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...Orpheum Aquarius Theater, Edgar Winter...
...answer, "audiences." Too many people get hopelessly stoned an hour before show time; too many people spend concerts buying or selling dope, or smoking it, or dropping it, and generally behaving like morons. Thus the clown who, having lost his shirt after left Beck's excellent show at the Orpheum, stood in the aisle, wavering demanding an encore. He finally took off his shoe and starting beating on his seat with it. He was there long after everybody left. There is too much emphasis on the "upbest emotional experience," which now is no more than a demand for a drug...
BOSTON GARDEN Grand Funk Railroad, Sunday, December 17 8 p.m. ORPHEUM THEATRE. West Bruce, and Laing, Sunday, December 17 8 p.m. J. Geils Band, Thursday, December...
...Astral Weeks was centered around a cool jazz feel, there are still jazz elements in Morrison's later music. "Moondance" has always been a jazz song. The live version has an intimacy, a lightness characteristic of cool jazz, of nightclub music, that the smoke-filled cavernness of the Orpheum couldn't destroy. But for my six bucks, the best song of the night was a perfectly rendered fifties version of Erroll Garner's "Misty." Slightly electrified, the song was a magnificent example of transplanted, uptempo, fifties nightclub jazz. The bass line walked brilliantly and the piano fills and the piano...
...onstage with as much spirit as he had on record. "Domine" is one of the best of the nonsense lyrics songs. Listen to it, it makes absolutely no sense. But you can dance to it, and imagine it coming over your car radio. Transplant the whole image to the Orpheum Theatre, with the bassman dancing frantically by himself just offstage, and you have a picture of Morrison's new music. "Wild Night" has more meaning, but is just as joyous and just as much fun to listen to. These two songs summarize the new Van Morrison: uptempo and very much...