talking about Jean Michel Jarre...

[Romain Gros]

Very cool picts gert , I wished to be there  in a small place it should be
super cool .. . :-(
Well, maybe next time :-P

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at chello.nl>
wrote:

> March 25. Went to see Jean Michel Jarre
> in Carr? Amsterdam. It was 33 years ago
> that I had been to the "Royal Theatre"
> to see the (then) magnificent Genesis
> including Peter Gabriel for their "The
> Lamb lies down on Broadway" tour, after
> which Gabriel left the band.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 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 interesting than I remembered,
> although many of the sounds were
> awesome. It was very nice to see all
> those old machines on stage ? 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 Equinoxe is way better than
> Oxygen.
> The encore was a big chill. One short
> track. Around 10:00 pm we were outside
> again.
>
> 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.
>
> Check out some pictures here:
> http://www.gertvansanten.nl/gallery/?gallery=music/jmj
> --
>
> :-)
>
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