The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Saw them daily at the Renaissance Faire (St Paul's represent!) their first year ('80? '81?) and knew they were brilliant (tho did not anticipate their longitude...)
The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Saw them daily at the Renaissance Faire (St Paul's represent!) their first year ('80? '81?) and knew they were brilliant (tho did not anticipate their longitude...)
Art Blakey came to town with his new band* in 1981 or 82. Wynton & Branford were in it (Note, if you made Blakely's band you were already a star so there is no particular reason to claim I saw their spark, but since no one else I knew except my brother would have any idea what I was on about, I'll claim I was hip when it was still hep). Importantly for me, daughter (whom I barely knew) had tix, so I got in free, and Blakey came by our dinner table after for a couple minutes...
I at least saw those guys at Bay Area Faire and in a farewell show at Ft. Mason before they went off to London. Brilliant. That would have been more like 1985 than 81.
Oh, similarly, saw and fell in love with the Flying Karamazov Bros in 1977 when they were masquerade halftime entertainment at the Westercon Masquerade in BC, and again a year or two later, and wrote an ecstatic review for my apazine. Subsequently saw them several times before they went off to Broadway and the movies.
Oh. I remember now...
The Reduced Shakespeare Company. Saw them daily at the Renaissance Faire (St Paul's represent!) their first year ('80? '81?) and knew they were brilliant (tho did not anticipate their longitude...)
Ok, I remember now Pt 2:
Art Blakey came to town with his new band* in 1981 or 82. Wynton & Branford were in it (Note, if you made Blakely's band you were already a star so there is no particular reason to claim I saw their spark, but since no one else I knew except my brother would have any idea what I was on about, I'll claim I was hip when it was still hep). Importantly for me, daughter (whom I barely knew) had tix, so I got in free, and Blakey came by our dinner table after for a couple minutes...
*They were always new. It was Blakey's thing.
I at least saw those guys at Bay Area Faire and in a farewell show at Ft. Mason before they went off to London. Brilliant. That would have been more like 1985 than 81.
Oh, similarly, saw and fell in love with the Flying Karamazov Bros in 1977 when they were masquerade halftime entertainment at the Westercon Masquerade in BC, and again a year or two later, and wrote an ecstatic review for my apazine. Subsequently saw them several times before they went off to Broadway and the movies.
My recollection of them is so vague as to amount to non-. But looking them up helps get thru a few minutes of otherwise down time. Thanks.