Siouxsie and the Banshees - switch live 1983

Siouxsie and the Banshees with Robert Smith - switchlive 1983 royal albert hall

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[ILikeCalliopes]

I really always loved how Satan joined them

as the background singer from 3:05 to 3:23.

To this day when I listen to the album version

I sing Satan's background vocal out loud and

if anyone's nearby they look perplexed.

[PurpleBlueHaze]

I somehow feel exited as if I'm actualy there at the concert! Thank you very much!

[RiotNrrrdUTube]

@roddy76to86 I suspect that the difference was purely down to McGeoch's Yamaha SG vs. McKay's Les Paul. I'm pretty sure McGeoch used most of the same effects pedals as McKay did in an attempt to closely emulate his sound on the older material. Smith on the other hand, you can hear him make mistakes in this vid (which is a really nice transfer of the "Nocturne" video, I must say!). Smith did pretty well with the older thrashy stuff back in 1979 when he did his first substitution stint, though.

[roddy76to86]

@RiotNrrrdUTube

John McGeoch was the best guitarist known to me, I envy you seeing him play so close, as that is an entertainment in itself. But even he couldn't quite match that amazing sound that John McKay produced. I've heard that Robert Smith always struggled with "Switch". But who else could take that job on TWICE with no notice ? My unremastered 1990 CD of the first two Peel Sessions has arrived, and I was about to upload a track. Surely UMG haven't got their meathooks into that ?

[roddy76to86]

@RiotNrrrdUTube

I've got the "Nocturne" CD, and whilst Robert Smith is no John McKay and certainly no John McGeoch, apart from "Switch" I think he does a good job on the rest of "Nocturne". I can't think of another guitarist at the time who could have done better. Except for Stuart Adamson, but he was otherwise engaged. And they did "Hyaena" during his stint, which is the Banshees most experimental album. Steven Severin's bass was much more to the fore, a Robert Smith "Cure" trademark.

[RiotNrrrdUTube]

@roddy76to86 I heard McGeoch from 10 feet away in November 1980 and they played "Switch" 2 nights' running out of the 3 I saw at the Whisky-A-Go-Go and he came pretty damn close to McKay. A lot more than Smith did. McGeoch was a guitar genius, end of.

[sharka69]

Rocks hard! Love em!

[librabonze]

@ILikeCalliopes I know exactly what you're talking about! I thought I was the only one who did that! It does sound like a demon-voice.

[MasterShifty]

@ILikeCalliopes This really made me laugh, because I heard the vocal you were talking about, and imagined a bunch of people staring, completely vexed out of their minds wondering why someone would sing the album version like this. Totally hilarious!

[talkingwall]

@AvirtualSwitzerland Not superior but definitely, when it comes to music and recognition of ability, jazz players have knowledge behind them and that comes from hundreds of hours of study and practice.That makes an ah-um "jazz geek" well qualified to comment on a players abilities, especially with respect to the musical constructs that are being used. Smith is an innovative guy. My point was that flashiness does not equate to musical greatness. A substitute for a large weenus though perhaps.

[AvirtualSwitzerland]

@talkingwall ....Why do jazz geeks always think they are superior and THE PUREST FORM?.....Go bee-bop your little turtle dick, Sully.

[talkingwall]

@tstsullivan797 I'm a jazz player, I've been playing for about 40 years. I know my stuff. Smith is a very innovative player;he's far more imaginative than most of the guys you mention. Those guys pretty much stick to blues scales, Major, minor and dom7 chords. Smith gets into some nice chordal qualities and scales that are altered, extended and diminished forms. He's not out front flashy, greatness isn't about that. Check Jim Hall out sometime. Brilliant w/ absolutely zero flashiness.