{"id":286,"date":"2005-01-23T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=286"},"modified":"2005-01-23T09:38:55","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T17:38:55","slug":"day-in-sf-charlie-musselwhite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/23\/day-in-sf-charlie-musselwhite\/","title":{"rendered":"Day in SF, Charlie Musselwhite"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went to San Francisco and visited Rudy. He showed us a nanogolf course that he built.<\/p>\n

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We went to the park by Crissy Field. The city has made it more natural, more of a wetland, it's pretty, and always exciting to see out over the busy bay. There were lots of para sailboarders. Kiteboarders?<\/p>\n

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Slug dug.<\/p>\n

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The strong wind sculpted class four gnarly compuations into the sand.<\/p>\n

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Then we went to see a concert at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City. One of the groups was Charlie Musselwhite and his Sanctuary band.<\/p>\n

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I’m a fan of Charlie’s from way back, I first saw him when I was in college. He came to our student party back then and I even talked to him a bit there — this was like forty years ago. At the time it made a huge impression on me, I was so thrilled to be talking with a Famous Entertainer and True Artist. Also a Blues Man.<\/p>\n

Another time, in the mid 1970s, I happened to be staying up all night, and I listened to Charlie's album Louisiana Fog<\/i> about a dozen times. To this day, some of those songs are etched for instant access in my memory. The brain codec. “Fell Down On My Knees,” comes to mind.<\/p>\n

Charlie recently put out a great new album called Sanctuary<\/i>, which I got from Rudy for Xmas. So in the lobby after the show, when Charlie is selling and signing CDs, I tell him I already got one for Xmas, but give him a piece of paper to sign anyway — which he isn’t all that happy about, given that the point of this exercise for him is to sell albums. He had a special home-made album for sale too, which I hadn’t realized, I probably should have gotten one of those. So here’s my big moment with the Hero Of My Youth, and I’m like, “I met you at Swarthmore College in 1966.” “Funny, I don’t remember that,” says Charlie in his Elvis-like voice, tinged with a bit of sarcasm I imagine, and moves onto his next petitioner. Oh well! It was a great concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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