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Post by imec on Jun 21, 2010 14:03:38 GMT
Surprisingly so! I've seen him 4 times now - the first time he was singing from the bottom of a bottle. He's come a long way since then and can in fact conjure up some of the magic from his glory days - With a Little Help From My Friends was fabulous as was Come Together and Cry me A River. I've posted the setlist below as well as a couple of clips from the 75 minute set. Feelin' Alright The Letter When The Night Comes Up Where We Belong Shelter Me You Are So Beautiful Come Together You Can Leave Your Hat On Unchain My Heart With A Little Help From My Friends ENCORE Delta Lady She Came In Through The Bathroom Window Cry Me A River Some cool pre-concert footage on this one - Joe comes in around 1:22
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2010 17:15:08 GMT
*swooooooooooon*
This being a family forum & all, I won't print what I've always said about Joe Cocker. God, I love him!
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Post by imec on Jul 15, 2011 19:05:44 GMT
I often wish there were more activity in this thread, I'd love to hear what everyone is going to.
So far this year I've seen Jeff Tweedy twice, Pixies twice, The Black Keys, Cage The Elephant, The Tragically Hip, U2. Have maybe forgotten a couple. I have tickets for The Arctic Monkeys and Jeff Beck in the fall.
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Post by rikita on Jul 16, 2011 7:16:31 GMT
i haven't been to a concert in ages. a few weeks ago my mom asked me to come along to a concert to a very good quartet we both like (and happen to know the cello player), but I didn't have time. else, had a concert right outside my window during the fete de la musique, but i suppose that doesn't count as that wasn't by my choice...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2011 17:45:18 GMT
I must confess that my concert days have just about ended, which I regret immensely.
I now go only to totally civilised concerts where people sit down in assigned seats and applaud politely. This is not at all the sort of thing that I did in the past.
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Post by imec on Jul 19, 2011 13:44:36 GMT
I now go only to totally civilised concerts where people sit down in assigned seats and applaud politely. This is not at all the sort of thing that I did in the past. Late last year I attended a Rufus Wainwright concert where this was the format - in fact for the first half of the show the audience was requested ordered to not applaud - here is the official edict: "Rufus has asked us to pass on this message to everyone attending his shows on the tour. The first part of the program will be performed as a song cycle with visuals by Douglas Gordon. During the first set, Rufus has asked that you please do not applaud until after he has left the stage. His exit is part of the piece. After a brief intermission, Rufus will return for the second part of the show during which you may applaud to your heart's content."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2011 18:31:22 GMT
That might be the part where I start chanting "REFUND! REFUND!" Maybe Rufus should request that no one attend his concerts at all. (And yet I own at least one Rufus Wainwright CD, maybe even two.)
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 10, 2011 17:15:33 GMT
That would be quite normal in a classical concert, though there is an ongoing guerrilla war between the people who are brought up in the tradition of not clapping the individual movements, and those who either don't know or don't care about it. You can usually predict by the programme which is likely to attract the less experience concert-goers. Of recent televised BBC Proms, in a programme of the Elgar Violin Concerto and a suite of Percy Grainger, individual movements were clapped by a fair number of the audience; Friday night's Mahler Second Symphony (the Simon Bolivar Orchestra under Dudamel) - absolute silence between movements, apart from welcoming applause for the solo singers coming on for their movement, then a pandemonium of cheers at the end.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2011 17:28:32 GMT
Music education is sorely lacking in most countries and a lot of spectators do not know what is appropriate.
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Post by imec on Aug 11, 2011 14:16:52 GMT
That would be quite normal in a classical concert, Yes Patrick, I'm aware of this as I do have some interest in classical music (I chaired the board of the local Conservatory of Music for several years too). Might I suggest however that it is not normal that the male performers approach the piano at a painfully slow pace in a "postmodernist version of a Victorian funeral gown, complete with an extravagant feathered collar and a 17-foot-long train" and then depart the stage at the same uncomfortable (for the audience at least). pace. Audacious to say the least.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2014 16:25:26 GMT
We're going to go and see/hear Neko Case tonight at a wonderful old theater that was recently renovated. (the same theater where they showed the recent James Booker documentary).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 21:49:13 GMT
Damn! I'm leaving Vancouver just as the Bhangra Festival is coming to town. I LOVE Bhangra. And listen to this:
Balkan Bhangra blows my mind.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 19, 2019 7:59:36 GMT
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