Re: Alex Snouffer, originator of the Magic Band, has just passed away.

Pierre Antaya wrote:
> 
> Desert Sand
> 
> I thought I'd never find a place that I could call my home
> And if I did then it would be so very far from home
> The sun rich desert  cactus spans and mountain tops with snow
> And even though there's people there you may be quite alone
> The wind that blows the sand dunes here is softened by the trees
> Until the desert sun beats down and bakes away their leaves
> 
> The wind that blows the sand dunes here is softened by the trees
> Until the desert sun beats down and bakes away their leaves
> If I should die before you babe the words I've written hear
> Just bury me beneath the desert sand by a lonely cactus tree
> 
> Denny King/Alex St Claire

	These are emotionally poignant images. What is the source of this poem?
What is Alex St.
Claire's connection to it?
	How do pyjamas enter into it?
	How many people know that the surname "St. Claire" is a genealogical
predecessor to the name
"Sinclair"? Not that this last question matters.

	My tech stuff is on the blink now, and I don't have immediate access to
the video of the Cannes
performance on the beach (e.g. Electricity), and I misplaced my
musicological history files, and
I am terrible with remembering who played what when and where, but I
suspect that one of the
fine guitarists at that performance was him. I remember the players, but
not their names. I'm
sure he was there, but given the nature of the internet, somebody will
surely shoot this down
and say that Alex St. Claire wasn't there, that it was somebody else, but
I doubt that it was
somebody else.