Thanks for that - I assume he does a bit more with them than just bring them out for a few rounds of a 4 handbag fountain, but that's the only clip from that section of his performance included on the IJA video.
That clip brings up something else I'd been thinking about while watching all these old clips.
I was thinking how much more effective juggling to music is when you're performing with a live band rather than a recorded track (the drummer accenting certain tricks, build ups breaking when the performer is ready for the trick etc)
You don't see it nearly as much any more, even on touring shows. It's just cheaper to pay the rights for a recording than it is to pay the wages for half a dozen musicians.
If that clip is from the IJA in 1990, was having a band on stage a regular thing back then?
What year did it stop? Was there a transition phase where the band was on-stage for some acts, but other acts used recorded music?
by Little Paul, in response to this post 2015-08-27 13:46:41