Oh my my my, I got a contact high reading this ;-) > Here's another. Went to a benefit for the L.A. Free Clinic on March 31, > 1969, at the Aquarius Theatre during the run of Hair. Bands included Buddy > Miles, Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, Captain Beefheart (an > early gig, maybe the first), Jethro Tull (just after This Was was released; > Dharma for One and Ian Anderson tossing suckers to the crowd), Illinois > Speed Press, Red Beans & Rice (most excellent and funky, and why didn't > they ever cut an album), Linda Ronstadt, Southwind, Dillard & Clark, > Chicago Transit Authority (before the first album was released; Terry Kath > broke a string during a tune and cued the band to take over while he > replaced it).
Besides this being amazing it brought back a wonderful memory for me. A friend had a cousin who was a big shot in the record biz back then and one night she came over with an armload of promo records he'd given her for both of us, including "This Was," the first CTA and the Al Kooper Blood Sweat & Tears "Child is Father to the Man." We sat for hours playing these albums, none of which were yet released yet. One of the greatest nights of music I've ever experienced. Somewhere in college, I'm afraid they ended up in someone else's record collection. > What a sense of community we had back then. Yes we sure did and it's so great to hear from someone else who was there, too. > What was your art teacher, some kind of subversive pinko liberal hippie? > (Ooops, different discussion group. ;-) ) LOL, actually I always thought of her as a bit conservative in manner although she was a ringer for Joni but kind of like Joni's twin who joined a sorority. The previous year we put on a student art show at the school and blasted Country Joe and the Fish's "Electric Music for Mind and Body" the entire day and I sold one of my psychedelic pieces to one of the student counselors. The subversive liberal hippie bohemian taught me art senior year but he was super serious and would not allow any music or distractions in pursuit of our craft! ;-) > You're lucky to have received that kind of education when California > schooling still meant something. Hmm, yeah I was very lucky. Kakki NP: Jethro Tull - Living in the Past
