Robbie Robertson Tribute Concert Has Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and Other Stars Carrying That Weight — and Starring in a Future Martin Scorsese Movie
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Here’s who wasn’t taking a load off: the house band at Thursday’s tribute to Robbie Robertson at the L.A.
area’s Kia Forum. Starting a little after 7 and ending at midnight, the all-star show dubbed “Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson” clocked in at just a little under five hours, which had to have been more taxing for the Don Was-led players than it was for the audience in Inglewood.
This epic length came even without a single retake being done for the cameras — Martin Scorsese was directing the collection of footage — and with three intermissions turning out to be surprisingly brief.
It was epic, but it was a weight the happy, unbothered audience bore lightly. What the Band-loving crowd got was a show with 37 numbers sung by about 20 brand-name artists, alone or in combination, each getting anywhere from one to three songs apiece.
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