A Good Weekend to Wrap Things Up

Although they've had a glorious time, our guests are anxious to bid each other a fond farewell and get back to the business of thinking, writing, composing, playing, acting, cooking, selling, fighting for truth & justice & freedom, and most especially, planting their gardens.

Just a few snippets of conversations remain. Here's one.

Keith Richards (miss M's Friend) said, "Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a tv screen."

To which J.L. Austin (A.Leland) replied, "...it has long been afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made barren of--the fun of discovery, and the pleasures of cooperation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
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Which prompted Anton D'vorak (me) to assert, "I am convinced that the future music of this country must be founded on what are called Negro melodies. ... These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America and your composers must turn to them."

We'll see what Jerry Garcia has to say to that!