We went to Glen Campbell’s (where the f**k am I) Alzheimer’s tour last night - what a great show!! We knew that Glen would not be firing on all cylinders given his medical condition but nonetheless he gave us his best and entranced a most appreciative audience.
We saw him in Glasgow and, maybe because of that we did not hear a single ‘yee ha’ or see a cowboy hat throughout, which significantly added to the enjoyment of the evening. Clearly Glen was being prompted by his daughter and read the lyrics of his later songs from an autocue. He was not as fluid on the guitar as he once was (as Eric Morecambe said “...all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order”) but he played his standards with absolute surety.
You’ve got to admire the audacity of someone who rhymes “a load of compromisin’” with “the road to my horizon” and I can’t think of another singer who has used “misanthropes” in a lyric – pure genius; we need more misanthropes and guys like him!
