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...concert began in overdrive and ended out in the ionosphere, with all the performers joining for a resounding Knockin' on Heaven's Door. If the occasion for the show remained a little undefined, the concert itself turned out to be a capstone of pop culture: one of the first rock concerts ever whose importance was not in signaling a change in music but in rerouting it and reconfirming the righteousness of a whole direction...
Stradlin sounds like Keith Richards too, launching into the first track, "Somebody Knockin," with a vintage Stones mid-tempo guitar groove. His classic "guitarist gone solo" gravelly vocals complement the track's gritty feel, and the simplicity and repetition of the lyrics demonstrate Stradlin's focus on stripped-down musicianship for this album...
...keep knockin' but you can't come in. 8:35 p.m. Monday: Senator Al Gore, Wife Tipper and two daughters arrive at the gate of the Omni. The guard stops them; none of them have the proper credentials. Gore is irked. Tipper, sporting a button picturing Dukakis, Jackson and her husband, shouts, "Power to the people!" Gore tells her to be quiet. She shouts it again. Gore deputizes someone to go inside to get the proper credentials. As they are waiting, Tipper says, "Let's go dancing" -- but presumably not to rock music with suggestive lyrics. The right credentials...
...knees started knockin...
...official taps on the saucer and calls, "Are you there?" and the tune that cuts in immediately is: "I hear ya knockin' but ya can't come in." Announcer: "Have you come to conquer the world?" Tune: "Don't want the world to have and hold." Announcer: "The Secretary of Defense has just said_" Tune: "Ain't it a shame?" Announcer: "I believe the spaceman has a final parting word." Tune: "See you later, alligator...