robbie basho live at the sinclair auditorium 22 july 1978 (set 1)

description of sets

redwood ramble - starting with some ‘country picking... to get limbered up, fancy-pickin, show-off stuff’)

a little retuning

memorial day - starts fast and then decelerates into those trademark open chords of harmonics - sounds like flamenco guitar-type trills, ending with those harmonics.

sound of the seating being adjusted ‘a friend of mine leo kottke...he knew what to do with what I showed him’ tuning no.35

variations on easter

sound of the bass strings being tuned down, treble strings being tuned up, some breathing and position shifting.

rocky mountain raga spoken introduction over opening chords, immaculately timed cough during the opening phrase, robbie begins to sing.

‘Hmmnn let me see... I wanted to do one more of what I call guitar paintings’

moving up a-ways introduction ‘a contemporary song’ - the lyrics frequently going wordless...

'last year' ...

‘four ladies across the board’

‘thank you’