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David Gilmour & Pink Floyd

John Mellencamp's 2-fisted concerts

Return to Forever: Brilliance onstage

Watching Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola, and Lenny White gel onstage as the entity known as Return to Forever is a visual-auditory jazz ballet for me. 

It's as much about the minimal effort to produce such astounding colorful themes as it is the casual "got it in my back pocket" coolness that comes through everyone's hands and feet; the movement is the message. Just watch Lenny's hands--and keep in mind he's yet another lefty on a right-side kit: compact efficient simple effort makes a big sound. Or Stanley's dancing-on-a-pinhead speed on bass, jumping with deer-like quickness up and down the neck.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra, whom I dearly love as well, were more frenetic and explosive, but I'll swap that difference in velocity for Chick Corea's ability to turn the keyboard of choice into everything from a gently flowing liquid murmur of notes that hover like mist on a lake to a spicy hot acoustic piano's jazz grind. And I'll take a fair swap for Jan Hammer's synthesizer for Al's flamenco guitar runs. (Plus, Al could easily match chops with John M.).
 

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Jack Broadbent and a whiskey flask

Bob Dylan & the Band 1-15-74 Landover, MD - Capital Centre

Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) Lay Lady Lay Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues I Don't Believe You It Ain't Me Babe Ballad Of A Thin Man Stage Frieght The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down King Harvest When You Wake I Shall be Released Up On Cripple Creek All Along The Watchtower Ballad Of Hollis Brown Knockin' On Heaven's Door Times They Are A-Changin' Don't Think Twice It's All Right Wedding Song Just Like A Woman It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Rag Mama Rag Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever Shape I'm In The Weight