I am sitting around with my father in law, drinking too much wine and listening to music. He's seen a ton of great old rock groups from Zeppelin to Emerson Lake and Palmer and has been walking me through some of the great shows he's seen.

I mentioned that I wish I could have been at The Last Waltz. Then I had to pick a song from that show. Without a doubt, it was Van Morrison's performance. What a bad ass and the Band looks like they're having such fun playing with him.

Gotta love the kicks and his dropping of the mic and leaving prior to the songs ending. What a performer.

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    On May 29, 1913, in Paris, Les Ballets Russes stages the first ballet performance of The Rite of Spring (Le Sacré du Printemps,) with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. The intensely rhythmic score and primitive scenario -- a setting of scenes from pagan Russia -- shock audiences more accustomed to the demure conventions of classical ballet. The complex music and violent dance steps depicting fertility rites first draw catcalls and whistles from the crowd, and are soon followed by shouts and fistfights in the aisles. The unrest in the audience escalates into a riot.

    The Paris police arrive by intermission, but they restore only limited order. Chaos reigns for the remainder of the performance. Nijinsky and Stravinsky are despondent. However, Sergei Diaghilev, the director of Les Ballets Russes, comments that the scandal was "just what I wanted."

The Rite of Spring Riot, 1913

Punk Rock As Fuck


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