Surely if he'd have bitten his tongue enough to bleed that badly he'd have trouble talking and everything he said would be indecipherable and sound like total rollocks - oh! hang on though .......
I was at that BW concert (was it really that long ago?) and everything you say is true - however, I loved it, it was one of the best things I have ever been part of. The man is a (flawed) genius.
I'm lucky enough to have seen Joan Baez and CSN several times, both of whom (for different reasons)...
As an employee, I met and chatted with Larry Ellison (the bloke that owns Oracle - the database/internet company), twice in fact. Once in San Francisco, once in Reading.
I doubt he remembers me, and not just because I don't work there any more.. :(
I'm playing the Princes Course nr. Sandwich tomorrow (for the first time), having looked at their website it looks quite a bit like Royal Troon - I've bought an extra dozen balls!!