From tsellers@knology.net Fri Oct 05 13:25:56 2012
Subject:Re: AXStv concerts

I watched the ELP concert last night and after reading all of the rather scathing review felt inclined to put in my 2 cents worth. While it was certainly far from flawless, and Keith was obviously not in as fine a form as he had been back in the day I think it is helpful to consider a couple of things. If this was the first of these shows that they had played after at least a 12 or so year hiatus it takes time for trios like this to "Gel", especially playing the complex esoteric material that ELP plays. I bet it would be a lot tighter after 30 or 40 dates. Secondly, the expectations for today's live shows are much higher than those "back in the day" from both a sound and performance perspective. The level of spontanaeity that does lead to an occasional glitch is basically gome from all but the jam bands. The ELP performance I saw in 1975, was more powerful and tighter, but still had a couple of moments where they obviously ran it a bit off of the tracks. Lastly, a lot of the musicians have their good nights and bad nights. For example I have seen Steve Howe (Yes, Asia) when he was blisteringly accurate, and on other occasions he was almost shamefully sloppy. I would not say these guys are down for the count, but it is obvious (as it is for many of us) that age is catching up with them. I would give them a listen if they were touring in my area.

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From: satturnsc2
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 3:10 PM
Subject: [CWSG] AXStv concerts


There have recently been several IMO very good classic Rock concerts on AXStv (formerly HDnet) on DirectTV. I have found the Stevie Windwood, Heart and Fleetwood Mac Live in Boston concerts particularly enjoyable..although I'm sure some of you here will find something to criticize about them. The nice thing is that with DVR's you don't have to go out and buy the DVD's (yes, I know you still have to pay for satelite TV). Stevie Windwood's voice is still great and watching him play the B3 using footpedals was a treat. The camera work provides great views of the B3's keyboards, pedals and 122 while he played- something you don't often see in filmed concerts. Stevie Nick's voice is still in fine form and she looks great too! Same with Heart whose singing was still awesome. Not sure if Heart's backing band is their own or just hired hands, but their keyboard player was using some type of Kurzweil PC3. I did watch the ELP concert more carefully again and, yes, Emo's finger s don't seem quite as fast and accurate on some tunes as they used to be but they're still faster than mine! The tone on his Goff Hammond chop sounded really nice.



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