Nov 5 BOC reunion gig

[Ralph]

> Too bad Patti couldn't make it but I was still glad to play Career. I almost forgot what a rockin' little track it is.

Oh it's a great track alright, but with such limited time - and no Patti - I think Cities and Hot Rails would have been better than OD'd and Career to end with... I mean, Cities is such an important song to the story of BOC that it's VERY strange that THAT song could get chopped in a show to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band... 

Gotta question - everyone was speculating how on earth could you tune out what must have been a madly discordant cowbell chorus going on behind your head during DFTR - I know it must have been politically expedient to give everyone "something to do" during that last song, but 3 cowbells!!...

One other thing we were wondering also... at the end of the night, and you're all saying your goodbyes, how was it left?  Any mention of "we must do this again sometime" (hopefully not in 40 years) or anything that left a door open for such a thing again in the future, because there's no hiding the vibe those last few songs got (as well as Death Valley Nights, of course) and the electricity that was in the air... hard to tell what EB was thinking - his expression doesn't seem to change much (he could be winning the lottery or having his foot sawn off, you'd struggle to guess which) - but Buck REALLY seemed to be having a good time...

And I bet it was REALLY strange for you and Joe...