[Mb-hair] Re: The reunion...

[Leo]

Yeah Dauber man, I'm with you all the way brother; it was great to meet you 
and soooooooooo many other new & old HAIR freaks once again.
Judy, Jim, and I just got back to Maine at about 10pm here on Sunday so I'm 
a little rugged at the moment but I'd be really remiss not to add a quick 
opinion.
Nina you are to be so commended for all you did to pull this together. I 
realize you had a great deal of wonderful help from some far out people. But 
your hanging in there with this project is what caused it to come to 
fruition and be the biggest, bestest, HAIRyist bash yet!! Thank you Nina and 
all the others who worked diligently behind the scenes to make this happen! 
Michael it was fan freaking tastic to see you again my brother. Jeff, GREAT 
job on the video man!
WMH, you were wonderful and it was outasite to finally meet you after all 
these years of internet communications. You were a spot on emcee and handled 
the evening's events flawlessly!
I gotta say that Debbie, Mike, Sally Shaffer, Bill Swiggard and Tioga Joe 
are just plain beautiful people!! To me you freaks epitomize the spirit and 
camaraderie of HAIR. In a night filled with so much hubbub and people 
playing catch up with each other, you 5 went out of your way to make me and 
Judy feel really special and absolutely like we belonged there! And Jim 
Burns, man I loved our little chats throughout the evening.And Ross and Ace 
and, well hell, when you start with the names you just can't stop!!! But of 
course the list goes on and on. I certainly didn't personally meet everyone 
but man I had a relatively decent idea of who was who (or whom was whom) 
when it was all over.
I too took many pics and my camera also has the ability to do mpegs so I'm 
gonna burn a disc and send it to you Nina.
And I'm rambling on cuz I'm a bit giddy, tired, and banged up but my heart 
is in a beautiful place right now. I'll write more after a good night's 
visit to Mr. Sandman.
Thank you all for being there! The sing along was a blast!

PEACE,
Leo

----- Original Message ----- 

 From: Sean Courtney <dauber at banana-and-louie.org>
 Subject: [Mb-hair] The reunion...

 Okay....I'm about to fall asleep, so I might have to make this short for 
now, but...

Let me just say that I LOVE Hair people! Really had a great time at the 
reunion. I really felt welcomed, considering that my involvement in Hair has 
been only as a spectator and as part of this cyber-tribte; that, and at the 
age of 30, I was probably the second-youngest person there. :)
Meeting many of you folks from the list...Sherwin, Robin, Nina, Leo, 
Corinne, Bill, Cara...am I leaving anybody out???...just an absolute thrill 
to meet you all!
Walter Michael Harris was a fantastic emcee. Very witty, very 
entertaining...and it was cool seeing him play piano, too!
Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures -- in fact, I think the only still 
picture in my camera was of Tioga Joe, Robin McNamara and me....however, I 
did manage to get Michael Butler's words of wisdom captured as well as 
"Aquarius" from the sing-along portion -- truly something to behold! I'll be 
happy to send MPGs to whoever needs to have them. (Nina?  :)
 Memorable experience of the night -- during the sing-alongs hearing a 
chorus of 100+ people singing in harmony and doing a bit of the old 
choreography...well, I'm GUESSING it's the old choreography, at least!
Weird experience of the night -- my wife walks out to use the bathroom, and 
while I'm waiting for her to come back Jim Rado walks over to me with a 
piece of cake and says, "I don't care what you or anybody else has to 
say...I'm GOING to EAT THIS CAKE." Uhhhh....okay!
Unexpected experience of the night -- Ben Vereen and Fred Armisen in the 
same room!
Worst experience of the night -- having to repeat the address several times 
to the cab driver and telling him the nearest cross street because he didn't 
know where the heck he was going.
Discovery of the night -- I've been dousing myself with the music of Hair 
since I was a 16-year-old high school student in 1990, and for some reason 
it was only last night, hearing some of the music over LaMama's sound 
system, that I discovered that McDermot's music is a bass player's dream.
Really, really cool bass lines in those songs.