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The Savoy First House New York, NY |
 Savoy, NYC: Early show, Nov. 5, 1981 July 12, 2007
Written by Reitzle
This show was a life changing event for me. I was in the front row. The band came out to a stage bathed in unchanging, honest white lights. They played a music that seemed not to rely on the dynamics of the individual performer, but on the polyrhythmic integrity of the whole. What they played, and how they played it struck me as one of the most perfectly balanced live shows I’d ever witnessed. They were accessible, yet communicated in a fiercely sophisticated language. From what I could tell, they were nervous and excited as pups, but totally in control. This music rocked and pointed to a possible future, in the present, a few feet from my own eyes and ears.
I smiled from ear to ear and the next day I screwed that confounded whammy bar back onto my $90 Univox guitar, determined to tame the vibrato beast even half as elegantly as Mr. Belew had done on stage at the Savoy.
That show was just sublime. I thank all of you for the gift of that performance.
Sincerely,
Tilman Reitzle
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