On the Icons: A visual trail of crumbs to help give a better sense of the flow of activities.
	Concourse: Mentor Charles Ventrello’s legendary jazz 4tet invited percussionists Joe Scutella and I to join in 1976. By mid ’77 I was the drummer-half of the rhythm section with bassist Dave Blaetz. I left Concourse in ’83, and I gigged with Dave for forty years.
	Writing: Essays, newspaper articles, columns, poetry, prose, journals, reading appearances, books, and mentions of unpublished works that have nonetheless had an impact.
	Music (various): This is what I did, mainly—Playing drums. Special projects, short-term gigs, guest appearances, one-offs, theatrical ensembles, etcetera!
	Time/Space Ltd: Damun Gracenin’s face, member of Ed Myers’ Performance Art ensemble. Ed... I hardly know what to say. If we did kindergarten together we’d get all A’s in “Works well together.” He refined my way of “gathering the diversity and rearranging it,”—words, gestures, sound, staging. Everything.
	Samuel Beckett: “I filled ten feet of shelf space ... with criticism, unpublished ephemera, video and audio tapes, ... attended symposiums, ... world premieres, produced and directed three programs of the one-act plays, joined the Samuel Beckett Society, subscribed to the Journal of Beckett Studies, and gradually drowned. It was a good death.”
	Miscellaneous Theatre: Sucked in initially as a member of various music ensembles, which somehow led to all sorts of trouble, including tech work, props-mastering, production, directing, and anything else that might keep me involved in such a fulfilling community. (Image is a mask by Brently Michael Davis)
	APE: Lenny Bove, just off a long project with Tom Herman (Pere Ubu) Had this idea about a duo that would play with pre-recorded rhythm and effects tracks.
	Alternative Arts Series: May through October, 1984. I have 80+ productions listed, and I’ve not finished yet. Ed Myers and I, the Co-Producers/Directors of this violent storm, are both lucky to be alive. The image is Ed Myer’s mouth, as used in the AAS logo.
	Kangaroo Court Publishing: In 1984 dear friend Lonnie Sherman had a wayward collection of manuscripts dropped in his lap, and once I realized I was making books, all hell began to break loose. I carried it around the world before collapsing in a heap in late ’89. (Original KCP logo by Barb Finney)
	Field Theory: An amazing improvisational “Jazz Power Trio” that began as a duo of Frank Butrey and I only to be pushed through the roof when we added Dave Blaetz on bass. This band had quite the following; we could slay a concert audience and make a bar-crowd go wild.
	Blood Pudding: Ick (the name)... But the group itself was a blast. Between the quirky Popp songs, the hook-infested Cuneo pop tunes, and Tom Arndt’s thrumming behind me, we made one hell of a crazy rock band.
	DiBello/Bodine: D.A.M.N. / Dance Art Music Network. Rick DiBello and Alethea Bodine mount multi-media stage-works and futuristic musical extravaganzas, and they often invited me in.
	Shen & Bones Performance Group: The Butoh-inspired dance group, child of Lani Fand-Weissbach, whose work I became involved in beginning with DiBello/Bodine, and then moving forward to collaborations wth J.A. Popp’s Weirdo Theatre. (Image of Fand-Weissbach)
	Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp had a dream-band in mind and we all said yes. The main 4tet of Popp, Gray, Cornelius, and I work like limbs on a single body. (JAPWT mole-skin logo from a J.A. Popp graphic)
	if/then: I introduced myself to guitarist Ian Smith by telling him we had a gig and that we were not to give it another thought until it was time to play. It worked, and it keeps working, a pure start-from-zero improv duo that often adds a 3rd or 4th guest to keep things lively. Circuit-board graphic is as right as can be.
	Sturgis Nikides and the Electric Assassins: I’m still not sure how this happened. It was all good though!
	MONSTRO: I was so thrilled to be invited into this Ian Smith project. Ian on guitar and laptop and spoken mayhem. Joe Rumball on bass. A whale of a band.
	The Treble-Makers: The first cover band I’d been involved with in 40 years. Willie Cotter on guitar and vocals, Ray Reilly on bass, and a set-list of mid-’60s rock’n’roll.
	FALL RISK: A dream band! Joseph Allen Popp on guitars and effects boards and Freddy Krugger on bass (finally!!!). Intense, Beastly, Drone-Hop Rock’n’Roll Improv on Wheels.

1956 : : :

1956.12.25 • My own private Academy of the Performing Arts, Part 1

Christmas, 1956. I’m 3½ years old, setting up my first drum set. My first teachers were my Aunt Carol (who made a living doing big band and country western and wedding gigs down in Florida well into her sixties), and my Uncle Dickie, one of my hometown’s most popular small combo players, whose legs I’d guess those are on the lower left. My Grandfather, Dick Abbey, always had the Pall Mall going.

1958 : : :

1958.00.00 • My own private Academy of the Performing Arts, Part 2

Spring, 1958. My first theatrical role, just a few months after my fifth birthday. It was a harrowing production of Old McDonald at Perry Elementary School. I was cast as one of the doomed chicks, a great experience— being involved in such a tight ensemble of young talent. (I’m front row, second from left.) My Grandfather, Dick Abbey, was outside, just below the window, sitting in the sun with a Pall Mall going.

1959 : : :

1959.00.00 • My own private Academy of the Performing Arts, Part 3

Early Summer, 1959. I was six years old, and had moved on quickly, taking on a broad spectrum of roles now, mastering in quick succession song and dance (on the hassock in my ’wears singing “Sixteen Tons” in the voice of Tennessee Ernie Ford), classic theatre (as one of Thyestes’ sons, on a platter with Billy Mumy in his first stage role), and comedy (creating the legendary “Smart-Ass Cowboy Akimbo”). My mother is pictured here doing makeup. My sister is about to drown herself out of envy. My Grandfather, Dick Abbey, who was my Stanislavski, could hardly breathe unless he had a Pall Mall going.

1970 : : :

1970.01.02 • My own life, at last

January 2, 1970. I was sixteen years old, and this is an early and quite positive review that I received while on a long impromptu road trip fearlessly embarked upon in the dead of winter. My mother (“Let me tell you about my mother...”) had destroyed a large stack of my vinyl records, torn down all of my Hendrix posters, and destroyed whatever other dear things were at hand, all in response to my not being able to find a TV dinner hidden somewhere in the dark corners of the freezer. (I was probably a little high at the time.) She had ended her tirade with a flourish, screaming, “Either get rid of this shit, or GET OUT!” So I walked out the door.

Less than 48 hours later, I was in the snowy mountain backroads of Virginia, on my way to being arrested late the next afternoon
in Chattanooga, on the Tennessee-Georgia border, where I would then spend eight days locked up in a juvenile detention center.

After thus asserting myself, my life would become much more interesting.

1971.00.00 • My own private Academy of the Performing Arts, Part 4

Deep Summer, 1971. My first Performance Art piece. It was conceptual, okay? “Man and Stick.” I can’t remember how old I was, am I in Panama City? Something-something primitive. There’s a method here, but too much sun, and a large Korean is teaching us to poke pin-holes in raw eggs and suck them out of the shell. I needed a break, I had come far, in a circuitous sort of meandering, conflagratory... configuration... Of a path. A winding path... Oh, to hell with you. My Grandfather, Dick Abbey, who had always had a Pall Mall going, had died of a heart attack when I was twelve.

1976 : : :

1976.00.00 • Concourse, The Sextet One day long, long ago in a land very close to here, Dave Blaetz was walking along West 8th between Walnut and Chestnut Streets, and he heard a most horrible and appealing din coming down from a window or out through a door, and upon investigating, he discovered Joe Scutella and me having at an apartment full of percussion and flutes and guitars and Fisher-Price™ musical toys. Once Charles Ventrello and the other members of Concourse were informed, they invited us in. —Dave and Joe Scutella searching for pulse tracks  at the West 8th Street 2nd floor loft, May of ’77.

The Many Moods of Concourse. The original Quartet  morphed into a very original Sextet in late 1976.  Dave Blaetz—new members Joe Scutella and Rick Lopez—  Charlie Fisher, Bob Laskey, and Charles Ventrello.  At the 5th Street loft rehearsal space, ca. late ’76 or early ’77.  Photos: Ted Kull

  In addition to the concerts listed below, there are recordings of several rehearsals and jam sessions
  spanning 1976.11.10 through 1979.05.18 listed here.

