> From: "Hell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Mike Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Ronstadt/Stills NJC
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:49:27 +1300
> Reply-to: "Hell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mike wrote:
>
> > That same year I saw Stephen Stills in the same venue. He was
> > playing an accoustic set and heard some boos from the audience. In
> > the middle of the next song he stopped playing and said something
> > like, "you don't like this kind of music". He walked off the stage
> > and returned with his electric guitar. He pulled off a great concert
> > in a tough situation. He made no enemies along the way.
>
> The CSN box set has a version of Black Queen where Stills reacts to the
> audience. People start laughing, presumably because they think he's
> parodying an old black blues man (which he's not), since he opens the song
> by saying that an old black man he knew "played kinda like this". There are
> a few shouts of "Quiet" from other audience members, but Stills just stops
> singing (while still playing) and says "One thing the blues ain't.....is
> funny". Huge round of applause and he carries on with the song, with no
> more heckling.
>
> Crosby does it too, when they're trying to close a set with an acoustic Find
> The Cost Of Freedom (which closes most of their concerts). People are still
> screaming out requests, and Crosby just says "This is wooden music, so you
> gotta be cool, otherwise you won't hear it."
>
> Maybe it helps that they play a lot of electric music, and like the audience
> getting involved, so they understand when they get carried away, and
> "disrespectful". Joni's music (on the whole) tend to be more acoustic and
> mellow (for want of a better word) or maybe she just doesn't expect that
> kind of audience?
>
> Just thinking out loud...
>
> Hell
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Hell,
I agree with you. I have the CSN box set and I'll have to pull it
out and give it a listen. But, performers like CSN can probably
expect some of this, along w/ Neil Young because lots of their stuff
is electric. It may be better to do the accoustic stuff first and
end w/ electric.
Mike
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