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I can't believe it Big Surprises in Music

Right, I need to put a few things in perspective first.

1) I love to listen to many things from Bach to Strawinsky, Coltrane to Sun Ra, Beatles to Zappa, Brel to Waits, ... you'll get the gist.

2) Since a number of years, there is an open air gig called the Hurricane Festival, this year featuring the likes of Faith No More (you read that correct: reunion), Nine Inch Nails, The Pixies, The Mars Volta, ... guys who know how to do a live performance properly.

So I was watching Hurricane 09 on the TV when on stage walks ... Kate Perry and starts a cooking performance. Man, this had nothing to do with the polished video clips we know her from. More important, this singer has a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y nothing to do with the likes of dreadful plastic voiceless JLo. Kate sure knows how to rock. In the middle of "I Kissed A Girl" she is hovered into the crowd (ten thousand hands stretch out as they had never been stretched out before, go figure) and, yes, finds herself a girl to kiss in the crowd.

That was one huge misconception on a singer I had to revise. Any other jaw-dropping surprise in music you like to relate?
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I saw Springsteen do a solo benefit show at the Shrine Auditorium in November 1990 with Jackson Browne where he played the solo piano!

My perfect "Big Surprise" is top end talent playing small shows. Shows that come to mind:

Jimmy Buffet walking into a bar in Solana Beach post concert to a crowd of 25 circa 1978, Paul Kelly playing solo acoustic at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood to a crowd of 12 in 2006 (he is considered the Bob Dylan of Australia); and Van Halen playing in a bowling alley in Covina to a crowd of 4 people in 1975(I saw David Lee Roth later and reminded him of that gig).
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