Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk with fans and thank them. He began by saying, "Some nights I'm really talkative. Tonight, I'm not." That was too bad. While Duritz certainly says a lot in his songs, the evening would have been better if he had taken the time to personalize the concert and speak more to fans...
Counting Crows left the stage having given an extremely powerful, albeit short 90 minute concert. It was unclear, though, if the band and its fans always operate on the same wavelength. Duritz closed "Round Here" with the song's character Maria asking, "Can't you see me?" He then added his heart-wrenching response, "And I say...no." One fan obnoxiously shattered the moving silence yelling out, "I can't either!" Obviously he hadn't quite gotten the point. But then again, in his defense, maybe he missed the rollercoaster and was just looking for the party that Counting Crows...
...songs and performances, though, Duritz opens his life up to the public. His Iyrics are known for their personal reflections on his own life and his concert performances drip with real emotion. He does not just perform--he's living on stage. Yet he says, "That's kind of the point of it to me. Nothing that has to do with the music ever gets to be really too much for me." For him, only the press and the people sometimes become too burdensome...
...When you say 'organist' people usually think of the Phantom of the Opera," Forger says, noting that while the recent Halloween concert of "Scary Organ Music" sponsored by the Organ Society was packed, the society's funds ran dry this year. Finding ways to attract audiences to the society's guest organ recitals while expanding his own range with skilled organists at the College has become Forger's primary extracurricular activity...
...Jarmusch pays a worthy tribute to Neil Young & Crazy Horse by mounting an engrossing collage of biography, interviews and concert footage that's bound to satisfy even die-hard Neil Young fans. Through it all, he also evokes the unusual sense of family that ties the band together, as well as the not-so-obvious connection between his own art and theirs. The result is a fine, occasionally brilliant synergy of music and film...