Hi, Ric.
Thanks a great deal for sharing your recollections of the Boston show.
Thanks to you, and Ashara, and Bob, I learned a very valuable lesson today.
Never again will I be so insistent that my memory of any distant event is
beyond question. I'm still shaking my head as I look at the Boston set list
Bob supplied. I remember none of the songs before "Song For Sharon." Your
comment, Ric, that we Joniphiles were so upset that night that our
perceptions were skewed, is the only reasonable explanation I can accept for
how shoddy my own recollections became over time.
I mentioned in my own recounting of the events of that day that I had been
in a fairly serious auto accident early that afternoon, and I did end up
getting a later start in to Boston than I'd planned. Is it possible that
"Song For Sharon" opened Joni's *second* set that night, and that I missed a
whole set without ever realizing it? I just don't know. A "Coyote" lover
myself (not to mention an "Edith" lover, etc.), I can't believe I could have
erased those songs so completely from my admittedly suspect memory.
I'm still confused, but less so, thanks to you, Ric. I'll sleep much better
tonight because you took the time to write as you did.
I have no knowledge of what your present difficulties are, to which Ashara
referred, but, please allow me to extend my very best wishes to you and your
family, Ric.
"Boston Jim"
