Morrissey, Live in Atlantic City, July 2007

video Morrissey, Live in Atlantic City, July 2007

Título: Morrissey, Live in Atlantic City, July 2007

Autor: VazquezNYC

Categoria: Música

Descrição: It goes to full screen after about 30 seconds. Playing to an intimate crowd in Atlantic City this summer. 'Sorry for the low quality audio and video; I shot this on a basic digital still cam and was glad to get it. 'Great stuff in the second song of this clip. And 'sorry for the following corny blog from a fan (me), but hey, it's Morrissey. A fan's notes from sometime mid-July, 2007... Dilemma: Do I stay home and work on my piece on suicide for my beloved magazine, which is way past deadline? Or do I make it to Atlantic City on a shoestring budget (they give you twenty dollars back when you get off the bus, plus I've managed to score a $400 room at a press discount of $100! Thanks, Borgata!) to catch Morrissey live, after he's cancelled three gigs, with this being my last chance (yeah, I've seen him before), maybe in this lifetime? My pissed-off girlfriend will not be pleased if I cancel, and so, It All Comes Down To This: 1) Stay home and write this article about suicide, OR 2) Go watch one of the persons who along with Bergman, and Mescaline, Hesse, Sartre, and a few others may have kept me from offing my own damn self all those years ago? He opens with a Smiths tune, "Panic," which, while not my favorite, was very definitely not the reactionary, racist anthem that the British press made it out to be. I've felt that way about club music from time to time and I was raised on disco. The rest of the night was many things: class reunion, unabashed sing-along, and a challenge for an artist not used to -- but clearly relishing -- the surprisingly tiny and intimate venue, on the last night of their tour. It is in fact a make-up date and I feel staggeringly sad for anyone who had a ticket to that cancelled show and missed this one. I hope you and anyone else who's never caught him live, enjoy this video. Note to Morrissey: I hope that the confiscated footage I filmed of the fans stage diving you and you proudly taking your shirt off because it meant so much to them, finds its way to you and that years from now you enjoy it. Somehow a piece of your shirt found its way to me as I joined the three other fans, and we all, like a very civilized group of bespectacled jackals, disassembled the cloth. Your comment about the number of folks in the crowd wearing spectacles was unkind, and funny. Do you wear contacts, now? I'm older now, and I think myself a clever swine, but I remember a time when you were the only one who ever stood by me...and on this night when I was laughing and loving and finally living, I saw you onstage and I thought of you kindly. 'Smoking a joint back in the room overlooking the city and the ocean, with my naked girlfriend in bed, I felt cool, and glad to have made it outta those brutal post-adolescent years. Thanks for the tunes all those years ago...would it really be so bad if you and Johnny went round the world just once more, all these years later? Out of respect for Johnny I didn't tape the electric guitar that played at the end of Please, please, please..." nor the guitar on "How soon..." but I'm still grateful for the show. And so, having seen both you and Johnny Marr live thrice tho' never together, as the rumors of a reunion a few weeks ago were followed by the press release below, I've given up on a reunion and I'm Ok with that. If you both are. These days I'm more likely to get my Smiths-related nostalgia by mixing Electronic's "Free Will" crushingly into a DJ mix, but on the odd road trip and on that night in Atlantic City, and all those years ago, there was never anybody quite like you and Johnny. Mr. Marr, we're all glad you hit #1 with Modest, and that you knocked on Morrissey's door all those years ago. What would my life during the 80's have been without you? From the press release: Finally, in an effort to stop the speculation and kill off the rumor mongers who seem to use these things to take advantage of committed fans, we can tell you that one thing the future will not bring is a Smiths' reunion tour. Per recent reports Morrissey was approached during the course of the summer by a consortium of promoters, in the wake of the success of The Police, U2 and The Rolling Stones tours, with a $75,000,000 offer to tour in 2008 and or 2009. The offer called for Morrissey to do a minimum of 50 shows all over the world under The Smiths' name with the only proviso being that Johnny Marr was also in the band. The offer has been refused.

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