The best part about this show, I think, wasn't even the music - which accentuated Heron's sage-lyness - It was his anecdotes about his tours with Stevie Wonder in the 70s and 80s. His first interesting tale was a story about how he was on the tour bus with Stevie and a couple of other guys, and they needed to make a show. They were coming from the west to the east, and they didn't take into consideration the time difference (losing an hour,) so their driver went way past the speed limit. They were eventually pulled over (Gah!) so their clever clever tour bus driver put on a cockney accent, charming the officer, and exclaimed desperately that he had the entire African Boxing team in the bus, and that they were going to be late for the fight. The cop, who happened to be an avid boxing fan, immediately dropped the ticket charge, and they not only arrived to the venue early, but with a police escort!
-and for the record, Stevie Wonder did mention John Lennon's murder in December of 198 at his concert in the South. Don't believe everything you read - in the words of Gil Scott Heron.
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