Comments on: R.I.P. - Buddy Miles 1947-2008 http://netinfoweb.com/2008/02/28/rip-buddy-miles-1947-2008/ "Trackin' the Sites, Trackin' the SOUL!" Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:03:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: John W. Castillo http://netinfoweb.com/2008/02/28/rip-buddy-miles-1947-2008/#comment-75316 John W. Castillo Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:49:21 +0000 http://netinfoweb.com/2008/02/28/rip-buddy-miles-1947-2008/#comment-75316 I first heard of the "Elecrtic Flag" back in 67,from the older kids in "Oaktown"(Oakland Ca.)who were musically hip and had made it to the Monterey pop festival. They said, "there was an out a sight drummer who had to be seen to be belived", they were right! I then went to see Buddy w/the flag at the old Fillmore auditorium in SF soon after,and was turned on to what he called at that time the "Psychedelic Boogaloo" His powerful and soulful drumming put me in a trance and his magnetic engery literly pulled me up onto the stage that night(somehow sneaking temporaly un-noticed past the stage crew) where I sat down directly behind him soaking up his complete sound as he drove the band w/ his funky/fat pocket back beat, that seemed to me like being inside a jet airline engine watching the giant fans spin. As I was sitting there trans-fixed on him, Buddy turned around (rubber neck style) w/his head still rock'n in perfect time and smiled, I was then noticed by an older stage hand and was gentley ushered off the the stage and released back into the audidance to dance and enjoy the rest of the show. Thank you for giving your music to all of us,I will always miss & remember how you changed my life that night w/your supernatural & magical engery, you were and are truly the "Complete Musicman" I first heard of the “Elecrtic Flag” back in 67,from the older kids in “Oaktown”(Oakland Ca.)who were musically hip and had made it to the Monterey pop festival.

They said, “there was an out a sight drummer who had to be seen to be belived”, they were right!

I then went to see Buddy w/the flag at the old Fillmore auditorium in SF soon after,and was turned on to what he called at that time the “Psychedelic Boogaloo”

His powerful and soulful drumming put me in a trance and his magnetic engery literly pulled me up onto the stage that night(somehow sneaking temporaly un-noticed past the stage crew) where I sat down directly behind him soaking up his complete sound as he drove the band w/ his funky/fat pocket back beat, that seemed to me like being inside a jet airline engine watching the giant fans spin.

As I was sitting there trans-fixed on him, Buddy turned around (rubber neck style) w/his head still rock’n in perfect time and smiled, I was then noticed by an older stage hand and was gentley ushered off the the stage and released back into the audidance to dance and enjoy the rest of the show.

Thank you for giving your music to all of us,I will always miss & remember how you changed my life that night w/your supernatural & magical engery, you were and are truly the “Complete Musicman”

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