Re: glass eno

[Jeff Duke <jmar@bellsouth.net>]

I hope everybody knows that my "remark" about Eno and Glass was a joke
from The Glass Pages, there are more too.However jokes are only funny if
there is an element of truth to them. I loved the Fripp and Eno concert
story, now thats funny.
Jeff

bryan.helm@dinosaur.com wrote:

> The recent remark concerning warped Eno vs. skipping Glass
> vinyl platters ,for some reason made me think of the following:
>
> My one and only live P.Glass experience was a concert given
> at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cincinatti Ohio back in
> 1980 (?) It was a small room seating maybe 100, the ensemble
> was flown in from Rotterdam,( where he was involved with his
> opera in sanskrit at the time), evidently for this show. They did
> selections from Einstein on the Beach and Dance 1,2&3 and a
> few other pieces. The sound engineer sat in the middle of the
> ensemble facing them. For all that it was "mimimalist" in nature
> the overwhelming impression left on most audience members
> as I recall was the sheer decibel level at which it was presented.
> I got the impression that very few of these people had enjoyed
> amplified music in a public performance context though to be
> fair to them, the volume WAS high.
>
> Secondly I was reminded of a story I once heard Robert Fripp
> relate concerning a performance he and Eno once did in a
> bullring in Spain during the 70's. I guess the whole gig had
> it's own special ambiance what with the spectacle of gun toting
> Basque seperatists at the airport during their arrival,and playing
> the arena floor of this bullring to boot...but anyway.He said they
> played the show and towards the end, got this loop going and then
> they both left the "stage" and retired to an enclosure from which
> they could see the crowd through some shutters. As Eno peered
> out at the crowd he was noticed and the next thing Fripp said this
> fellow comes and pulls aside the shutters and says in a U.S. drawl
> "Hey guys is the show over?", to which Eno replied "Well it is for
> us, but not for you".
>
> Just a couple memories, from apparently still active brain cells
> ......it's an age of wonder.....I wonder where I put that?.....
>
>                                       Bryan Helm
>                                       "Loop is pool backwards
>                                         and pool starts with P
>                                         which rhymes with T
>                                         that is the first letter in
>                                         the word....TROUBLE!"