Jacky [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted from Mojo >Admittedly, Robin tripped over the power cable at Big Sur >Festival and the entire show ground to a halt, but they'd >ended up afterwards in a hot spring in the rocks with >Joni Mitchell and David Crosby, all of them "pink as shrimp" >and singing Swing Low Sweet Chariot."
Thanks for this Jacky - I'm sure I remember seeing some film footage of Crosby in a hot tub looking totally off his bing bong, surrounded by several young girls - or did I dream this - maybe it was a clip from the Big Sur film. Last year I drove up Highway 1 and spent a night at the Big Sur Hotel - staying in the tiniest single room I've ever slept in - in a log cabin in amongst the tallest trees. I went down the road a bit for something to eat and ended up in a biker's roadside cafe, full of ZZ Top look-alikes - I felt a bit out of place as I'd long since cut my hair!! I found this in a Rolling Stone review of the 1969 Big Sur Festival - see http://www.suitelorraine.com/suitelorraine/Pages/rncsny69.html "The Incredible String Band followed [Joan Baez], appearing in a vast assembly of instruments, singing their tales of troubadours, one of them about a pig, dedicated to "the Hog Farm people" who've done alot for us and for the country." and later "Joni Mitchell sat at the piano and offered a song she said she had written about Woodstock: "We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden". Did anyone on the list go to that festival? According to http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html she only played one UK gig supporting the ISB in 1967 at The Speakeasy in London - and she also played at The Marquee in Soho on that tour (how I wish I'd known about it then!). At the time I was living in Oxford and vividly remember seeing Robin Williamson and Mike Heron of the ISB at the Town Hall. Still love their early material, particularly 'October Song' from their first album (one of Dylan's favourites, too, I see in this Dirty Linen article http://www.futuris.net/linen/feature/32isb.html and 'The First Girl I Loved' from their second album '5,000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion'. > Changing the subject, I went to the annual rally of the BMG Federation on > Sunday - the most old-fashioned gathering of amateur musicians you could > find. My friend and I won the duet category so are feeling chuffed especially > as one of the judges, and later performers, was Simon Mayor. Very cool! Many congratulations, Jacky - Simon Mayor is an internationally renowned player - so very cool indeed!! I imagine you've visited his www.mandolin.co.uk website. Have you seen any of his instructional videos? Would you recommend? very best PaulC
