Hello Robbie and co.,

I recently discovered this forum and spend an enjoyable evening going
through the many insightful posts, the inside stories and the useful
tunings. Since encountering Basho's music some two years ago, I've been
looking for more biographical and other background information (and for
recordings as well!). I was especially thrilled by discovering the
1974interview, streamable from the internet archive.

Two questions though:
1 - could you provide some link to the "digital version of the recording
of the BFBS interview" on rapidshare you mentioned earlier? I can't seem
to manage to find it...

2 - in some of the earlier posts there was discussion about the
appropriateness of sharing Basho-material online, via soulseek,
rapidshare or by other means. I have obtained most of the Takoma and
Vanguard albums through filesharing programs, but can´t get a hold of
later records, let alone the cassettes or bootleg material. The albums I
do have are of poor, lossy quality.
Is anyone interested in reviving this discussion and in thinking about
ways to upload and share some of the rarer material (it goes without
saying I´m not talking about the buyable stuff like the Bonn
concert), - or am I the only one in this sad position?

Bye from Belgium,
Pieter


--- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "Robbie Dawson"
<robbie.dawson@...> wrote:
>
> a couple of things that may or may not be known already about the
availability of these
> recordings-
>
> 1) a digital version of the recording of the BFBS interview was kindly
uploaded to
> rapidshare last year by Will Dawson for the group's consumption. This
version begins with
> a recording of grail and the lotus and ends with cathedrals, both off
art of acoustic. It is
> exactly 1 hour long
>
> 2) I seem to be in possession of the first Bonn live recording, 11
songs, starting with
> redwood ramble and ending with california raga.
>
> As far as I know, the online version of BFBS does not have anything
about Basho's roadie-
> this sounds like a VERY interesting extra on your tape.
>
> If anyone here hasn't already got hold of these recordings and would
like to here them, i'd
> be happy to attempt to upload them both to rapidshare.
>
> Likewise, if anyone has managed to find some other basho rarity
lurking around and you
> want to tell everybody about it, this is the place...
>
> Finally, good luck to Robin in his mammoth (and very worthwhile)
transcription task!
>
>
> RD
>
> --- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "altmark47" robin_ward@
wrote:
> >
> > --- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "artpaws" <artpaws@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Robin,
> > >
> > > thanks for your kind offer. I think I share with you some
> > misgivings
> > > about even the remote possibility of losing a rather unique
> > cassette
> > > tape. Therefore, your kind offer of working up a transcription of
> > > certain sections of the interview as a file for the forum sounds
> > like a
> > > super idea.
> > >
> > > FWIW, I found the German radio station mentioned on-line and e-
> > mailed
> > > an inquiry about the decades old interviews and performances. Who
> > > knows, maybe they've got a great archivist. One can hope that the
> > > German penchant for organization might produce some interesting
> > results.
> > >
> > > Several years ago, when I first met Glenn Jones on-line through
> > one of
> > > those strange internet connections, I made a few attempts to crack
> > the
> > > Sufi connection to Basho, with the particular order Robbie
> > belonged to
> > > up in Walnut Creek. It is a separate splinter from mainstream
> > Sufism
> > > in America, because of its belief in Meher Baba. I was only able
> > to
> > > scare up a couple of people who knew Robbie back in the 1980's in
> > the
> > > Sufi order, but no real substantive information.
> > >
> > > all the best,
> > > Rich
> >
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > Great, I'll start working on a transcription and will be in touch
> > again, as soon as I've got a section finished I'll post it on the
> > forum.
> >
> > BFBS isn't actually a German station, though I think it's based here
> > somewhere (it stands for British Forces Broadcasting Service). Must
> > have been quite a coup for them to land an interview with Robbie
....
> >
> > If you do hear anything from BFBS about this broadcast, let me know!
> >
> > Bye for now -
> > Robin
> >
>