Toast Coetzer That mysterious old man, Rodriguez, recently played a handful of shows in the Cape, two of which were in a packed Armchair Theatre in Observatory. I was there on the Sunday night and witnessed some really special tunes from the South African-made American legend. Although I'm familiar with some of his material, I was surprised to find that there's real depth and focus in all his songs, even ones I'd never heard before. How the hell he slipped under the cultural radar in other countries I don't know. I suppose sometimes people don't pay attention, and South Africans might've been so starved of things in the early 80s that Rodriguez just arrived through a crackly stereo at the right time to seem like a saviour. PS. These pics originally taken on colour digital, but I turned them into black and whites in Photoshop because the lighting was very red on the night and didn't look good in colour.

Click on the thumbnail for the full photo.

to the top / boontoe

© Kopiereg in die ontwerp en inhoud van hierdie webruimte behoort aan LitNet, uitgesluit die kopiereg in bydraes wat berus by die outeurs wat sodanige bydraes verskaf. LitNet streef na die plasing van oorspronklike materiaal en na die oop en onbeperkte uitruil van idees en menings. Die menings van bydraers tot hierdie werftuiste is dus hul eie en weerspieël nie noodwendig die mening van die redaksie en bestuur van LitNet nie. LitNet kan ongelukkig ook nie waarborg dat hierdie diens ononderbroke of foutloos sal wees nie en gebruikers wat steun op inligting wat hier verskaf word, doen dit op hul eie risiko. Media24, M-Web, Ligitprops 3042 BK en die bestuur en redaksie van LitNet aanvaar derhalwe geen aanspreeklikheid vir enige regstreekse of onregstreekse verlies of skade wat uit sodanige bydraes of die verskaffing van hierdie diens spruit nie. LitNet is ’n onafhanklike joernaal op die Internet, en word as gesamentlike onderneming deur Ligitprops 3042 BK en Media24 bedryf.