1977 : : :

  1977.02.20 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

Charles Ventrello (tenor sax, flute, whistle), Bob Laskey (guitar, woodblock, acoustic guitar)
Doug Werner (tamboura, finger cymbals, bells, misc. percussion, bells, dhana, wood agogos)
Dave Blaetz (bass, tuning-fork, bow, drums, acoustic guitar), Charles Fisher (drums, woodblock)
Joe Scutella (dhana, voice, mrindangam, slide whistle, flexitone, bamboo flute, woodblocks, bells, chimes, tambourine, sleigh bells,
 finger cymbals, agogos, shakers, intro & acoustic guitar-6, “Ice Cream!")
Rick Lopez (Israeli tamboury, cuica, agogos, wood flute, buoy, afuche, wood agogos, tambourine, bells, chimes, cowbells, textures,
 mrindangam, finger cymbals, woodblock, goombah, buoy)

Concourse changed gears: Doug Werner appears in early February and would stay through August, while Charlie Fisher disappeared in early March (last known date was 77.03.12), with RL taking over the drum chair.   (Back) Dave Blaetz, Bob Laskey, RL;   (Front) Charles Ventrello, Doug Werner, Joe Scutella   Photo by Ted Kull {RL Archive, Master Tape (no #), Sd-A+B}

  1977.02.26 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #4, Sd-A}

1977.03.06 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse March 6, 1977 / Unitarian Church, Erie, PA  1. Peace One/Chant    4:50 Charles Ventrello (flute, voice), Bob Laskey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Charles Fisher (drums) Joe Scutella (Israeli tamboury, dhana, voice), Rick Lopez (tambourine, flexitone, finger cymbals)  Lopez & Scutella at the 5th Street loft rehearsal space, ca. 1977  —Photo: Ted Kull {RL Archive, Master Tape #1, Sd-B}

1977.03.12 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse March 12, 1977 / Antler’s , Erie, PA  1. Boogie Woogie Waltz (J. Zawinul)  2. Blues for Calder (Ventrello)  3. Bambuti (Ventrello)    16:00    10:00     9:55 Charles Ventrello (tenor sax, soprano sax, baritone sax), Bob Laskey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Charles Fisher (drums), Joe Scutella (tambourine, shakers, goombah, cowbell, agogos, coffee can, mrindangam, slide whistle, flexitone, bells, wood flute, voice, dhana, Israeli tamboury), Rick Lopez (buoy, spring guiro, agogos, finger cymbals, tambourine, afuche) Dave Blaetz strings up, at the 5th Street loft rehearsal space, ca. 1977 Photo: Ted Kull {RL Archive, Master Tape #1, Sd-B, trk 1 + Master Tape #4, Sd-B trks 2,3}

  1977.04.00 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse: Armed Robbery [Documentary Soundtrack]

 1. unknown compositions    30:00

—“Armed Robbery was an original drama written, produced and directed by Tony Machi for a premiere on PBS/WQLN-TV for Law Day 1977.
 It won a PA Bar Association award that year and was played in high schools locally for many years after that. Stylistically, it predated
 “Law & Order” with its procedural format and documentary feel. ... It also had in its cast a young prosecutor who played himself and went
 on to have a pretty illustrious career of his own in politics—Tom Ridge.” —Tony Machi correspondence

{RL Archive, Tape, Sd-A+B / C-45}

  1977.04.10 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #8, Sd-A}

  1977.05.05 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #9, Sd-A+B}

  1977.05.14 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #8, Sd-B}

  1977.05.28 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #11, Sd-A+B}

1977.06.23 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse June 23, 1977 / Summer Arts Festival, Perry Square Main Stage, Erie, PA  1. Spiral Dance (K. Jarrett)  2. Peace One (J. McLaughlin)  3. Calder’s Blues (Ventrello)  4. There Comes a Time (T. Williams)  5. Nefertiti (W. Shorter)  6. In a Silent Way (J. Zawinul/Miles)  7. Love Samba (M. Tyner)  8. Boogie Woogie Waltz (J. Zawinul)    7:40    8:35    8:35   10:05    5:00   11:15    6:50   13:00 Charles Ventrello (tenor sax, soprano sax, flute, voice, cowbell), Bob Laskey (guitar, voice) Doug Werner (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, tamboura, voice), Dave Blaetz (bass, voice, woodblock) Joe Scutella (percussion, voice, cymbal rolls, drums-8), Rick Lopez (drums, percussion-8)

{RL Archive, Master Tape #12, Sd-A+B}

  1977.08.13 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #15, Sd-A}

  1977.08.18 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #13, Sd-A}

  1977.08.25 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #13, Sd-A}

  1977.09.11 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #14, Sd-B; The Oil City Derrick Sep 10 p.4}

  1977.09.29 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

 1. Little Niles (Ventrello)

{RL Archive, Master Tape #10, Sd-A}

  1977.10.14 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

{RL Archive, Master Tape #16, Sd-A}

1977.10.18 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse October 18, 1977 / Smuggler’s Wharf, Erie, PA  1. Boogie Woogie Waltz (J. Zawinul)  2. There Comes a Time (T. Williams)  3. Freedom Jazz Dance (Eddie Harris)  4. In A Silent Way (J. Zawinul/M. Davis)  5. Freedom Jazz Dance—reprise (Eddie Harris)  11:15    —   6:25   8:00   3:30 Charles Ventrello (tenor sax-3,5, soprano sax-1,2,4), Bob Laskey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Joe Scutella (percussion), Rick Lopez (drums) Bob Laskey, Dave Blaetz, Charles Ventrello Rick Lopez, Joe Scutella {RL Archive, Master Tape #16, Sd-B; Photo by Ted Kull}

1978 : : :

  1978.01.30 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

 1. compositions ...

{RL Archive, Master Tape #19, Sd-B, C-90}

  1978.03.17 • “Murray #1” [Published Work]

 Short Story: “Murray #1,” by Rick Lopez
 (I was channeling an overwrought version of Vladimir Nabokov.
 The real one used to bring home beautiful butterflies; I was bringing home a baby bumblebee.)

  1978.09.09 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

 1. compositions ...

{RL Archive; The Expositor Sep 9 p.19; Radio & TV Live Simulcast}

1979 : : :

  1979.03.03 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

 1... compositions ... (3 Sets)

{RL Archive, Master Tape #23, Sd-A+B; + Master Tape #21, Sd-A—2 C-90s}

—Photo of Joe Scutella, by Ted Kull

1979.05.12 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse May 12, 1979 / Carriage House, Erie, PA  1. compositions ... (1 Set) Charles Ventrello (tenor sax, soprano sax, flute), Bob Laskey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Joe Scutella (percussion), Rick Lopez (drums) {RL Archive, Master Tape #21, Sd-B + Master Tape #22, Sd-A—C-90}   1979.05.18 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse May 18, 1979 / Sherlock’s, Erie, PA  1. compositions ... 2 Sets Charles Ventrello (tenor sax, soprano sax, flute), Bob Laskey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Joe Scutella (percussion), Rick Lopez (drums) {RL Archive, Master Tape #22, Sd-A+B, C-90}

1980 : : :

1981 : : :

   1981.04.23 • “Company is Good Company Indeed” [Published Work]

April 23, 1981 / In the Erie-Times Showcase  Book Review of Company, by Samuel Beckett {RL Archive; Erie-Times Showcase, April 23, 1981 p.22}

1981.12.04 • quaqua Productions: Krapp’s Last Tape + Not I December 4, 1981, 8:00pm / Unitarian Church, Erie, PA  Krapp’s Last Tape: Eric Beringer as Krapp  Not I: Linda Gamble as Mouth    Rick Lopez, Director & Producer, quaqua Productions  Ed Myers, Assistant Producer, Assistant Everything Eric Beringer, in Krapp’s Last Tape Krapp’s back room, with its wine bottles and candlelight and crib sheets. {RL Archive}

  1981.12.06 + 12.07 • quaqua Productions: Krapp’s Last Tape + Not I

 Krapp’s Last Tape: Eric Beringer as Krapp
 Not I: Linda Gamble as Mouth

—This was the first performance or production ever mounted at 1505 State, ClaySpace.
 (Later known as The ArtWorks Building, and now PACA.)

{Video & Audio Recordings; RL Archive}

Below: Eric Beringer, before and after.

