But I tell you one thing .. Billy ".. nobody can sing like Blind Willie McTell" .
One thing is certain: you just can not sing like Blind Willie, Mr. Zimmerman.
Last Wednesday, 15 we were at the Forum to see Uncle Bob. How to fail? It 's always a chance to see beautiful faces, faces that you can see the story of a great number of things seen and experienced. Even musically speaking of things I have seen these faces.
Before entering, in the absence of the sausage (by the way: but because the forum is not the box office with sausage and onions?) part of the dilemma hot dogs or pizza? No doubt the pint of beer instead. That diluted in milkshake glass.
And then the two sides are now in an unexpected way, faces tense because you could not get tickets at the box office and the printer was jammed. As well as anger over the classic scene that blocked the gate of the parterre, who do not go 'cause equipped with ticket number of the second ring (you know, the one that costs less ..). Scenes from
music "live" (live
fact). And indeed this was the best part of the evening.
The rest of the night (the concert) follows in un modo talmente, stancamente e terribilmente uguale a se stesso, di pezzo in pezzo, che non vale neanche la pena di citare i brani sentiti.
Sentiti? Mah.. L'acustica del Forum non aiuta per nulla, certo. Ma quello era in ogni caso un polpettone indigesto di versi e abbozzi di suoni irriconoscibili. Quel poveretto in fondo si è affaccendato tutta la serata a prendere strumenti vari, compreso un violino, ma tanto secondo me si erano dimenticati di connettere il suo jack all'ampli. Missing.
Una carrellata irriconoscibile e sconcertante. Compresa, su
Just Like a Woman una scenografia da coretto della scuola (scuola americana) con tutte le stelline per la festa dell'albero, una volta conosciuta come festa di Natale.
the end it's hard to dismiss the thought that Bob do it on purpose. Contemptuous of the fans applauding anyway.
's sad but true. And the problem is that we thought guesses well with the character. Still better, perhaps, I think he just lost control of his mind.
Someone like Bob who wrote what he wrote and played what he played, can not fail to notice what he did and played the other night. It can not. Can not fail to notice how he plays the harmonica (due-note-due!) in particular on
Blowin 'in the wind final. Can not fail to notice what is so horrible that skipped to sing and chant that started nella seconda metà di ogni canzone.
Non può non accorgersi che dopo l'unica canzone non bella ma almeno decente della serata, la arcisentita
Watchtower , ci ha ammazzato con la penosa
Spirit on the water e quella inascoltabile
Blowin' in the wind , con la già citata performance all'armonica..
All'amico seduto di fianco a me, compagno di sventura, avevo promesso che se avesse finito con una orribile
Blowin' in the wind mi sarei saltato i suoi prossimi due concerti... E purtroppo tendo ad essere uomo di parola.
Fare thee well, Mr Taburine.
