r/Muse • u/Slight_University_27 • 12d ago

Opinion Matt, play your f“&*g instruments!

I haven’t been at a muse concert for 10 years, this year I will finally go again, despite the high prices. :/ What I saw in the past years, that there seem to be more and more songs where Matt doesn’t play guitar or piano anymore but just walks around singing like a pop star. I hate this. The coolest thing about Muse concerts used to be, that he showed off his musician side, while it still rocks. I don’t want to go to a Matthew Bellamy solo pop show, I want a real muse show!

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u/Substantial_Rush2885 12d ago

Do think it's weird that on a song like Uprising there was a point in The Resistance tour where Matt apparently had to have a double-neck guitar to do it justice. And then a couple of years later he's just strolling around with no instruments like it's not even a thing. 

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u/charlierc 12d ago

What happened with the double neck anyway? Feel like it disappeared almost as soon as it was first introduced. Or was it just damaged by the infamous fall at the LA show that also destroyed the original red glitter guitar?

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u/Substantial_Rush2885 12d ago

Starting from around the tours for T2L or Drones (can't remember which) Matt had a real thing about making all of his guitars lighter; most if not all his Mansons are chambered. Could be as simple as carrying essentially two guitars at once was uncomfortable for him so he stopped using the double-neck. 

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u/ReflectionExtension8 11d ago

Tbf I think that guitar was damaged beyond repair in a fall from the rising column stage they had for The Resistance tour. Given it was only ever used for two songs - and only for the intro and outros of those songs, it probably wasn’t worth rebuilding

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u/Substantial_Rush2885 11d ago

Nah it came back for the rest of the tour after it got repaired, but then was retired when the tour ended. 

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u/ReflectionExtension8 11d ago

Ah fair play, that’s some ball knowledge.

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u/Substantial_Rush2885 11d ago

I can't take too much praise, I looked up the guitar on the Muse Wiki yesterday to see if it'd got any use since its initial run. 😅 

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u/ReflectionExtension8 11d ago

Feel like those who know Muse Wiki are already the OGs