Audience Participation
This one isn't about the music, which is not to say that the music itself is bad or uninteresting. Rather, it's about moments of interaction between the performer and the audience that can't be captured in the studio. I remember an evening when I was in college when a band was performing Gloria, and we in the audience became their impromptu backup singers. I'll never forget the looks of incredulity on the faces of the members of the band.
But I don't think I've ever seen an instance of audience participation quite like this one. I've been compelled to watch it a couple times over.
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MOG it up!
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The audience participation/experience is what seperates the live from the recorded...some times for the bad, but mostly for the good.
I appreciate a concert more when the performers are able to successfully blend the audience into the experience.
Nice.
A local favorite of mine is Linda Tillery, who started out as a high school kid scaring the bejesus out of Janis Joplin. (Check out the Loading Zone, if you can find it.) Anyway, Linda assembled a group of like minded souls, including Ray Obiedo, possibly Sheila E, and did a gig at the old Oasis in SF doing James Brown covers. She commanded the audience to "get down" and people started crawling across the acrylic pool cover. It was one of the greatest live gigs I ever saw--she had the audience eating out of her hand.
Berkeley Bob, I remember enjoying a Linda Tillery performance at Fillmore West, where she had the whole audience singing along with her.
RSchaut, before seeing this video above just now, I've never seen a live performance in any format (including in person) where the audience contributed so much to such musical beauty coming from the musicians.