roxymusicsongs wrote:
here is one review for the concert:
http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_rs-apr75.htmlCheers
Kevin
roxymusicsongs.com
Cher Kevin,
Un tres grand merci for posting this.
A salient reminder of how great all this was.
Of course, not everybody got it. I remember the toilets being full of n’er-do-wells hissing that he was a traitor to ‘Roxy’ and questioning ‘Why does he want to play this stuff ?’ or even worse ‘I didn’t realise he’d have an orchestra - I wanted to hear the group’.
Happily the intelligentsia rose above it all and it marked the end of tribalism in rock and the start of a sparkling solo career. We are really so lucky to have him.
Ironically, like the author, I remember ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ as a bit of a mess and definitely not the high point of the evening. That said, the download trailering the new live album sounds superb so maybe I’m misremembering or, the rest of the evening just eclipsed it. Certainly the ballads came of best with his take on ‘Tracks Of My Tears’ being a performance that haunts me to this day. Scintillating !
Salutations,
W2