Originally Posted By: Planobilly
Yes, and I forgot to say thanks to you Mr. Hayes


When I was in high school in NYC, we had this idea that we were going to perform the musical play "Hair". We wound up getting shut down for a number of reasons, including that we had no permission to perform that copyrighted work.

Then one Saturday in Central Park, a group of us ran into the authors, James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and they happily signed a waiver, writing it out on a piece of rolling paper or something.

It didn't work. We still didn't have a Faculty Advisor, so we still never got to put it on.

But that aspect of the experience, of going around the management system by contacting the artists directly, stuck in my head for the last 50 years, though never entering my life in any way.

Then the other day, seeing Billy's post and looking at Prine's website, I wrote that post here, which seems to have contributed to a positive outcome.

This particular cosmic laser bullet of cause and effect, arcing across 5 decades, seemed worthy of another post.

PS – I saw Prine somewhere on the East Coast around 1975. Some kind of festival. All I remember is him suddenly recoiling from a bee at the microphone, then saying, as if he were in the audience, "The part I liked best was when John Prine swallowed a bee!" And so for me I guess it was.