No sensible performer or listener would attempt to place Vivaldi in the same category as Bach and Handel.

Recently, younger performers have been attempting to combine Tsugaru-shamisen playing styles or motives with jazz, rock, and other forms of more commercial music.

However, performers like Davy Graham and Martin Carthy attempted to apply these styles to the playing of traditional English modal music.

Few performers would attempt a straightfaced version of "Bringin' On the Heartbreak," and even fewer would follow it with a tribute to a father who had recently died.

On "The Bombing," Elephant Man remembered the day with a combination of candor and irreverence that few other performers would attempt, even now.

"No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth," the escapologist once said.

No performer should attempt to bite off red- hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

The performer then attempts the stunt, and afterward the celebrities' wagers are revealed and the amount of money earned is totalled.

It is the first time these two performers ever attempted it in public.

The performer then attempts to pin the opponent onto the trapped shoulder so as to better interrupt the flow of blood, all the while applying pressure with the grasped biceps.