Re: 9/21/93 Madison Square Garden
- From: bzlrbi@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:23:36 -0400
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:58:09 -0400, bzlrbi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:45:04 -0700, "Sweetbac"
<sweetbacz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Lfh" <onetaste2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There's that. I blew off that show to go see the Talking Heads
over in Emerald City in Cherry Hill. You remember that joint?
Fred
Emerald City...yeah...never went, though...
I was more a NYC concert goer than a Philly one.
The New York crowds were a tad more even keeled.
We blew off the Talking Heads set on that tour at Wollman
Rink in Central Park to go to the Palladium for the premier
of Neil Youngs "Rust Never Sleeps"...3D glasses and all!
We DID see the opening band though...sitting on the rocks
behind the stage...the B52's....Oh....to be young again <sigh>
the internets are cool
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DE7D8153EE732A25756C1A96E9C946890D6CF
PS I saw the Heads from those very rocks on the Remain in Light tour.
Here's the text from NYTimes. pasted link doesn't seem to work
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Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
August 15, 1979
Film: Neil Young's Rock:Rocking Along
By JOHN ROCKWELL
Published: August 15, 1979
ROCK films come in two categories. More common is the film designed
solely for an act's fans. But some appeal beyond the cult to the
general public, as in Richard Lester's two Beatles movies. Neil
Young's "Rust Never Sleeps," which opens a limited run at the
Palladium today, might seem to be in the latter category. In fact,
it's very much a fan film.
Its credentials as a message beyond the cult rest largely on its
extra-musical conceits. Instead of being a straight concert
documentary, "Rust Never Sleeps" calls itself a "concert fantasy." As
he was during last fall's tour at which this was filmed, Mr. Young is
discovered "asleep" on top of one of the loudspeaker banks, which has
been disguised as an oversized pirate chest, and "wakes up" to begin
the concert.
The "roadies" who move equipment about have been dressed as
"roadeyes," the little scavengers with brown robes and beady pinpoint
eyes from "Star Wars." The idea, reinforced by playing tapes of
crowd-control announcements from the Woodstock Festival, is to comment
on rock's aging, on the discrepancies between veteran rock performers
and their teenage audiences, and on rock's allegiance to youthful
rebellion and innocence. All of this reads better than it appears on
the screen, however, where an otherwise fine concert is continually
interrupted by laboriously miming "roadeyes" and other cuteness.
Mr. Young, who directs the film under the rather coy pseudonym of
Bernard Shakey, further limits its appeal by extremely grainy and
underlit footage. And the Palladium, as rock's principal rock concert
hall in New York, is likely to attract more rock fans than film buffs.
Perhaps that's what he meant to do, in a film that reaffirms the
purity and unity of rock. But it's too bad, because Mr. Young has the
talent to appeal to intelligent people outside his world.
For Mr. Young is, in the opinion of some of us, the leading creative
figure in present-day rock-and-roll, and this film has stirring, even
triumphant passages. He writes songs of unsurpassed metaphoric
richness with deceptively simple, melodic tunes. He sings with
haunting evocativeness and plays guitar with more personality and
stark individuality than almost anyone else.
"Rust Never Sleeps" offers some of his strongest songs, both new and
old, in performances as fine or finer than those on his recent, partly
live record album of the same title. The effect here is rougher than
the record, less polished with overdubbing; at one point, Mr. Young
even mangles the words of one of his own best songs. But the intensity
of the singing and the playing of Crazy Horse, Mr. Young's longtime
partners for electric-rock projects, is as moving as rock can offer.
It's so good, in fact, that it almost lets one overlook Mr. Young's
theatrical conceits, and almost makes the film recommendable for the
general public, after all.
"Rust Never Sleeps" is rated PG ("Parental Guidance Suggested").
There's a passing indelicate word, but otherwise, unless a parent is
implacably opposed to rock-and-roll, there seems little reason to
prevent children from seeing this film.
Rocking Along
RUST NEVER SLEEPS, directed by Bernard Shakey; camera, Paul Goldsmith,
Jon Else, Robby Greenberg, Hiro Nrita, Richard Pearce, Daniel Pearl;
edited by Mr. Shakey; music by Neil Young and others; produced by L.
A. Johnson; Shakey Pictures Inc. presents a film by Neil Young; an
International Harmony Release. At the Palladium, 14th Street between
Third and Fourth Avenues Running time. 103 minutes. This film is rated
PG.
With: Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
.
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