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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
Was clear to me. And I'd like to discuss them. But like I said, I'm not really qualified. One thing I do know is that Mr. Burton has placed Mr. Pollock at the top of his list of influential performers. See his website. Lance Burton: Master Magician:
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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
Okay, so I think we've clarified that this post wasn't intended as "in this corner, Channing Pollock, and in that corner, Lance Burton."
Having a discussion on the two of them is a different matter, however, and I'm with the camp that says I don't know where it would go. It's like (yikes!) discussing the 49ers and their cohorts across the Bay, the Raiders. Both are football teams, both do the same thing, both have their own "persona," and both are better at some things than at others -- but their camps are different. I've been to games at both their home stadiums, and I can tell you the crowds are like night and day. I think my main comment on Channing and Lance is that both took advantage of their skills and talent and used them to play specifically to their audiences in their own time periods. Channing studied with Ben Chavez, which is where he got the "slick night club performer" style, but then he went on to develop it to fit his own personality and looks. We all know how successful he was at it. Lance came along a few years later, won at FISM, and took his act to Vegas. But by now the audiences were different than in Channing's time, so Lance updated his look and wardrobe and, with the help of Vivaldi, created a mini-story, sort of like Cardini had, but with a more "classical" feel. Lance's emphasis in this act is the doves, where Channing tended to put more weight on the card fans. Lance's dove act is beautiful, but it's not in the old night club tradition. Which is all my early-morning-after-one-cup-of-coffee way of saying that both of these acts were created to play to their own time periods. Lance was influenced by Channing, but didn't copy him. On the other hand, both were copied by gazillions of others. Okay, time for another coffee...
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
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On 2006-03-23 10:14, George Ledo wrote: Could go somewhere interesting. |
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