> WD> It kinda took the air out of me as Europeans hardly had been
> introduced
> WD> to his music and we desperately wanted to hear more. During those
> days
> WD> I managed to make the greatest bootleg-recording of a concert of is
> WD> with just Maury Meuheleison on the guitar and Pete West on the
> piano.
 
> Wow, and bootleging (spelling) was an art then! West was bad!
 
It was pretty easy ... I was a roadie for a short while to make an extra $
and people weren't as suspicious during concerts as now. So I was able to
simply plug-in a reel-to-reel tape-recorder and record his concert ... in
stereo. I guard it now as a treasure.
 
FYI, I've got pristine recordings of Randy Newman, The Ramones (never
understood why I recorded that), Janis Joplin and the Fult Tilt Boogie Band
and others. From swapping I got a stereo bootleg-recording of Bob Dylan
from a 1978 Paris- concert too.
 
>> Finishing my tour in the LBJ war.
 
> WD> That's Nam you mean?
 
> Yep, trying to get our men out of the camps.  I know you can debate the
> LBJ war, but to us that's what it was.
 
There used to be a Canadian sysop in the Netherlands who had been in that
war, been a captive and escaped from a Vietcong POW-camp. He never told
much but it was obvious that he had been through hell.
 
I'm not available to debate that war ... any war really when it comes down
to the basics ... meaning the dead, the wounded, the suffering. The grunt
soldiers deserve the greatest of respect whatever side they fought on.
 
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