Stephen Talkhouse
On a Monday night in August in 1991, Amagansett was pretty quiet, and much less busy than it has been in more recent years.
The Stephen Talkhouse was a very small, intimate scene. If you got a table, you felt like you were right on top of the performers. (Even after it was later expanded, the Talkhouse was still a very small and intimate club; in 1991 the Talkhouse was still in its original form.)
A local restaurant there featured a "4 hour salad" - made from ingredients picked out of the ground within 4 hours previous to being served. But that night we went to Mt Fuji - the sushi restaurant in Amagansett - for dinner before the show, and we immediately saw Marty and band members eating there. So we said hello to them and wished them well. They did not disappoint - an intimate musical experience with one of the true leaders of the 1960s San Francisco music scene.
I was really sad to hear of his passing and will always remember seeing him at this show, at which he played a beautiful version of “Summer of Love,” and other great songs…