Citizen Cope at the Fillmore

Here I am at the Fillmore, at the Citizen Cope show I've been vicariously anticipating for over a month. And you know what? Disappointing! This guy is good--real good. Good songs, good musicianship, good stage presence (but for the obvious medicinal assistance). But for a New Year's show, he kind of dropped the vall. You have a captive, rapturous audience, just waiting for you to entrall them. And you deliver, but in the kind of offhanded manner that much stronger artists would consider a risk. I dunno. Maybe I'm a snob.


But I think he could've done better.