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“Meet On The Ledge? I’ve been playing this song one way or another since the mid 80’s. Fairport Convention was amythical band from the dim past that a lot of bands in the vibrant San Francisco underground of the 80’s viewed with awed reverence. I believe Mick Freeman (drummer for contemporary scenestersX-tal) passed me my first copy of Fairport’s classic Liege And Lief, with a conspiratorial “you oughta check these guys out”. I dove deep and subsequently often found myself sitting in with fellow music freakDuritz’ preCrows band on a raucous version of “Matty Groves”, arrangement lifted shamelessly from the very same album. Bizarrely, a couple of years later, I found myself label mates with a later incarnation of Fairport Convention. They’d been signed to Rough Trade Records, where I was ensconced with both The Ophelias and Monks Of Doom, and tangentially Camper Van Beethoven. One fine day the fabledFairport came to play a rare show at SF’s Great American Music Hall. Jonathan Segel (Camper’s violinist) and I went on a double date with a couple of hotties from the Rough Trade office to go meet the legends in their natural environs. We got to the club and were quickly ushered downstairs to the backstage rooms, which by this time had been converted to a proper “bucket o’ blood” backwoods Britishpub – bottles flying everywhere, fiddle tunes echoing around the stairwell, a couple of guys fighting in the hall…these guys were SERIOUSLY drinking and carousing like it was the last night on earth. We spotted the bass player Dave Pegg through the smoke and rushed over likefawning teenyboppers to pick his brain about classic Fairport records, but the balding and jovial Pegg just wanted to offer usdrinks and talk about our long hair (Jonathan and I both had waist length manes at the time) -- “I LOVE your hair!!! I used to have THAT!!! I wish I still could…” -- and regale us with death-defying tales of touring with Led Zeppelin. Needless to say, we weren’t complaining! Finally they got on stage and played an extremely inebriated set that threatened to capsize at any moment but was saved...
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