Thelonious Monk “Palo Alto”

Aww yeah!!  Excellent news.

My school Paly high

 (Kreutzman went and also pig for a few weeks)

My friend Danny She a high school kid jazz drummer  promoted it

later worked for Bill Graham 

Before they became famous Santana and fritz rabine memorial band    Nicks  and Buckingham also played there 

speaking  of Freddy king and great guitars (Between Albert BB and Freddie live Freddie was the BEST!!

FYI From our 50 year Paly I reunion blog

jerry taught down the street: 

Awesome stories! I asked John (Goldberg) Tate about his guitar lessons with Jerry Garcia - he said the following:

"It is true that I traded in classical piano, that I hated, for electric guitar...and Jerry Garcia was my teacher from '63-'65.

Early on, Garcia encouraged the purchase of Freddy King's album as the answer to all things electric guitar.  I still have and play this album.  Interestingly, it is not a surfing album...it's full of instrumentals that all rock star guitarists know...

At the tender age of 13, Garcia fired me as a student...saying he was off to S.F. to make an album.  My adolescent brain thought...."never gonna happen...he'll be back."

So, Dana Morgan Music was my favorite downtown store, and I still have the guitar/amplifier I bought there in 1964."

From Wikipedia: "...Several of King's early 1960s instrumentals found their way into the repertoire of surf music bands: "Those instrumental hits Freddy King had – 'Hideaway', 'San-Ho-Zay', 'The Stumble' – [t]he way white kids were relating to it was like surf guitar in a way; instrumental music that you could dance to." One band that mixed R&B and surf instrumentals occasionally included Jerry Garcia. He later explained: "When I started playing electric guitar the second time, with the Warlocks, it was a Freddie King album that I got almost all my ideas off of, his phrasing really. That first one, Here's Freddie King, later it came out as Freddie King Plays Surfin' Music or something like that, it has 'San-Ho-Zay' on it and 'Sensation" and all those instrumentals" (King's 1961 instrumental album, Let's Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King, was retitled Freddy King Goes Surfin' for a 1963 re-release)."

Freddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

Wow.  That interview made me cry

memories abound

I hate the Me me  me aspect how I often communicate

The connections to the times 1968 and 2020 are powerful

Civil rights inequities   Vietnam war protests and "riots" the SDS Stanford, radicals Abbie Hoffman coming soon

I hadn't heard the word Nairobi in so long. My mother was an activist (no not a centrist) And a member of the mothers for equal education and I'm repeating myself but we had a young black gentleman as my roommate living in Palo alto so he could go to paly high and 68 or 69

Oh the memories indeed a kid of white privilege indeed   So many battles over 50 years ago

And it's so sad how little progress we have made as a country and as humans  Thanks so much for the article I'm looking forward to the release I suspect I will be crying once again

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Music is so powerful long live music