wack.

i mean, everyone knows how to put on paper planes and then totally ironically mash it up with something like i saw the sign or livin on a prayer...ta da.

i am a fervent and forever hater of dj's.

I don't care much for junior boys anymore, but these things happen.

for all the button pusher haters... how good was your last album? that's what I thought.

@ SAHC

You're not seeing the right DJs.

I don't care for this type of music generally, but give them a break.

When Slayer's amps all blow out, do you want to hear them plinking their unplugged guitars on stage?

(Well, for more than a couple songs for novelty?)

@ SAHC

You're not seeing the right DJs.
^^
this is so true...

i think all music should do away with actually instruments
button pushers are the future

i love when someone sets up their laptop and dances around to blips and bleeps

Pushing buttons is a tough gig man - you can get carpel tunnel and shit.

I've been to shows where the powers gone out and the band will grab some acoustic guitars, light some candles, and finish their fucking set. THAT'S dedication to their audience!

Then again, maybe Junior Boys' audience deserves cancelled shows, since they listen to this tripe in first place.

the button people are very defensive!!

This never would've happened at one of my shows. My samplers are phenomenal.

'When Slayer's amps all blow out, do you want to hear them plinking their unplugged guitars on stage?"
Well it actually happened in LA around '91 or '92, and Dave Lombardo never dropped a beat and finished the set by himself, a good 5 or 6 songs. No one left, and he beat the fucking drums so hard the whole place (Bowery Ballroom size) could hear him just fine.

wearing grado headphones for a preformance

Slayer are also button pushers .... metaphorically speaking of course :)

The older I get the more I realize ...you can't convince a musician to appreciate a dj ...and why would it even be important to try?

I am burnt my flag and will only be waving with my hand moving forward.

Let me have it ... Burg is ready.

listen up. my bleeps and blips are coming. so drop your Es and get with Me.

feather boa freak.
now you know.
and that,
my friends, is half the battle
up in this shizaam.

what the fuck
you just need to shut up and get out

Burg:
A conductor is not a musician during a performance. duh.

"Burg:
A conductor is not a musician during a performance. duh."

I disagee (but can be convinced otherwise with a decent argument). A conductor must be aware of every note each instrument is playing at all times during the performance.

Then, it's his/her job to evoke the correct emtional intent of the music (could be volume change, could be tempo,..etc) from the the orchestra/playing musicians throughout the duration of the tune.

So the conductor literally plays the entire orhcestra .. almost as if it in itself is one singular instrument! (happy ! ...take it easy)

Buy reading along with the master score and waving the arms ...putting on a mean face at certain times ...etc. The conductor is able "play" the orchestra. Not to mention the hours of prep work (aka programming) that goes into the actual performance.

It's literally impossible for a conductor to not be a musician. Even during a performance.

Nice "duh" btw. I had a mental pisture of myself drooling everywhere "DUUUUUUHHHHHHH ORFKESTRA IVS TOO MUZIK" ;)

midi controllers are the new guitars

What Would Howlin' Wolf Do?

Howlin' Wolf would've punched these tards in the cunt.

The sound at this show was phenomenal!

To be clear: A fucked up JB's show with a plethora of technical glitches that's forced to end early is still miles and MILES above a Trouble Andrew show that goes on without a hitch - AND YOU KNOW THIS!!

thats a veiled shot at crystal castles

Berg:
"So the conductor literally plays the entire orhcestra"

Do you even know what "literally" means!?
You even put the word "play" in quotations.

A conductor is in no way playing anything, unless you were to do some John Cage shit and put microphones in his sleeves to catch the breeze of his arms waving.
why do I even bother.....

any schmuck can learn to play guitar

it takes talent to come up with new and exciting ways of creating music