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While the show cast the crowd about an aural sea of chronological and stylistic ambiguity, certain members of the audience, as if in a trance, took equidistant posts around the edge of the pit, and twisted, hopped, gyrated, thrustted, and skitted in a plethora of interpretive dancing that, collectively, came eerily close to providing a real-life manifestation of The Grateful Dead's rainbow of dancing bears. | While the show cast the crowd about an aural sea of chronological and stylistic ambiguity, certain members of the audience, as if in a trance, took equidistant posts around the edge of the pit, and twisted, hopped, gyrated, thrustted, and skitted in a plethora of interpretive dancing that, collectively, came eerily close to providing a real-life manifestation of The Grateful Dead's rainbow of dancing bears. | ||
Having already satisfied the audience even without the re-airing of their radio hits, the group returned to provide an encore consisting of an extended "Watching the Detectives, and a slew of other rock 'n' roll pieces. | Having already satisfied the audience even without the re-airing of their radio hits, the group returned to provide an encore consisting of an extended "Watching the Detectives," and a slew of other rock{{nb}}'n' roll pieces. | ||
When the group made its real exit, however, all those present stood still. They had not played "Alison," that romantic landmark of song which is a favorite even to those ignorant of the band that wrote it. Only a very particular few could get away with such neglect, and Elvis and the Impostors just barely proved themselves to be one of those few. | When the group made its real exit, however, all those present stood still. They had not played "Alison," that romantic landmark of song which is a favorite even to those ignorant of the band that wrote it. Only a very particular few could get away with such neglect, and Elvis and the Impostors just barely proved themselves to be one of those few. |
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