Re: glass eno

["Jesse Kudler" <jkudler@wesleyan.edu>]

A side note: Phillip Glass was recently parodied on the highly over-rated
South Park on comedy Central, and he once got a reference on the Simpsons.

"An evening with Phillip Glass.  Just an evening?" -H. Simpson

-Jesse


-----Original Message-----
From: bryan.helm@dinosaur.com <bryan.helm@dinosaur.com>
To: loopers-delight@annihilist.com <loopers-delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 7:02 AM
Subject: glass eno


>
>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!"
>
>