Harry calculated that this performance would be his 2,000th concert (although no one was quite sure as to which of the three nights was actually the big one). He felt that returning to a small venue in NYC, where he began ten years earlier, would be an appropriate way of celebrating such an event and not a bad way to pump up the new "Sequel" LP. Anyway, the Bottom Line was great place to play. The best french-fries. Too bad it's no longer with us.

And here's the T-shirt to prove it happened.

Here's the very unflattering review from the NY Times that came out a few days after the 2,000th show.

And here's the NY Times review from over ten years earlier of Harry, Big John, guitarist Ron Palmer, and cellist Tim Scott from one of their performances at the Village Gate before they had a record deal. Note the couple of paragraphs from the article regarding a plane hijacking seen just above the Harry review. That was the lead story on the front page that was continued on this page, the twist of fate being that anyone turning to that page to finish reading the hijack story would be led to the Chapin article. Harry took the article and blew it up to poster size and put it in front of the Village Gate. This review was instrumental in leading to a huge bidding was between Columbia Records & Elektra Records.