1982 : : :

  1982.07.10 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse

 Charles Ventrello (tenor sax, soprano sax, flute), Sheldon Peterson (guitar), Kayle Brecher-Kull (voice),
 Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

1982.07.11 • Ed Myers: HEY! July 11, 1982, 9:00pm / ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA —Erie Art Center’s New Art Series,  HEY! / A Performance by Ed Myers: Myers, Dee Cavitt,   Damun Gracenin, Randall McCaslin, Fran Resch, Al Fernetti,   Odin Pratte, Shaina Pratte (performers)  Rick Lopez (Asst. Producer, lighting), Dave Blaetz (voice, sound),  Ted Kull (puck drops engineer) ← ← Damun Gracenin & Ed Myers {Program; Doug Reider Erie Times Showcase June 17, 1982, p.3}

  1982.08.29 + 08.30 • quaqua Productions: Not I + That Time

Not I: Linda Gamble as Mouth  That Time: Jerry Wilson as Listener  Produced and Directed by Rick Lopez, quaqua Productions;  Production Assistant: Ed Myers Jerry Wilson, in That Time. Originally scheduled as a Play and That Time double-bill. From the program: “I lost two of the three actors who were to star in Play just two weeks past. Due to the impossibilty of recasting on such short notice, I’ve postponed that part of the production. ... Beckett once forbade That Time and Not I from performance on the same bill. The obvious similarities between the two will be explanation enough as to his reasons (he has stated that they are of the ‘same family.’) I see no alternative, apart from cancellation; the fact that the second performance of Not I last December was postponed due to illness has also contributed to my decision. Hopefully, the opportunity to reach a wider audience with the piece will override my uneasiness with performing them together against the wishes of the author. My humble apologies to Mr. Beckett.” —R. Lopez {Doug Reider Erie Times Showcase June 17, 1982, p.3; Program}

  1982.11.11 • “The Expectation-Shattering Originality of Italo Calvino” [Published Work]

 Book Review: if on a winter’s night a traveller, by Italo Calvino

1983 : : :

  1983.01.26 to 01.30 + 1983.02.02 to 02.06 • Silver Apple of the Moon

 Silver Apple of the Moon (World Premiere)
 The Cast: Jim Skiff, John Skiff, Carolyn Brust, Bill Robbins, Lili Pintea, Ed O'Keefe, Stephanie Marra,
 Judy Hatalsky, Sean McHugh, Joey Fiorilli, and Denise DiGiorgio
 The Orchestra:
 Jim Skiff (guitar, voice), Pam Verity-Harris (violin, mandolin, dulcimer), Tony Costa (clarinet, recorder)
 Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (percussion)
 
 Director: Paul Iddings; Music & Lyrics: Jim Skiff; Book: Igor Stalsky
 —Sadie Award, Best Musical 1983

  1983.03.00 / Sometime during early March of 1983, Lenny Bove makes a phone call, and APE is born...

  1983.03.23 to 1983.03.26 • Epidemia

 Written & Directed by Lucian Zabramny
 The Cast: Mark V. Moorehead, Larry Keiser, John Skiff, Anita Canzian, Marjorie Styer,
 William Steckler, Stan Tuznik, Ron Strecker, Mary Rinn, and Kiki Zambroski
 Live sound: Pam Verity-Harris (violin, voice), Rick Lopez (percussion); Original music: Jim Skiff, Pam Verity-Harris, Dave Blaetz, Rick Lopez
 —World Premiere

 1983.04.10 • APE Escape!

April 10, 1983, 8:00pm / ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA  1. Louie, Louie  2. Industrial Dance Pt. IA  3. Industrial Dance Pt. II  4. Welcome to the Marines  5. Maximum Pressure On  6. New Way  7. New Instrumental  8. Never Look Back  9. Wounded Spirit  10. “T” in Trouble  11. Tell Me a Story  12. Spaceship Yeah!  13. AGE  14. Give Me a Reason                             Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archives; Recording; handbill; Erie Star Nov-Dec 1983 p.10}

    1983 Erie Art Center’s Summer Arts Series   : : :   June 5th to September 25th (27 productions)

  1983.06.08 to 06.10 + 06.13 & 06.14 • quaqua Productions: Film + Play

An Evening of Samuel Beckett’s Theatre / Program III

 Film: starring Buster Keaton; Directed by Alan Schneider
  
 Play: starring Randy Murzynski as M, Anita Canzian as W1, Carolyn Brust as W2, Jim Skiff as Light
  Director & Producer: Rick Lopez, quaqua Productions
  Sets & Lighting design/construction: Ed Myers, Rick Lopez, Jim Skiff, Anita Canzian, The John Bairds (Jr. and Sr.)
  Makeup: Kayle Brecher-Kull
  “PRINT,” a lobby installation by John Baird

John Skiff holding the build; Carolyn Brust in the finished urn.

{RL Archive, Program; Susan Sipple Erie Times Showcase June 2, 1983, p.14; Audio Recordings of Play}

   1983.06.18 • APE + Time/Space Ltd

 Time/Space Ltd: Ed Myers, unknown others...
  
 APE: Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions), Rick DiBello (guitars), Rick Lopez (drums)

1983.06.19 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse + Dr. Leroy Williams June 19, 1983, 8:00pm / Erie Art Center’s Summer Series, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA  Charles Ventrello (tenor sax, soprano sax, flute), Sheldon Peterson (guitar),   Kayle Brecher-Kull (voice), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums),   Dr. Leroy Williams (trombone, electronics, Composition) {RL Archive, Program; Michael Plasha Erie Times Showcase June 2, 1983, p.12}

  1983.06.24 • Time/Space Ltd: Untidaled

 Untidaled: Damun Gracenin, Anita Canzian, Fred Behrendt, Tim Parsons, Randall McCaslin, Fran Resch, Lily Pintea, Kim Chitester
  Ed Myers (director), Rick Lopez (lighting), Dave Blaetz (sound), Marty Renkis (water management), Tim Parsons (rigging)

{RL Archive, program}

  1983.07.22 • Four Performances by Time/Space Ltd

{RL Archive, program}

  1983.08.04 to 08.06 • “A Weekend of Writers and Poets at ClaySpace” [Published Work]

(Article will appear in new window.)

  1983.08.13 • Time/Space Ltd: The Gallery

 The Gallery: Ed Myers, Michelle Bergeron, Damun Gracenin, Anita Canzian, Fred Behrendt, Lily Pintea, one unknown
  Rick Lopez (Asst. Producer, lighting), Dave Blaetz (sound)

{RL Archive, program; Erie Times-New June 23 “Showcase”}

  1983.08.20 • APE

{Gig poster; Video}

 • 1983.09.02 - APE: Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions), Rick Lopez (drums) /
    Electric Banana, Pittsburgh, PA [Gig poster]
    —Double-bill with The Shunts
 • 1983.09.09 - APE w/ Rick DiBello: Lenny Bove, Rick DiBello (guitars), Rick Lopez / Oliver’s, Erie, PA [Rick DiBello Archive, poster]
 • 1983.09.25 - APE: Lenny Bove and Rick Lopez / 9:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
    [Erie Times Showcase September 15, 1983]

  1983.11.02 to 11.04 • John Osborne’s LUTHER

 • 1983.11.11 - APE: Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions), Rick Lopez (drums) /
    “Battle of the Bands,” 9:30pm, Campus Center, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
    [Michael Plasha, Erie Times News Showcase November 10, 1983; Gig poster]
    —On a double-bill with Generic Beat: Dan Smith (vocals, percussion), Mark Emhoff (guitar, voice),
    Chris Eugenio (bass, voice), Roger Prehoda (drums, voice)



Next day’s headline: “APE takes a Beat-down.” —Photo by Roger Prehoda


 • 1983.11.12 - APE: Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions), Rick Lopez (drums) /
    Oliver’s , Erie, PA [Erie Times News Showcase November 10, 1983, box ad]
    —Double-bill with Dream Factory (Pittsburgh)



	Lenny Bove making ready.		Lenny Bove speaking.

  —Photos by Roger Prehoda

• 1983.11.30 - APE w/ Rick DiBello:     Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions),     Rick DiBello (guitars), Rick Lopez (drums) / Sherlock’s, Erie, PA     [Erie Star Nov-Dec, 1983 p.10]     —Double-bill with Dream Factory (Pittsburgh)  • 1983.12.07 - APE w/ Rick DiBello: as above / 9:00pm, Sherlock’s, Erie, PA     [RL Archives, gig poster; Erie Star Nov-Dec 1983, calendar]     —Double bill with Bangorillas          In a prescient bit of graphic play,     I use Maria Callas in a gig poster     20 years before getting her.

