Wow. Never heard of Bird's plastic sax story. Thanks for sharing.
This quote in the article really struck a...er...chord. What a band of legendary players. Bud Powell is maybe my favorite pianist.
"Parker was joined by four other architects of bebop in the one-off concert: trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Bud Powell, bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach. It was the first time all five had played together."
Been looking for someone to invent a time machine so we can go back in see this live.
One of Mrs Fud's (many) party game questions, if you can go back and see 3 concerts, what would they be? Some folks break this up into shows they have seen and shows they haven't, so pick 3 of each (not as easy as you'd think)
seen:
1. Mahavishnu at Central Park in Aug 1973 (when they recorded Nothingness, and this time I'm going to shout out something more clever)
2. 1968 at the Singer Bowl: Jimi, Janis, Chambers Bros, ("and my soul had been psychadelicized" which may have actually happened that night) and Soft Machine
3. King Crimson also at Central Park, same year, Lark's Tongues tour, but without Muir
so many left off, Genesis at the Felt Forum in the Selling England tour (almost as good as Musical Box's version
), UK (w/Bozzio, not Bruford), Yes (when Bruford was there), Weather Report, all those G3 shows (the ones with Gilbert and Petrucci in particular), ELP and a band no one remembers from Italy called PFM come to mind. There was also a show at My Father's Place that I forgot who played, but
she was there and those seats were
verrrry close to each other). Special consideration to the Miles show at MSG in 1970 although he only opened for BST that night, but the Yippie incident with the flaming bag of waste and the subsequent screaming match my drummer had with Gladys Knight (who we had no idea who she was) at Palisades Park made it all so historic
not seen:
1. Beatles at the Cavern (forget Shea, you couldn't hear them from what I've heard)
2. Coltrane anytime anywhere
3. Mar Y Sol Festival in PR ('72?) if festivals count, if not any RTF when Billy Conners was in the band (before Chick messing with the ARP)
this list could go on for pages !!!
oh, against the rules is picking someone like Taylor Swift just to go there to throw rotten tomatoes at. Also against the rules is going back to see your own band although if I did, it would give me an opportunity to tell my young self, "when our name comes up on the Jets season ticket waiting list, please please please tell them no thanks)
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