PL>>And I just had a thought that perhaps this is another reason why electro-pop is blowing up- because they always have singers (and often good-looking women for maximum audience response from predominantly-male music-geek community - adult, miss kitten, peaches, chix on speed :)
I think you have a point there Peter... I went to see Kitten and The Hacker here in NYC at Fun not too long ago and I have to say that while technically it was the most boring PA I think I have ever seen the crowd really seemed to get off on it. I would definitely say having Kitten up there was a factor in the crowd reaction. I enjoyed it too as I am a big fan of both Kitten + The Hacker, but I mean it lasted maybe 15 or 20 minutes, Hacker seemed to have everything stored in something the crowd couldn't even see (they were up on a tall platform kinda thing), and I swear after the song started and he had tweaked one or two knobs the man basically just stood there. Gotta say Ulysses' electro>DEEP House>Techno and back again set made the night...that and hearing Frank Sinatra performed live;-) I have always enjoyed PAs in intimate spaces more than those in bigger venues... The best PA I saw last year was Joel Mull at Guernica. I was sitting (with fellow 313ers Pete Grammenos and Alex Lugo) about 2 feet from Joel for the first 15 minutes of his set and it was really cool to watch him punch patterns into the MPC virtually non-stop. I would have loved to watch him through his entire set but I had to get up and get down along with the rest of the crowd. Yeah that's right people DANCING during a PA!!;-) BTW...this was in the early morning hours of September the Eleventh 2001. To go from the high of that night to the low of later that morning was quite a thing.... Peace, m* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
