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From: s4610160@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Kauf Man)
Subject: Re: Phish and Santana at S.P.A.C. - Random Ramblings
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:09:22 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.122210.17875@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
andrejkow@tbosch.dnet.ge.com writes:
>
>       45 minutes before this show began I get a call from a friend with
>5th row tickets!  YOWZA!  Sorry I kept no set list, I was too busy
smiling :)
>Phish played about 45 minutes of good sounding, funky rock.  The only
song
>I recognized were the couple of songs that get airplay around here.  They
>got one of the best receptions I've ever seen a warm-up band get.  Their
>encore, the classic bluegrass "Rocky Top" was a real treat / sirprise.
>       After a very short intermission, Carlos came out to the Bill Grahm
>introduction included on his latest album "Milagro".  Very tasteful.
>Carlos and band, which included Alex Lietgerwood on vocals and Chester
>thompson on keyboards, wasted little time in lighting the fires which
>included a blazing version of "3rd Stone from the Sun" early on.  The
>first hour of the show highlighted material from "Milagro" which gave
>the 4 man percussion team time to get warmed up.  A couple of Carlos
>"standards" followed which included "Black Magic Woman" and a smokin'
>"Oye Como VA" which got a lot of people up and dancing.  Then the real
>sirprise of the evening for me occured when Carlos invited "our brothers
>from Phish" to come up and jam.  W O W !!!  An extended improvisation
>followed which included tips of the hat to Miles Davis's "In a Silent
Way"
>which then veered off into a rockin' exchange between Phish's guitarist
>and Carlos.  Its good to see the torch beeing passed from one of the 
>senior members of the rock establishment to the upcoming greats.  One
could
>sense the respect Carlos felt for Phish as they all got their chance in
the
>spotlight to shred with The Master.  The rest of the show was just one
sonic
>orgasm after another.  I kepr turning to my friend and saying "how can he
top
>this ?"  I thought the ultimate tribute came as the band veered into a
>beautiful version of John Coltrane's "A love Supreme" near the end.  The
show
>ended with a tune from "Milagro" called "Make Somebody Happy" with Carlos
>giving one of usual uplifting messages of postive vibrations, invoking
the
>spirit of Bob Marley whose picture was emblazened all over the clothes he 
>wore.  A long encore followed with Carlos again giving another positive 
>message to all.  The show clocked in at over 2 and 1/2 hours of beautiful
>vibes.  If this guy isn't proof that a positve force exisits then I don't
>know what is.  In 16 years of going to concerts, this show ranked up 
>with the best of them.  DO NOT MISS THIS TOUR!!!



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