9.23.18 What's next? Speculate away 'cause we have no clues!
Sept 23, 2018 16:24:42 GMT -5
Post by girldrummer on Sept 23, 2018 16:24:42 GMT -5
I'm ready to do my recap, but coming home, after just flying in from Las Vegas about two hours ago, I'm seeing Brian's message - and I have a few thoughts.
I don't think it's about the work of the performance. I attended three shows, and every crowd was wildly adoring. Even those who didn't 'clap' or call out at the right time.
I think it's about Las Vegas. About the temperament, the atmosphere, and the spirit there that existed for Brian for the-two thirds of the day when Queen wasn't preparing and performing. He lived there for a month. I can't think of an environment more alien to one accustomed to the mist and green of English countryside than Las Vegas.
I know nothing about what Brian really thinks, but I'm reminded of a conversation I had with one of the members of the company who put on the show for the past month, who said "I'm just so tired - I need to get out of this place".
It may be the energy of the artifice; the casinos, the facade, the all-encompassing cigarette smoke, the heat, the lack of true human connection as one person passes another through teeming masses; the excess of all that, in reality, means nothing. Brian might think that in spite of giving his last bit of cellular energy to the crowd each night, he was left wondering if the crowd, and its adulation, was as temporary and as artificial as the city in the desert.
I'll put it out there. I don't think Queen will ever do another LV residency. The emotional work of being there for a month negated a measure of the satisfaction, the accolades, of the attendees. Were the fans there to be inspired, to 'care for the people on the edge of the night' - or were they going to pour their lives into a cocktail or a slot machine after the stage went dark?
Just my personal thoughts; thinking of how 'hollow' the LV Strip felt to me. My apologies to anyone who actually lives, and loves, Las Vegas.
I have no doubt that Brian will get over his angst in due time. He has lots of other thinks in his life that are passions for him. I think he'll be fine.