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briandamageRaconteur

My two faves are her 11 Minute version of Isn't It A Pity on the Emergency Ward LP and the live version of Westwind on the Black Gold LP. The early 70's RCA stuff is excellent! Seeing Kabuki Starshine perform Isn't It A Pity at PS122 for (I think) the Marsha P Johnson Story blew my mind. And then there's her Bee Gees covers - don't get me started!

I was lucky enough to see her last performance in NYC at Carnegie Hall - she was frail and while the house was hooting and stomping for an encore, she was helped out to center stage by to able-bodied assistants and merely said into the mic - "Why don't you people go the hell HOME?"

Her autobiography is a must-read, too!

7/23/063:10 AM

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