Nobody saw this coming

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A 10/9/24 concert in a small setting where, lacking the giant video screens they use in their major concerts, they just show up and play virtually nonstop, putting on exactly the same show they would for a crowd of 50,000, musically speaking. Sadly, my favorite Pau song, 23, seems to have been dropped from their recent playlists. And, much as I’d like to see Pau at the piano singing Black Holes and Breathe, I guess she is sticking by her decision not to play such emotional material in public.

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Much better than average audio quality, considering it was taken with a fancam. The small venue helped a lot, for sure. But halfway through it got bad and distorted, even painful (for my ears) at times. I’m not mentioning this just complain about fancams again. Some commenters mentioned their thanks for it, because they were at that concert, not close to the stage, and appreciate reliving it.

Meanwhile, I’ve seen mics go up in quality and down in price. The concert we heard above was recorded with a $180 mic. I think we’ll see fancam audio quality go up, at least in small venues without thousands of screamy fans. These new, more affordable “32-bit float” mics can record very loud music without distortion, and can be more easily processed to suit all audio volumes.

[UnseenParticipant]

An operatic singer is blown away by The Warning, especially Dany’s vocal techniques and abilities.

[PopeBeanieModerator]

I like that reactor and have other responses later. Meanwhile…

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This track is an appreciation of Ale’s bass playing by a fan who remixed the performance to bring the bass more into the foreground. Not only a great bassist but she’s very easy on the eyes as well.

[PopeBeanieModerator]

Yeah, nice to hear that. Went to Don’s page to learn more.

A great cover of a 30 year old song. I didn’t know that the bass part was Flea’s. Before seeing your post I came here to post a reaction to this song. I liked learning a few things from it, and I like listening more closely to them on subsequent plays. 8 minutes:

[UnseenParticipant]

Clearly, The Warning is special, but what’s their secret?

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Paul Reed Smith (PRS) is the brand one usually sees Dany playing. This is a concert celebrating the company’s 40th year with a number of famous and/or notable players featured. This video is notable for Dany performing the AC/DC hit, Back in Black. Note that Orianthi takes a solo and she’s clearly a shredder, which Dany is not. When people complain that Dany doesn’t take many solos I point out that Dany takes NO solos. Even those times when she seems to take a solo, you’ll find the “solo” is note-for-note the same every time they perform the song. I then point out that The Warning is not trying to be Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Jimi Hendrix Experience or any other such band. They are a songwriting band and showoffy extemporaneous solos are kind of beside the point for their project.

[UnseenParticipant]

Why The Warning isn’t just another rock band. What makes them stand out?

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One thing I always liked about The Warning was their grunginess, showing up to play basically in street clothes (awards shows and the like aside, of course).

With this recent show, they seem to be experimenting with wardrobe. Most notable is Pau handing the drumsticks to someone else so she could go up front to sing. She’s wearing an outfit that’s easier for you to see than for me to effectively describe. I was surprised that it involves wearing some sort of garter system to hold the stockings up.

And they did at least one wardrobe change involving a black theme:

[UnseenParticipant]

Watching someone experience The Warning the first time is almost like watching someone have their first orgasm.

[UnseenParticipant]

For years, Ale, the youngest sister, was the quiet and more introverted one. Sometimes not looking totally confident on stage at the start of their rise, she has finally blossomed into a person who can come out alone before her sisters and hold the audience in the palm of her hand.

[UnseenParticipant]

Are the girls of The Warning sexing their act up a bit? About 8 months ago, Dany showed up in a skirt to play on the Jimmy Kimmel show and since then, she occasionally does play in a skirt.

For the longest time, one of the charms of TW was that they would play concerts in clothes that looked like the clothes they had put on that morning. Street clothes. Sure, for some shows, they’d dress similarly, all in black or all in white, but not in anything like a uniform.

Recently, and most notably when playing to Latin American audiences, they seem to have added a touch more sex appeal. When Pau has come up front to sing Consume, she has worn an outfit that showed off her curves a bit more than usual and wearing stockings held up by a garter system of some sort.

In this concert from yesterday, Dany is wearing a miniskirt. Not a micro-mini—it’s midthigh—but for the many guys (I’m one) who have the leg fetish, it’s very pleasant to see some leg. And she’s a long way off from showing off her body to the degree of, say, a Taylor Swift.

I do wonder, though, if this is done more in the context of Latin American audiences, where objectifying female musical artists is much more of a “thing.”

Interestingly, Ale, the bass player and youngest sister, who is, literally, model material, is the one who shows of what she’s got the least most of the time wearing ultra-baggy pants as she is here.

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[UnseenParticipant]

Well, smack me down. Pepsi got Ale to show some leg for a Pepsi Cola ad:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sur83KwE2eU

[UnseenParticipant]

Lately, when new reactors discover The Warning, I post this to get them up to speed quickly. Comments, additions, etc. welcome, especially from Pope Beanie.

12 Things to know about The Warning.

Their names are Daniela (guitar, lead/backup vocals), Paulina (percussion, backup/occasional lead vocals), and Alejandra (bass guitar, backup/very occasional lead vocals). They are known to their fans by the nicknames Dany, Pau, and Ale. These names are pronounced like DANny, POW!, and AH-leh.

Their age range is five years. Dany is the oldest. She is two years older than Pau and five years older than Ale.

They are not a new band even if they are new to you. They played their first show under this name in a show on October 26, 2013. They released their first full album, XXI Century Blood, on March 27, 2017 although they did release a 6-song EP, Escape the Mind, on April 14, 2015.

Their fans appreciate The Warning being treated as a rock band, not a chick band, girl group, or anything like that which basically gives them an asterisk. Don’t dwell on their gender in other words. They are not a sideshow.

They are Mexican but English is not the girls’ second language, it is their other language. They were raised and schooled bilingually. This is why they speak English almost 100% free of a Mexicsn accent and better, actually, than most Americans.

Their original musical education was in classical piano. They discovered rock through the video game Rock Band. After enjoying the game so much, Daniela and Paulina asked their parents for real instruments. Their parents gifted them with a real guitar for Daniela and a real drum kit for Paulina. Later on, they gifted Ale with a real but junior-size bass guitar.

The band members love all kinds of music from serious classical music to classic rock to disco and J-pop.

They have two regular lead singers, Dany about 90% of the time and Pau about 10% of the time. Ale can sing lead but it’s so rare that it hardly counts. She does sing backup often however, as do her sisters.

They have adopted a radio play format for their rock compositions, keeping them generally in a sub-four minute length. This is facilitated by the fact that their songs do not include lengthy, indulgent instrumental solos. What seeming short solos you hear are actually written out, played note for note the same each time they perform.

They are a phenomenally-talented songwriting team, perhaps the best to come along since The Beatles. By this, I mean, they consistently write excellent songs, never generating filler tunes or inside joke songs as even The Beatles sometimes did.

They are a clean-living family band. You can count on never reading about one having drug or alcohol problems, trashing their hotel room, or getting into fights. They often travel with their parents, relatives, and friends coming along to help or simply be company.

They spend a good deal of their time taking care of their fans. Unlike other bands which often try to sneak in a venue’s back entrance or travel through an airport incognito, these girls often take time to say hello to their fans. They constantly upload daily life and backstage videos and/or videos where they take time out to answer questions from fans.

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