OK, take a deep breath, calm down. Well, I'm obviously not going to argue with anyone who still wants to go see GL live-if you still like what you hear and are part of, then, that's a good thing. I just provided an opinion of the quality of show I witnessed in Stamford, CT. I was honestly expecting something better. With all the new advances in medicine, I thought maybe something was done and that his voice would sound better than it did on the WFY album, but I guess he has irreversible damage. At many times it was quite "straining" to say the least, and I was not the only one, I looked around and felt, saw, and heard the same thing. So that is why I don't wish to see him in concert. Also, I would be embarassed to bring a friend. I was recently playing Gord's Gold and my friend said he could not understand his mumbling, I can imagine what he would say if I brought him to a recent show-I'd never hear the end of it. I don't know why more people don't like GL and why radio stations don't play some of his other songs.
There are many people who follow GL but have never seen him in concert, or who do not have some of the more recent albums-they are not all available on CD. I provided an opinion for them if they choose to go see him for the first time, a sort of warning of not to expect much, and to be prepared to be dissapointed. And they may not have $35 to just throw away. They would be better of using it to buy CD's they don't have of GL.
Of course the audience was well behaved, and I was and I always clapped. But overall it was a dissapointment for me-I'm not complaining about the $35, At least I got to see him in person for the first time. But there are other people who probably are, and as a matter of fact, I noticed someone on the way out who stopped at the ticket office and I overheard him say he wanted a refund.
But, obviously, most of the people there knew what to expect, but there were people there like me who saw him for the first time live and we were rightly dissapointed.
So, that is all I have and want to say to people who want an opinion on GL in concert, and who have not seen him live. I like this web sight, lots of good info on GL.
Geeeeeeeeeese, calm down, it's only an opinion on a recent live concert, and there are many others who would say the same thing if you asked, so what? These are just opinions. I listen to Painter Passing Through, but not often because, well, it's not that good, but just my opinion.
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