Tony Iommi recalls: "The Who were there and Taj Mahal and all the people who were in the movie, but I didn't know a soul and felt like a spare dinner."
Also: "half the people in that show are now dead. John Lennon, Keith Moon, Brian Jones, Mitch Mitchell. .. it's a Rock and Roll Circus all right."
My Friend Jackie told me that John Cage conceived of a Music Circus as a populist avant-garde event. More on that when I catch up on my Cage...
^Yes, that's true. Cage conceived of a multimedia event called "Musicircus" which was done at the University of Illinois in 1967 (I think that's the right year). The following year he went even more all-out: an amazing sensory barrage composed with Lejaren Hiller (on the music faculty at U of I at the time, and an expert in computer-assisted composition) called HPSCHD.--Khh
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