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Many people know of the band The Police playing the Last Chance Saloon on October 23, 1978 to 4 paying customers. I will save that story for another time. This is the story of an event that happened roughly a week before at The Last Chance. We had gathered a loose aggregate of musicians to rehearse a Halloween show at the club.
I’ve met many musicians . Some have become lifelong friends, some acquaintances and some just a backstage moment or conversation. I have always admired musicians and their shamanistic powers. I like to participate but I don’t consider myself a real musician. I can hold my own on harmonica , vocals and acoustic guitar but I have never had the discipline to really rehearse. I must admit that at the age of 62 I am a better guitarist than I was at the age of 30. I am more patient now.
This article was first published in Pulse in 2005. A weekly Hudson Valley newspaper that no longer publishes.
About 40 years ago Andy Warhol predicted that in the future everyone would be “ famous” for 15 minutes …sounds like a cross between Karl Marx and a Twilight Zone episode..we would all experience fame for 15 minutes and hence we would understand fame in all its glory and folly…we would not have to worry if our career was on the rise or decline..because we would all have 15 minutes of fame. ….Hence the euphemism