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Subject: Re: The Love Affairs Of Nathaniel P.

I opened up a record store I was working in one Saturday morning and Bruce Springsteen rolled in. No other customers came in so it turned into one of those cool and casual independent record store customer/clerk encounters.

He took awhile to carefully choose, but eventually bought a cassette of "Late for the Sky" because he "needed something to listen to when driving around alone late at night."

Good choice

Marty Bender

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From: Andrew Paciocco
Subject: Re: The Love Affairs Of Nathaniel P.

Jackson Browne guested with My Morning Jacket and played Late for the Sky last Saturday at the Verizon Amphitheatre in Irvine.

bit.ly/123KHbn

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Subject: Re: Rhinofy-Buddy Miles

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the piece on Buddy Miles, it was great to see. In 1969 my high school band played behind Buddy at Staples HS auditorium in Westport CT. After the show, to our amazement he hired my guitarist friend, Charlie Karp, and myself to join his new band...both of us 17 years old. His single, "Them Changes", was already a hit at that point...we went into the studio with him to record the rest of what would become the "Them Changes" LP, and recorded and toured nonstop with him for the next 24 months. My favorite track from that album though, was always "Dreams".

Buddy's band was an incredibly potent training ground. We arrived as suburban kids with a fair amount of playing ability, who were really wet behind the ears. When we left his band two years and four records later, it was as seasoned pros... largely due to some pretty serious mentoring activity by Buddy and some of the other band members - boot camp, chitlin circuit style. These were brilliant, seasoned players...guys like Stemsey Hunter (Electric Flag, etc) Marlo Henderson, and the late, greatly missed Andre Lewis. The link here shows the band at full power, in spring of 1971 in Helsinki, Buddy's vocal on it is absolutely incredible.

Buddy had been a teenage sideman too, with the Delphonics, Wilson Pickett, etc...when Mike Bloomfield recruited him for the Electric Flag, he was only 18. But he came from a world where it wasn't unusual to be great at an early age and boy, was he ready. Being onstage alongside him every night in 70-71 was some experience... the guy was a phenomena and I owe him a debt that I've never been able to even measure. Truly, they don't make em like that anymore.

Long live the B-Train.

- David Hull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaCtZm-gbc

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Subject: Re: Rhinofy-Buddy Miles

Bob,

Got a fun B. Miles story for you... My band the stepmothers put together a series of concerts at California prisons in '78 I believe and one of those shows was at Chino Men's Prison.

We knew Charles Manson and Tex Watson were there, which was creepy, what we didn't know was: so was Buddy Miles. He was in for forging checks, or some cons told us.

We had invited a few more bands to join us on the (unpaid) bill (hey this was punk rock in the days when it was still kinda scary to most clubs in LA, and getting gigs anywhere was difficult for a lot of us, and we all wanted to play!, so we went for the captive audience), one of those bands was a Texas new wave rock band, freshly relocated to LA, called the Textones, fronted by Karla Olsen and (soon to replace Margo and become the new Go-Gos bass player just before they exploded and became the first LA band borne of the LA punk/new wave thing to make it) Kathy Valentine.

I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten who the other bands were. But once we heard Buddy was there we were all atwitter as to whether he would come see us all play. I guess he kinda sidled in at some point, keeping a low profile. At the end of the show Buddy came on stage, joined the girls on stage, flipped a regular right-handed guitar upside down, and just wailed on "All Along the Watchtower" (I believe) and put all us punks in our place. It was something to see. Then we left, he stayed.

Best,
Steve Jones


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