Putting on a good concert
If you ever get a chance to see James Brown in concert, especially at a small venue, it is well worth any price. I saw James Brown a couple of weeks ago in MacEwan Hall at the University of Calgary. The concert was absolutely fabulous not just because it was James Brown but because it was so entertaining.
One of the problems with concerts these days is that it is pretty much the same thing as listening to the CD except that it’s live – and it takes a lot more that just playing songs from your CD to entertain me, especially when the ticket price is 3-5 times the cost of just buying the CD.
The biggest part of James Brown’s show was the level of involvement with the crowd. In addition to soliciting responses from the crowd, James and his band read the crowd perfectly, playing all the right songs at all the right times in a set that didn’t seem at all rehearsed in terms of the order.
And, of course, it was James Brown after all.
Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:09 Posted in General
