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Dear Hwy —
Yes.
Yours,
T
P.S. In the past when I cheaped out on MP3s (Primus live, Pearl Jam live for exs.) the sound q had a noticeable difference after subsequently trying the upgrade. ALSO, and this is such a pet peeve of mine that everyone in my immediate circle rolls their eyes when I get going about it, but MP3 shows usually have that IRRITATING “blip,” the very noticeable interstitial shit between tunes that, even if you have your fave burn program set to edit it out/remove it, you (or I 👿 ) can still hear it — I hate, hate, hate that with a passion. As you can tell, duh. So, as they say…once you go FLAC, you never go back. Sorry, had to do it. 🙄 😆
si_twining wrote:Rescheduling aside, don’t boycott any new date on point of principle – that’ll just end with someone else in your seat. No point cutting your nose off to spite your face – unsure of the reasoning behind the new plans, although I’d be confident enough to surmise that it’s not Bruce’s decision.=At least know that your area is on the radar… check Bruce’s FB page to see how often any concert announcement is immediately followed by “When are you coming to…?”
Si —
I appreciate your earnestness. Some points to consider…
I know that my current area of residence (New England) is on the radar. BH plays here quite frequently, but the solo dates not so. Also, what some doofus writes on BH’s Facebook pages is quite irrelevant (have you ticked off how many times said FB members have pleaded with him to play “Mandolin”? Hilarious), as one can only assume his peeps have some kinda algorithm that breaks down the U.S. region by region in accordance with dough made. You gotta figure that the NE/E U.S. from Asheville, NC to Portland, ME is prime territory, much like the West Coast, from San Diego to Seattle.
So, yeah, in the NE we get to see BH a lot. Solo dates not so. When you buy tix to a confirmed date as soon as they’re available only to discover two months later from a third-rate Phish-phollower website that your date has been “rescheduled” (when? dunno) so that Bruce can sweat it out with a Dead cover group, Gregg Allman, Buddy Guy, and etc in a cow pasture/swamp in northern Florida one can only assume that there is more money to be made in said cow pasture.
As to the “not biting my nose off to spite my face,” well, welcome to my world, dude. As I said, I’m sure that I’ll get over it. There are more pressing concerns in our personal lives, the U.S., the U.K., and the world, other shit to worry our pretty lil’ heads about. I’m just a bit peeved that BH does the V.I.P. thang (hey, for his corporate gigs, whatevs…) and THEN “reschedules” gigs that I can make, in an area CHOCK FULL of the northern variety of ol’ skool Deadheads and home turf for Phish phools (no offense, Goon…XOXO). Not to mention overflowing with the supposed type of music fan that BH covets, i.e. the discerning music fan willing to follow BH on any type of musical backroad he wants to go on, and not just because they’re “tripping balls, dude.” (In other words, your typical “East Coast Elitist”! Heh heh 😆 ) If I can make the rescheduled date, I’m sure that I will be there. If not, then maybe next time…unless Bruce gets a better offer? 😆
Engaging in complaining for the sake of complaining, and I can’t imagine that, if anyone else were in my boat, you wouldn’t be doing the same. Although…who knows? P’raps I’m the fly in the buttermilk. 😈 🙄
T
GuinnessGoon wrote:Earlier this year when I got to go on Bruce’s tour bus I asked him about what he thought of some ‘cover band’ guy singing in a fake Jerry voice in a band with Phil and Bobby and to say the least we had good laugh about it. I won’t say what he said or thought about it but it was funny. I am surprised he would play that fest with that crappy band there.See previous post, but…
The ‘cover band’ guy concept is interesting — I saw (don’t ask) some “improv ice skating” over the weekend on NBC where the featured band (who knew?) was Styx…or whatever remained of them, which amounted to Tommy Shaw and James Young, with the unfortunately AIDS-stricken original bassist John Panozzo playing bass for half the set. (Okay, how do I know so much about Styx? Embarrassed admission — 1st concert, 1983, Lakeland Civic Center, “Kilroy Was Here” tour. Yuk it up…) Anyhoo, they had some Paul Mitchell-type from the Babys on bass (when Panozzo wasn’t playing) and guitar, and some Berklee-ed drummer. They also had some horrorshow (seriously, he looked like Gary Oldman smacked in the face with the ugly stick and topped off with the worst jet-black wig imaginable) on keys and vox, replacing Dennis DeYoung, who apparently still has his pride. (He also seemed to be winking at the female skaters, even Nancy Kerrigan.) I wondered, right then, and thought about the “cover band as done by pros,” i.e. Journey with that copycat from the Philippines, “Zappa Plays Zappa” featuring Dweezil literally and completely aping his dad (minus the sense of spontaneity and humor), and yes, any number of the Dead “offshoots.” Can you imagine being a musician, getting the job of “fill-in” and then trying to justify being a carbon-copy of some dead or retired-and-too-self-assured-to-wanna-be-a-museum-piece sonuvabitch?
