Something I don't understand...

[carl r]

Having read "Wouldn't it be nice" which is obviously highly unreliable,  it mentions that Brian played in Ibiza in 1992 as part of the Olympics, and also played a gig at the China Club in LA. Apparently Brian pulled these concerts off on his own, or with a "house band".  This was only a year or so after the BB TV special which seems to show Brian, along with other interviews of the time, as being a abstracted and odd, but basically OK.

Then when it came to the late 90s comeback, according to reliable journalists, the interviews are very sketchy indeed, and Brian sits with a disconnected keyboard as a prop...

It seems strange... after all, Landy gets blame for many things, but there seems to be a big difference between the late-Landy Brian, despite some pretty dire music, and the early 00s behaviour - though he does seem a bit more comfortable now.

Can anyone explain this? Was it just nerves?

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

I've often wondered that too. I'm sure though that the meds he was on during the Landy era damaged him, and the passage of time between 1992-1998 was more like a 10 year period rather than what should've been only 6 years. I've seen a 1999 performance at the Beacon where he was just mashing the (turned off) keyboard in the same pattern constantly, like he was in a trance. Very dire and sad.  Obviously he's gotten a lot  better since.

[Alex]

I've seen a 1999 performance at the Beacon where he was just mashing the (turned off) keyboard in the same pattern constantly, like he was in a trance. Very dire and sad. 

It's called stage fright. Brian just had a really extreme case of it.