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Howard Mandel's avatar

An iconic American performance, the moment the avant garde and pop culture inextricable spoke to an enormous audience’s allegiances and anxieties.

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ROBERT SCHWIMMER's avatar

A huge influence on so many! Always one of the things I loved about him was his embracing of pure sound. I remember him speaking admiringly about Pharaoh Sanders etc and going “Oh yeah” hearing his climatic end of Third Stone From the Sun, etc… Have a good 4th in any case.

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mark weiss's avatar

Next time you play Palo Alto, we will let you light the piano on fire…

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