Re: the big leap....and slide

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

Pete hasn't forgotten this move.  I saw the ghost of it at Tampa in 2000, 
and nary a knee pad in sight.  He didn't jump, but he did drop to one knee 
at the finish of the show--with just the faintest hint of a slide.

keets


> > Pete stopped doing the leap and slide during WGFA (which we used to call 
>'the big leap') at the end of the '76 tour.   After that,  to the best of 
>my knowledge,  he only did that again twice,  at Shepperton for the filming 
>in '78 and at the Masonic Temple show in Detroit in 1979.  At the Detroit 
>show during 'Music Must Change' Pete tore his pants,  and wore a robe for 
>the rest of the song,  then went back to the dressing room and changed from 
>fairly tight pants to much looser white 'painter' type pants. In the 
>process of putting on these looser pants,  he also put on his knee pads,  
>which he otherwise wasn't wearing on the tour.  He did the leap during WGFA 
>that night because he had the knee pads on.  (or did he have the knee pads 
>on because he wanted to do the leap?....)  jared




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