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   downwithtyranny@gmail.com to Walter Hellman   
   Re: Tim Buckley, Steve Noonan, Jackson B   
   03 May 20 19:37:57   
   
   On Saturday, October 14, 1995 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Walter Hellman wrote:   
   > I was riding along yesterday listening to a tape I'd made from a   
   > Tim Buckely album I have..."Goodbye and Hello" was the song.  This epic   
   > (about 10 minutes I think) is one of the best reflections giving a feel   
   > of the 60's I know.  His was an amazing voice.  His later jazz oriented   
   > material was also amazing..."Chase the Blues Away" being a prime example   
   > for me.   
   > 	Anyway, all this brought back college memories of a very special   
   > informal concert which was given in a dorm lounge at SUNY Stony Brook,   
   > probably about 1968.  This is where I was at school and they announced   
   > somehow that 3 California singer-songwriters would be at the school and   
   > playing in the dorm lounge.  As I remember, there was very little   
   > publicity because hardly anyone had ever heard of them.   
   > 	It turns out they were Tim Buckley, Steve Noonan and Jackson   
   > Browne.  The whole thing was totally informal.  They just had a chair set   
   > up amongst all the sofas, etc.  I don't know if this was my introduction   
   > to Buckley, but I know it was for Browne and Noonan.   
   > 	I wish I could remember more about the concert itself.  One thing   
   > that stuck out was that Buckley sung an (even then) old Johnny Cash song   
   > called Give My Love To Rose.  I remember how odd that was.   
   > 	A couple of questions:   
   >   
   > 	I later got a Steve Noonan album and have always enjoyed that   
   > music.  Does anyone know what happened to him?   
   >   
   > 	Was anyone on this list at that Stony Brook performance?  Did the   
   > three of them play elsewhere?   
   >   
   > 			Walter Hellman   
   >   
   > --   
   > hellman@teleport.com    Internet Public Access User   Hillsboro, Oregon USA   
      
   yes, I met them at a Velvet Underground show at the Dom and brought them back   
   to Stony Brook.   
      
   -Howie Klein   
      
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