From: ptr@unc.edu   
      
   : >   
   : >>After seeing PS Live 2 years ago and having the Smile CD, I won't be   
   : >>going to the Smile Live show locally.   
      
      
   Fair enough.  That's a personal decision.  It's the original poster's   
   loss, as mccourter@mindspring.com wrote (I'll give my own impressions   
   below), but I can understand how Smile may be an acquired taste.  So   
   nothing wrong with a preference for other albums.   
      
   : >   
   : > Well Brian had a great time in Boston.  I know he didn't read all the   
   : > lyrics from the prompter because he got some of them wrong (big deal).   
   : > He sang great, looked great, danced a bit, and ran on and off stage   
   : > under his own power.  The meds must be working.   
      
   mcnewsxp  wrote:   
      
   : ditto for atlanta.   
   : i waited till the last minute to decide to go.   
   : my brother and i ate up every minute of it.   
   : you're only punsihing yourself by not going.   
      
   I, too, waited until nearly the last minute, before deciding make the   
   trek to Atlanta to catch Brian's show at the Chastain Park Amphitheater.   
   If he had performed, say, in Raleigh, Greensboro, or Charlotte, this   
   would have been a no-brainer.  My hestitation had to do entirely with   
   the fact that Atlanta is minimally a 6-hour drive from Chapel Hill (it   
   took 7.5 hours on the return trip due to traffic congestion on I-85).  Even   
   though we could stay with dear old friends in the area, it's not a cheap   
   date, so to speak, with tickets, parking, food, gas, incidentals.   
   But with a little encouragement from some kind folks on r.m.b-b, my   
   daughter (age 15) and I decided to go and are *so* glad that we did.   
   Brian was in good form--I wouldn't call his peformance flawless, but   
   it was fine.  The strength of Brian's compositions, the superb   
   musicianship of the Wondermints, and the opportunity to see an artist of   
   Brian's stature (indeed, one who had fallen into the abyss) made Saturday   
   a very special evening indeed.  All the more so, given that my daughter   
   was into it as much as I was.  To hear Smile performed in toto was   
   itself worth the price of admission; the "old favorites" in the first set   
   and encore were gravy.  I had not heard a couple of these songs since *I*   
   was 15 (I'm 54 now).  And to top it all off, we met some incredibly nice   
   people at the show.   
      
   Just one person's opinion, of course, but all in all, this was a great   
   experience.  As my daughter said afterwards, "I can't believe we almost   
   didn't come!"   
      
   Paul   
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