Not to try out-do my co-conspirator, but I'd like to share a concert clip too.
I love a lot of artists, but for my money there's no popular musician better than Sly and the Family Stone. They are in that pantheon of true geniuses (Beatles, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, to name their contemporaries) who are music, but Sly is the most slept-on, having tasted some success in the late sixties, and then flaming out in the most spectacular fashion outside of Syd Barrett. So here they are, competing in a talent show in 1968 - and although the sound isn't great, it's effing amazing.
Friday, December 22, 2006
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You know, the one thing that strikes me, besides the obvious fact that they're great, is that music venues make a mistake in putting seats up front. Even if you yourself have no wish to stand for a concert, the atmosphere is much more electric with people goin' nuts in front of the stage, and yet all the major outdoor concert venues I can think of get this backwards. Admittedly, the Hatch Shell in Boston and the corresponding one in Lincoln Park in Chicago are classsical music stages much of the time and occasionally, respectively, but even for pop music shows they refuse to open up the floor plan. Same for all the performing arts centers in the Northeast (Finger Lakes, Saratoga, Tweeter Center in Boston, etc.). The Guinness fleagh at Suffolk Downs in Boston kicked some serious ass in part because there were no seats at all, and in part because the bands just rocked our freakin world.
Damn straight. Sitting is for old blue-hairs in opera houses. We unruly youngsters need to move our booties. Power to the booty!!!
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