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   From: skyking995@comcast.net   
      
   On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:45:26 -0500, "JUDY BARRETT"    
   wrote:   
      
   >I always liked the Kingston trio, Several years  ago John was the featured   
   >performer at the Gamble Rogers Folk festival in St Augustine and I looked   
   >forward to hearing him.  I know most of the good Florida musicians who   
   >played before him and I enjoyed  them a lot.   
   >   
   >When John came to the stage, the ampatheater was packed.  John gave a   
   >totally incomprehensible  performance.  His  diction was terrible. and he   
   >repeated songs and verses all over the place. After a time, folks began to   
   >slip away, at first a few at a time, then in larger and larger numbers.  I   
   >hate to leave a performance, but finally did because I wasn't haven't a good   
   >time, and the thought of my bed in the camp ground was getting very strong.   
   >   
   >I wonder if he was sick even then.  This was probably about 2002 but I am   
   >not sure.  Someone said he was drunk, but I don't know that and will not   
   >accuse him falsely.   
   >   
   >My friends and I speak of the heavenly jam circle, where instruments never   
   >need tuning, and nobody calls for the last song. May john find a welcome   
   >there.   
      
   One of the Obits on the net said he was in the early stages of   
   alzheimer's but that was only a year ago.  Maybe he was drunk at the   
   performance he gave in Florida.  HUmm he wrote the Monkees hit Day   
   Dream Believer. Interesting .Doesnt sound much like   a folk song.   
      
   by the way this guy died in Jan. why the late post?   
      
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