Notes:
Ken Nordine recited "Flibberty Jib" and "The Island" during "Drumz" - sound check: Lazy River Road, Wave To The Wind, Days Between
Set List:
Help on the WaySlipknot!
Franklin's Tower
Little Red Rooster
Althea
Masterpiece
So Many Roads
Music Never Stopped
Iko Iko
Wave to the Wind
Truckin'
Spoonful
He's Gone
drums
The Other One
The Days Between
Around and Around
Liberty
Comments
I memorized THE ISLAND, may
I memorized THE ISLAND, may I recite it for you?
"I've got me an island that I'm calling Me.
Each time I go there, you know who I see?
There's me, and me, more often than not
and that's pretty often, it's my favorite spot!
There are lots of islands called Other-Than-Me
but they're someone else's, one look and you'll see.
You can try like a fool to be what you're not,
but the island ya get. . .
is the island ya got!"
This was partially the inspiration for the song HEAT MAN by The Kind. Check it out on archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/KIND2006-11-24
Oh yeah, Dan Healy had the quadraphonic system set up at these shows, he got it going pretty good in there, under the planes approaching O'Hare!
". . . Music is the best!" (fz)
Never liked the place...
Never saw a good show their... But would near tapes later that were great... Like I said I never liked th place...
Ken Nordine...
The great poet and voice... I think Jerry and Ken were doing or have just finished a project... Which is pretty cool...Check it out, if you can find it...
Ken Nordine
Devout Catalyst-was the name of that little project, basically a combo of the Grisman quartet/Jerry/Ken. It is a bit abstract but fantastic. When it came out it was a huge hit with me and my buddies.
Tried to go to this show. It was one of those blackout ticket senarios, and being from Springfield Il., we had to travel to the nearest ticketmast that was inside the range. Found this one outlier that was about 40 miles further south than any other ticketmaster selling tickets. So we show up about 5am and immediately new there was a problem, only 1 other person was there. This old head had driven from St. Louis after calling just like us, put his family up in a hotel, and they we were. Well, we hung out listened to some of his nice tapes, and the time rolled around, ticketmaster people said they were going to be able to sell them. then of course they were blackout and no tickets for us.
Well about a week before the show, the old head calls me, we traded numbers to trade some tapes, I barely remembered him, but apparently he went to straight to grateful dead merchandise explained his situation, and dropped our names also. tells us to get our asses to the will call before the show, and wouldn't you know it 5 row in front of Jerry. Went to 30 some odd shows and even though the concert was just ok, it was my favorite dead expierence. Nordine was a trip. Good times.