Encore, encore!!
What exactly is an encore? Websters define encore as, “a demand for repetition or reappearance made by an audience; also : a reappearance or additional performance in response to such a demand.” Maybe I’m getting confused by the word demand. The last 3 concerts I went to in Tokyo where: Garbage last year, Elvis Costello a few months back, and The Manhattan Transfer the other night. All the shows had very “staged” encores. Maybe the Japanese audience had something to do with it. What I’m trying to get at, if you give me a chance, is that they don’t turn on the lights so you can leave at the end of the last set. Not that I wanted to leave at the end of any of those shows but I realized that if I had wanted to leave it would have been difficult because of the dim lighting. They make the thinest pretense that the show is over, the audience claps, the band comes back on and does a song or two (Elvis did an extra half hour for the first encore). I thought to myself, “What if the audience didn’t applaud, would the band notice?”
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