song 093 : Shell (Nonpoetic Rain: Live on KXLU)

My favorite bass player of all time is Margaret Maldonado. She’s one of the most tortured Cancerians I’ve known and she has good reason to be, a whole list of good reasons and none of them are really her fault, more like an unjust society’s results.

Without Margaret’s help, and her truck, we never would have made it to this gig. Her suffering sometimes spilled over, creating ugly scenes and desperate moments during our friendship, but somehow Ronnie and I had the knack of making her laugh.

So here was the bass player I wanted in my band, the anchor of the band that months ago Danny Goldberg had almost signed, acting as roadie for an all male line up I didn’t even really want to be playing with. We found another way to get our gear home and she took off before we started playing.

I figured she’d listen to at least a little of the set. I knew we were going to do her song Coyote to close. I didn’t think she’d listen all the way to the end. So this short desperate song was for Margaret. In a way the entire set was my funeral for our lost band and a tribute to a friendship I could feel slipping away.

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