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- From: Daniel.Parmet@launchpad.unc.edu (Daniel Parmet)
- Subject: Re: Joe Satriani/Dallas show
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.200304.29734@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:03:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.030342.3038@cs.ucla.edu> pickle@fantasie.cs.ucla.edu
- (Patrick Madden) writes:
- >
- > I saw Joe on the Blue Dream tour in Albuquerque, and would have to say
- >it was one of the worst shows I've ever seen. I should mention that I
- >*really* like his playing, I don't have any gripes about him from his CDs.
-
- I saw him on this tour, too. I loved Surfing and Flying, so I went. I
- was also not impressed.
-
- > 1) He didn't really seem too excited about playing. His playing was
- > accurate, but not inspired. I guess this might be the "soul" thing.
-
- I felt that his playing was certainly good, but I went to see great playing.
- After all, this is Satch.
-
- > 3) The place was packed with "the wrong element" as James Watt might
- > call them. One of them (substantially larger than I, and obviously
- > under the influence of a politeness-inhibiting drug) spent the
- > entire evening screaming JOE SATRIANI in my right ear.
-
- There was some jerk in front of me yelling "Big Bad Moon" the whole time.
- When he finally did the song, he broke a string near the beginning of the
- first solo.
-
- > The only good thing that evening was Stu Hamm's solo section, where
- >they turned off the spotlights, and the audience got quiet enough for
- >me to enjoy the music.
-
- That was definitely the highlight.
-
- The biggest gripe that I had about the concert was that he had no rhythm
- player on stage with him. I guess Stu kind of did the rhythms on bass,
- but, basically, a lot of the riffs sounded empty without the rhythm guitar
- in the background.
-
- Another question I have is why was I stupid enough to get ticket for Satch
- on December 3, 1992 in Philly?
-
- - Dan
-
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