Rhys Chatham (8 of 8) 200 Electric Guitars - Applause Only

Lincoln Center Out of Doors in New York City, Saturday, August 8, 2009. No one yelled for Freebird.
Per New York Times:
★ RHYS CHATHAM: A CRIMSON GRAIL FOR 200 ELECTRIC GUITARS (Saturday) This isnt the first time the minimalist composer Rhys Chatham has tried to corral 200 electric guitars and a troop of electric basses into performing his original piece A Crimson Grail: last year the concert was thwarted by rain. (To date it has been performed only once, with 400 guitars in Paris in 2005.) The event, which Lincoln Center estimates may draw as many as 10,000 observers, has taken on a near-miraculous air — it just might be the cant-miss concert of the summer. (Its a tough act to precede, but the New York band Liquid Liquid will — bravely — open.) At 7:30 p.m., Damrosch Park, Columbus Avenue at 62nd Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5766, lincolncenter.org; free. (Petrusich)

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[thelixir715]

some people will never get it

[markmaloof]

Sorry Orphmet and szender22, but you had to be there to feel it, no Youtube video could do justice to the sound experienced there (like most any youtube video of a live event, it's never going to have even a quarter of the impact of being there to experience it.) I'll admit I'm a bit biased because I played in it (also, I'm one of "those types" who enjoys 20th/21st century minimalist music), but the sound generated by the 200 guitars/16 basses live could not be replicated by "1 guitar, 1 bass".

[orphmet]

Contrary to the negative nancies below, I enjoyed this piece! I would've attended, but I had to work that day. :(

[szender22]

It is so boring, and plain. Like a featureless indie song from a garage band : (

1 guitar, 1 bass could be enough for this : )

I think those lot of instruments was only for the sensation...

[MikeTheDark001]

It was soo... repetitive....