Re: Assholes in Attendance / Re: (TV) Richard at TT the Bears, Boston

[Ty Burr <tyburr@mindspring.com>]

> My reaction to requests for *total* silence from Richard (and  
> according to
> my watch the 20-minute!! standoff in which it resulted) was that  
> Richard was
> a very courageous person for doing what he did, or he was a very  
> stupid
> person.  I kept going back and forth all night and still can't decide.

I chalked it up to sheer orneriness and a desire to speak out and own  
up to all the weirdness he has previously kept in check.  (Thus the  
wiggy interviews of late, of which his onstage comments seemed a  
piece.) He seems like he just doesn't give a shit what other people  
think anymore.

> PS: Ty where were you standing in several different spots?

I was standing right up front to the left of Richard, with a straight  
shot at the guitar amp -- that's why the guitar work sounded just  
fine to me. Didn't move from there. But yes, the vocals were murky.

>   Were you near the couple (sometimes 2) dancing to most of  
> Richard's song? Or near the
> guy/gal with the over-powering cologne that smelled more like a  
> powerful
> anti-perpirant? Or were you wearing a disguise that made you now
> unrecognizable to everyone except your family and Wesley Morris?

I was near the woman in cornrows dancing like it was Jerry Garcia and  
the cute couple cuddling throughout the set as if "Soldier Blue" was  
"their song". And who knows -- maybe it is. I don't know why we  
didn't see each other, Leo. Is it possible the force of Richard's  
uncompromising belief system and/or chord progressions split the room  
into parallel realities, so that you and I were actually watching him  
from the same location in the club but in different time-space  
vertices? Or maybe I should have turned around more.

T,
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