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Welcome to Dissect,

Long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes. I'm your host Cole

Kishna. Hey everyone. I'm taking some time off this week for a family vacation.

So in lieu of a new episode today I'm going to share with you a piece I wrote about my experience at the now infamous Connie West concert stop in my hometown of Sacramento, California last year.

If you remember, this is the concert in which Connie stopped his performance just after a few songs,

went on a 15 minute rant, and then unexpectedly cancelled the show,

and a few days later cancelled all of his remaining tour dates.

At the time Donald Trump had just been elected president and our country was deeply

polarized, which of course is only worse than sense.

There is something about Kanye's concert, that recent election, the abrasive state of our country that all seemed connected.

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