Beware of instant context switches on Ithaka. As mentioned previously, I'm all over the place.
Only the most blithering kind of hog-headed, snow-blind fool would try to take a thing from Joe Bonamassa's skill (or set him up with a glowing front end to slash him at the back end of the article).
Live at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, March 28, 2013
Joe Bonamassa - Guitar and Vocals
Arlan Schierbaum - Keyboards
Carmine Rojas - Bass
Tal Bergman - Drums
Lenny Castro - Percussion
- YouTube
It's not the music but the danger which makes it difficult for me to approach. For the Sixties / Seventies concerts, there was some chance you would die. There wasn't an active fear of that except after the incident at Coliseum with The Who but we all knew it could happen.
For me, the danger and the risk are required ingredients to bring it right inside me. In terms of the music, Bonamassa carries all the musical risk since he's playing far beyond risky moves. Maybe the perception is all a question of relative danger since my own background comes from people getting croaked at concerts more frequently than anyone would want to hear.
Maybe some guy crawls out into the rafters from a second-level balcony and then takes a dive. Who knows why but now he's dead. I know that happened more than once at the World Series of Rock in Cleveland. We were amazed Rob H. didn't blow his head clean off with all the drugs he took and he wasn't getting that from any of us but sometimes we would find him lying against a wall at the end of the show, absolutely wasted. There was another time when he worked his way up to the front by the stage but the crew was hanging back. Some time later, he was passed back, hand over hand by the crowd, oblivious to anything in the world.
Note: there's no tragic ending and, amazingly, he lives to this day.
It was dangerous for years on end so that type of engagement with the music has a high association but it's subjective and that's why there may be attraction to this artist or that one when someone else presents better and maybe far better musical skills in your judgment.
Only the most blithering kind of hog-headed, snow-blind fool would try to take a thing from Joe Bonamassa's skill (or set him up with a glowing front end to slash him at the back end of the article).
Live at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, March 28, 2013
Joe Bonamassa - Guitar and Vocals
Arlan Schierbaum - Keyboards
Carmine Rojas - Bass
Tal Bergman - Drums
Lenny Castro - Percussion
- YouTube
It's not the music but the danger which makes it difficult for me to approach. For the Sixties / Seventies concerts, there was some chance you would die. There wasn't an active fear of that except after the incident at Coliseum with The Who but we all knew it could happen.
For me, the danger and the risk are required ingredients to bring it right inside me. In terms of the music, Bonamassa carries all the musical risk since he's playing far beyond risky moves. Maybe the perception is all a question of relative danger since my own background comes from people getting croaked at concerts more frequently than anyone would want to hear.
Maybe some guy crawls out into the rafters from a second-level balcony and then takes a dive. Who knows why but now he's dead. I know that happened more than once at the World Series of Rock in Cleveland. We were amazed Rob H. didn't blow his head clean off with all the drugs he took and he wasn't getting that from any of us but sometimes we would find him lying against a wall at the end of the show, absolutely wasted. There was another time when he worked his way up to the front by the stage but the crew was hanging back. Some time later, he was passed back, hand over hand by the crowd, oblivious to anything in the world.
Note: there's no tragic ending and, amazingly, he lives to this day.
It was dangerous for years on end so that type of engagement with the music has a high association but it's subjective and that's why there may be attraction to this artist or that one when someone else presents better and maybe far better musical skills in your judgment.
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