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...Beck is bummed he hasn't met any of the other performers on the massive Rock in Rio bill. "I haven't met anyone today," he complains. "We're all sequestered in different areas. I wouldn't even know where to begin to find the other acts. Some festivals are good that way - you exchange ideas and stories with the other people. Here, everyone has been set a mile apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

Home Anyway, that pretty much it. That's how my time at Rock in Rio went. I'm still trying to find some sense in everything, find some trends, some meanings, some currents. Brazil gives and takes from the world. The rest of the world gives and takes from Brazil. Brazil took rhythms from Africa and fado music from Portugal and bits and pieces of other genres and came up with samba. Jobim took bits and pieces of samba and parts of the kind of "cool jazz" pioneered by Miles Davis and came up with bossa nova. Caetano Veloso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...half-dozen Brazilian acts dropped out of Rock in Rio, upset that foreign superstar acts, in their estimation, were getting better treatment than the local bands, when, after all, local bands often sell better than superstar foreigners in Brazil. Brazilian musicians have sense of their own worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...works out. Rio to Miami, a brief layover (an hour or so) and Miami to New York. Now we're landing at JFK. I look out the television screen-sized window. Everything in New York is white, the sky, the ground, everything. I kinda wish I could turn the channel back to Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...Britney Spears, 'N Sync and Neil Young are all scheduled to play Rock in Rio next weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

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