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by driggs 31 days ago
The Live at Pompeii "concert" in that empty amphitheatre has always felt to me like they were playing to an audience of ghosts or spirits.

If you have the opportunity to see it on a big screen or IMAX, it's an incredibly moving experience.

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It might be the opposite. Most of the people who have watched it were probably born after 1972. They weren’t playing for ancestors, they were playing for progeny.
You've described every recording ever made.

I'm describing a band playing a concert to an empty ampitheatre which has been silent for two millennia after its inhabitants perished together in an instant.

I heard that it was a concert made for gods.