Word: concertizer
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There was always uncertainty behind my defense of Dylan: Was I championing, in a figurative sense, a dead man? Since I had never heard him live in concert, it was difficult for me to determine whether he was all hype hiding behind a veneer of legend and recording technology. The question was never whether his heart was healthily thumping away--rather, pragmatically, if I saw him in concert, was he going to suck? And therein lies the peculiarity of affection: it fears the possibility of change. For our purposes, that would result if the familiar image of good Dylan will...
...concert began with a solo set by Dylan's more melodiously-voiced counterpart, Paul Simon. On the whole, Simon's live performance did not live up to his recording reputation. His style which seems to border on world-music kitsch, was very treble emphasized and percussion heavy, assuming an almost flippant, less weighty framework. Beginning his set with many of his earlier works, especially many he originally recorded with Art Garfunkel, his renditions of "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge over Troubled Waters" were unconvincing testimonies of his solo career. But the latter-day Simon finally came out during less-instrumental tinged...
...mind. Somehow or other I had convinced myself that due to the how many times I have managed to miss seeing Bob Dylan, I was bound to die the same way, or from the more accurate perspective, that he would die before I would get to see him in concert...
...this was not a concert for the weak of heart. Unlike his controversial Royal Albert Hall concert of 1966 during which an audience member denounced Dylan, who was "going electric", as "Judas!", a traitor to his folk roots; this opportunity was never even given. Here was a man who didn't give a damn what you expected from his music. He could afford to do this because live, he is that damn good...
...Chili Peppers closed the concert with a cover version of Jimi Hendrix?s "Fire," hundreds of concertgoers used candles distributed by an anti-gun-violence group to torch a number of vendors? trucks and set fires on and around the stage. Soon the hooligans in the crowd were looting concession stands and portable ATMs, and trashing speakers and other equipment in what some witnesses described as a reaction to the inflated prices the crowd had endured over three days of peaceful partying. In an action unthinkable back in ?69, organizers then called in the police to secure the area...