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"I enjoyed your web-site a great deal...I wrote afumnny anecdote aboutSpirit
that I will pass on to you. If you want to use it for the page please feel free.
I would behonored...
"When I was 17 years old I had an opportunity to help out Spirit as a roadie.
The Son OfSpirit album was just out and an older friend of mine (throughsome
machinations that I havenever been able to figure out) became their road manager.
Thiswas to be Spirit's big comeback,John Locke had just re-joined and there
seemed to be a lot (well,maybe not a lot... but some)push from Mercury Records.
In those days, the band had no song list on stage, They would all kind of look
to Randy and he would launch into whatever he thought was appropriate and the
rest of the band would join in. But the night at the Whisky-Au-Go-Go in Hollywood
would be different. Their manager, Marshall Berle (Uncle Miltie's nephew!!!?),
had convinced several Mercury Records staffers to attend the show that evening.
Marshall had written out a song list of the Spirit biggies that he insisted
that they play. "Fresh Garbage," "Nothing To Hide," "Dark Eyed Woman,"
"I Got A Line On You" all were on the list. I'm thinking, wow, what
a night this will be. At that time Spirit would play almost everything from
Spirit of '76 or Son Of Spirit but would rarely play the older stuff.
Before the show Berle made the whole band and crew huddle up and go over the
strategy of the night. The band were going to play the classic songs in the
order of the list. Randy would count the songs in - rather than just start playing
them like usual. And the crew... the crew had to be spot on, paying attention.
No slip-ups. The importance of this momentous occasion made a big impression
in my teenage brain... no slip-ups! I'm ready.
The lights dim... full house.. my fellow roadie Rick and myself are ready to
run out on stage to repair whatever necessary. We're pumped. The band comes
out and I can't wait for the opener, "Fresh Garbage," one of my
favorites. Oh yeah, I forgot one of the other Marshall Berle instructions to
Randy... "keep the talking between songs to a minimum." Hmmmm
Randy walks to the microphone, looks down at Rick and myself crouched in front
of the stage ready for anything, winks and says: "Hey, it looks like we have
some people from Mercury here... or one of those planets." Then, without a count,
launches into "Tampa Jam Electro Jam From The Time Coast," a looooong
jammin' type song (it may have been the shock of him doing this but I swear
the song lasted at least half an hour).
Poor John Locke. His face made the most amazing contortions as he realized what
Randy was doing. I wish that I could have seen Marshall Berle's. Of course,
this incredible defiance of authority (and the thumbing his nose at his record
company) made Randy one of my heroes. In the course of the following 5 or 6
months I was able to see Randy play a lot of the classic Spirit songs mentioned
plus an always amazing Hendrix-like version of "All Along The Watchtower."
To this day, whenever I sit in with a band, I play "Got A Line On You"
complete with the weird chords that I learned by watching Randy in action.
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guitarist & producer and now Birdcage
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