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 have two:
The first was circa 1984 when a friend and I went to see a band called BHLT here in Atlanta at the Moonshadow saloon. BHLT was Dickie Betts, Jimmy Hall, Chuck Level, and Butch Trucks playing jazz fusion in the same vein as Sea Level. The second was early 80's when I was visiting Nashville and met my sisters at the Exit/Inn for a couple of beers. They were attending Vanderbilt at the time and it was about 3:30 in the afternoon. All of sudden, Jeff Beck walks in with his guitar. He was in town recording with Rod Stewart and had wrapped up their session and wanted to have a couple of beers and play a few songs. It was me, my two sisters,the staff, and Jeff Beck.He made incredibly melodic music using a beer bottle as a slide for his guitar sitting at our table. As word got out onto the street, the crowds came rolling in. When I left about 6:30, there were about 200 people there. Beck could not have been nicer and just seemed like a regular guy who was really into making music.