Spalding Gray - It's a Slippery Slope
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Artist: Spalding GrayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-05-19
Music Label: Polygram Records
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- It's a Slippery Slope
Music reviews of It's a Slippery Slope
Music Review: Making a right turn
Rating: 4 Stars
A touching tale of yet another mid-life crisis for Spalding Gray (how many can this man fit into one lifetime?).An interesting concept - mainly a studio recording of the monologue with some parts recorded from a live performance and some musical interludes and sound effects.
The trouble is the studio parts pale in comparison to the live performance where Gray has an audience to react to and puts more energy into the reading. The studio recorded parts lack energy and although Gray's tones are soothing you wish they'd simply used the live performance.
However this is the only recording available of the monologue and it's always good to hear his intonation (the CD made me appreciate the book version one hell of a lot more).
Ultimately it's all in the details - the variations of the metaphor of skiing Gray uses are, subtle, intelligent, unsettling and amusing (sometimes all at once).
The final sections leave you touched and hopeful.
I'd fully recommend this, but with some reservations.
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