Robben Ford Discussion

rainmkr63 · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:18 am Post subject: "Love" and Hate.

I saw the Beatles “Love” show at the Mirage hotel casino here in Vegas on Sunday night and I have never been so offended by a Vegas show before.

When I was 8 years old my family and I lived in London for one month. My father is a minister and he switched parishes with a pastor there, the British pastor came to Long Island for one month with his family.

My babysitter in London took me and my sister all around to see the sights, one of the activities was going to the movies and we saw “The Yellow submarine” a few times while I was there probably ‘first run’. I could not get enough and I ended up buying the Video for my kids when they were young.

Most of the music boards I read and get involved in are frequented by fellow musicians and music worshipers. As some of you I also dissected, learned, worshiped, cried and laughed to ALL the Beatles music and movies. This music is as important and familiar to me as almost anything in my life.

This show is a disgrace to the legacy of the Beatles and everyone involved should be a shamed of themselves. From the gift shop outside the showroom to the schlock revolving around the whole area I was about to throw up or cry from disgust.

If you are serious about music and the legacy of the Beatles please don’t go to this show. John Lennon and George Harrison would not approve of this whole thing. If you want to see the brilliant Circ de Soly (or however you spell it) see one of the other Circ extravaganzas it’s worth it, but to tie it in with the most important group in music history is an abomination!

End of rant.
Rob

Ian Hurtt · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject:

Ok, they had a gift shop. What was the problem with the show?

rainmkr63 · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:06 am Post subject:

The show was OK if you like that sort of thing, I guess I was cranky. I like live real music, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush are coming here again to a small theater for about $23, Eric Johnson right after that I am more into that.

I just get fed up with the Vegas show thing, confetti and costumes and jumping and all that, it was the Beatles meet Space Mountain and It fucking pissed me off. I should have let my people go see the show and I could have walked 35 feet to the best poker room on the planet. That $125 would have lasted me all night left with cab fair drunk as a skunk.

JohnnyZ · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:24 am Post subject:

I always thought the association between Circ and Love was a bit bizarre.

Rainmakr, I suggest you break out your Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans album and listen to Nu Sommes du Soleil through headphones. For 20 minutes at least, you'll forget about that Circ du Soleil crap... Wink

rainmkr63 · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

Take some 'Yes' and call me in the morning......

Sounds good to me.

BlueRunner · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

I knew that it was the end of the world as we know it some years ago when I flew into Las Vegas on legal business and on the way in from the airport saw a billboard advertising that the Grateful Dead were playing at one of the casinos.

I associate Las Vegas with music about the same way I equate Christmas with Tehran, Iran.
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