I have seen a lot of great music in my life and I feel lucky. But you think of the ones that got away... I never got to see Jim Morrison or Hendrix. Ditto Janis or Otis. The Beatles. Alas, I am too young. Never saw Van Ronk or Fred Neil either. Or Prine.
But I did get to see Mose Allison. And Duane Allman when practically no one knew who he was. And Howling Wolf. And Lightning Hopkins. Elizabeth Cotton and Fred McDowell. Steve Goodman, Michael Bloomfield and Grace Slick. Chambers Brothers. Big Mama Thornton. Arthur Lee and Love, many times. The debut of Thick as a brick. Lee Michaels, Buffalo Springfield. The Cream reunion in New York. The Rolling Stones with Stevie Wonder for Mick's birthday at the Garden in 72.
One of the greatest performers I was ever able to hear was one Jr. Walker and the All Stars at the Belly-Up. God bless him, he was one of a kind. No one could blow the sax like Junior.
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