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Man, this whole tour announcement has been a disaster since the beginning. I do remember them saying that the fans would get a 48 hour window before normal tickets, which would slate it in for tomorrow, Wednesday.Nessie wrote: They say Wednesday, October 17, but today is Tuesday, October 17. And then they say the text will arrive on Thursday, October 18, instead of Wednesday, October 18. Maybe they screwed up when they are going to send them out.
The main reason I still have trouble buying it is that even back when Al was doing keyboards live, he still had a keyboard player in the band. Making Al the keyboard player effectively ties him to that instrument for the rest of the show (all his songs have keyboards, and some have accordion. He can't do both). Who knows at this point. Hopefully Bermuda will pop in soon to clear things up.richegreen wrote:It's entirely plausible that Al plans on going back to playing keyboards himself on this tour. That's how he did things back in the 80s, at least before he was too busy jumping around with a leg behind his head and slipping in and out of different jackets every 5 minutes.
Yeah, I was referencing tours like the Stupid Tour or Tour of the Universe, where they did in fact have a touring keyboardist. Al most definitely was not playing the keyboard during songs like YMM and DTBS in recent tours (and possibly the same for past tours)OneWAY wrote:I'm actually not sure Al was playing keyboards during songs like You Make Me and Dare To Be Stupid. I could be wrong, but I always thought that was theatrics, while Ruben actually did the keys.
I'm also pretty sure that before Ruben joined, they had a different touring keyboardist. It stands to reason that during songs like One More Minute, someone else was doing the piano parts.