How would you live with your self? Ick. And sad. Don’t quit yer dayjob…unless the money’s good, I suppose. But even then, you’re a facsimile, a wannabe clone, the not-as-much-loved second (or third) wife, constantly trying to tell yourself you matter, when the one that you are replacing is the one who really mattered, in an artistic sense.Unless you’re Sammy Hagar 😆 Or Bruce Hornsby becoming the latest in the series of Spinal Tap-esque ivory ticklers for the Dead. But Jerry was still around then…
T
I’m PISSED…at the Goon! 😆 He shoulda told everyone that you only go to FL for Spring Training!
Quite a few peeps know that you go “primitive camping” in FL in one or all of the following 4 months: November, December, January, February. That’s it. April in the panhandle will be nasty, I tells ya. Again, knock yerselves out.
One can only assume that BH is doin’ it for the cashola. Or he’d rather be jamming with his buds down by the Suwanee river, fake Jerry and Cheesy Warren aside. Or both. Otherwise it makes no sense, or he had made an arrangement earlier to be at said Wanee. I don’t know the legal side of breaking and rescheduling booked and tix-sold events in order to play at an entirely different event — I would’ve thought that the whole “previous commitment” issue would be pertinent, now I guess not — unless the commitment made to the “primitive camping” peeps preceded dates made for BH’s solo jaunt. Pointless from the unknowing fan p.o.v.; as far as I knew, I’d bought tix to a solo show publicized what, almost 6 mos. in advance? Along comes the (un)seductive Suwanee wookiepalooza a couple of months later and BH goes galloping off? Nice to be sloppy seconds.
Right now, I’m feeling spurned 😳 👿 and apt to not attend if the show is rescheduled. The Colonial is very small, as theaters go, and chances are good that with a couple of drinks in me I might holler some rude shite. I’m sure I’ll chill out in a few days, but still…the V.I.P. crap and now this?
T, panties in a wad 😡
Highway_61 wrote:^^ Why would you want to pay someone to have a beer with you?Just being slightly tongue-in-cheek. I don’t even know if BH drinks beer. I do know that he eats bananas, so maybe we could go for a couple of those.
For that matter, why would anyone want to pay for a “meet and greet?” But it’s done, although I don’t know the percentage of “tix upgrades meet and greets” (which the concert-goer pays for) vs. “meet and greet contest winners” usually sponsored and paid-for by radio, etc.
I’ve found (from purely anecdotal evidence, mine and friends’) that “chance stumble-upons” seem to be more conducive to chatting up your average famous recording artist; they seem to be amenable to being approached outside of fake and pretentious “meet and greets.” For a BH board example, just ask the Goon about his many misadventures regarding the stalking of musicians and baseball greats… 😆
T
Highway_61 wrote:Takavi wrote:The thing that bothers me is how few people show up for BH shows, making me think that this might be some way of making up for lower tix sales over the years.
I will never understand how small the crowds have become and why BH isn’t huge bigger due to his stellar skills/personality/style/awesome songs/killer band/you know what I mean.Actually, the Goon wrote the above in response to me, Takavl, who was kinda pissed. Still am, the more that I think about it, although it’s a jaded and resigned kind of pissed. You know, an “oh well, waddaya gonna do” shrug and move on.
Look, we all want BH to be even more loaded than he is. We all want BH to do what he wants and be happy, and tour a lot so we can see him, and record/release a lot so that we can marvel at his, ahem, genius. We are pissed about the state of pop music today and “Why can’t those idiots/our friends/the concert-going public get on the BH train” etc etc. (Let’s not forget that in quite a large measure SOME of this purported/actual drop in show-attendance is BH’ fault, due to his expressly-stated opinion and action of not wanting to be a “museum piece.”)
I get all that. I still am not gonna pay an extra $129. It just ain’t enough…if he’d tack on a meet and greet, or “Have A Beer With Bruce After The Show” or some such, that would sweeten the pot for the monetarily discerning among us fungus. But hey, I know that some of you will flip for the measly lil’ pile o’ trinkets. Knock yourselves out.
