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Originally Posted by snoot
Is there by chance a copy or link of that anywhere around here? I would love to give that one a listen, for old time's sake if nothing else.
There is a lot of myth surrounding that part of the tour.
I think much of it is based on kernels of the truth, but no doubt distorted over time. Like so many other things. Keep in mind, that was a six week tour Green participated in, so all kinds of things could have occurred over its course. I don't think we'll ever know how much myth supersedes fact in the equation.
As for the possible extended Black Magic Woman jams, anything is possible, especially on any given night. There was definitely an extra emphasis placed on jamming towards the end of the tour. For all we know, Peter may well have gotten bored with the Kiln House stuff - or just wanted to emulate what he did on that solo project he recently completed. After all, that's where his heart was at that time. But my suspicion is that this may be blown up a little, if it points to an entire concert based on riffing around one ditty.
The biggest problem, when looking back and trying to reconstruct events, is everything gets so damn cloudy. And I wasn't even stoned at the time! [Liquored up a bit perhaps, but definitely not stoned!]  |
Thanks to all of you for sharing your admittedly hazy but exciting memories
to us who weren't around
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There's 3 recordings of Peter depping on the spring tour:
February 19, 1971 SWING AUDITORIUM, SAN BERNADINO, CA
February 26, 1971 FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK
March 27, 1971 ROCK PILE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
Someone is playing rhythm guitar on the Swing tape, and it has to be Peter,
though you can't really tell. He plays very much a supporting role.
The Fillmore tape has a few Kiln House numbers and 2 20+ minutes jams,
where both Peter and Danny cuts loose. Sound quality sucks horribly, though!
The rock pile is basically 2 extended instrumental jams, a bit like "Madge".