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Location: Waurika OK | PBS is in the midst of one of its fund raising efforts. Tonight Glen was on starting at 7:00 CST. I reserved the tv for the show. I know this has been on before and I have seen parts.
I stayed with it for 15 minutes and told my wife to watch whatever she wanted to.
If I am going to watch classical music, then bring on the orchestra.
If I am going to watch Glen C, then Glen, a bass player, drummer, keyboards and rhythm guitar is plenty.
Why bring on 90 other musicians to drowned out the sound of Glen,s great playing???
I just don't get it!!!
Am I the only one who feels this way? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | It worked for Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa.... :confused: |
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Location: Waurika OK | It probably worked for Glen too, it just doesn't work for me. |
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Location: ms | I know what you mean i like just Glenn but it did work on the records, it worked very well. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | When ProfessorBB and I (and our spouses) went to see Glen he had an orchestra backing him up on the songs.
However, they in no way drowned out his playing or that of the band and I felt it complimented the music very well.
Maybe the audio was just bad on the PBS broadcast. I have seen shows on PBS where the dialog was almost unintelligible while the sound effects and background (foreground) music were quite loud and annoying. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Glen really shines when he plays with an orchestra....He can keep up (and more) with anything they throw at him!......
....That being said, Glen is also one of a very few performers that can entertain with nothing but his voice and guitar. (Johnny Cash was another!)
I listened to his new cover CD "Meet Glen Campbell" for the first time Saturday morning while Mari and I were driving thru the mountains of Western NC, on a beautiful, crisp, sunny day ole Glen's voice was sounding wonderful......(not bad for a 72 yr old man) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Glen is a great talent but he's been on auto-pilot for 3 decades. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Its got to be a problem with the broadcast or the recording. He uses top sound people for his shows and I can't believe his people would permit an orchestra to step on him. Which orchestra was it? |
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Location: SoCal | Campbell has been performing with symphonies since the late 60's. The sound is almost always outstanding. This had to have been a fluke.... |
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| Wonder which one it was?...
There was a more recent PBS concert from South Dakota, and there was also a concert from Royal Albert Hall in Great Britain. (He did the beach boys medley at the one in Great Britain) |
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Location: Waurika OK | This one was from South Dakota, I did sneak a peek later on and Southern Nights was better. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | South Dakota?!!! Well that explains EVERYTHING! The folks at our one and only PBS station are TRYING, but they usually never get anything right. For example, we have a guy on the radio in the evening who plays jazz. Now, he usually plays great music, but for some reason, he seems to think that talking like an eight year old pretending to be a "hep-cat" is cool. I'm serious. He calls himself "Uncle Jimmo", and when he gives the time, he says "_ o'clock central time, _ o'clock mountain swinging time." When I first got here, I called him up and said "You're playing sophistocated music, WHY do you insist on talking like an eight year old?" I even told him if he would knock off with the "mountain swinging time" crap, I would make a pledge. He DID knock it off until the check cleared. If you don't believe how bad this guy is, go to SDPB radio on your computer. His show starts at 6:30 plain old MOUNTAIN TIME. If he didn't play such good music, I would switch to the Nebraska station which plays classical during that time. (Sometimes I do.)
Oh, and if you tune in on week-end mornings, you'll get to hear two shows playing at once most days. Or LOTS of dead air. They still haven't taught the weekenders which buttons to push. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Someone recently confused North and South Dakota. When I corrected him, he said "same difference." I corrected him again, saying that North Dakota is just like South Dakota, except worse at everything. We could only get one radio station and 2 TV channels when I lived there. Of course, that was in the 60s and the 2 channels were black and white. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I seen clips of him doing that and it oustanding |
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Glen Campbell + orchestra - not for me (rant)
