My Dad took me to see Harry Chapin at Convention Hall in Asbury Park when I was 10 years old. Pete Seeger was the warm up act. Third row seats. What a great show.
I was in my car backing out of the driveway on the way to a Harry Chapin concert at Eisenhower Park when they interupted the regular radio broadcast with a special news bulletin that Harry had just died in a car crash on the Long Island Expressway.
Harry was not only a great musician and showman, but a wonderful human being as well. He never let fame go to his head and was always concerned with making the world a better place. He was involved in many charitable endeavors and unbenounced to most people was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the Long Island Philharmonic. His fellow Long Islanders truly miss him, in more ways than one.
If you have not heard it check out the live album issues in 1198 of a show he did at The Bottom Line in NYC. I think it is much more representative of Harry's concerts that the "Greatest Stories Live" album that I always felt had too much of a commercial feel to it and lost the personal nature of Harry's shows.
Harry Chapin: The Bottom Line Encore Collection