Jamie Muhoberac
The show at Madison Square Garden on the 21st of February was the best bad luck John and co. could have had on the Sob Rock tour. Down a drummer and a vocalist, John puts together a last minute setlist and creates a truly magical, acoustic driven experience for those lucky enough to see him at MSG on Night 2 of his New York City shows. Capped off with a banging full band set featuring guest drummer Questlove.
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village, New York, USA. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, HIV/AIDS, and modern day life.
Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.
Recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, April 9th, 1996. 1 Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix) 3:41 2 Prayer For The Dying (Gus Isidore, Seal) 3:46 3 Future Love Paradise 5:14 4 Blues In E 4:27 5 Crazy 5:13 6 Quicksand (David Bowie) 5:02 7 Kiss From A Rose 4:34 8 Violet 5:24 9 Deep Water 3:31 10 Don't Cry 3:16
