lie with me & just forget the world

David Garrett's an evening of violin serenades started off disappointingly. It's definitely wasnt his fault coz he tried his darn best to please the audience. the event management and its engineers were lousy. On his first song, Carmen Fantasie, his violin part could not be heard over the overly-loud background music and then the mic just went dead. i thot it was silly but he kept on playing. it's like watching a foreign voice-over. u hear musical instruments other than violin but u see this guy strutting away his antique violin on stage. i gotta give it to him for keeping his cool and not breaking any sweat other than from the heat. a brief stop to chat with a dumb symphony dj, it went on again for the second song which i cant remember the name, it could be Paganini Rhapsody. he played a few notes before leaving the stage playing unplugged nearer to the audience in hope we'd be able to hear his violin. it was rather soft. he went on to play an impressive solo to verify his talent before La Califfa by Ennio Morricone. it's just not happening! he decided to play solo again which was good tho soft after that giving time to the dim-witted sound system engineers to sort things out. and they finally did. he came back with Duelling Banjos. It was ok considering the sound system still did not compliment the mic well. anyway, he went on to play almost all the other songs in his current Free album such as his self-written Serenade, The Flight of Bumble Bee, Somewhere (of West Side Story, note: Il Divo also hv this song!) and (get this!) Metallica's Nothing Else Matters! before his Csardas Gypsy Dance finale, he has obligingly re-played Carmen and La Califfa. how nice! afterwards, he apologised for the bad sound system and said he hoped to come back again (i hope so but it'll better be at a recital or concert hall nx time). then he simply disappeared before we got the chance to get him to sign our cd. anyway, we listened to his cd in ren's car on our way to holland v for dinner. it's simply very much better in an enclosed space. and he was playing the Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin not the Stradivarius which the dj kept saying he does. oh well ... that's the sexy albeit one embarrased kurt-cobain-lookalike, mr david garrett, for u. he's still such a dish tho ...