1984 : : :

  1984.03.21 to 1984.03.25 • American Dream & Zoo Story

 Ted Martin’s Milkwood Productions Presents Edward Albee’s “American Dream” & “Zoo Story”

 American Dream: with Joe Larraway (Mommy), Boyd Dolan (Daddy), Doris Becker (Grandma),
 Janet Dumeyer (Mrs. Barker), Brent Plaff (the young man)
 Zoo Story: with David MacNeill, Father C.R. Schmitt
  Sound technician: Rick Lopez

The preview articles begin to appear. RL saying something outlandish, again; Ed Myers raising an eyebrow. Feature by Tom Weber, Erie Times-News Showcase, April 19, 1984 p.3

The Alternative Arts Series : : : June 2 to October 7 (over 80 productions)

Rick Lopez and Ed Myers heading into the zone. Erie Times-News “Showcase,” April 19, 1984

Mr. Busy working the phones. Photo by Barb Finney

The AAS logo: Ed Myers trying to explain something to Meredith Monk. After five months of preparatory insanity, the series quietly got underway mid-morning on Saturday, June 2, when theatre director Ted Martin threw open the doors on his acting workshop. And a week later the first production by Kangaroo Court Publishing.

• 1984.06.02 - Theatre Workshop: Ted Martin, 11-week program (through 1984.08.11) /
  10:00am - 2:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.06.09 (1) - Theatre Workshop: Ted Martin, 11-week program (through 1984.08.11) /
  10:00am - 2:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

   1984.06.09 (2) • Kangaroo Court Poetry Readings + ÜRSONATA

 Readings: Lonnie Sherman, Ron Androla, Fred Behrendt, + Special guest: Dierdre Baldwin
 Publication: Issue #1 of Kangaroo Court—(Rick Lopez & Lonnie Sherman, Publishers/Co-Editors)
  
 ÜRSONATA: Lenny Bove performs ÜRSONATA, a phonetic tone-poem by Kurt Schwitters
 —4 Movements: Rondo / Largo / Scherzo Trio Scherzo / Presto Cadenza and Finale

“This is Mr. Bove’s first public performance of the piece...”

—Photos by Chuck Shearer

{Ürsonata Recording; Erie Times Showcase June 7, 1984 p.3; Program; The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers}

    1984.06.09 (3) • Kangaroo Court #1 (The Anthology) [Small Press Publication]

Edition of 350 copies, 5.5x8.5, 54pp. / ISBN 0-940381-00-1, ©1984 June 9, 1984 / Kangaroo Court Publishing, Erie, PA —Nuts & bolts-bound paperback, tipped in plate on cover.  Published, Designed, and Edited by Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman.   Contributors:  —Ron Androla  —Gene Avery  —Fred Behrendt  —Chandler Brossard  —Charles Bukowski  —Steve Doering  —Jacques DuLumiere  —Chuck Eschweiler   —Haywood Jackson —William R. Johnson —Arthur Winfield Knight —Ligi —Rick Lopez —Patrick J. McKinnon —Jack Micheline —Todd Moore   —Kurt Nimmo —Kirk Robertson —Ruthann Robson —Lonnie Sherman —Belinda Subraman —Jon Varga —Richard Wilmarth —Paul J. Wolfe  Above: Kangaroo Court #1, front cover.  Below: One of the four illustrations by Ed Myers. —“Baby Bird Portfolio” by Ed Myers —Cover and Title Page by Cheryl Knox, from an etching in Boy Traders in Australia. —Binding Concept, John Baird —Translation of three Jacque DuLumiere poems, + Bio by Terry Cuthbert, Oxford (UK) —Inside Back Cover is a page torn from a notebook by Jack Micheline and handed  to Ron Androla after Micheline’s reading at ClaySpace, August 6, 1983. —“Published with original typos, punctuation, missplelligns, etc.—as received.” {RL Archive}

• 1984.06.10 (1) - Fran Resch Installation Art: “Channeled Frustration” (through July 1) / 7:00pm, ClaySpace Gallery, Erie, PA /
  [Erie Times Showcase July 7, p.19; The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.06.10 (2) - Erie Jazz Co-Op: Reach with Frank Butrey (electric guitar), Basil Ronzitti (piano), Charles Ventrello (reeds),
  Henry Jacobson (bass), Floyd Williams (drums) / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [Erie Times-News Showcase June 7, 1984 p.4; The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.06.12 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

1984.06.13 • APE June 13, 1984, 8:00pm / ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA  1... compositions Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions), Rick Lopez (drums) {Recording, Lenny Bove Archive; The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers}

• 1984.06.14 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.06.15 (1) - Theatre Workshop: Ted Martin, 11-week program (through 1984.08.11) /
  10:00am - 2:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.06.15 (2) + 06.17 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: (unknown group) / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

• 1984.06.22 - Theatre Workshop: Ted Martin, 11-week program (through 1984.08.11) /
  10:00am - 2:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.06.24 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: Crossover featuring Dave Calabrese / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.06.26 - Harold Pinter Screenplay Film Fest: The Servant (1963), starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Patrick Magee /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.06.27 + 06.28 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

 1984.06.29 Electronic Music by Dr. Leroy S. Williams and Kayle Brecher-Kull + ÜRSONATA

  Hallwalk: (Brecher-Kull) a Piece for Tape

  Urban Walk: (Brecher-Kull) a Piece for Tape & Percussion,
  Rick Lopez (toms, cymbals, organ bellows), Kayle Brecher-Kull (slot drum, fry-pans, saw)

  Inner City: (Williams) a Piece for Tape

  Silver Wind Song: (Williams) a Piece for Tape & Clarinet / David Sublette (clarinet)

  Questar Too: (Brecher-Kull) Electronic Verse in Sections

  ÜRSONATA: Lenny Bove performs a phonetic tone-poem by Kurt Schwitters,
  —w/ Introduction by Diane Bove

{RL archive; Program insert; The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers}

1984.06.30 - Style Wars (Screening of the “Urban Art Film") + Break-Dancing Performances 3:00 & 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA  Master of Ceremonies: Parris J. Baker  Ground Control: Al Vicary, Frank Vicary, Harry Vogel, and John Zadorozny  Ultimate Chill: Brian Caruthers and Kenny McCoy [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

• 1984.06.30 - Fran Resch: Artist’s Closing Reception for “Channeled Frustration” (Exhibit June 10th through July 1st) /
  7:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

   1984.07.01 • Time/Space Ltd: HEY! + James Vredevoogd Lecture

 James Vredevoogd / Lecture: A presentation on Performance Art
 —Professor of Fine Arts at Edinboro University and founder of the Performance Ensemble
  
 HEY! / A Performance by Ed Myers: Ed Myers, Mark Tanenbaum, Ed Hess, John Baird, Anita Canzian, Vic Pancerev, unknown others... (performers)
 Rick Lopez (Asst. Producer, sound), Dave Blaetz (sound design), Fred Behrendt (voice (introductory recording), lights)
 Dierdre Baldwin (Soft Shoepoetry recording), Ted Kull (puck-drops engineer),
 Parris J. Baker (production assistant), Cindy Behrendt, Ed Hess, Ed Myers, and The Erie Civic Ballet (costumes)

—James Vredevoogd, addressing the moment. With several audience members identified, perhaps incorrectly.

—John Baird, Vic Pancerev, unknown audience member

{RL archive; Program; The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers}

• 1984.07.03 - Harold Pinter Screenplay Film Fest: The Pumpkin Eater (1964), starring Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch,
  James Mason, and Maggie Smith / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.07 (1) - Michelle Bergeron: “New Works,” Gallery Installation, through July 28 / Opening, 8:00pm, ClaySpace Gallery, Erie, PA
  [“Self-Expression Comes Alive,” by Fred Behrendt, Erie Times-News Showcase, July 12, 1984;
  The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.07 (2) - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

  1984.07.08 • Charles Ventrello’s Concourse w/ Rick Lopez

• 1984.07.10 - Harold Pinter Screenplay Film Fest: The Caretaker (1964), starring Donald Pleasance, Alan Bates, Robert Shaw /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

    1984.07.13 + 07.14 • Sun and Moon: The Stonecutter’s Veil

• 1984.07.15 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: The Jack Todd Trio, with Jack Todd (Hammond B-03), Frank Butrey (guitar), Tim Driscoll (drums) /
  Concert Series, AAS Resident Group; Erie Times-News Showcase, July 15, p.13F] / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.17 - Harold Pinter Screenplay Film Fest: The Birthday Party (1968), starring Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee,
  and Dandy Nichols / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.18 - Performance Art Forum: Pieces by Tom Vredevoogd (Performance Ensemble, Edinboro University),
  Fran Resch (Allegheny College), and Ben Bainbridge (New York University) / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.19 - Local Film-makers: Regional film artists screenings / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

