It is funny ... equally funny/appropriate is the quote attributed to Hunter S. Thompson on the music biz. :)
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Correction ... real cheep! ;)
He's coming to Toronto...Massey Hall a nice small venue..GOT to get me some tickets. (I'm pretty sure I have mentioned this before:) The Concert For Montserrat at Royal Albert Hall had Knopfler do his Brothers In Arms. No tape-dubbin' there. Just a great big dose of awesomeness. Paul McCartney does a great version of Golden Slumbers on the same DVD. A must have.
20 years ago he was still doing all kinds of substances....booze in particular. A lot of people in the Toronto music scene wouldn't have anything to do with him for the longest time.
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I'd never heard that about him, but that would explain it. But in his more lucid days he produced some of the best music ever.
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He wrote some absolutely beautiful ballads. Many.
His problems had a lot to do with Cathy Evelyn Smith. Read up on that winner.
Massey Hall is great, if you are short. I'm 6'5" tall, always come out with cramps in my legs.
I am 5'10 63/64" and the main floor is cramped for me. The side balconies? Forget it. The sound is pretty good though. Way better than anything else in TO.
Absolutely, the best sounding hall in town. Last show I saw was Squires, White and Howe from YES there, absolutely amazing, but ouch.
I saw Prine there a few months back and the seats were great. Main floor. Before that, I attended the Rheostatics farewell party at Massey, and the seats sucked canal water. Left, balcony. I wandered about a fair bit, which is nice too. Those balcony seats were as bad as the Transat seats to Punta Cana.
perzakly. see Hendrix, Lambert and Ross -- "Vocalese"
As Dave's .sig line says "in every neighborhood, there's one. In my neighborhood it's me."
There's only about _one_ matter I have trouble coming up with puns about, and that's _dirt_. It takes real work to make the punishment fit the grime.
Soil in how you approach the topic.
Humus be busy then, eh?
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