public enemy in concert

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

mike j schrieb:

> judging music by its politics is like judging fiction
> by its,er, 'signifiers'. when i saw p.e. in nyc 1989
> (the 'terrordome' single had just come out), a friend
> of mine was so scared he waited near the exit just in
> case those uzi's went off!!


  when i saw p.e. in hamburg 1990, the situation was quite different. about 1/3 
  of the audience consisted of real young kids of 11 or 12 years who were -   
  before, during and after the concert - breakdancing most of the time.  since  
  the gig took place in the "große freiheit 36" near the reeperbahn, nearly all 
  the boys had their father or mother with them. so the audience's second third 
  was formed by older people interested not so much in hiphop but in their      
  children's well-being. accordingly the whole event had a more sportive   
  charakter, which then again fits not too bad into the overall hiphop culture. 
  & of course the kids did not allow their parents to stay near them during the 
  show, so they had to stand in the back & us, well, "regular concert folks" 
  found a lot of space to dance inside this wall of noise ...  

kfl