Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walland methodically marched his team downfield, ultimately finding junior wideout Eric Johnson in the end zone with 31 seconds left in The Game, to give Yale (9-1, 6-1 Ivy) a 24-21 victory and a share of the Ivy League title in front of a crowd...
...show all the vocals were lip-synced. Perhaps this was due to the nature of LRD's vocals, which rely heavily on vocoders and other effects to achieve their '80s sounds. Still, with Carmichael drumming up a storm and the Arthur Baker-esque electro synthesizer bassline kicking in, the crowd didn't seem to care, starting to bounce...
...strobes were going crazy, the crowd was jumping, the people onstage as effervescent as could be. About the only thing lacking was audience interaction--LRD never once talked to the crowd. Two more nondescript album filler songs later, a long, long house music introduction played, lu Cont and Reynolds led the audience into double handclaps and arm wavings, before the synth chorus of "From: Disco to Disco" finally kicked...
...then it was over, all too soon. Lights went up. Blinking, the crowd members stared at each other. Encore? He'd played almost all the songs on the Darkdancer album. But the encore was not to come, nor would there be surprising covers or stuff from the first album (Liberation). It was short, sharp. For an hour and 15 minutes, LRD had avoided being faceless and anonymous. For an hour and 15 minutes, LRD had personality. For an hour and 15 minutes, Jacques lu Cont had achieved his goal. But the fact remained: an Axis that was only half-full...
...Maybe it was the margaritas, but I could have sworn the television monitors were displaying swirling images of circuit boards and modems as a crowd of systems engineers and desktop-support managers moshed drunkenly a floor below me. I was at The Beach, but hundreds of miles away from the ocean, alas -- landlocked and gridlocked for a week in Las Vegas for Comdex...