Thanks Steve, for the Zappa house link. Oh how much fun to have been there back in the day. ;-)
I'm still in bliss from a long weekend of incredible live music with Paz and the Dulson's. We saw Roger McGuinn solo Friday night at NAMM and it started a dreamy flashback that lasted through the Sunday night performance of Crosby, Nash, Pevar and Raymond at the Troubadour. McGuinn played all the essentials - early and mid Byrds with a few Dylan covers, Irish folk songs and even the Ballad of Easy Rider. He was followed by Chris Hillman and Herb Pederson who did some Manassas among their usual brilliant country-folk songs. I cannot believe these guys are ___ years old and still playing at the top of their game. It was phenomenal. I picked up McGuinn's new "Treasure from the Folk Den" CD and it is a classic - with appearances by Judy Collins, Eliza Carthy, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Jean Ritchie and Joan Baez. Saturday night we stopped in for the Dulson's Living Tradition series in Anaheim featuring Kate Campbell and David Massengill. Massengill is storyteller and singer-songwriter, dulcimer player who was a protege of Dave Von Ronk. It was an absolutely first rate venue and evening. Paz and I later ended up somewhere on Sunset at a Japanese jazz club straight out of the 1950s Twilight Zone where you can smoke and drink past closing time. Paz opened up their grand piano and played Chinese Cafe and Song for Sharon there around 3 a.m. and I think the patrons thought we had materialized from a UFO ourselves. LOL Sunday, Rick and Brad hosted us for Grande martinis before the Troubadour show. I didn't think the music could get any better but it did. All the ghosts and spirits of Laurel Canyon entered the room somehow that night and it was THE most amazing, amazing show from them I have ever experienced. It was perfect, every second. (For minor Joni content, they did banter a bit about the old girlfriend at one point ;-) All just too good and sweet. Thanks so much to Steve and Paz for sharing this all with me. It was one of the most beautiful music weekends of my life. Kakki
