Most have never seen Steven Leckie in concert.
The man was a consummate artist who knew at the start of his career in 1977 at 18 that he woulds have to grow. “This isn’t the kind of show we can do in five years because kids will change. We don’t want to be a farce like the bands that are still doing things they did ten years ago, fifteen years ago.”
Leckie grew into an artist as accomplished and masterful as Frank Sinatra.
It is fortunate I was able to capture this performance in Three Dimensions.
Generally, I’m not a fan of concert films because the film becomes more important than the concert.
Everything about them looks fake.
The audience reacts on cue not out of spontaneity.
In this film everything is real, as it was in a once in a lifetime moment.
You’re seeing the performance better than we ever could in a club or a concert venue because in those venues our perspective is fixed.
On the floor at The Phoenix I had one perspective.
That was to weave my poetry out of the air.
That is always my perspective.
–Reg Hartt
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