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Steve Tibbetts g Marc Anderson d,perc Choying Drolma (4 Tibetan monks) Passim's is a classic place. Joni Mitchell played there about 37 years ago, same place, and in 1979, Robert Fripp did a solo show there. It's mainly a folk club, I think Tracy Chapman played there, but this music here is unusual anywhere, except maybe a monestary. I always wondered if Steve Tibbetts has any connection to Tibet, didn't get around to asking him that, but Marc and Steve were glad to see me (and vica-versa) and share yet another chapter of unusual instrumentation and style of music. Also a partial answer to the question, because Choying Drolma is a Tibetan. This is apparently similar music and same line-up of players/chanters as heard in another recent Tibbetts dime torrent (Knitting Factory N.Y.C.), but this is a shorter show, one set of about 90 min. with about the last 30 seconds missing. I can't tell if the NYC show is a sbd or a good aud, but I'm certain this is a pure sbd (a/k/a "pre-FM") recording because I recorded it, and have never seeded it before. No worries about a cheesy soundboard at Passim's, the sound was quite good in there and only a few minor sound problems typical of music combining vocal and electronic effects (a staple in any Tibbetts show). This was a rather odd collaberation. It would be the last time I recorded Steve Tibbetts (so far) and enjoyable as was the 1st one in 1992. Although from Minnesota, Steve doesn't get out this way ofen. Not often enough, and he has been appreciated when he has come. I never got to broadcast this partly because when I first met Steve, he was very nervous about being recorded, self conscious and afraid of making a mistake to be heard over and over, but later became alot more approving of sharing his live shows, and then Glasnost Radio stopped airing in early 2001, some 2 months after announcing to Worcester radio listeners that George Bush had appointed his way into the U.S. presidency by refusing to allow a recount of hundreds of disputed Florida ballots. Remember the hanging chads and dimple ballots Supreme Court tango? Hardly a piece of proud American history. In Mass. this was very unwelcome news. Most of us thought Al Gore would be a pretty good president, but it quickly became clear that Glasnost Radio would not survive at all in the bush league restrictive reality of the 16th century renaissance (Without Annie Haslam!) and a transmitter that's older than I am. So I'm hoping to share the best of what was and some that never even made it to Glasnost Radio broadcast at all (transmitter problems became chronic in the last few months of the show). I think it was Colin doing the sound again. Whoever it was, the sound was good, and it was an interesting show. Some of it is more chanting than singing, but other than Steve's guitar it probably sounds pretty "normal" (did I just use that word?) for Tibetan music. Seems like it makes for nice meditating music.

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