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Thanks Lo

Beautiful words of a magical time.

Geoff Krozier was the real deal. I only saw him one at Caesars Inn Place...a lunchtime teenager gig.no booze.

Didn't need drink the act was so affecting..I recall extreme noise, smoke and strobing lights.all a promise of a future filled with psychedelics where music and magic were synthesised. It was so extreme it literally scared me. As was the usual case I went alone to see the Magic Act..performance art like it was tended to affect me by inward searching. Lonelier and lonelier. I know the room was full. We sat on the floor but I can only recall being the sole audience...something about good live rock that sends me inside myself.

It was many years before I heard a louder band: Swans..and they totally require earplugs.

Wendy was approaching her best self in the pierot days.it happened so quickly...maybe a year? Then bit by bit the clown costume fell away till it was just a smudge of makeup and short hair.

Thebarton theatre Adelaide.

To witness her reciting /singing "I Want To Go Home" was possibly the best act I experienced anywhere by anyone. I think I cried. This time I went with friends and while they loved Wendy they didn't "get" her like I did.i thought it best to go alone to future shows. Wendy had recently returned from nyc with her new repertoire. She opened with I Think of You and for an encore she said "here's a song you might remember " and then slid back beautifully into "I Think of You".

2 versions in one night and I loved her for it.i think we were happy to be part of her workshoping of the post nyc material. Wendy had obviously worked hard in nyc. She brought home a highly sophisticated sense of visual drama within which she could effectively sing a new,often gentle vocal.but this is Australia..her act would survive perhaps a Sydney Festival but not as a touring rock act in the 70s. She gave too much, too fucking much

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Thank you so much for sharing these experiences Peter, how lucky you were to have witnessed both these phenomenal talents at this remarkable time. Your words are so moving - and yes she did give too much xxx

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