Is it wrong to invoke a John Sebastian solo tune — “Welcome Back” — to welcome back the Lovin’ Spoonful this weekend, at a Los Angeles show, for the first time in decades? It is w…
solo tune — “Welcome Back” — to welcome back the Lovin’ Spoonful this weekend, at a Los Angeles show, for the first time in decades? Itwrong, in Sebastian’s mind, to think of it as a reunion show, with one of the key members long since deceased, and a rotation of 40 other singers and musicians on stage at Saturday night’s Spoonful tribute show at the Alex Theatre in Glendale.
Oh, absolutely. And the fact that it’s for fun, right? It isn’t like, “Oh, let’s get back together and have a big, money-packed reunion.” This was a terrific situation and it came about very casually. And as I said on my website: I had a kid call me and say, “I live in Wyoming. I’m getting on a train so that I can be in Glendale to see the reunion of the Lovin’ Spoonful.” And I said, “You know, you gotta calm down about this.
In terms of your influence at the time on your contemporaries, Paul McCartney has acknowledged that he considered “Good Day Sunshine” sort of a Lovin’ Spoonful knockoff. But, you know, I hate to get you to include the worst part of the Lovin’ Spoonful that everybody jumps right to, which was this bust that happened. But I do have to mention it, because American reporters of the era , in this sort of pre-gonzo era, when everybody’s really interested in being part of the counterculture. And so when some guys get busted, and it looks like they turned the dealer in: “Oh, boy.
There have to be requests that come in every year for you guys to play together. If you wanted to, you could be on package tours or playing midsize halls as a headliner, probably. So what keeps you from accepting those offers?
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