[Mb-hair] Re: The reunion...

[Robin McNamara]

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From: "Leo" <peacefreak at metrocast.net>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 11:26 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: The reunion...


> Yeah Dauber man, I'm with you all the way brother; it was great to meet 
> you and soooooooooo many other new & old HAIR freaks once again.
> Judy, Jim, and I just got back to Maine at about 10pm here on Sunday so 
> I'm a little rugged at the moment but I'd be really remiss not to add a 
> quick opinion.
> Nina you are to be so commended for all you did to pull this together. I 
> realize you had a great deal of wonderful help from some far out people. 
> But your hanging in there with this project is what caused it to come to 
> fruition and be the biggest, bestest, HAIRyist bash yet!! Thank you Nina 
> and all the others who worked diligently behind the scenes to make this 
> happen! Michael it was fan freaking tastic to see you again my brother. 
> Jeff, GREAT job on the video man!
> WMH, you were wonderful and it was outasite to finally meet you after all 
> these years of internet communications. You were a spot on emcee and 
> handled the evening's events flawlessly!
> I gotta say that Debbie, Mike, Sally Shaffer, Bill Swiggard and Tioga Joe 
> are just plain beautiful people!! To me you freaks epitomize the spirit 
> and camaraderie of HAIR. In a night filled with so much hubbub and people 
> playing catch up with each other, you 5 went out of your way to make me 
> and Judy feel really special and absolutely like we belonged there! And 
> Jim Burns, man I loved our little chats throughout the evening.And Ross 
> and Ace and, well hell, when you start with the names you just can't 
> stop!!! But of course the list goes on and on. I certainly didn't 
> personally meet everyone but man I had a relatively decent idea of who was 
> who (or whom was whom) when it was all over.
> I too took many pics and my camera also has the ability to do mpegs so I'm 
> gonna burn a disc and send it to you Nina.
> And I'm rambling on cuz I'm a bit giddy, tired, and banged up but my heart 
> is in a beautiful place right now. I'll write more after a good night's 
> visit to Mr. Sandman.
> Thank you all for being there! The sing along was a blast!
>
> PEACE,
> Leo
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
> From: Sean Courtney <dauber at banana-and-louie.org>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] The reunion...
>
> Okay....I'm about to fall asleep, so I might have to make this short for 
> now, but...
>
> Let me just say that I LOVE Hair people! Really had a great time at the 
> reunion. I really felt welcomed, considering that my involvement in Hair 
> has been only as a spectator and as part of this cyber-tribte; that, and 
> at the age of 30, I was probably the second-youngest person there. :)
> Meeting many of you folks from the list...Sherwin, Robin, Nina, Leo, 
> Corinne, Bill, Cara...am I leaving anybody out???...just an absolute 
> thrill to meet you all!
> Walter Michael Harris was a fantastic emcee. Very witty, very 
> entertaining...and it was cool seeing him play piano, too!
> Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures -- in fact, I think the only 
> still picture in my camera was of Tioga Joe, Robin McNamara and 
> me....however, I did manage to get Michael Butler's words of wisdom 
> captured as well as "Aquarius" from the sing-along portion -- truly 
> something to behold! I'll be happy to send MPGs to whoever needs to have 
> them. (Nina?  :)
> Memorable experience of the night -- during the sing-alongs hearing a 
> chorus of 100+ people singing in harmony and doing a bit of the old 
> choreography...well, I'm GUESSING it's the old choreography, at least!
> Weird experience of the night -- my wife walks out to use the bathroom, 
> and while I'm waiting for her to come back Jim Rado walks over to me with 
> a piece of cake and says, "I don't care what you or anybody else has to 
> say...I'm GOING to EAT THIS CAKE." Uhhhh....okay!
> Unexpected experience of the night -- Ben Vereen and Fred Armisen in the 
> same room!
> Worst experience of the night -- having to repeat the address several 
> times to the cab driver and telling him the nearest cross street because 
> he didn't know where the heck he was going.
> Discovery of the night -- I've been dousing myself with the music of Hair 
> since I was a 16-year-old high school student in 1990, and for some reason 
> it was only last night, hearing some of the music over LaMama's sound 
> system, that I discovered that McDermot's music is a bass player's dream.
> Really, really cool bass lines in those songs.
>
>
>
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