The Rockpile preview at Bird & Beckett w/ pianist Bob Malone, singer-songwriter, dynamic performer of the highest boogie & woogie, was an ecstatic portent of much more to come & go. Don Prell on bass, &, alas, the drummer’s Nordic surname seemed to elude everyone. My brother Aquarian became transformed before us reading from his Nashville journals about a poet trying to break into song writing in that tough central zone for product & production. It was funny, lacerating, a revelatory work jolted into an intense performance w/ music cues Malone arranged — after all MR & Terri’s tsurris in putting this together, it was sweet & affirming to see Michael strut his stuff, transformed & blissed-out big time. Sweet sweet. The audience cdn’t have been more receptive & uplifted by it all. Over & out. –David Meltzer
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