Letter to Remember Shakti

I was looking at the site and at John's site and I want to thank you all. I have a question. MAybe this will help. Back when I was in school, "College B" a "Visual and Performing Arts" College in Buffalo, NY among different interests in residential education (the Cleveland Quartet was once in residence in the new Ellicott Complex in Amherst, NY) the Buffalo Philharmonic, which the college was indirectly connected, under the direction of Michael Tillson Thomas, held a concert on the "classical" roots of modern music which was half music like Ravel's "Bolero" and the second half was the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which at the time was a woman on keyboards, a bass, I think, John McLaughlin and someone on the drum set. They were all dressed up but the drummer an Indian I think played in basketball sneakers! Anyway they went on to record the piece with the London Symphony I think. Michael Tillson Thomas got in trouble with a drug charge at the airport. He now directs or conducts the San Francisco Symphony (or philharmonic). I have learned that his grandfather, Mr. Thomashevsky, is cited as the "father of Yiddish Theater" which was once in the "Bowery" an early American theater district, that was basically destroyed, the remains of it anyway, in subway construction on Houston Street (pronounced "howston" in NYC). Actor, Walter Mathau, whose Yiddish name was very long and almost unspeakable, started there. Early theater in the 1830's was performed there and today CBGB's, the Amato Opera, and the Bouwerie Theatre are still there. Anyway, I wanted to say, since I could not find the reference to the Buffalo Philharmonic night, I would like to say I enjoyed the performance. I had also seen another performance of the band at Stony Brook University, where I finished one degree in Anthropology, and remember a clear double bass drum set that was blue lit at one solo with (Billy Cobham? or Buddy Miles?) in which you could see though a transparency of drums. "Sat nam" they say at the kundalini ashram, "truth is his name".