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Subject: Re: What's after supper?

From: "ceccles_ca" <ecclesreinson@rogers.com>
Date: 2009-09-01

I hope it wasn't LSD. Two hours would have felt like a month.

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, marabus <marabus@...> wrote:
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> Tales was my first Yes show.My friend and I were chemically
> influenced. No nodding at the Boston Garden that night and the lp had been out for close to a week I believe.
> Pete
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> ceccles_ca wrote:
> > Who brought up Topographic Oceans again? Oh...It was me. Regrets I've had a few.
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> > When they appeared in Toronto during the Topographic Oceans tour, the album had not been released yet. The radio stations didn't even have it. I think that most of the North American tour dates took place before the album had been heard by the audience. They opened the show playing ALL of it. :-(
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> > When they finally stopped playing, most of the audience was too sleepy to clap. You know how people sometimes nod-off in Church? That was the only concert I've seen where people were bobbing their heads drifting off to sleep. Since that night I have always associated the Topographic Oceans album with being bored out of my mind.
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