comparing music is like comparing brands of beer, but isnt it wonderful that a few songs can put a smile on your face no matter what?
....tehachapi to tonapah.......RIP lowell.
I saw Phoebe in the 70's just as she was releasing here first album. I was visiting a high school buddy in San Jose. For a kid from Phoenix in the
70's, seeing live music was a real exciting proposition. She was playing at, I think, Mountain View Community College??
My meeting was on the other end of her career. I think it was Jesse Colin Young and she at the Golf Course here in the mid-90's. It was a benefit for
the Dream Foundation (like adult 'make-a-wish'). I volunteered for backstage security, and Sedge Thompson of West Coast Live was the MC. A decade
later I met him again when I was a guest on his show. I'll bet HE still remembers standing in the alpenglow off the volcano as she rocked the mountain
with Poetry Man.
Maybe I can get away with one more old rock and roll anecdote. Even on campus in Yuma AZ in the 60's we were pretty far out of the mainstream. We all
knew the Beatles in matching suits and needing a haircut. I was working as a film editor and the weatherman at a B and W TV station when a roll came
through with Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, and a gaggle of long haired leaping gnomes singing in a tree.
It was so new and so mindblowing, that I stole one frame each of the new hippie Beatles, and a lot of us stood around at different times holding the
tiny 16 mm squares up to a light!
Yeah, probably with roach clips!
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