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Message: [QUOTE="Bonpland, post: 2555403, member: 6000"] Your point is a good one about the relationship of the artist to the audience. An artist is successful when he/she creates an intimacy with their audience so that the experience seems particularly personal and that can happen in a small room, a stadium or on an open field. I sometimes attend shows at a converted restaurant near my home that often features performers from my generation who are still working (Jorma Kaukonen, David Bromberg, Jerry Jeff Walker, Iris Dement) and the evenings feel like a journey through a lifetime of collected emotions. I remember seeing Simon and Garfuncle stand on a stage in a gymnasium in front on about 4,000 people, Paul playing an acoustic guitar and Art leaning on a stool singing their early music, the crowd almost holding its breath as they performed, soaking in every word. And in really what was the same vein, Bruce in the Garden at Christmas time (1980) evoked the same reaction from 20,000 as he sang[I] Wreck on the Highway.[/I] (no one moved a muscle as he sang which is hard to believe at one of his concerts especially today when he has to cover so much more ground and finds it hard to include those kind of gems). There were other moments for me; the Greatful Dead's sound check the night before Watkins Glen where the air was so heavy that the sound seemed to resonate magically around us, CS&N in NY singing [I]Helplessly Hoping[/I] when they were all about 50, Bonnie Raitt singing [I]Angel from Montgomery[/I] in New Hampshire, Jackson anytime I ever saw him. It's not just the ballads that make that connection it's the anthems as well. For most fans losing control during a Bruce, Stones, Metallica, Rush (and any of the groups that have inspired cult followings) treatise is more than just a release, it's accepting an invitation to go to a place that's hard to get to on their own. It becomes for the fans, even when surronded by screaming thousands, a very personal experience. [/QUOTE]

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