A One Man Band!
Posted on September 25, 2004 in events.
After a near fatal motorcycle accident in 1987, Scott Huckabay picked up a guitar for the first time. He attributes much of his miraculous recovery to a year spent in solitude swimming with dolphins and whales off the beaches of Hawaii.
Last week, I saw Scott dedicate his last song as the clock ticked towards Guri's birthday ... and he was indeed a one-man band on the stage:
He glides on to the stage already playing his Taylor electric-acoustic guitar, wild black hair framing a dramatic yet benevolent face. His body moves like a dancer's, the cordless guitar his partner, as he begins to turn in smaller and smaller circles. He touches the strings lightly at first and then more and more passionately. Golden bells tied 'round his ankle shake in percussive accompaniment. He touches the ground in benediction, rises, hand and eyes moving up to the heavens. And then he plays the guitar for the next three hours like no one you've ever heard before.