[Harp-L] re: best show

[rainbowjimmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

There was this great Tom Rush free concert in Boston and I don't even  
remember anything after the Smoking Jay Blues Band, there was the folk  
festival benefit to rebuild after the Chelsea Fire when Mike Turk  
(wildman) played Rock Island Line, there was Sonny and Brownie at  
Passims, the free Bicentenniel Bash in 1976 at some big stadium near  
Boston--no idea where, no idea who played. It was loud and yellow.  
there was Bob Marley railing against the university of brain washed  
education at Harvard with Olatunji sitting in with him and Patti  
Labell playing clean up hitter, There was Mitch Ryder and the Detroit  
Wheels when I was 13 at the Fenway theater playing with Brownsville  
Station Teagarden and Van Winkle and the MC 5. I couldn't stay up late  
enough to see the MC 5 more's the pity.There was the crazy time  
Jonathan Richman of the Modern Lovers fame came over to the farm  
playing his classical guitar with hearts drawn all over it with magic  
markers, there was that Dead concert in 1976. Eric Clapton playing to  
an empty auditorium in Portland in 78 with Muddy opening for a bored  
and lethargic crowd that would periodically yell "Blues Brothers!" Oh  
yeah and seeing the Mahavishnu Orchestra when I was 15 and had no idea  
what jazz was. And the all night jazz concert at a church in Central  
Square. Muddy in Phoenix, Butterfield and Danko opening for Johnny Lee  
and finally seeing Mark Hummel, Billy Branch, and Phil Wiggins jamming  
with the BLues Prophets at a pool hall in Rockland.

Rainbow Jimmy
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