two best live musical acts I ever saw

1. Ravi Shankar, Iowa City, 1993. Can’t be touched. Musical perfection. Never saw anything like it, will never see anything like it again. This was a free ticket from my youngest brother through his U. of Iowa radio show. One friend actually turned down a free ticket to this event. Fool!

2. All Mighty Senators, Annapolis, 1989. A local Baltimore band made up of art students. I suppose “acid jazz” would get you in the ballpark to describe their style. But it was really the showmanship: the weird lighting, the hula girls, the Dr. Seuss films projected behind them, the charismatic frontman (I believe his name is Lance, but I’m digging that up from a distant memory).

The Senators still play. I found a few YouTube clips, but they all capture what I saw so imperfectly that I won’t embed them here.