This is all you need on your stage:
One old man in a tuxedo will walk out to the chair while he holds his box guitar in his hand and then Segovia will start to play. There won't be so much as a cough from anywhere in the hall.
Note: it was said Segovia would go to a factory or a favored place where they made guitars and he would play every guitar in the place to find just the right one. Perhaps just a story.
It was a much bigger Music Hall than this one where my ol' Dad took me to see him along with Doc or Lotho but I keep forgetting which one. He got box seats for that and the place really was Music Hall in Cincinnati, a most esteemed rockhouse known throughout the land.
Trivia note: rock was banned at Music Hall after a Humble Pie concert in the early seventies which Doc attended and which memory still brings tears to his eyes from the glory of it. 'I swear it was so loud the place was shaking and the roof was going to come down!'
Well, apparently the Music Hall administration thought so too and rock was banned after that. Imagine the meeting on Monday morning since that one must have had some apoplectic managers. "By Christ, as long as I'm living that cacophonous rabble will never again set foot in here!"
Describing how Segovia plays is presumptuous silliness. Should I try to describe how a bird sings. It's not for words but appreciation of the opportunity to hear it.
One old man in a tuxedo will walk out to the chair while he holds his box guitar in his hand and then Segovia will start to play. There won't be so much as a cough from anywhere in the hall.
Note: it was said Segovia would go to a factory or a favored place where they made guitars and he would play every guitar in the place to find just the right one. Perhaps just a story.
It was a much bigger Music Hall than this one where my ol' Dad took me to see him along with Doc or Lotho but I keep forgetting which one. He got box seats for that and the place really was Music Hall in Cincinnati, a most esteemed rockhouse known throughout the land.
Trivia note: rock was banned at Music Hall after a Humble Pie concert in the early seventies which Doc attended and which memory still brings tears to his eyes from the glory of it. 'I swear it was so loud the place was shaking and the roof was going to come down!'
Well, apparently the Music Hall administration thought so too and rock was banned after that. Imagine the meeting on Monday morning since that one must have had some apoplectic managers. "By Christ, as long as I'm living that cacophonous rabble will never again set foot in here!"
Describing how Segovia plays is presumptuous silliness. Should I try to describe how a bird sings. It's not for words but appreciation of the opportunity to hear it.
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True that was a great concert, still lament the passing of Steve Marriot. But the ban was actually after a Bette Midler concert. I guess that was an insult to rock. Must have been lotho at Segovia as it was not me. Andy
Bette Midler was a riot in concert and I have never seen so many gay people in my life, before or since. She knew it and she played to it with maybe it's some kind of electro-burlesque. There was one part in which she and two scantily-clad maidens in outlandish attire rolled around the stage on electric wheelchairs with multicolored spinners flying from them. She's one of a kind.
Your post reminded me of a Joe Pass concert in San Francisco around 79. It was in the Great American Music Hall, a pretty small intimate theater. In the middle of a song (just him in a chair, like Segovia), two people sitting no more than 10-15 feet in front of him started talking. Joe stopped in the middle of the song, glared at them and said, " What, you think this is easy? You gotta be kidding", then proceeded to finish the song. You could feel the people slinking into their seats, and while pin drop quiet, you could feel the rest of the audience smiling. Will never forget it.
Has absolutely nothing to do with the topic but if you want to fill your church follow the lead of the Baptist church in Nashville that some weeks would enlist Chester Thompson and Peter Frampton to fire up the sinners in the pews
Laughing Gecko, that's a great one and any chatters would have been damned to hell for trying that with Segovia.
Hey, if you want to bring those players into the church to fire up the sinners then attendance might get a whole lot better. Have a ball! (larfs)
Really they were members of the church band
Sounds like a very strange church!
Regular Baptist church
I would go to that church!
Oh, sure, all Baptist churches have Frampton in the house as a resident axe whacker! (I thought Frampton had become a Cincinnati boy years back??)
A couple of years ago. Frampton also played at his kids high school fundraisers. Rumor had it that Adrian Belew played there but I never saw him. But he moved yo Illinois years ago
But hey it is Nashville
It is crazy who you might hear in the Honky Tonks on Broadway. I dont like Country that much but it is a blast if you are in the right mood. Ima pickin Ima grinning
I know what you mean about Country when they're really ripping as Texas has its style of country and the bar bands will blow the walls down with it. I've heard those boys playing seriously hard and they're super tight with it.
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