http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/10/obit.makeba.ap/index.html

Yeah, I know.  A lot of you have never heard of her.  For those who have, I think we’d all agree that the fact that she died on stage is only fitting.  I saw her once, maybe twenty-five, thirty years ago, and it was an exuberant, uplifting, amazing moment.  I regret that I never saw her again.

who came out to the show last night at the Asylum; we had a good time.  Premiered a new piece –" Get Up" — to open the night, the first piece from a suite of bass tracks that Faro wrote and recorded; I wrote the poem to match them after the fact, a big departure from our typical more loose "let’s see what we’ve each got and see what works together" process.  It was a struggle to work that way, I’ll confess; I think it worked out well, considering we’d never played it live before. 

The set:

Get Up
Celia
Adolescence
Jim Hangs On
Interrogation (the torture piece, considering it’s all about Faro tapping on the pass for the whole piece)
Breathe (just me)
Classic Rock
"Cappricio d’Arabe" by Francisco Tarrega (Faro’s solo, obviously, on classical guitar)
Name
Where Do You Live?

Prior to the show, we spent a fun afternoon with Faro, Capri, Lea, Victor, and Mike McGee eating pizza, drinking REALLY good Scotch (Macallan 1851) and weird peppermint tequila, watching "Reefer Madness: The Musical."  A good time was had by all…

Next, I’ll be at Kafe Kerouac in Columbus OH on Wednesday night, so if you’re around, come by and say hello!