If BH wants to rake in the dough and not compromise his art, he ought to get aboard the “Produced by…” gravy train. Think about it — rappers love him, rockers love him. Jazzbos love him, and he made a play for the bluegrass set. The Nashville heavies are into him. Sounds like a no-brainer. He could produce many an artist and still stay close to home. If the material isn’t quite his bag, well, he was just the producer…how did it sound?
He could then do the silly Christmas album, he could do a jazz standards album, etc etc. There are other ways to make the dough than that V.I.P. sheeeeeittt. It stinks. It really does. If he wants to do something like that, line up some more corporate gigs and stick it to the Wall Street set who can afford it…or rest his weary bones and produce, thereby maintaining both integrity and control, as well as a degree of productive input.
T
Okay, here goes — (so you all know, this makes you sooooo special…. 😆 )
“Takavl,” or “Trey Also Known As Vanilla Lips.” It’s not obscure, but then it is obscure, right?
Years ago, circa ’00, I joined the Topica e-mail list for the L.A. funk/ska/rock band Fishbone (John Bigham, who guested on BH’ s “Harbor Lights”, was at that time (1993) a member of Fishbone, playing keys and gits. He had just left Miles Davis’ band to join FB, so it was “kind of a big deal.” Anyhoo…) and made one good friend right away, a guy by the name of John Woodroffe. He and I started right in on hassling each other (via the list, then private e-mail, then by phone) and voila! a great friendship was born. Long story short, he (as a Canadian of the “African Diaspora,” ahem, via London via Barbados) thought that I was African American (must’ve been the name — what do I do, e-mail like Chris Rock? 😆 ), so he was ripping on me for numerous issues…’till he discovered that I was/remain a fine Welsh/Irish pale. One can imagine the hilarity that ensued! 😆 So after I coined him “J Wo” (yes, after the fine but daft J Lo, who’s Puerto Rican/American, but that was just because he lusted after her) he called me “Vanilla Lips,” ’cause I’m white, duh, also in reference to the cheesy disco band “Lipps, Inc” (“Funky Town,” etc). I just thought that it was so beyond-the-pale funny that a black dude from Toronto was mocking me out in both a racist manner AND as a Canadian I kept his insult as my own…
The story becomes a bit more emotional — I’ve kept it since in tribute; J Wo died of a heart attack (genetic defect) in Barbados (March ’07) while vacationing with family. It became even weirder when I could read online about his death in various sports outlets worldwide — his father was a famous test match cricketer (still alive but retired), so I was able to peruse “Famous Cricketer’s Son Dies On Beach In Caribbean” in Brit papers, Pakistani papers, Indian, Iranian, etc. Weird.
So I’ll remain “Trey Known As Vanilla Lips” online forever for John, my beloved racist tormentor.
T
Yeah, GG — your tales of intrigue vis a vis modern culture and sport are always interesting, sincere my brah, you know that; interesting also is the DMB fobbing off responsibility. Can kinda see that due to the massiveness of the whole DMB leviathan…
On the other hand, this BH ‘upgrade’ was announced today from the BH Facebook account — no flyer from a venue, no mailer from TicketBastard, etc etc. The only wiggle room the BH camp might have is the company pimping the upgrade, is some ‘rockandrollteeshirt’…hold on, being lazy…’rockandrolltshirts.com.’ Whatever.
Who knows, maybe BH bitchslaps them tomorrow morn. Or maybe not. The BH camp seems a bit on the small side, and quite unlike the gargantuan monolith the DMB has been since at least the late 90s. You can see how some flotsam and jetsam might get lost in the bureaucracy of a large organization, but BH and co.?
Bad taste in my mouth. Sorry to say so, and I don’t begrudge any touring/recording artist and his/her wish to earn a living/support a family, particularly in these times; recession, file-sharing, bootlegging, etc. We also know that BH isn’t hurting due to royalties, etc. Do we need to bring up Lowe’s? 😮 On the flipside, many of BH hardcore are somewhat picky, and some are of limited means, so each ticket purchased is an amount not spent on something else, food and drink out, parking, babysitter, gas, etc. Yes, I realize that BH already keeps his price down…much appreciated. But $129 for a peek backstage, a poster, and piece of plastic, with a coupon for an online site just ain’t tempting enough. This ‘package’ just seems to be a bit beyond the pale, and quite unexpected from the Hornsby biz apparatus. Is he aware that these are not the corp. and/or private gigs he does every once in a while?
T
Thanks for the tip, Dana.
