Right, dragonworks, about the switching on *Days*; I read that the MB had to play an elaborate game with Decca to get to record that album, essentially telling the record company that they were recording a modern version of some classical composer's work (whose name escapes me at the moment) while working on their own original music instead. The band was getting their stuff to the guy leading the London Festival Orchestra and he was putting together the orchestral pieces to fit with their themes. Quite a swindle, but also quite an album.
dw, when did you see them? Was it recently, like in the past 5 years or so? I have only seen them that one time, but from what I gather the song selection was not their typical one, or at least they had some tunes that they don't usually do live. "New Horizons" is one of my favorite MB songs, and they did that beautifully.