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post #16 of 24
8/29/09 at 8:39pm
The final time ziggy stardust played at the hammy odeon in 73!
Musician of course, David bowie.
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post #17 of 24
8/30/09 at 2:36am
Otis Redding at Monterey
Johnny Cash at Folsom (well, maybe not as an inmate )...although it'd be completely badass to have been there when he played 'What is Truth?' for the President, and just as cool to be at his '94 (I think) performance at the Viper Room during his 'American' series comeback.
PF at Pompeii (I'd be the audience by myself)
Michael Jackson at Motown 25
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post #18 of 24
8/30/09 at 6:42am
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She would have been incredible to have seen perform, but she was (and still is) relatively unknown despite her incredible vocal ability, and for that reason I'm sure there are many people who missed out due to her relative obscurity and short career.
I take solace in the genuine, if limited, popularity her music found after her death. The success of "Over the Rainbow" grew from airplay on a morning radio show in England, apparently, and sales of her albums took off in the UK. One of the American TV networks profiled her, and NPR radio broadcast a touching segment about her life and music. All told, her albums have sold several million copies worldwide.

I think she would have liked that. The morons who run the record industry (into the ground) couldn't figure out what to do with her. She just wasn't the usual sausage that their marketing factories grind out. Well, it turns out she didn't NEED to be marketed. She just needed to be heard.


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I have one more. Jeff Buckley at Sin-e
I've lived in Manhattan for 25 years, and I completely missed Sin-e at it's original location in the East Village. I had acquaintences at work who talked about the place, and urged me to go. One friend talked about walking into the place and brushing past Sinead O'Connor sitting on the front steps, casually smoking a joint. I did finally get to a few shows at the Attorney St. location further downtown, but by then the golden period was over. I pretty much missed the whole thing.
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post #19 of 24
8/30/09 at 8:35am
One that comes to mind is Roger Waters The Wall Live in Berlin 1989. amazing concert =)
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post #20 of 24
8/30/09 at 10:36am
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I've lived in Manhattan for 25 years, and I completely missed Sin-e at it's original location in the East Village.
That's too bad. Saw quite a few things there, but the thing that sticks in my mind is seeing Elliott Sharp backing up a girl-singer from Ireland. Can't remember the performer's name, though, so I don't think she was famous.
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post #21 of 24
8/30/09 at 2:31pm
1. The first performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
2. Maria Callas singing Brunnhilde in Die Walkure.
3. Florence Foster Jenkins' Carnegie Hall recital.
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post #22 of 24
8/30/09 at 5:31pm
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That's too bad. Saw quite a few things there, but the thing that sticks in my mind is seeing Elliott Sharp backing up a girl-singer from Ireland. Can't remember the performer's name, though, so I don't think she was famous.
I had a couple of opportunities to go to the original sin-e and both times I didn't with the thought "i'll catch it next time". I have a friend who was a semi-regular there at the original location. She said it was a very unique place and you never knew who you might see there just hanging out listening to a performer and not necessarily performing themselves including David Bryne and John Hiatt
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post #23 of 24
8/31/09 at 4:02am
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I take solace in the genuine, if limited, popularity her music found after her death. The success of "Over the Rainbow" grew from airplay on a morning radio show in England, apparently, and sales of her albums took off in the UK. One of the American TV networks profiled her, and NPR radio broadcast a touching segment about her life and music. All told, her albums have sold several million copies worldwide.

I think she would have liked that. The morons who run the record industry (into the ground) couldn't figure out what to do with her. She just wasn't the usual sausage that their marketing factories grind out. Well, it turns out she didn't NEED to be marketed. She just needed to be heard.

I do think it is incredible how she was in no way limited by genre. Unlike many musicians who must fit the music to their stylistic box, Eva manages to seamlessly transition between them!

Its unfortunate that she died so early in her career. I'm convinced that she would have soon recieved enough exposure to build on her fanbase, but instead she is still relatively unknown (at least here in Canada) despite the almost cult following by those who do know her.
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post #24 of 24
8/31/09 at 8:38am
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I do think it is incredible how she was in no way limited by genre. Unlike many musicians who must fit the music to their stylistic box, Eva manages to seamlessly transition between them!
And manages to perform so brilliantly in all those different genres. Sadly, I think that's why the record company morons wouldn't touch her. Let's see...she can't be catagorized as a "this" singer, or a "that" singer. She wants to choose her own material. She wants to choose her own musicians. She wants to write her own arrangements. How DARE she?!! Those idiots wouldn't touch an artist like that with a ten-foot pole. Not when they can manufacture talentless garbage like Britney Spears and tell her exactly what to do. Much easier.

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Its unfortunate that she died so early in her career. I'm convinced that she would have soon recieved enough exposure to build on her fanbase, but instead she is still relatively unknown (at least here in Canada) despite the almost cult following by those who do know her.
She's still relatively unknown here in the US as well, but, as you say, those who know her tend to be pretty fanatical. Can you imagine what would have happened for if she had lived to see the implosion of the record biz and the rise of the Internet as a marketing tool for artists? She was custom made for the current climate, and she would have been only in her late 30s/early 40s when the Net began to make it possible for artists to speak directly to their audiences.
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