Dismissive? What a bunch of crap, he was great to his audience. I’ve seen him live 6 times over the course of 30 years, he was always great and never stoned. Well, not that you’d notice anyway.
Thanks for the good times and memories, Merle.
Dismissive in the sense that he had such little respect for the audience that he was ‘performing’ either stoned or drunk. It was barely singing, more like reading the lyrics from a cue card with no regard for tempo or what the band was playing behind him. I’d seen Johnny Cash perform stoned at his worst and it still wasn’t as bad as what Merle served up at that concert.