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Lots of camping at this show.
I remember a flyer floating around the campsites about this band name Fairport Convention recently reforming and that they were "kinda like the UK's Grateful Dead." I thought "hummmmm?"
I also ran into to two aquaintences I had recently met and played guitar with them all night that evening. 7 months later, we would form a band. We're on our 40th year now and just released our first record.
Two very big parts in my life started that day.
Oh.......and the show.....superb!
Excellent.
I find it almost (I have about 3 or 4 shows I like, mostly with guests - Stills etc.) impossible to get excited about post-79 Dead although I will give it a listen when it appears online.
Fwiw, apart from their longevity I find it hard to think of two bands less alike...15 minutes as the British Jefferson Airplane doesn't alter that, I don't think...
Yes, the lure was a dubious one indeed.....but a bait I'm very grateful to have taken!
