Annie Elliott wrote:I read somewhere about poets who want to linger in this world to continue to share their art with the living. I think of Rory that way, never leaving us Ladies and Gentlemen.
I had three dreams about him: in the first I was working for him running his restaurant in a lovely Victorian in San Francisco. The second dream I was still working for him, this time in a bigger and much fancier place. The third dream was similar but now in a place of incredible beauty, not a restaurant any longer but a resort like nothing I've ever seen, as if it were built of rainbows.
So that's how I think of this community, building something beautiful together out of Rory's life and music.
capo wrote:I started this thread seven or so years ago because I was sure I heard Rory say something nobody else seemed to have picked up on right before he began his wonderful outro solo, "I'll never leave you ladies and gentlemen". What made this so heartbreaking or "eerie" as I put it then, is it came during one of his last ever shows and last ever version of MMA. So it was as of he was saying to all, that he was going to fight with his all whatever the future had in store for him. Quite poignant considering what lay before him. But, I think now, I was completely wrong. I was reading some of the comments on Youtube under this upload that Tokeiihto had posted and a listener commented that what Rory actually said was "David Levy Ladies and Gentlemen", right after Levy had played an extended bass solo! I listened again and again, with the context of the just completed bass solo, and I think he's right! It makes great sense for Rory to have said that then and there, instead of the "I'll never leave you .........." even if the latter has more pathos with Rory's impending illness and death. I invite everybody to re listen and see if that is truly what Rory said and meant. Sorry that this ruins such a bittersweet memory of what we thought Rory said. Please weigh in, although this is in the "Archive" part of the Forum and nobody may see this at all!
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