I had tickets to see Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and John Zorn. I really enjoyed Laurie Anderson when I was younger and like Lou Reed (sometimes). No idea about John Zorn. The concert was in the big amphitheater at Place Des Arts during the Jazz Festival. Prestigious location. I was hyped for this expecting something off the wall but very entertaining. It was total, unadulterated, pretentious crap. Loud ear piercing crap. My SO, and many other people, plugged their ears. The "music" had the appeal of a satanic symphony orchestra warming up and tuning their instruments at earsplitting spl. I got through the first "song", about 8 minutes. To my surprise there was some applause, I was ready to boo them. I have never before thought of doing that. One minute into the second "song", more of the same crap, I say to the SO "let's leave". We went outside and there was a steady stream of people leaving. WTF??? Why do musicians do this stuff? We gave them a rousing welcome, we shelled out (a fair amount) of our hard earned money and they serve up some self serving, pretentious noise instead of some of the great stuff we love them for...:hissyfit:. If this comes to your town run for the hills.
This critic kinda liked it calling it "marvelous noise".
Sorry I needed to vent:o.
This critic kinda liked it calling it "marvelous noise".
Sorry I needed to vent:o.
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