{"id":10277,"date":"2025-06-06T03:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/?page_id=10277"},"modified":"2025-06-06T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:54:12","slug":"great-american-music-hall-san-francisco-1996","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/performance-reviews\/great-american-music-hall-san-francisco-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Great American Music Hall, San Francisco (1996"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jim Carroll at Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA, 11 September 1996
Review by\u00a0Suzanne Howard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In lieu of bonafide editorial coverage, allow me to do a quickie review of what I can remember. Also let me preface this by saying that SOMEHOW my friend & I lucked out and got escorted to the first row of tables. My heart nearly stopped as the guy walked us closer and closer to the stage….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t think Jim would be as graceful as he is. He was also insightful, inspiring, funny and unaffected. He’d kneel down and give a piece a feeling of intimacy, like it was just me & him in the room. (Honey, don’t I\u00a0know<\/em>\u00a0that every woman in the audience was thinking the same thing!) He did the amazing poem for Kurt Cobain. Loved it. He did the great cyst-popping piece from Forced Entries<\/em>. He also read this fast-moving musing on the cosmic interaction between unrelated incidences. I think it was new…? And he finished w\/ Coda, which has held a special spot in my heart for a long time. Which was a nice finish, although I was ready to go until dawn…. Afterward, I hung out like a groupie, waiting for my man. Sadly, Jim was sick and didn’t come out to chat w\/ anyone. DAMN. Next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Carroll at Great American Music HallSan Francisco, CA, 11 September 1996Review by\u00a0Suzanne Howard In lieu of bonafide editorial coverage, allow me to do a quickie review of what I can remember. 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