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...RIO DE JANEIRO, January 14 - This is it. I started writing this on the final day of the first weekend of "Rock in Rio," the South American megaconcert that's taking place here Jan. 12-14 and Jan.18-21. I'm sitting by the pool at the Copacabana Palace typing my take on the first three days into an iBook and waiting for my waiter to take my soft drink order. I don't drink alcohol and I've become something of a connoisseur of foreign soft drinks, which are quite amazing in their variety and distinctiveness. Limao Brahma...
...Upstate New York and living in Manhattan washed the beach right out of me. I'm currently dressed in black from head to toe, from my black short-sleeve shirt and summer-weight black pants to my black sneakers. I'm as easily identifiable as an New Yorker in Rio as Sting is as an Englishman in New York...
...language adaptations of such bossa nova classics as "Desafinado" and "Corcovado" once commented that Brazilian songwriters tend to endlessly rhyme the words "song," "guitar" and "heart" - which actually do rhyme in Portuguese, cançao, violao and coraçao, respectively. Having attended the first week of Rock in Rio, having seen an endless procession of Brazilian bands, having heard an endless series of Brazilian songs, sweated under Brazilian sunlight, eaten Brazilian food, danced (or attempted to dance) Brazilian dances, I think I've gotten some idea - not the whole concept, but a working notion at least - of the connection...
...security at the festival. For example, each day VIPs were given different credit card-like swipe cards to gain access the festival and the various restricted tents. I think the almost paranoid amount of security has something to do with the fact that right before the last Rock in Rio, in 1991, Roberto Medina, the festival's founder and guiding spirit, was kidnapped. But that's just a guess. In any case, there's so much security and so many restrictions, at most times the publicity folks seem outmanned, overwhelmed and out of the loop...
...Being John Malkovich," which he coproduced, and he has a new R.E.M. album due out in April ("Reveal"), but as far as touring goes, he and his bandmates are taking it easy. In fact, they have only two dates scheduled for 2001 - Saturday night's show at Rock in Rio and another performance in Buenos Aires...