Notes:
"Beer Barrel Polka" tuning before "Far From Me" - double start for "Brokedown" - FM broadcast KOTO - Olatunji and the Drums of Passion opened
Set List:
Mississippi Half-StepLittle Red Rooster
Iko Iko
Far From Me
West L.A. Fadeaway
Masterpiece
Big Railroad Blues
Promised Land
When Push Comes to Shove
Samson and Delilah
He's Gone
drums
The Other One
Truckin'
Black Peter
Good Lovin'
Touch of Grey
Brokedown Palace
Comments
"This is all fucked up"
Two days of lovely but lazy shows in a very small venue.
Check out tapes of the encore. Jerry starts Brokedown Palace with the wrong lyric, leaving the rest of the band baffled. They press on for a couple more lines until they just crash and burn, leading Jerry to say, "Wait a minute... we're in the wrong key... this is all fucked up! It's the altitude, you know?" or words to that effect...
Glen
dancin' in the streets
did anyone else dance down the street after this show with Bill Graham, Mickey and Baba Olatunji and band? great fun....
the "brokedown" Brokedown
It was funny! - and perhaps not the first time I remebered this happening... a strange sort of deja vu... well, maybe it was the altitude!
Telluride!!!
8/16/87 was the day of Harmonic Convergence.
I thought that it had to do with the planets or stars....
Not quite! Here's the official story!
The period in history known as Harmonic Convergence was defined by Jose Arguelles as: “the point at which the counter-spin of history finally comes to a momentary halt, and the still imperceptible spin of post-history commences.” It was the fulfillment of the prophecy of Quetzalcoatl, known as the Thirteen Heavens and Nine Hells. The prophecy stated that following the ninth hell, humanity would know and experience an unprecedented New Age of Peace. The Hell cycle ended on August 16, 1987; the Harmonic Convergence began on August 17. Thus began the projected twenty-five year culmination of the 5,125 year Great Cycle of History, as well as the 26,000-year cycle of evolution, both slated to end in 2012.
Ok!
I heard that Baba Olatungie held an early morning chant to celebrate the Convergence for a couple hundred lucky folks.
Unfortunately, I was probably waking up a few miles away in a very cold tent next to a really cold river at about the same time!
Fun Show - (except Push should have been Shakedown)Brokedown cracked us all up!