Lenny Kravitz in 1990 at the Dinwoodie Lounge, which was actually a cafeteria and study hall during the day, at the University of Alberta. About 150 people, Lenny Kravitz on a two foot riser stage, with a 10-man band including full horn section. They tore the roof off for two solid hours while we were within hand-slapping distance from Lenny. In 1990, his music seemed both like something very old and like something brand new. It rocked. He rocked. We rocked.
Fast forward to 2008, to a 7000 seat arena in Kelowna,BC. I’m in row 8 on the floor. Lenny puts on another classic performance and proceeds to walk into the crowd high-fiving everyone. So I got another hand-slap! At the end of the show, I didn’t notice that he flicked his guitar pick into the crowd. What I noticed was that everyone around me started crawling all over the floor! I stood up and the pick had landed between my legs on my chair. Like it was meant to be.
i love telling that story.