1984.07.21 - The Erie Art Museum Presents: Anthony Braxton Solo

• 1984.07.22 - Rakish Paddy: An Evening of Traditional Irish Music with Pam Verity, Peggy Fowler, John Dreibelbis,
  and John McCutcheon / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.24 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.25 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: The Alan Perry and Susan Grey Group / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.26 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.07.27 + 07.28 - Snow White: Parris Baker’s Black Ensemble of Performing Arts—An adaptation of the classic Disney Tale,
  starring Bayfront Ballet Director Sharon Battles, “And The Seven Dwarves are played by break dancers.” /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

1984.07.29 • APE / AAS Benefit Concert I July 29, 1984, 8:00pm / ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA   Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions),   Rick Lopez (drums) {RL archive; Program; The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers}

  84.07.31 • Field Theory

• 1984.07.31 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.08.01 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: (unknown group) / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.08.03 - Performance Art: Pat Saunders, “Original pieces, including Negatively Speaking and Ceramics Demonstration.” /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

    84.08.04 • Kangaroo Court + Kayle Brecher-Kull + Field Theory

 Kangaroo Court: Readings by Lonnie Sherman and Fred Behrendt
 
 Kayle Brecher-Kull: Two Electronic Pieces: Brecher-Kull (voice, pre-recorded tapes), Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 
 Field Theory: Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

—“The whole deal painted as it happens by artist John Baird” [...on a nine-yard long canvas.] / John Baird: Wallpaper Works

• 1984.08.05 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: Preston Williams’ Nomads, with Williams (reeds), Bob Long (guitar),
  Ken Cornelius (bass), Everett Eighmy (drums) / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

1984.08.06 - AAS Benefit Concert II / PUNK: The D.T.s, Skwat, Thirsty Brats / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers] Photo by Mark Tanenbaum    1984.08.10 • APE August 10, 1984, 8:00pm / ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA   Lenny Bove (bass, keyboards, vocals, tape loops, rhythm tracks, compositions),   Rick Lopez (drums) The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers {RL archive; Program} 1984.08.11 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak, Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers] 1984.08.12 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: Mark Gridley Trio (Cleveland), with Gridley (flute), Bob Fraser (guitar), Mike Wahl (bass) / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers] 1984.08.13 - AAS Benefit Concert III—NEW WAVE / Plaid Teeth: Jack Dillen, Ken Forest, Ben Forest; The Bedrocks; Rick DiBello and the DiBelltones / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

• 1984.08.15 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

  1984.08.16 to 08.18 • Zoo Story + Just Another Detroit Jew

{RL Archive, Program}

• 1984.08.19 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: Allegheny Jazz Consortium (Meadville), with Chuck Musone (piano),
  Becky Musone (bass, trumpet, voice), David Sublette (clarinet), Floyd Williams (drums) / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.08.20 - AAS Benefit Concert IV ROCK: Ventura, Generic Beat, Hit'n'Run / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.08.21 - Recent German Films Series: Flaming Hearts (Walter Bockmayer and Rolf Buhrmann, 1978),
  presented by Barb Finney, Erie Art Museum / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.08.22 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen, Rich Tryzbiak,
  Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

  1984.08.23 to 08.25 • Zoo Story + Just Another Detroit Jew / Guest-Director Series

{RL Archive, Program}

• 1984.08.26 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: 18 Strings, with Frank Butrey (guitar), Sheldon Peterson (guitar), Brian Fels (guitar) /
  Concert Series, AAS Resident Group / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.08.27 - AAS Benefit Concert V / METAL: Pyro, Satin Steele, Hammersmith / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.08.28 - Recent German Films Series: Marie (Hans Geisendorfer), presented by Barb Finney, Erie Art Museum /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.08.30 & 08.31 - Rene Vicary’s Calliope w/ Susan Sielheimer Iervolina / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  {Program; Event flyer; The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers}

  —Act I—Susan Sielheimer Iervolina / Bharata Natyam:
   SITAR, w/ Doug Werner (sitar);
   ALARIPPU;
   SABDAM, w/ Susan Sielheimer Iervolina (dance), Doug Werner (sitar);
   Firebird (music by Igor Stravinsky), w/ Ken Morrison (choreography and dance), Jacqueline Illig (dance);
   A Bird From The Sea (based on Symphony for a Seabird from The Way of Chuang Tsu by Thomas Merton, w/ Nancy Miodus,
   Patty Falkewitz, and Rene Vicary (dance), Cori Terry (choreography), Leo Estes (Narrator);
   Lifecycle (Music by Electric Light Orchestra), w/ Jacqueline Illig (choreography and dance), Ken Morrison, Patty Falkewitz,
   Don Halquist, and Krisy Parker (dance)

  —Calliope Dance Company:
   Anti-frantic Alternative (music by Stephen Halpern), w/ Don Halquist, Patty Falkewitz, Ken Morrison, Jacqueline Illig,
   and Vic Pancerev (dance), Rene Vicary (choreography);
   Chacun N'est Pas Aise Qui Danse (music by Paul Winter Consort and Terje Rypdal), w/ Rene Vicary (choreography and dance),
   Patty Falkewitz, Jacqueline Illig, Ken Morrison, and Sarah Russell (dance), Stephen Halpern (music);
   I Have Food (music by Lenny Bove / Tuba’s 14s), w/ Don Halquist, Patty Falkewitz, Ken Morrison, Jacqueline Illig,
   Krisy Parker, and Vic Pancerev (dance), Rene Vicary (choreography);
   Consider The Source (music by ZZ Top), w/ Don Halquist, Patty Falkewitz, Ken Morrison, Jacqueline Illig,
   Krisy Parker, and Vic Pancerev (dance);
   TILLIANA, w/ Susan Sielheimer Iervolina (dance), Doug Werner (sitar)
    
   Director: Rene Vicary; Lighting: Ed Myers; Sound: Russ Illig; Production Manager: Steve Sucato;
   Production Crew: John Catalino and Mel Skol; Costume Design: Rene Vicary, Jacqueline Illig, and Patricia Plasko
• 1984.09.01 - In All Seriousness: Jim Gandolfo, Ralph Pontillo, Mark Tannenbaum, John Stockhausen,
  Rich Tryzbiak, Gail McGauhey, Chuck Smith, occasional others... / Comedy Improv, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.02 - John Baird: “Wallpaper Works” “September 2, and other dates...”
  (See 1984.08.04) Erie Times Showcase July 7, p.19
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.04 - Recent German Films Series: Willi-Busch Report (Nikolaus Schilling, 1979),
  presented by Barb Finney, Erie Art Museum / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.08 - AAS Benefit Concert VI / BLUEGRASS & COUNTRY: (unknown groups) /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.09 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: The Frank Luria Group, (unknown personnel)/ Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.11 - Recent German Films Series: Strong-Man Ferdinand (Alexander Kluge, 1976),
  presented by Barb Finney, Erie Art Museum / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.14 + 09.15 - Guest-Director Series: Vanities, Directed by Ben Agresti, with Mary Beth Finke, Carla Granato, and Tammy Roche /
  Kitty Dilley (Assistant Director), Ed Myers (Lighting), Monica Williams, Barb Miodus, Barbara Rickloff,
  and Paul Rickloff (Technical Assistance) / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.16 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: Concourse & the Perry String Quartet, Charles Ventrello (reeds, Arranger),
  Sheldon Peterson (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Kayle Brecher-Kull (voice), Matt Ferguson (drums);
  Perry String Quartet: Howard Lyon (violin), others unknown / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.18 - Recent German Films Series: All-Around Reduced Personality (Helke Sanders, 1977/78),
  presented by Barb Finney, Erie Art Museum / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.19 through 09.22 - Guest-Director Series: Vanities, Directed by Ben Agresti, with Mary Beth Finke, Carla Granato,
  and Tammy Roche / Kitty Dilley (Assistant Director), Ed Myers (Lighting), Monica Williams, Barb Miodus, Barbara Rickloff,
  and Paul Rickloff (Technical Assistance) / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.23 - Erie Jazz Co-Op: Convergence, Brian Fels (guitar), Bob Sadowski (keyboards), Tony Stefanelli (bass),
  Matt Ferguson (drums) / Concert Series, AAS Resident Group / 8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.25 - Recent German Films Series: The Baker’s Bread (Erwin Keusch, 1977), presented by Barb Finney, Erie Art Museum /
  8:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]
• 1984.09.25 - Special Film Feature: The Last Detail (1973), Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid /
  10:00pm, ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA
  [The Alternative Arts Series, Rick Lopez and Ed Myers, Co-Directors/Producers]

