On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 13:04:49 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Saturday, February 6, 2021 at 7:49:39 AM UTC-10, Leo wrote:
>> On 2021 Feb 3, , dsi1 wrote
>> (in >):
>> > Mr. Lightfoot is famous for giving lousy performances. You can probably get
>> > odds on whether or not it'll be a lousy or okay performance in Vegas. Sounds
>> > like you went to a lot of concerts.
>> I never went to an outdoor venue. It was nearly always in main showrooms and
>> cabarets of casinos. There was a plethora of entertainment stars in Reno in
>> the sixties and seventies.
>> The best goof-up I saw was Roy Clark breaking the D string on his guitar
>> during a complicated solo instrumental. Every time he was supposed to pluck
>> that string, he shouted "D!"
>> The most entertaining single performer I ever saw onstage was Leo Kottke. His
>> twelve-string playing was outstanding, and his personality was even better.
>> I was a Doc Watson fan. He was superb too.
>It's interesting how a person's concert going experience differs according to generational differences and where you grew up. You saw people like Roy Clark and maybe Jose Feliciano and other lounge act types. I saw arena acts like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Doors. If I was a little younger, and lived in the mid-West, it would be completely different. I'm talking about those boys from St. Louis, of course.
>By the eighties, I was mostly not interested in seeing anybody that passed through this rock.
>Kenny Rankin was one of the last concerts my wife and I went to. He played a Guild guitar that band leader/conductor/arranger Don Costa gave him back in the 60's. It was gratifying to see what a single guy, alone on stage, with an old guitar and a smooth as velvet voice, can do.
>The last concert we went to was Leo Kottke. We saw him twice. We'll probably see him again if he hasn't croaked and passes through again.
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I saw Elton John a year ago, just before covid. Can you go to an Elton
John concert and still be cool?
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I also saw Leo Sayer a bit over a year ago. That was fun, seeing those
old hits, from when I was 13, live. He also has funny stage presence.
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Ok, I guess I'm not cool.
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