by venomnation » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:28 am
I have the DVD of the show in Chile.
I've probably gone over it with a fine tooth comb, five, six, maybe seven times. I can say this. The band is tight...they sound good, as a band. Arnel will get better with time...but I can't get past the broken english...and the bad accent....or...at the risk of a pun...the "bad english" and the broken accent..(ha..it was there). I almost want to say he's trying too hard....or maybe he has to try that hard to hold those notes. There are points in this where I think he directly channeled Perry.....some points anyway...but there's points, like when he's holding long notes (end of Seperate Ways, during Stone in Love, etc) that I think he's just working a bit too hard to NOT be accomplishing it.
And is it just me, or do the members of the band look like they're in PAIN listening to him? Ross looks bored, Neal looks like he's going "ouch" every time Pineda struggles.. and Cain looks like he's just wincing at every note....
Now I give them credit...and I've stated publicly that I was, at least in part, wrong about Pineda. But it'll take a little more than a semi-coherent performance of "ask the lonlely" with "with in with oup me" - to make me a fan of the band again..
