hi Robbie

I've looked at the dates, and nothing stands out. It was a truly strange night.
My dad and step-mom had driven up and came to hear the concert (they had never
heard me play before, and never would again...). I played a couple of Robbie's
compositions ("The Grail and the Lotus", then maybe "The Golden Shamrock"), and
then a transcription I had done of a koto piece by Kimio Eto, and something
else. Then Robbie did his diva act. We all went to this couple's house nearby,
but after seeing that Robbie was completely out of it, we left. My dad was
driving his old Ford Galaxie 500, and we headed across the Bay Bridge toward SF.
There were severe winds, must have been up close to gale force because that
heavy old Galaxie was barely able to creep along at 25-30 MPH on the bridge.
Does this suggest the October more than April date? Maybe.

I've looked through your long list, and it's truly an amazing compendium of
1960's people and happenings, isn't it?

thanks again for all the work

Rich


--- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "Robbie Dawson" <robbie.dawson@...>
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> Hey Rich,
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> That's really interesting. There are two entries for Live Oak Theater in 1972.
Which date was the performance you mention? It should be amended "Basho did not
actually play..." It might be nice to add what you wrote below, too. I should
also add the two or three concert reviews I came across. One of them was
particularly negative, saying something like "nowhere near as good as that Fahey
chap we had last week"!
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> --- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "artpaws" <artpaws@> wrote:
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> > Thanks for the reference, Robbie. I had just assumed it would be at the top
of the Files list. What an awesome task!
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> > I found the 1972 Live Oak Theater performance that I opened for him there.
(So few people showed up, that Robbie threw a fit and wouldn't perform. So my
20-30 minutes was the concert. The tiny crowd adjourned to the home of one of
his friends, where he walked around totally spaced out because he had built up
this huge energy which he didn't then release into performance!)
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> > There is not the subsequent concert I opened for him at Dinkelspiel Theater
at Stanford. This was somewhere in the 1974-76 time frame (memory is hazy
because so much else was going on my life at the time). If we ever find out
when a friend of his engineered a birthday visit from Alan Hovhaness, that might
narrow down the time-frame, because the memory was very fresh and on his mind,
later that evening after the concert.
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> > Thanks again for all this work
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> > Rich
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> > --- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "Robbie Dawson" <robbie.dawson@>
wrote:
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> > > Yes, it's saves as Live Dates.rtf
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> > > > > > Robbie
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