Rob Storms called earlier in the week to invite us to a performance by Todd East, a local pianist who he described as the best musician in Rochester. I wouldn’t even mention that Todd East is blind if it wasn’t for the fact that he sounded exactly like Stevie Wonder and the only song that he did that I recognized was Ray Charles’s “Georgia.”
The performance was in the original Sound Source location on Norris Drive over near Cobbs Hill. We sat by the infamous “Spider” Casorla from Roller Coster Fireworks who was originally in town for the Jewish holidays but has stuck around until his father is well enough to make the trip back to their fireworks outlet in Nevada. A woman sat down next to us and asked if I was a Dodd.
It had been a long time since someone had asked me that. Maybe it was my new brush cut, a hair style that all five boys sported in the days when when my father would have us take our shirts off and stand in a line to get buzzed. She said she went to Holy Trinity with me but was in my sister’s class. Rob was calling this place a hacker space but it’s now called the “Inventors Club”. Conjures up all sorts of possibilities.
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