Subj : Re: Chris de Burgh
To   : esc
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jul 13 2023 07:28:00

-=> esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 es> Interestingly, if I see a band and they play exactly what was in their
 es> recordings, I get a bit disappointed. I prefer some degree of chaos and
 es> improvisation. I can appreciate the attention to detail and the
 es> precision required to recreate the album experience, but it's not my
 es> preferred idea of live music. To each their own, though!

I never got to go see Rush, but would have listened to them reproduce
their repetoire note for note to hear a Neil Peart solo...

I've seen Stan Ridgway a couple of times - he was the lead singer of
"Wall of Voodoo" in the 1980s, with a performance at the Us festival and
a one-hit wonder with "Mexican Radio".

Over the years, he's turned into a songwriter/storyteller, writing songs
of guys who seem to always run into bad luck in a retro noir Americana
full of rich people's swimmin' pools, Bosses who make too much money,
go-nowhere jobs, seedy bars, coffee shops and brothers-in-law who are always
getting in
trouble and losing jobs. Interesting stuff.

At one of his shows, he talked a bit about Wall of Voodoo and what it
was like to be a naive young kid with a hit record in Los Angeles. He
mentioned that they've heard covers of Mexican Radio in most every
genre, and asked the audience to shout out a genre.

They heard "Reggae!" and he and his band performed a reggae version of
the song. Started off a little rough, but they got into a groove
quickly.








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