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Post by Uncle Bob on Sept 6, 2015 11:50:56 GMT
I'll leave this here: It's Avril playing Runaway on guitar during her 2007 TBDT Promo Tour. I had never seen it until some days ago and I wish she had stuck to playing guitar for a couple of the songs on that record as she did for LG/UMS. She has never played any other song on the guitar that isn't MHE/He Wasn't/Don't Tell Me/NH..she only played guitar for EH while touring in Canada in TBST. I wish she'll play guitar for at least one of the songs from her upcoming album. Thanks. I had never seen that one. I would like to see her play guitar more too. She may never be able to play like Eric Clapton but, she could be an acceptable rhythm player. None of rhythm parts of her material are that hard to play. Of all her songs I've ever attempted to play, the only one I had trouble with is the intro to 'Take Me Away'. And, that's the part that Evan played. I'd rather watch her pretend to play guitar than pretend to dance.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Sept 6, 2015 13:17:32 GMT
I never knew Avril played guitar on Runaway before. It must have been a one off performance or something she only did for the promo tour.
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Post by StrongSweet on Sept 6, 2015 13:36:45 GMT
lol I can't hear anything from the guitar in that Runaway performance
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Post by elsablackstar on Sept 6, 2015 14:27:14 GMT
I hope she can play guitar on her next tour
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Post by niccolo on Sept 7, 2015 1:43:55 GMT
I never knew Avril played guitar on Runaway before. It must have been a one off performance or something she only did for the promo tour. Yeah, she only did it about 3 times maximum. Looking back, that whole TBDT summer promo tour was interesting because she was trying different things out, gauging how to perfect the songs live before embarking on the world tour.
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Post by TomX on Sept 7, 2015 3:22:00 GMT
I saw this just yesterday..Avril playing Hot on guitar! And I'm almost certain I can hear the strumming coming from her guitar, I don't think it's mute...I wish she'd always performed this song on guitar
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Post by BogoGog24 on Sept 7, 2015 3:34:42 GMT
Yeah I've seen that one before. I think that was a one time only thing for that song.
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Post by TomX on Sept 7, 2015 4:16:16 GMT
Like what she did for the MMVA with WTH in 2011
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Post by eismann on Sept 7, 2015 9:52:19 GMT
I think playing songs like Hot with guitar is a bit useless. I mean she is just strumming a few seconds, so it seems like she is doing it only for keeping up her 'rock-chick-image'. Rather than just strumming a few times, I prefee if she would just rock out on stage
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 11:24:04 GMT
Start headbanging, Avril. Perfect way to maintain rockstar image, and way more easier than using guitars.
Put more fast tempo guitar solos and heavier drums in 6th album, and she'll be able to headbang
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Post by BogoGog24 on Sept 7, 2015 12:13:38 GMT
Honestly I think head banging looks really stupid most of the time and it actually hurts your head a lot. I'm glad she doesn't really do that.
IMO what she does best with performing is just jumping around to the music, like her Dick Clark performance, that was one of the best performances of GF ever. And yeah with the whole guitar thing it's rather pointless when she's half heartedly strumming a few inaudible chords. Her acoustic performances are much better and I like when she plays alone like NH and KOHD at Roxy theater.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 12:20:39 GMT
^ Personally headbanging looks great if the performer's hair is long enough.
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Post by elsablackstar on Sept 7, 2015 12:27:57 GMT
Love this performance of Nobody's home so much! <3
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Post by Dillon on Sept 7, 2015 15:19:15 GMT
The head banging looked fine in the gif and short video. I think it would be fine if she did it several times throughout the show just as a hair flipping type thing, but to head bang in a way that a metal rock artist would normally do, I think that would look silly for Avril. And since that's never been her "thing", it would be silly for her to adopt that kind of move suddenly during her 6th tour; and even more so since she's drifted away from her rocker LG and UMS days a long time ago.
Avril wanted to go in a mellow, acoustic, stopped-down direction for GL; that helped her drift from her rocker image, but the type of album was something she wanted to do. But the type of songs that her label has forced on her definitely further pushed Avril away from her rocker image. We don't know if Avril would have ever ventured this much into kinds of pop like WTH or HTNGU or even HK if her label hadn't began to push it way back when, but her labels have slowly tried to fade out her past for more current styles.
Avril was pretty different than anyone else in the LG and UMS days, even TBDT somewhat. If her labels would have given her more freedom and control, I think she would have been able to keep her older, rockier styles while keeping them relevant rather than almost abandoning them completely.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Sept 7, 2015 15:31:46 GMT
Yeah I think it's fine when she flips her hair like in the GIF and stuff, but full on head banging like a rocker would just look so stupid. Especially since practically none of her music, especially her recent stuff, is rock. Is she gonna head bang to HTNGU? LOL
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