I picked up the '95 NYE show when it was announced with much fanfare, and I'm severely underwhelmed by all the Gamehenge material. Too much narration involving people and events about whom I treasure my ignorance. And as far as the non-gamehenge material-- Frankenstein, Chalkdust Torture, Hello my Baby, You Enjoy Myself-- I have superior versions of all of those songs from one show, the 8/9/98 Va. Beach set where they busted out the Terrapin Station encore (only time played).
I feel like a good Robert Hunter or Dylan lyric has multiple shades of meaning, all of them obscure, morphing and shifting to suit the particular psyche of the listener at any one time. The Gamehenge stuff, I get the sense there is this ONE story, laid out in mind-numbing detail, with 35 minor characters (each with their own song), but no matter how much of it I am exposed to, I don't discover that the sum has any deeper meaning than the story itself. It's all plot, no subtlety. Am I missing something?
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I feel like a good Robert Hunter or Dylan lyric has multiple shades of meaning, all of them obscure, morphing and shifting to suit the particular psyche of the listener at any one time. The Gamehenge stuff, I get the sense there is this ONE story, laid out in mind-numbing detail, with 35 minor characters (each with their own song), but no matter how much of it I am exposed to, I don't discover that the sum has any deeper meaning than the story itself. It's all plot, no subtlety. Am I missing something?