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Both nights were filled with the interplay between audience and Wooten's band and their improvisational skills. Wooten proclaimed upon opening his set Tuesday night that "we are going to have fun, play a lot of stuff, and we don't know exactly what we're going to do, but we'll have...
Wooten burst onto the set ferociously with "Are You Going to Have a Good Time Tonight," a mostly improvisational, crowd-inciting number. The love for performance shone in his eyes, and a deliriously happy look stretched across his face when he started slapping and jamming with his instruments...
Wooten came back weaker after his mid-set break on both nights, but he recovered for the encore. The weakness stemmed from minor problems with the band's talent level, which can be attributed to an attempt to be inclusive. Wooten's band contained both his middle brother Joseph, a keyboard player, and Regi, his oldest brother and a guitarist. Joseph's cheesy pop material was irritating, especially his "Hero" from 1987, but Wooten recovered thanks to his improvisational wizardry...
...gutting a statute that required the National Endowment for the Arts to respect "general standards of decency and respect" in its grant-awarding process. Implicit in such rulings is a reading of the First Amendment that goes something like this: whenever the state throws its weight behind a specific set of beliefs, it is establishing one worldview at the expense of another. And this the First Amendment explicitly prohibits it from doing. You don't have to support art, this peculiar interpretation of the Constitution counsels; but once you get in the game, moral criteria are illegitimate and only artistic...
Never mind that such a value-free reading of the establishment clause doesn't square with the historical record. The same House that passed the First Amendment also voted, by an overwhelming margin, to set aside a national day of thanksgiving and prayer. An injunction against establishment was thus never meant to imply that government could not encourage a healthy respect for religion. It meant only that the state could not establish a specific creed, as had been the case in England...