   1984.09.30 • Time/Space Ltd: Performance Art

1984.10.01 • A Blues for Rita, by Lonnie Sherman     [Small Press Publication] First Edition, Saddle-stitched Chapbook, 5.5x8.5, 12pp., ©1984 —Second Printing: 1985.09.25 October 1, 1984 / Kangaroo Court Publishing, Erie, PA   Kangaroo Court #2   Limited to 150 copies   125 copies—Light blue vellum cover, Parchment text   25 copies Signed & #ed by author, Olive cover, Pebbled antique white text   Cover photo by John Vanco   Publisher & Editor Rick Lopez {RL Archive}

  1984.10.04 to 10.06 • quaqua Productions: Footfalls + Not I

  1984.10.07 • Field Theory

  1984.00.00 • Field Theory

{RL Archive, Recording}

  1984.10.26 • Field Theory

   1984.11.13 • Poetry Reading and Discussion on the Arts [Penn State-Behrend College]

1984.12.25 • Poem (For Brady Mayberry), by Lonnie Sherman     [Small Press Publication] Presentation Edition, Saddle-stitched Chapbook, 5.5x8.5, 16pp., ©1984 December 25, 1984 / Kangaroo Court Publishing, Erie, PA   Kangaroo Court #3   Limited to 25 Presentation Copies, Signed & Numbered by author   Half-tone on cover, Celadon Rough Weave cover,     Scriptmark Cream Parchment text   A Christmas publication by GeorgeAnn Burroughs and R. Lopez for the author.   Publisher & Editor Rick Lopez {RL Archive}

  1984.12.31 • Field Theory

1985 : : :

  1985.00.00 • Field Theory

{RL Archive, Recording}

  1985.03.06 • Common Carrier [Published Work]

March 6, 1985 / Erie, PA —In City Voice, Vol.I Issue 2 (p.6), by Rick Lopez —“Greyhound Bus Terminal,” reprinted in  Storm Center: A Compendium of Disturbances  (1983-2013), The Vortex, 2026. {RL Archive; City Voice, Vol.I Issue 2}

  1985.03.20 • Common Carrier [Published Work]

March 20, 1985 / Erie, PA —In City Voice, Vol.I Issue 3 (p.16), by Rick Lopez —“The Black Male Voice...”  “Her Grocery Bags”  “The Garage” {RL Archive; City Voice, Vol.I Issue 3}

  1985.03.23 • Field Theory

  1985.04.03 • Common Carrier [Published Work]

April 3, 1985 / Erie, PA —In City Voice, Vol.I no.4 (p.13), by Rick Lopez —“Hey... d’you know who I am?”  “Cabbie Fantasy #1”  “Al Capone” {RL Archive; City Voice, Vol.I no.4}

1985.04.19 • Field Theory + Oliver Lake and Jump Up! April 19, 1985 / ClaySpace Theatre (1505 State), Erie, PA  Field Theory: (8:00)   Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)     Oliver Lake and Jump Up! (9:00)   Oliver Lake (tenor sax, alto sax, flute, voice),   Jerome Harris (guitar, bass guitar, synth, voice)   Alphonia Tims (guitar),   Billy Grant (bass),   Pheeroan akLaff (drums) {RL Archive, Gig poster by RL}

1985.05.01 • Untitled [Iconic Oil Painting] May 1, 1985 / 2nd Floor South, ClaySpace, 1505 State, Erie, PA It was in the window of my former 2nd-story studio/apartment at 1505 State from 1985 until the renovation in 2019. It’s now in the permanent collection of the PACA Building,* hanging in the main stairwell landing above the first floor. It was an ode to a suicidal winter during which I spent far too much time on the 5th-floor roof, wishing that I was not anywhere at all. The bottom third was a hard, glistening line of red enamel (my blood) dripping down to the image’s bottom. I’ve always loved the fact that it was there for 36 years and became iconic, and that I’m not dead. Here’s the deal: In 1984 Ed Myers and I had created “The Alternative Arts Series,” a project for the Erie Art Museum at the “ClaySpace” building. We began planning in January and mounted over 80 events from June 2nd through early October. We did everything—the tech work, production, fund-raising, PR, copy-writing, facility maintenance, and much more, including several performances that we were involved in ourselves. There were seven resident arts groups, a few film series, performance art, a jazz series, poetry readings, lectures, a guest director series, publishing ventures, installation art, gallery exhibits, a break-dancing competition, and more... And it almost killed us. By late September we were stressed so badly that Ed was on the floor unable to breathe and I was calling Hamot Mental Health begging for an appointment. I had a very bad winter coping after that, and did this painting the following spring as an homage to my survival. The place has a history. {RL Archive; Photo by David Lewis}

  1985.06.01 • the spider who walked underground, by Tony Moffeit [Small Press Publication]

Cover: “Hank Williams and friend, Germany, 1949,” by Les Leverett, w/ permission Within: 13-year-old Hank, obscured by translucent vellum, by Bruce Gidoll, w/out permission.

{RL Archive}

  1985.06.00 • Field Theory

Photos by Roger Prehoda

  1985.06.29 • Field Theory + Leroy Jenkins’ Sting

  1985.07.21 • Field Theory

 Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums), + special guest Basil Ronzitti (p)

{RL Archive, Erie Jazz Cooperative Schedule}

  1985.09.07 • Field Theory w/ Basil Ronziti

{RL Archive, Erie Jazz Cooperative Schedule}

  1985.09.25 • A Blues for Rita, by Lonnie Sherman [Small Press Publication]

Second Printing, Hand-sewn Chapbook, 5.5x8.5, 12pp. / ISBN 0-940381-00-1, ©1985 —First Printing 1984.10.01 September 25, 1985 / Kangaroo Court Publishing, Erie, PA   Kangaroo Court #2   Limited to 212 copies   12 copies “Out of Series” Signed & Numbered by author   Beckett Antique Red cover; Sorg’s parchtone text.   Tipped in half-tone plate on cover, photograph by John Vanco   Publisher & Editor Rick Lopez *** Winner, 1985 Suburban Wilderness Spineless Award, Best Non-perfectbound Book. {RL Archive}

  1985.10.13 • Field Theory

{RL Archive, Recording}

  1985.11.01 • Field Theory + Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society

1986 : : :

  1986.01.12 • Field Theory w/ Charles Ventrello & Basil Ronzitti

—Double bill with Cleveland’s Thrust.

  1986.01.25 • Field Theory

  1986.02.01 • HARD BOIL, by Anonymous (Rick Lopez) [Small Press Publication]

First Edition, Hand-sewn Chapbook, 5.5x8.5, 28pp. / ISBN 0-940381-05-2, ©1985 February 1, 1986 / Kangaroo Court Publishing, Erie, PA   Kangaroo Court imprint: Racket Squad #2   Limited to 212 copies; 12 copies “Out of Series” Signed & Numbered   Simpson Teton Slate cover; Simpson Gainsborouh Silver flyleaf;   Glacier White Vellum text.   Cover image from The Killer Inside Me   Three text sections separated by fragments of cover image.   Publisher & Editor Lonnie Sherman —The mega-violence part of the show, published anonymously.

{RL Archive; Storm Center: A Compendium of Disturbances (1983-2013), The Vortex, 2026}

  1986.03.01 • Field Theory w/ Charles Ventrello & Basil Ronzitti

  1986.03.00 • Field Theory + The Bedrocks

  1986.05.17 • Field Theory

  1986.04.00 • “Best, Connie”

While corresponding with Connie Fox before the publication of her BABICKA chapbook on July 1, I received this very succinct update in the mail.

  1986.04.12 • Field Theory w/ Charles Ventrello & Basil Ronzitti

  1986.04.18 • Field Theory + Gerry Hemingway & John Lindberg Solos and Duo

  1986.05.01 • the spider who walked underground, by Tony Moffeit [Small Press Publication]

2nd Printing, Hand-sewn Chapbook in Wrappers, 5.25x8.5, 36pp. / ISBN 0-940381-03-6, ©1985 —1st Edition 1985.06.01 May 1, 1986 / Kangaroo Court Publishing, Erie, PA  Kangaroo Court #4, Limited to 212 copies; 12 copies “Out of Series,” Signed & Numbered  White Riegel Jersey cover; White Vellum text;  White Translucent Vellum dividers over half-tones.  Three Half-tone Photographs: Cover by Les Leverett; Pg.7 by Bruce Gidoll  —Published, Designed, and Edited by Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman Photo page 31 (source unknown), used without permission, “Jail, Alexander City, Alabama—18 Aug., 1952,” obscured by translucent vellum. {RL Archive}

  1986.05.17 • Field Theory

  1986.05.24 • Field Theory w/ Charles Ventrello & Basil Ronzitti

 Frank Butrey (guitar), Charles Ventrello (tenor and soprano sax, flute), Basil Ronzitti (keyboards), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

  1986.07.01 • BABICKA, by Connie Fox [Small Press Publication]

 Kangaroo Court #5, Limited to 212 copies, 12 copies “Out of Series,” Signed & Numbered by author
 
 11 Half-tone Photographs: Title-page photo of Babicka, End-page photo of Connie Fox by the author.
 Nine half-tones within text, progression/montage of Title-page and End-page photos (Slide show to come).
 Photolab Work: Kathy Merski — Published, Designed, and Edited by Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman

“Babicka, Chicago, IL, 1941.” Photo provided by author.

