Even if he does have to sing “Madness” - the greatest rock power ballad of the last 25 years - a half-step down from the record, his three-octave range is a marvel to aurally behold, at least if you aren’t holding any long-standing grudges against, like, passion. ![]() I’ll come down as unabashedly in favor, especially when it comes to the highly oxygenated emissions of Bellamy, one of the talented male singers the flagging genre still boasts … a Bono who’s got a few Pavarotti genes spliced into his DNA. Speaking of inflatables, anyway, how you feel about hot air generally will probably be indicative of how you feel about Muse specifically. ![]() The “Will of the People” Tour (named for the group’s ninth album, which came out in August) has two giant inflatables as its main points of visual interest and grandeur, replacing and doubling up on the giant sinister robot that hovered over the rawk on the “Simulation Theory” tour four years ago. But compared to what almost anyone else is doing who isn’t either a pop superstar or a possible anti-semite, it’s a lot. And they’ve done less, too, although only on fleeting, promotional occasions, like the bare-bones mini-tour that had them visiting the nearby Wiltern for an album-launch underplay last October. (Or putting a Star of David on a pig.)īut why spend too much looking around at crowd demographics when Bellamy and company are giving you so much to look at on stage? They’ve actually done more elaborate staging there were no drones this time. There were kids, or relative kids, too, but a lot of them in the company of dads who wanted to show them what rock shows used to be like, and were probably happy to be able to take them to one where the main guy on stage wasn’t pushing or surpassing 80. ![]() But the two primary generations were, first, the folks that grew up on KROQ as kids in the last real glory days of alt-rock in the ’90s and 2000s, and then, secondarily, the sub-generation before that, a little older than 44-year-old Bellamy, even, who recognize Muse as probably the last great link in a chain that goes back to the classic rock, or pomp-rock, of the 1970s. Looking around at the full house at Stap-… er, Crypto, you would definitely say the audience counted as intergenerational, by any measure.
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