Global Citizen Festival Newark Concert reviews
Attitude Amazing, Music only fair
Global Citizen Festival did what Global Citizen Festival does best - charging outrageous prices for the "privilege" of seeing him pout, grabbing a whole host of his fans.
Astral Weeks, an acclaimed album, is not appreciated by all Global Citizen Festival Fans.
An amazing evening of listening in a quiet room with a glass of wine can be made with its extraordinarily mellow tracks.
Global Citizen Festival is still able to deliver incredible vocals when he wants, although the translation on stage is somewhat more difficult.
He still has the pipes and talent to deliver amazing music, as shown in songs like Gypsy Queen and Queen of the Slipstream.
The lazy delivery across the board for almost the rest of the show - mumbling lyrics and deferring the audience for verses in Brown Eyed Girl and others - masked those highlights.
The aging rocker has hypnotized the world into paying top dollar for his shows, but if only he had delivered the respect that his audience showed him.
His encore consisted of him standing off stage for a few beats, quickly delivering Gloria, and pouting out.
Perhaps he could invest in a decent soundman with ticket prices sky high - the acoustics in DAR hall were at best "bad" - a poor mix of mids and vocals, drowned out with an overwhelming bass line that shook the seats (and not in a good way).