Knew of Rick Derringer from his work with Edgar Winter (remember Frankenstein and Free Ride?).
Saw Aerosmith at their most wasted and terrible peak in the mid to late 70s and Rick's solo band opened. They tore the roof off of the old Boston Garden.
Music and energy was killer but the thing that sticks out is at one point Rick and the other guitarist stood on each side of the stage and in perfect timing, heaved their guitars to each other and then didn't miss a beat in the song.
Seeing Steven Tyler barely able to stand or keep his eyes open for the next 45 minutes paled in comparison.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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