If you don't look good naked....

...what you wear won't matter. I'm talking bout music performance here. Music in its stripped down form. Bob Dylan, Jewel, Franz Liszt, Jason Mraz, Damien Rice, Alfred Brendel and others are musicians who can just pick up their instrument and perform. No band backing, no band in a box, no distracting synthesizer sounds coming from the keyboard. There's a certain purity when a musician performs solo, or acoustically. Its the soul for all to see. I remember watching damien rice in concert and it was beautiful... even when he forgot his lyrics and the audience started singing along. And if you've heard Keith Jarret's Koln concert, its not an exaggeration to say that the music actually makes you feel like flying. Its so simple and yet, I haven't got the nerve to try it yet.