As promised, I gave you some photos from my concert-going Atlantic City trip.
This was the official poster for this encore show. I got it from the organizer's website. In case you don't speak Chinese, the words above read, "By popular demand, the King of Cantonpop returns with honor." Sounds a little cheesy in English, huh? Well, there's always something lost in translation.
The concert was held in the Arena in the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, a decent place for this kind of concerts.
If you haven't seen a casino before, here it is. (And you've seen all of them.)
Taj Mahal is richly decorated. It tries to pitch itself as a better or higher-end casino than others. (So they can charge you more.)
This was a bit of diversion. I arrived early for the concert and didn't want to "donate" more money to the casino. So I took an unpleasant walk on the famous Atlantic City Boardwalk and found this interesting T-shirt shop.
This was the only poster I found. To the United States, Jacky Cheung is still a niche product with very ethnically concentrated consumer groups.
It was extremely hard to take concert photos because I also wanted to enjoy the concert myself. For that reason, I didn't even bring my bulky F707. So please forgive me if my pictures were bad: I tried. Jacky Cheung opened his concert with a "fast" song, as we call it in Chinese.
As I mentioned before, he was best remembered for his "slower" songs. Did I abuse the expression a little bit?
Now this one needs a little explanation. For its most part, Cantonpop is a highly commercialized industry, where music is mass-produced in assembly lines. So each worker usually takes care of only one thing: either you sing songs or you write songs. Jacky Cheung was certainly discovered as a singer, not a songwriter. When he had his first baby in 2000, he decided to write a song for her. It wasn't easy and I'm almost sure that he got good help. Nevertheless, he was very proud of it and you could feel the affection.
This one was almost as good as I could get. It was a scene from his musical.
Same scene as the last, I just liked the pose.
After finishing the regular program, by our enthusiastic chant, he came back to stage and gave five(!) encores. A bit too much by usual standard but totally enjoyed it.
This was the official poster for this encore show. I got it from the organizer's website. In case you don't speak Chinese, the words above read, "By popular demand, the King of Cantonpop returns with honor." Sounds a little cheesy in English, huh? Well, there's always something lost in translation.
The concert was held in the Arena in the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, a decent place for this kind of concerts.
If you haven't seen a casino before, here it is. (And you've seen all of them.)
Taj Mahal is richly decorated. It tries to pitch itself as a better or higher-end casino than others. (So they can charge you more.)
This was a bit of diversion. I arrived early for the concert and didn't want to "donate" more money to the casino. So I took an unpleasant walk on the famous Atlantic City Boardwalk and found this interesting T-shirt shop.
This was the only poster I found. To the United States, Jacky Cheung is still a niche product with very ethnically concentrated consumer groups.
It was extremely hard to take concert photos because I also wanted to enjoy the concert myself. For that reason, I didn't even bring my bulky F707. So please forgive me if my pictures were bad: I tried. Jacky Cheung opened his concert with a "fast" song, as we call it in Chinese.
As I mentioned before, he was best remembered for his "slower" songs. Did I abuse the expression a little bit?
Now this one needs a little explanation. For its most part, Cantonpop is a highly commercialized industry, where music is mass-produced in assembly lines. So each worker usually takes care of only one thing: either you sing songs or you write songs. Jacky Cheung was certainly discovered as a singer, not a songwriter. When he had his first baby in 2000, he decided to write a song for her. It wasn't easy and I'm almost sure that he got good help. Nevertheless, he was very proud of it and you could feel the affection.
This one was almost as good as I could get. It was a scene from his musical.
Same scene as the last, I just liked the pose.
After finishing the regular program, by our enthusiastic chant, he came back to stage and gave five(!) encores. A bit too much by usual standard but totally enjoyed it.
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