I saw the Star Wars in Concert show, and it was phenomenal. Even the clips of the prequels worked as a backdrop to the music. Then the did an encore of the Imperial March. I've been wishing they would put out a Blu-Ray of that show.

I'm more of a "Shark Sandwich" fan, but I'd take either.

Well, in that case, I guess I did see a soundtrack performed live.

I'm picturing Blade Runner, with Vangelis set up with banks of synths.

Check the website. They're touring all year.

I don't know where you live, but you may want to check out the website. The tour looks to be going all year. I recommend it—it's absurd, and I'm not sure I need to see it again (though there's a Chicago date in November, hmmmmm), but it's fun. And the audience goes nuts with the costumes and stuff.

I did, in Chicago, 2001. Amazing show.

Don't you mean Major Tom Bombadil?

I would have gone with:

Your retard eyes have been retardized.

I'm going to gauge that as "Little to No Rumpus". As you were!

Well, it's actually blue and black. Your reaction to this news will determine the rumpus, or lack thereof.

Tony Levin still plays synth bass with Peter Gabriel on certain tracks.

I think most fans would agree with you. Though they've had good stuff before and since then. Ultra has some really great stuff (and some filler).

I haven't heard that one, but it reminds me to look it up. Oddly enough, I was in a furniture store recently and heard some synthy song, sung by Martin, which I've never heard before, and sounded recent. Considering I'm pretty well versed in DM, (having finally gotten all of the re-releases) I thought maybe it was…

I was lucky (and extravagant) enough to buy the GOOD seats to their most recent tour. Even though I still think Delta Machine is their worst album since A Broken Frame or so, they still absolutely bring it live, even making the new material really work in a live setting.

That's a fair point. I guess StS predicts the Berlin trilogy, so it has some importance to the topic. But it's still transitioning out of his soul period, so it doesn't have any direct blueprint for synthpop.

They said that? Silly. At least they seem to have come to some realization of its worth, playing it on their latest tour (albeit a slowed down, "acoustic" version).

That CD release was always weird to me, especially as it was the only version I knew for a very long time. I eventually got the remaster/re-release, which relegated those bonus tracks to the DVD (and which I subsequently ripped to form a "2nd disc" in iTunes)—but even without them, ending the album with Pimpf always…

Great track, but for me it's all about Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You). The synth "solo" thing toward the end blows my mind every. Time.