Ayale-com.481
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utzoo!decvax!yale-com!death
Wed May 5 17:34:48 1982
Re: Asia at the Capitol
ASIA recently played at Woolsey Hall at Yale, as well. Alas,
I found them thoroughly uninspiring and rather, as one of my
friends put it, "gearhead." They had more technology than I have ever seen
in a concert hall such as Woolsey before, and did extremely little
with it. There were 18 keyboards, one of which had
a small computer hooked up to it & a little display screen, upon which
(according to the roadie in charge) one could display the
waveform, and with a light pen, alter it to your heart's desire.
One would expect all sorts of great noises to emit from this
wondrous toy, but no! the keyboard player (he impressed me so much
I have forgotten his name) spent so much energy bouncing around
for the benefit of the audience that his playing suffered
greatly. Likewise the lead guitar, whose grimaces and gesticulations
would have done credit to anyone with St. Vitus' dance, did very
little else than bounce about. Carl Palmer played one of the most
uninspred (and uninspring) drum solos I have ever been present at,
including:
a) taking his shirt off during a two-kick-drum roll
b) hitting a gong, then another gong (audience screams wildly)
c) hitting the snare with one hand and then tossing & catching
the other stick, first in front of him, then behind his back
d) spinning around on the rotating platform while doing something
as yet undetermined on the two timpani
After this wonderful display of vapid excess, the audience
screamed themselves into apoplexy.
My connections into local radio stations got me into this
concert free. It was worth what I paid for it.
==Bob Parker (aka Dr. Death)
death@yale-comix
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