Barnes and Noble already has some brief samples up, including the Bruce tune…
Sounds pretty good, added to me B&N.com wishlist.
T
si_twining wrote:At least you have the honour(?) bestowed on you of making the 8000th post on this Board 😆No way, dude! This NEVER happens to me! Fantastic! What do I get, a gift certificate?! First $100 (U.S., duh) free?
What, no buzzers or sirens? No gift cert?
Pfffft. I’m OUTTA here, geezer.
😈 🙄
T
HDbahn wrote:Interesting that Wayne used the word “softer” as I get more of a a “rock” feel from Moyes.Yeah, I found that comment interesting as well. I caught Moyes with the NMs at Foxwoods — I was a bit disappointed to learn that Sonny wasn’t gonna be there. I shoulda trusted BH, ’cause I was very impressed with ML. And yes, I got a rock vibe from him; a very well-played and exacting vibe, heavy rockish with finesse, shall we say? (Aside — where the hell does BH find all of these kickass batterymates? Does JV have the hookup? Can you imagine the tryouts? What about the drummer’s frame of mind when he discovers, if previously unaware, the depth of BH’s tunes?)
Glad youse guys had fun —
T
GuinnessGoon wrote:Bruce busted out his 2012 Solo schedule on his site and so far nothing near me 😥
Hopefully more dates will follow.
Its been a few years since I last seen a solo show and I’m due.
So I’m keeping my fingers crossed that something within 2 hours away will be added.S’up brah?
Didja fergit yer new budday ol’ T does his chillin’ near the last 2 solo dates?
Make that drive from Bugtown (or will you still be stalking Joe Maddon in Tamper/St. Beatersburg?); from what I understand it ain’t TOO bad, particularly for a road warrior such as yourself. Plus, I’ll even let you sleep on the couch AND drink some, that’s SOME of my Guinness.
😆
Can’t wait for the solo gigs — never seen one…I could be wrong, but I believe the last solo gig he did near southeast VT was at the Egg in Albany ’06. I was not present at said show, but have managed to see the NMs 4x in the past 3 years, so I can’t complain. Nah, I still can…
T
The Colonial (Keene N.H.) doesn’t have anything of the sort listed…yet.
I believe that the ’12 solo album is a mix of new and old? Can’t remember. BH does state somewhere in an interview from this year what was gonna be the case…
:T
Ahhhh, so jealous that I couldn’t make it.
Had some fam in town.Next stop, April in lovely, downtown cosmopolitan Keene for a solo gig…
T
p.s. “Mona” was played on the accordion?
:Re: 08/26/2011 Summer Wind Performing Arts Center – Windsor,
Yeah, I learned after the show…not long after, maybe last night; in other words, too late to jump in the car and bust ass down to Windsor Locks Airport Concert Center Extravaganza…that Allman was sick and couldn’t make it.
No offense, but (as I’ve already stated) I’d seen Allman solo about 25 years ago and didn’t need to do it again. Had I known that it was just gonna be BH and Bela with Jaimoe, I woulda gone. Oh well.
Apparently it’s been known since 8/6 that Gregg wasn’t gonna be able to make it…was that posted here or at BH’s site and/or FB site? Hope that Allman gets better soon, so don’t take me the wrong way…
From JC’s setlist, it doesn’t look like BH did a longer show anyhoo….
Hope that everyone is doing well re. Irene —
T
randy moss wrote:Randy Moss the name of my fledgling landscaping company – might have to change it, thought he’d at least retire with the Pats…Was gonna have my workers where Moss jerseys…
Hmmmmmm. Yeah, you just might have to change that name.
I bet, however, that any of the current Patriots with vaguely relevant monikers would be flattered (I must confess that other than Belichick, Ochocinco, Haynesworth, I don’t know any of the present players — not a big football fan — so my shot at punny witticisms fails in that regard). Flattered enough not to litigate? I dunno, that’s between you and the legal reps for the Krafts. 😆Johnny Law aside, too bad, ’cause the slogans would be ticklers: “Don’t Let Your Moss Get Randy — Call Randy Moss Lawn Care Today!” or “Need Lawn Care, Don’t Have A Crew Handy? Get Moss, Randy — Randy Moss Yard and Sod, They’re Dandy!” 🙄 😆
I’ll send you a bill, and no, I won’t quit my day job —
T
si_twining wrote:I caught a post on Bruce’s Facebook page recently from someone claiming to be Bruce’s biggest fan, bar none, no pretenders… asking when he’s coming to Kansas City. He’d been there the previous week.Yeah, the dude was probably too busy listening to “The Daily Dose” to realize BH was in town… 😆
T
GuinnessGoon wrote:(D)runk guy actually tried to hand Chuck Keith a request of ‘Every Little Kiss’ with a $20 attatched to it. His face was priceless.You’re right tho man, these cats that claim to be such fans should know how Bruce is and what not. How many times has he said he won’t do ‘ELK’ because it didn’t evolve well with his style.
