in times like this where an encore is less about crowd partcipation and appreciation but more about just making life hard for the poor sound guy who was rightfully assuming a band playing their 2nd or 3rd show didn't 'require' 2 x 3 song encores, it's easy to let bygones be bygones and let the heritage of music pass in favour of greatest hits DVDs and 6-single albums.
i remember earlier this year watching a fellow called paul dillon perform in 'wild world', a cat stevens tribute outfit. much to my (non) surprise i imagine i was the youngest person in the audience. i digress, anyway, all the hits were there and the band performed in a way that certainly did a good justice to a great man. but it was the pre-encore cover of 'where do the children play?' that struck a nerve.
as the story goes (whether folklore or real events), cat came to the end of his last show in 1976 and before going on to perform the afore mentioned song, unplugged his guitar and stood in front of the audience, no microphone, just an acoustic guitar. when the song ended, he said thank you and left. and he didn't play live again until 2004. this is the closest video i can find, but it's still enough to make you wonder what's happened to our independence and sense of freedom
finally... is it not too late to talk about michael jackson's 'conversion' to islam? by all means i respect his decision, but ithe poor guy's still 7 mil in debt and looking down the barrell of a court date for child molestation.
http://living.oneindia.in/insync/2008/michael-jackson-mulim-islam-convert-221108.html
i'm not even going to begin to highlight the amount of things wrong with mentioning MJ and children playing in the same blog...
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