Concert, redux

[David Morris]

It will never be the same, but it will never be new.

But I think we are just barely on the other side of a bad era. The Reagan
Era.

Long Live Social Media!

David Morris

On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, wrote:

> The recent death of Ravi Shankar, the 12-12-12 concert for sandy relief,
> and the undeniability of change: climate, consciousness and connectivity,
> can't help but bring me back to the mother of all relief concerts, held
> on August 1, 1971:
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>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Concert_for_Bangladesh<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_for_Bangladesh>
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> I was 20, home for the summer from college, working the night shift at
> Paterson Canning Co. It had rained for 5 straight days, and much of
> Paterson
> was flooded, and there was this concert, George Harrison and Friends, being
> held across the river. I had to work (natch), just like I had to- at the
> same place-
> during Woodstock, two summers earlier. But the spirit seeped through, no
> matter where you were, it seemed.
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> Could be happening again. Maybe just some unfinished bizness comin' home
> to roost.
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