talking about Jean Michel Jarre...

[Martin Naef]

Hi Gert

Gert van Santen wrote:
> After seeing The Cure?s brilliant show last week, JMJ was a nice
> evening out with my good friend Rolf, although a bit disappointing at
> times, and, music-wise, sometimes even boring.

Well, it must be quite a change from 80's anxiety and power to JMJ 
electronica...

> Jarre himself, although not a great live player, behaved like he was
> God?s gift to music audiences. Some of the stuff he did, was too

How was the audience reaction? In Glasgow, people were extremely 
enthusiastic even before he started, so there is obviously a sizeable 
number of people who do think he's god's gift... ;-)

> loud, drowning the rest of the band, and at moments just sounded 
> wrong (especially when doing the thing with the "curtain rail", as
> Rolf called it). The songs from the album Oxygen were less

Same experience here, although I think that overall they got the balance 
roughly right when I heard it... I think some of it was down to the 
difficulty of mixing the analog monsters.

> heaven for vintage synth lovers! A lot of EMS stuff, Moogs and an ARP
> 2600, but I also saw recent gear, like the Alesis Andromeda and a
> Boss RE-20 delay. Anyhow, after a while I decided for myself that

I spotted those too. There's also a modern Minimoog there, that was used 
quite regularly by the guy in the back. Funny enough, I never saw him 
playing the Andromeda in Glasgow.

> One other thing I would like to mention, is, that JMJ certainly
> wasn?t worth the money I paid. 102 euros for some 90 minutes of
> music. The Cure was 34 euros for 3 hours and 15 minutes of much more
> exciting stuff.

JMJ was the typical "classic music" rate. Given the special nature of 
the show, I didn't mind the price so much. I wouldn't compare it against 
a typical stadium rock concert.

> Check out some pictures here: 
> http://www.gertvansanten.nl/gallery/?gallery=music/jmj

Nice!

Bye
Martin

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