Re: Pete's Amazing Jumping

[Alan McKendree <amck@thenetdr.com>]

>Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:55:09 +0000
>From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
>
>There were no recorded jumps in 1967, right? And there are in 1969.
>Likely it was
>something fairly organic, as performers tend to develop their abilities
>rather than planning things out ahead of time.

Not necessarily, see below.

>You can see by the videos that the shows became
>more kinetic and visually exciting as they developed their stage personas
>(except John, of course), so they saved the guitars.

IMO this happened because Pete's friend Tom Wright was traveling with the
band in those days.  Tom photographed the shows, then developed the
negatives in the hotel room that night, and the band (especially Pete)
could see them to see which moves were most visually exciting.  The stage
moves were developed and refined this way.  As to WHY this was done, you'd
have to ask Pete, but it's reasonable to suggest that at that stage of the
band's career anything more exciting was seen as a good thing, and this
particular method had the advantage of being cost-free.

Cheers,

Alan

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