[Kzyxtalk] Michael Hedges

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Thinking of Michael Hedges, today. Don't know why. 

I guess I do know why. Time passes. Love fades. It's that time of year. Autumn. 

I remember while I was a student at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in the early-1970s watching Michael Hedges perform in a little basement dive called the Peabody Book Store and Beer Stube. It was demolished years ago for a parking lot. 

Another time, I heard him perform at the iconic Fells Point pub, Bertha's. The filmmaker, John Waters, was in the audience. Hedges had been a composition major at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore , and he supported himself by playing and singing in pubs and restaurants in the Baltimore Metro area during his tenure at Peabody. 

I think he dropped out of Peabody. I'm not sure. 

Michael Hedges died around this time of year in 1997, at the age of 43, in a car accident along State Route 128 right here in Mendocino County , near Boonville . 

He posthumously won a Grammy. H is record " Oracle " won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album . 

Here's his last concert, two weeks before his death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4AysS-WN0A 

An absolutely masterful performance. Michael Hedges was touched by fire. On fire. Torched. A human torch. 

On fire with Kundalini. 

The Kundalini Awakening, I'm told it's called by hatha yoga practitioners. 

R.I.P. Michael Hedges.. 


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