  1986.08.08 • Field Theory + Woody Shaw Quartet

 Frank Butrey: Frank Butrey and Brian Fels (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 Woody Shaw Quartet: Shaw (trumpet), John Hicks (piano), possibly Stafford James (bass), Tony Reedus (drums)

  1986.09.27 • Field Theory w/ Brian Fels

 Frank Butrey and Brian Fels (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

   1986.10.08 • Kangaroo Court: a Reading by Todd Moore

 Readings by:
  Ron Androla (Northern Pressure Press); Lonnie Sherman and Rick Lopez (Kangaroo Court Publishing)
  Todd Moore reads Dillinger
 “The whole deal painted as it happens by artist John Baird” / Wallpaper Works

  1986.11.23 • Field Theory

 Recording, Sd-A+B, C-90 / 2 Sets (incomplete):
 1. Well You Needn’t
 2. It’s a No Good
 3. This End Up
 4. Close Enough for a Cigar
 5. Fun Factor Nine
 6. Open the Door Ian
  
  Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

1986.12.11 - Dillinger Cover story. Erie Times-News Showcase, December 11, 1986.  “Erie’s Kangaroo Court small press brings Dillinger to life...,”   by Don McQuaid, p.11.  “Kangaroo Court making a Big Splash in the Small-Press World,”   by Lori Morgan, pp.11+14. Dillinger, by Todd Moore Showcase Cover image by Gary Hardman

  1986.12.13 • Field Theory

1987 : : :

  1987.02.16 • The Name is Dillinger, by Todd Moore [Small Press Publication]

 The Dillinger Series, Volume I (of 13)
 1,163 copies, 50 Signed & Numbered by author; 13 “Out of Series”; all w/ blood-stained flyleaf
 Published, Designed, and Edited by Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman

—“Made possible in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.”

The Name is Dillinger, by Todd Moore Dillinger, Volume I. ...the real drop of blood on the flyleaf, & the title page graphic.

• 1987.05.15 - The universe gives a nod of approval and allows me to hit the lottery for $10,000.

  1987.06.13 • Field Theory + headliner James Blood Ulmer

  1987.07.02 • Field Theory

  1987.08.22 • Dillinger’s Faces, by Todd Moore [Small Press Publication]

 The Dillinger Series, Volume 2 (of 13)
 1,163 copies, 50 Signed & Numbered by author; 13 “Out of Series”; all w/ blood-stained flyleaf
 Published, Designed, and Edited by Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman

—“Made possible in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.”

Dillinger’s Faces, by Todd Moore Dillinger, Volume 2. ...the real drop of blood on the flyleaf, & the title page graphic.

  1987.11.13 • Field Theory

  1987.11.15 • Field Theory

  1987.11.21 • Field Theory

  1987.11.22 • Field Theory

• 1987.11.00 - The American Poetry Center makes me their Northwestern Pennsylvania Regional Correspondent,
  through March of 1989, when I handed off duties to Ms. Kim Krynock-Hanrahan.

• 1987.12.00 - Appointed to first of three terms on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Advisory Panel.

  1987.12.05 • LOVETORN [Devastation Response]

   1987.12.08 • Poetry Reading [Penn State-Behrend College]

1988 : : :

  1988.01.15 • Peaceful Warrior, a Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

  1988.03.01 • Billie F, by Todd Moore [Small Press Publication]

 The Dillinger Series, Volume 3 (of 13)
 1,163 copies, 50 Signed & Numbered by author; 13 “Out of Series”; all w/ blood-stained flyleaf
 Published, Designed, and Edited by Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman

—“Made possible in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.”

Billie F, by Todd Moore Dillinger, Volume 3. ...the real drop of blood on the flyleaf, & the title page graphic.

The back cover and the accumulating reviews. {RL Archive}

 1988.06.18-19—Dillinger author Todd Moore and Publisher Rick Lopez at the Printer’s Row Book Fair in Chicago

—Author Todd Moore and I behind the profoundly stylish booth that I built for Printer’s Row, and the Dillinger side-panel during teardown.

 1988.06.24—The Dillinger project makes the front page of the Chicago Reader

“Poetry of Blood and Guts,” by Bill Helmer Chicago Reader cover story. June 24, 1988—Vol.17 no.39

  1988.07.01 • Moving the Dunes, by Kenneth Jonathan Sonnenberg [Book Design Project]

Moving the Dunes First Printing, Perfect-bound Softcover, 5.5x9, 64pp. / ISBN , ©1988 July 1, 1988 / Kangaroo Court Small Press Services, Erie, PA   Book & Promotional Materials   First Edition Limited to 500 copies   Edited and with an Introduction by Diana Hume George   Half-tones on front and back covers; Half-tone on dedication page; 8-pg. Portfolio with 10 half-tones.   Cover and Portfolio photos by author; back cover photo by Arden Sonnenberg. —Project Design and Production by by Rick Lopez “Published by Penn-State at Erie—The Behrend College & the Sonnenberg Foundation” {RL Archive}

  1988.09.25 • Field Theory

  1988.10.08 • Field Theory

  1988.10.09 • Field Theory

October 9, 1988, 7:00pm / Studio 3, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA  Recording, Sd-A+B, C-90:  1. Pending Investigation  2. Chuckling Waldo  3. Slow Profile  4. Bass Bonita (split track)  5. Stretch of the Imagination  6. Life & Times  7. Wheezer Whistle  8. China Outlet    Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums) + Special guest Joe Ruscitto (percussion)

{RL Archive, Recording; The Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 7 “Weekend” p.30}

  1988.10.13 • Field Theory

  1988.10.15 • Field Theory

  1988.12.01 • Kangaroo Court: A Reading by Todd Moore

1989 : : :

  1989.03.01 • Boogie Alley, by Tony Moffeit [Small Press Publication]

 Kangaroo Court #6, Limited to 334 copies, 12 copies “Out of Series” Signed & Numbered by author
 Beckett Enhance Ultra-White 80# cover; Gilbert Oxford Soft Mauve, Wine, and Helio 80# texts.
 Design & Layout by Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman
 Cover Art by Shelle Barron

—“Made possible in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.”
 Special Colorcore™ hardcover edition grant from the Formica Corporation.
 Publishers & Editors Rick Lopez & Lonnie Sherman

Full view dustjacket, with front, back, and flaps. “The Work which adorns the cover was commissioned specifically for Boogie Alley by Kangaroo Court. The original is a magnificent 22x36 inches and hangs, wouldn’t you know, on the publisher’s wall.” Below left: Wine dividers, Helio text papers, and Soft Mauve front and back matter. Publication included a special Limited Edition of 50 copies bound in Formica Color-Core™ boards: Double-thick (Monet Lavender outside, Royal Lavender inside) w/ bevelled edging. Title, author, and graphic sand-blasted into front cover. All bound in Black Moroccon Leather with the Chapbook hand-sewn into spine. * This was the first application of Formica Color-Core™ as a book-boards material.

Below: The bevelled board, and a sand-blasted engraving sample + an insert of the colorspan as shown in the promo flyer.

{RL Archive}

  1989.03.14 • California Poetry Renaissance: An Evening of Poetry

  1989.04.08 • Airs & Tributes, by Dennis Brutus [Graphics and Book Design Project]

—Airs & Tributes cover.

—Airs & Tributes flyer.

