Before anyone rightly complains...One of the biggest changes in switching from a blog or a personal web site format to a newsletter is that once you send each day's post out--it is gone for good and can't be corrected. So all those typos and little errors and awkward sentences or phrases can't be fixed. Today's post has a real whopper--where I meant to call Clarence Jones and Andrew Young "close King associates" but somehow "King" came out as "Trump." Ouch, apologies. It was corrected here on the site within minutes, where such is still possible, but what a learning experience. Already spend nearly as much time proofreading the posts as writing them but obviously--need to be even more vigilant!
Good newsletter. Just curious, Greg, about the Marley-Bruce set upstairs at Max's. Was this before or after Springsteen's press gig at The Bottom Line? (Sunday night, Monday morning marathon concert -- Richard Belzer opened -- and Bruce and Clarence were jamming on top of the piano; you were likely there). Swenson got us an invite to that show, and we always thought it was his NYC debut.
Thanks Doug. No, that Bottom Line things was much later, and I remember Belz doing a good Dylan imitation then....Bruce's first NY gig post-Columbia signing was a brief Max's thing in fall of 1972. Then there was the gig at Sing Sing in December that I famously attended with Knobler (when no other press showed up) and at same time his shows at Kenny's Castaways in the Upper East Side. I think his first NY shows in 1973 were at Max's with pot comedian Biff Rose headlining--except Biff soon gave up and thought wiser to open for Bruce. The gigs with Marley were later that year or 1974--and that Bottom Line was in July 1974....His famous Bottom Line shows were a year after that.... GM
Ah, thanks for enlightening me with all that detail. Belzer's gig was memorable. I remember the Dylan imitation. He had his accent down perfectly. Dylan's Bar Mitzvah, et al. Very funny. I may be hazy on this but I think Springsteen broke a guitar string and changed it while the E Street band just kept on playing.
Before anyone rightly complains...One of the biggest changes in switching from a blog or a personal web site format to a newsletter is that once you send each day's post out--it is gone for good and can't be corrected. So all those typos and little errors and awkward sentences or phrases can't be fixed. Today's post has a real whopper--where I meant to call Clarence Jones and Andrew Young "close King associates" but somehow "King" came out as "Trump." Ouch, apologies. It was corrected here on the site within minutes, where such is still possible, but what a learning experience. Already spend nearly as much time proofreading the posts as writing them but obviously--need to be even more vigilant!
My inaugural music moment: playing bass with my band, WMD, at one of the ‘09 Obama balls. Thrill of a lifetime for this DC native.
Good newsletter. Just curious, Greg, about the Marley-Bruce set upstairs at Max's. Was this before or after Springsteen's press gig at The Bottom Line? (Sunday night, Monday morning marathon concert -- Richard Belzer opened -- and Bruce and Clarence were jamming on top of the piano; you were likely there). Swenson got us an invite to that show, and we always thought it was his NYC debut.
Thanks Doug. No, that Bottom Line things was much later, and I remember Belz doing a good Dylan imitation then....Bruce's first NY gig post-Columbia signing was a brief Max's thing in fall of 1972. Then there was the gig at Sing Sing in December that I famously attended with Knobler (when no other press showed up) and at same time his shows at Kenny's Castaways in the Upper East Side. I think his first NY shows in 1973 were at Max's with pot comedian Biff Rose headlining--except Biff soon gave up and thought wiser to open for Bruce. The gigs with Marley were later that year or 1974--and that Bottom Line was in July 1974....His famous Bottom Line shows were a year after that.... GM
Ah, thanks for enlightening me with all that detail. Belzer's gig was memorable. I remember the Dylan imitation. He had his accent down perfectly. Dylan's Bar Mitzvah, et al. Very funny. I may be hazy on this but I think Springsteen broke a guitar string and changed it while the E Street band just kept on playing.
yes, on the broken string, that sounds right...