Alice Cooper donned and eventually escaped from a straight jacket while performing 'The Ballad of Dwight Frye'. David Bowie claimed to be 'quite content' even while requesting a 'good ole lobotomy' in 'All the Madmen'. Then there was Steve, running around in hyper schemes which bled into him clutching his throat during blood curdling screams in 'BACK TO THE FARM'. I always filed these classics together under 'looney tunes'
. Wierd though, in all the posts/fav lists i've read over the years, no one here ever mentions this song or the incredible intensity of it live..next, I can't imagine a list without CAVALIERS, say no more...the current bands live rendition of 'AUDIENCE WITH THE MAN'. They own that song. They say you can't improve on perfection but these guys prove that to be wrong time and again...There's something about 'THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU' that's hard to explain but it's eerie aura delivers me to a place where no other songs ever been or evers been able to take me....There's a scene in Woody Allen's 'Stardust Memories'
where he recalls a moment from his first marriage. It was a sunday morning and he was sitting cross the table from his wife. She looked great/happy and he described it as a perfect life moment, a perfectly contented feel, a perfect snapshot, if you will. At the Isle of Wight show, somewhere during 'A FRIEND FOR LIFE', I think it'e when they switch to the camera behind the crowd to show the enormity of the gig. The sound is acoustically perfect, the song is perfect, and it hits me right there, a microcosm of all the beauty that is Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. It's a snapshot, a perfect moment....see you guys in may, mike