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| From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Jimmie Spheeris |
| Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:59:54 +0000 |
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Great story.Unfortunately it happens a lot to opening acts.Do you remember
if you like him? Never got to see him live.
>From: "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: "Audities" <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Jimmie Spheeris
>Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:56:23 -0700
>
>One of my favorite concert experiences involved Jimmie Spheeris. He opened
>for The Moody Blues at Madison Square Garden-I think it was the summer of
>'78. He was by himself with an acoustic-of course, virtually nobody in
>attendance had heard of him, so there was a lot of talking going on. The
>Garden is a huge venue, so the din started getting pretty loud and
>annoying, especially to Spheeris, who was clearly getting more and more
>miffed as the time went on. Finally he started changing the lyrics to one
>of his songs, singing something like "yeah, you try playing by yourself in
>front of 15,000 f***ing people who don't give a s**t who you are",
>etc...Some people in the crowd became slack-jawed, some laughed, but most
>kept talking. Finally, after the song was over, Spheeris said "hey, it
>ain't disco", and everybody laughed, and were much quieter for the rest of
>his set.
>
>I guess sometimes a well-timed line is all it takes.
>
>David
>
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