Some time anybody on this board wants to be instantly annoyed go on ticketmaster or livenation and look up Bruce Hornsby and check out the reviews.
People give him 1 star because he doesn’t play his ‘hits’ after they go on some rant about being ‘hardcore fans’ if they were so ‘hardcore’ they would have realized 15 years ago that he didn’t revolve his show around his ‘hits’.T the best part about getting ‘He’s Gone’ I yelled out ‘Rat in the drain ditch!’ and he looked over smiling and instantly went right into it.
So, handing Keith a $20 and/or hollering out various lyrics is how it’s done, eh? I might have to try those methods the next time…
I get where BH is coming from re. “the hits,” believe me. As said previously…BH could come out and play Cage or do an Ivesian slam on the ivories with a plank and I would think that it’s the best thing ever. But you know what…I kinda like ELK. 🙄 😆
Speaking of ELK and Ives, didn’t BH mention that the Ives estate tried to sue him for the intro, until he said that he openly borrowed the opening riff? Whatevs.
Speaking of whatevs, I WILL definitely have to check out those reviews. Every once in a while it’s refreshing to get a whiff of what the less, shall we say, open-minded have to say about BH not playing the Wax Museum Stroll-by Soundtrack.
T,
caught on a limbAwwwwwww yeahhhhhh….3rd row orchestra, left hand side.
Maybe I can just go to sleep until next April. 😆
Dunno ’bout BH’s chow habits pre-show, but I gots the helpful hints re. the thriving cultural and gustatory wonderland of Keene’s dining establishments. 🙄
T
GuinnessGoon wrote:China Doll
Simple Prayer
Funhouse >
He’s Gone
Lost Soul
Down The Road Tonight >
(We’re Having A Party)
Shadow Hand * ( w/Bela Fleck on banjo/Sonny Emory on washboard)
Crown Of Jewels * ( w/Bela Fleck on banjo/Casey Driessen on fiddle)
Pete & Manny +
Black Rats Of London >
King Of The Hill > (w/Black Rats lyrics mixed throughout)
Mystery Train
Valley RoadSome drunk goon behind kept bitching because Bruce wasn’t doing Range stuff, once Down the Road came on he yells out ‘finally some good stuff’ then he looks at me all shitfaced and said ‘you know what Im saying’ and I said ‘no all his stuff is good to me guy, Im actually a fan’, then he did the whole ‘I seen him before you were born jive’, then I said so ‘I bet I seen him 30 more times then you…he stumbled away after that.
I was surprised that Bruce didn’t mention anything about Jerry seeing that it was the 16th anniversary of his death, he did bust out He’s Gone so that was sweet.That IS a nice-looking setlist; just enough variation (from the already varied) “norm.” Interesting to note no “Way” or “Rain,” even in an altered state, wonder if that was what was pissing off the wannabe museum-goer? (I wonder how it is that BH still gets the nostalgia-seekers; hasn’t he chatted before about how he thought he’d driven them off long ago? Do said peeps really think that they’re gonna get that blessed relief of a trip down dusty ol’ memory lane? It boggles my mind, but then again, BH could do Cage’s “4’33” for two straight hours and I would think that it was the proverbial shit, knowwhutahmsayin’?
)Tangentially related: How many “REAL DEAD FANS” (upped and quoted for super-duper mondo emphasis) went to Dead gigs wanting to hear “TruckinUncleJohnGrayHellSugaree” etc etc every single damn time, year after year? Probably not too many (leave aside the cliched joke of “Were they too blotto to care?” Ha.), so’s I gotta wonder about the obvious…p’raps better debated in a different post.
Jealous that the Goon got “Gone,” BH must love him more than me…
T
GuinnessGoon wrote:Good luck with the retirement… you were the bestRandy Moss never said he wanted to “room with a Pats fan, as long as he/she has an XBox and the Internets…” Damn you, Randy Moss and your tearful embrace of Mr. Gisele.
Ochocinco and Haynesworth, speak up beeyotches! 😆
T
P.S. Goon, where’s the setlist/review?
