schitck or show buisness or both
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I have view examples. I've seen Jimi about 5x and really saw his decline. The 1st show White Plains Civic Center,he was from another planet and there were no words that I knew what I just saw. Next came Hunter College N.Y.C. Also a great show w/him embracing the Marshalls and doing his thing. Then come a Fillmore East show where I was so close between 2through 5th rows and saw everything. He a double/double stack of Marshalls but one top left speaker clearly had a speaker removed. Now from 20 rows out him ramming the thing must of looked good but I was horrified. Same show he unstraps his white concert Strat and either puts on a Fender Mustang or Squire and at that volume and maybe in tune proceeded to destroy the crap out of it into a million pieces. Also very premeditated. Then for Jimi the absolute worst, There was a huge peace benefit at MSG w/ about 20 acts doing 2/3 songs each w/ Jimi as headliner. He comes on and about 18,000 flah cubes go off and I don't remeber him playing a note and just left the stage.
Another really disappointing shitck story. I wasn't at Woodstock but saw the movie a thousand times. At the end of the Who's set you see Pete pounding his S.G. play some more then proceeed to pound it again unplug an apperntly toss that S.G into the crowd. I posed this question to the Dozin Site.where is that guitar? They said it was for the movie and a complete sham. He tossed the guitar into the press/ security pit into the waiting hands of his crew. It looked great on film but a falisy. One more I can think of the 1st time time I saw SRV at a college aud. he was ripping it up. He was using plastic baffle defussers that he eventually and very dramitacally kicked all of them away and things got very loud.
There are so manty others, Jimmy Page playing w/ violin bow, Alvin Lee playing w/ a drum stick, Pete w/ the windmill deal and iirc even Nils Lofgren used a mini trapoline to fly aroud the stage before he joined the E-ST Band.which I saw as he was playing a club called the Metro in Central Jersey. Iwas way close leaning on the monitors, near the a boat load of bouncers started to line the stage.What, Springsteen comes out and does a few Chuck Berry numbers w/Nils which then he instantly became a member of the group.
So what do you think of this evaluation of the music buiness. Personally if your good enough you don't need tricks or gimicks...........
Another really disappointing shitck story. I wasn't at Woodstock but saw the movie a thousand times. At the end of the Who's set you see Pete pounding his S.G. play some more then proceeed to pound it again unplug an apperntly toss that S.G into the crowd. I posed this question to the Dozin Site.where is that guitar? They said it was for the movie and a complete sham. He tossed the guitar into the press/ security pit into the waiting hands of his crew. It looked great on film but a falisy. One more I can think of the 1st time time I saw SRV at a college aud. he was ripping it up. He was using plastic baffle defussers that he eventually and very dramitacally kicked all of them away and things got very loud.
There are so manty others, Jimmy Page playing w/ violin bow, Alvin Lee playing w/ a drum stick, Pete w/ the windmill deal and iirc even Nils Lofgren used a mini trapoline to fly aroud the stage before he joined the E-ST Band.which I saw as he was playing a club called the Metro in Central Jersey. Iwas way close leaning on the monitors, near the a boat load of bouncers started to line the stage.What, Springsteen comes out and does a few Chuck Berry numbers w/Nils which then he instantly became a member of the group.
So what do you think of this evaluation of the music buiness. Personally if your good enough you don't need tricks or gimicks...........
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