Click here to e-mail me a thought or response. So much emphasis is put upon prolonging biological life ad infinitum and little on just why or how that life continues. When sombody dies unexpectedly, it is said that they did not live out a 'natural' lifespan. I would say that they did. Death is just simply the the last great voyage in what we know as life.
Much experimentation is gone, replaced by a certain homogeneity among most performers.
I am almost never surprised at a concert anymore. This is what happens when a license is granted after one pays a very small sum and then wanders around in a parking lot for about 2 minutes. The earth really does rule.