Hollywood Reporter review of HBO show

     Sorry I have to send this to you:
     TV REVIEW
     `Masters of Music'
     By TONY GIESKE
     The Hollywood Reporter
        Filmed in glowing tones a couple of weeks ago in London's Hyde
     Park as 150,000 cheered, "MasterCard Masters of Music Concert for
     the Prince's Trust" belonged essentially to Eric Clapton.
        The former Bluesbreaker closed the show with a brisk "Every Day
     I Have the Blues" as dark blue storm clouds gathered over the
     chilly throng. Though he's no threat to any South Side Chicago
     bluesman, he did manage to get across some genuine feeling in a
     blues-based and expertly played set. His guitar playing is clean
     and neat and someday he will catch on to the fact that that is not
     the way we play the blues.
        But you can't just play dirty and wrong, either. That's the way
     Bob Dylan does it. This night he was in raunchy Dylanesque form,
     benefiting from aging effects that make him look more dissipated
     than ever. In his indecipherable way, he ran through a half-dozen
     golden oldies including "Highway 61," jamming with Ron Wood on
     guitar while the cameras tried to decide who was soloing. It was
     pretty much going through the motions, and the crowd respoNded in
     kind.
        Alanis Morissette, another connoisseur of purloined anguish,
     tossed her flowing mane and rolled her childish eyes in a program
     of greatest hits, all about contempt, vengeance and bitterness.
     Toward the end she skipped about in a spazzy way and seemed to be
     doing a Jerry Lewis imitation. She's a cut above the crop but it's
     hard to tell why.
        In the middle of all this, the Who's first rock show in seven
     years, a rerun of the 1973 "Quadrophenia," took place. As
     people's opera goes, its time seems to have passed it by, but Roger
     Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete Townshend pretended not to notice
     and gave a reasonable imitation of youthful brio. No point in
     berating this brawny and time-tested material, but you gotta say
     "Cats" is an improvement.

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