Amphitheatres- Love 'em or Hate 'em?

[Silver Springs]

Originally Posted by SuperFleetwood

Lindsey does well in smaller venues, I dont see him doing amphitheaters! Stevie Nicks and Grace Slick needs Amphitheatres because they have louder voices and there voices can flow through the Amphitheaters lol!

It's not about louder voices at all. It's about the presence of the music as a whole. Volume can be adjusted. Once a song is out there you can't decrease the "bigness" (for want of a better word) without changing the song's impact.

For example, let's take something tediously platitudinous. Bohemian Rhapsody. That is a full bodied song when it gets going. You can't place that in a small venue with velvet curtains, five seat rows and sheltered acoustics. That kind of song needs to reach the heavens. Whereas somebody like James Taylor or Gordon Lightfoot with their heavily acoustic and guitar reliant music couldn't fill the space provided with presence.

There should be a "Performer Dependent" option on the poll.