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--- In motm@y..., "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@a...> wrote:
> Sure, I'm a *huge* Shawn Phillips fan. Fort Worth boy :) When I 
was at A&M, he gave a stunning
> concert: about 3 hours long with NO breaks. About 80% of the 
folks left (most concerts were about
> 1 hour long) but I was floored.

The first SP show I saw was just like you describe.
 
> He used to play solo with a full analog synth rig, triggered by 
like 3 sets of tricked-up Moog
> Taurus pedals.

Yes, I helped set up a descendant of that rig when the version of 
Cosmic Debris I played in did a show with him. It was insane, 
but Shawn could make it sing! Shawn played on the first "real" 
Cosmic Debris album (late '70s?) and CD did a couple 
Canadian tours with him (Shawn is much more famous in 
Canada than the US).

I once had dinner at his house when he lived in LA, It was a great  
Italian meal prepared by Shawn and his girlfriend at the time. 
The strange thing was that he was orange! It seems he had sort 
of overdosed on vitamin A(?) as part of a Scientology 
detoxification therapy.
 
> EMT? Bizarre.

Turns out he's farther south now than I thought, closer to Austin - 
near Spicewood(?) - still doing music, too.

Barry