Yo Zambi, thanks for clearing that one up…I’ve either asked the board and not received an answer or e-mailed BH and not received an answer. Heresy to some people here (not many, but some 😆 ) but while i appreciate ‘trane, I’m not the biggest fan.
I tend to lean more towards the Ornette side of the saxamophone playing style, Oliver Nelson, Eric Dolphy…anyhoo, thanks for doing the heavy lifting!It still kills me when I listen to that one Munck dld. from Saratoga ’06 where BH talks about not knowing “Comfortably Numb” because “when Pink Floyd was popular” he was listening to Coltrane… 🙄 😮
T
Re: An Interesting Review About The Recent Salt Lake City Sh
Meh, moderately annoying re. the BH bit, but the faint dis at Fleck made me smirk.
With Si, BH doesn’t do setlists, so the chances of him kowtowing to covers or outside convention is whimsical, and doubtful — does BH feel like doing it or not? How many requests were there? How much is BH’s manager bitching at him this tour to do his hits, and does BH even care? If he does do the hits, which versions does he do? etc etc.
Not trying to pat us all on our backs, but we BH fans likes the improv, and we like the tunes. If BH feels like a cover, then so what? We get our rocks off on his originals, we get our rocks off on the covers he does. Interesting that the reviewer seems to feel this way; it might betray his lack of knowledge of BH’s catalog, as well an ignorance of the multiple cross-references going on between the originals AND the covers.
In the end, does it matter? And, he made me laugh with the Flecktones remark.
T
DMBTex10101 wrote:(M)y opinions of who should “open” and “close” during this tour probably differ from most here…
This is a co-headlining tour, meaning their sets will be the same length which is just over 90 minutes. And they will share the final encore.Checkout archivesincowtown.org for more details on the Flecktones setlists including some Bruce guest spots and the encore details.
I’d love to catch these two acts, regardless of who plays first or second, two amazing bands, some of the best musicians on the planet, and they all work so well together. Sign me up.
About your opinions, well yeah, you think? 😆 A corollary would be Si visiting your above-mentioned site and mildly chastising your members.
Thanks for the link, BTW. P.S. DMB — most of us here DO know what “co-headlining” means, but thanks for clearing it up; seriously, that tidbit of info from you is more than we’ve gotten from BH, BH Facebook, BH’s site, etc. At least as far as I know…I could be wrong.
I’m with the Goon regarding the Flecktones opening — conventionally speaking (emphasis on the conventional), you’re asking for a lot of walkouts when the (no offense, really) “lesser-known” (loaded term, I know, forgive and bear with me) group, particularly a mostly instrumental group closes the show…it’s hard enough for BH to do what he does (no setlist, radical reinterpretations of his tunes nightly, ad hoc stage banter and vocals, etc), but when you throw an almost indescribable genre that Bela and co. inhabit (what, “new-age bluejazz improv”?) after, in this extreme case, the Noisemakers, the people that came for BH will most likely leave, BH appearance in the encore or no. Who benefits the most from said co-tour? Probably the ‘tones…(I wasn’t here for the Bruce/Bobby co-tour, so I can only wonder how many of my list-mates, the ones not disposed to liking the Dead, stuck around for the Bobber.)
Yes, they’re all excellent musicians. Yes, they have fun together. Yes, there will be converts and fans of both exposed to new stuff. But for some of us, it just isn’t a show that, given BH’s propensity to frequently spoil us with at least 2 hour shows with no opener (or almost as good, an opener that can be listened to from the bar or the bathroom or the front gate 😆 ), well, at least a few of us will be attending. Unfortunately, there are some shows that some people just can’t make, or other tix for same artist later on in the year that we’d rather blow at least $80 on.
Funnily enough, the only show closest to me is the Windsor date, which also features Jaimoe and Gregg Allman. It’s in a field, midstate CT, the heat of summer….so not only do I pay for the ‘tones, I also pay for the other two, not to mention any possible inclement weather. I think that I’m saying that if it weren’t a show with those others, I might consider going…. 😳
Personally, I like Fleck, but I’m not a fan of the Flecktones. I really like that Fleck/Meyer/Hussain disc, however…so don’t completely write me off. It comes down to the subjectivity of art vs. the appreciation of a talented musician; there are some musicians who, while incredibly adept and magical performers, just can’t reach every muso snob like myself. Ask the Goon about my dissing of his beloved Phish…. 🙄
Earnestly and sincerely,
T
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Had some fam in town.