Re: [Harp-L] Live performance
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- From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:02:07 -0800 (PST)
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Iremember a feeling sort of like this being at an outdoor jazz concert about 15 years ago. Peopl like Freddie Hubbard, Ray Brown, and Toots Thielemans were on the bill, and were actually improvising. But so was guitarist Earl Klugh, and he had a slick, fully arranged presentation that was like listening to a CD instead of hearing live music - not a shred of anything left to chance or the moment. This might have been appropriate for a pop concert or even a classical concert, where nearly nothing is left to chance.
At the time I was sort of contemptuous of this approach to jazz. But it could be that Klugh was simply smart enough to know that his audience wanted that.
Trying to get people to come out of their homes for entertainment is a strange business. Klugh's approach could be self-defeating - why bother to go see him live if you can stay home and put on a CD, or just download it into your iPod? Going to the movies is now an excruciating experience - dozens of commercials - that you pay to see - trailers full of explosions and other shrieking noise, I guess on the principle that it has to be bigger and more bombastic than TV to justify itself. (Gee, could telling better stories help?)
Hey, can you do instant replay on a live concert? What about fast forward?
Winslow
Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
--- On Sat, 1/9/10, Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Live performance
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 7:41 PM
I am getting this very weird feeling at live performances now. The people love you, they go nuts, but somehow the dots no longer connect. Take last Friday, 2800 people, they go nuts , buy CD's but there is this very odd Star Trek disconnect, as if you were some kind of freak show and I don't me the harmonica, I mean the whole idea of live music.
Anybody else getting odd vibes at concerts? The old "I didn't know musicians were still doing this" kind of feel. My life is on my iPod feeling......
Harmonically yours,
Robert
http://www.robertbonfiglio.com
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