Best Jesus Christ Superstar Recording
Feb 12
2011, 03:53:06 PM
Not sure how you could know if the studio note was lengthened just as I can't be sure it wasn't however... my memories is fine. I do know it was pretty much exactly as you hear on the recording. Luckily for me, I don't have to rely on my memory. I am fortunate enough to possess an audio recording of one of his final performances in september 1997. To satisfy myself that my memory wasn't playing tricks I just dug it out and counted...... you're RIGHT... it wasn't 26 seconds it was 21. I think you
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Best Jesus Christ Superstar Recording
Feb 12
2011, 10:54:25 AM
I bow to your superior knowledge but lets just say I saw around 45 of those performances over a few months and he did on every one of them. I didn't count the seconds but he certainly held it for the length of that particular phrase of music. It was an awesome achievement. He didn't on later performances after he left the show but he certainly did on the ones I saw in the West End! So if you're suggesting that the length of that 26 second note you hear on that cast recording is not for real; wel
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Best Jesus Christ Superstar Recording
Feb 12
2011, 08:25:19 AM
My favourite is the 1996 original West End cast recording. Steve Balsamo's JC is something really special and makes it for me. His 26 second long note on DIE has never been repeated I don't think. I do know that he held it like that on every of the 400 live performances he did on the show. Check out his gethsemane on youtube;
youtube.com/watch?v=3-rre_BXxC0&feature=fvw
Second for me is the original concept which got me hooked on JC in the first place. I've heard many more rec
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