{RL Archive}

  1989.05.04 • “Pittsburgh Ensemble Brings New Music to Erie Art Museum” [Published Work]

May 4, 1989 / In the Erie-Times Showcase {RL Archive; Erie-Times Showcase, May 4, 1992}

  1989.05.29 • Field Theory

1989.06.16 When you’re involved in the publishing world, you receive the most compelling mail.

  1989.06.22 + 06.23 + 06.24 + 06.25 • Field Theory

June 23, 1989, 9:30pm / Docksider, Erie, PA

June 25, 1989, 9:30pm / Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA

  1989.11.00 • Poetic Wax [Record Review Column]

  1989.12.01 • Poetic Wax, by Rick Lopez [Record Review Column]

1990 : : :

• 1990.02.00 - Blood Pudding “about four months” ago... [Reference in Erie Times-News Showcase, June 14, 1990]

Ten months ago, it seemed that Kangaroo Court Publishing was taking off. The raves for Todd Moore’s Dillinger Series, the Chicago Reader cover story, book design jobs coming in, orders arriving in from all over the planet, and every grant proposal a success. Then Philadelphia’s Whirlwind Press suffered a financial collapse, and suddenly I was on the hook for $4,000.00 worth of printing bills incurred producing Airs & Tributes for them. Meanwhile, expecting those monies to be forthcoming, I had gone ahead with the publication of Tony Moffeit’s Boogie Alley. I used most of the grant money that had been earmarked for the fourth volume of the Dillinger project, imagining some kind of logical cash flow. Ha. I was on the Literature Panel of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts at the time, and at our annual grant-doling meeting in February, my next grant application came up, but I had not come through on the fourth Dillinger book from my previous grant proposal, and so I found myself in breach of contract. The PCA regretfully had to ask for their money back, and my small press venture collapsed. “You cannot predict divergent events,” Gregory Bateson told me in Mind & Nature. I spent every waking moment from spring of 1990 through late 1992 working 23 hours per day and paying off $15,000.00 in debts from the press. I also did the hand-sewn binding on 1,500 chapbooks for Whirlwind Press, hoping that they would finally come through with the momney that they owed me. They did not. —RL

  1990.03.00 • “Let’s Get Lost: : Chet Baker, RCA Select 3054” [Published Work]

   1990.03.01 • An Appreciation of Samuel Beckett [Published Work]

March 1, 1990 / Erie-Times Showcase, March 1, 1990 p.20 {RL Archive}

  1990.03.16 • Blood Pudding + The Invisible Flint-Tones

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)
 —Double-bill with The Invisible Flintstones

  1990.04.13 • Blood Pudding + Thirteen Famous Clowns

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)
 —Double-bill with Thirteen Famous Clowns

1990.04.27 + 05.25 + 05.27 + 05.31 • Blood Pudding April 27, 1990, 10:00pm / Goofie’s, Erie, PA May 25, 1990, 10:00pm / Norb’s, Erie, PA —Bill Cotter’s Birthday Bash May 27, 1990, 10:00pm / Rumrunners, Erie, PA May 31, 1990, 10:00pm / Docksider, Erie, PA ← ← An early Blood Pudding promo shot from Summer of 1990.     Jim Cuneo, Tom Arndt, Joseph Allen Popp, and Rick Lopez.  Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keys, voice),  Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive, Erie Times-News Showcase May 31, 1990, p.18; Tom Arndt archive gigs list; Erie Times-News Showcase April 26, 1990}

  1990.06.01 • Blood Pudding + Rub the Buddha

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)  —Double-bill with Rub the Buddha

  1990.06.23 • Blood Pudding: Here Comes the Pudding [Cassette]

June 23, 1990 / American Artists Studios, Erie, PA

A-Side:  1. Say What You Please (Popp)  2. You Don’t Know What You Want (Cuneo)  3. Hey Boy! (Popp)  4. Bored (Popp)  5. Here Comes the Pudding / Instrumental (Cuneo)   B-Side:  1. Red Shift (Popp)  2. Carmelite Home Run (Cuneo)  3. I Don’t Need No Rabbit’s Foot (Popp)  4. Eat and Grow (Cuneo)  5. Here Comes the Pudding / Club Mix (Cuneo)

2:13  3:13  3:00  2:52  2:00  3:36  2:54  3:45  2:08  2:00

Blood Pudding (from the liners):
Joseph Allen Popp: 1963 Fender Tele neck on a 1980 Charvel body w/ a Floyd Rose and the following effects—Boss-OD-1; DOD Chorus;
 Digitech PDS 2000; DOD Compressor; Morley Basic Volume; Effectron Jr. 1-Second Delay; Deltalab Boost; MXR Noise Gate; and
 a Midiverb II, all shoved violently through a Fender Twin Reverb. (All tracks / solos A1,2,3,4, B1,3)—Roland GR303/GR300 (B3)—
 Lead vocals (A1,3,4, B1,3)—Back vocals (A2, B2)—Lucky Charm Denial vocal (B3)—Harmonizer Ghoulie vocal (B1)
Jim Cuneo: Yamaha Keyboards, like so: PJ-85 Electric Grand Piano (A5, B2,5)—TX81Z Synthesizer (A1,4,5, B1,2,3,5)—Fender Stratocaster
 chewed by a Pro Co Rat and spat out of a Fender Twin Reverb (A2,3, B4)—Lead vocals (A2, B2,4)—Back vocals (B2)—Helium Duck Chorus (B1)
Tom Arndt: Fender Jazz Bass blown direct to board. (All tracks)—Yamaha PJ-85 Electric Grand Piano bass-line doubling (A4)—
 Back vocals (A2, B2,4)—Helium Duck Chorus (B1)
Rick Lopez: TAMA Drum kit: Custom built 18" bass w/ Duraline heads; 12" rack tom w/ Fiberskyn heads; 6x14" Chrome Snare w/ Remo
 Ambassadors; 14" floor tom w/ Duralines; Roto-Toms (mounted backwards to throw me) w/ Remo Ebonys: 13.5" post-Civil War era Snare
 (restored and tom-converted) w/ Fiberskyns; / The Brass: (Left to Right) 22" Kingston Ride; 15" Zildjian Heavy Hi-hats; 18" Zildjian Crash;
 8" Zildjian Splash; 20" Zildjian Flat-Ride; 14" City-Mission 49¢ Special Dead Crash; 20" No-Name-Found-in-a-Closet Crash. All played
 with Duraline 65 Sticks, though faintly at times, since I do not hit hard enough, though at other times, truth to tell, I may hit too hard.
 (All tracks); “Or Some Other Trouble” running commentary (Subliminal, all tracks).
  
Additional Recording and Tweaks: 1990.07.03 and 07.06, American Artists Studios
Mix & Remix: 1990.07.20, 07.26, and 08.13, by Skip Niebauer & Sam Hyman Jr., American Artists Studios
Remastered: 1990.08.20 and 08.23, by Keith Veschecco, TRS Studio

{BP-001}

1990.06.28 • Field Theory June 28, 1990, 9:00pm / Docksider, Erie, PA   1990.06.29 • Field Theory June 29, 1990, 9:30pm / Villa Maria College, Erie, PA —Erie Summer Festival of the Arts,  Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums) {Chuck Eschweiler, Erie Times Showcase June 28, 1990 p.23}

  1990.06.30 (1) • Blood Pudding

  1990.06.30 (2) • Field Theory

    1990.07.07 (1) • Rick Lopez Presents... [Video Screenings]

{RL Archive, DVD}

1990.07.07 (2) • Popp/Lopez Duo

  Joseph Allen Popp (guitar), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive, Dave Richards, Erie Times Showcase July 5, 1990, p.11}

  1990.07.07 (3) • Blood Pudding + others...

  1990.07.27 • Blood Pudding + Lost

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive, Erie Times Showcase July 26, 1990}

  1990.08.11 + 08.15 + 08.26 • Blood Pudding

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive, Erie Times Showcase August 9, 1990; Tom Arndt archive gigs list}

  1990.09.05 + 09.07 + 09.08 + 09.09 + 09.14 + 09.28 + 09.29 • Blood Pudding

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive, Erie Times-News Showcase September 6, 1990 + September 27, 1990; Tom Arndt archive gigs list}

  1990.10.05 + 10.06 + 10.19 • Blood Pudding

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)

  1990.11.15 • “Fear of an Interesting Planet: The File on Public Enemy” [Published Work]

November 15, 1990 / In the Erie-Times Showcase —Concert Preview: Public Enemy  at the Tullio Convention Center, 1990.11.16 {RL Archive; Erie-Times Showcase, November 15, 1990 p.16}

  1990.11.16 + 11.30 • Blood Pudding

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)

{Tom Arndt archive gigs list}

1991 : : :

  1991.01.11 + 02.08 + 03.01 • Blood Pudding

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar, voice), Jim Cuneo (guitar, keyboards, voice), Tom Arndt (bass, voice), Rick Lopez (drums)

  1991.05.17 • Blood Pudding

{Joe Popp Archive and Video}

1992 : : :

  1992.02.13 • “Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens,” by Rick Lopez [Published Work]

—Concert Preview: Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens at Modern Tool Square, 1992.03.06

{RL Archive; Erie Times-News Showcase, March 5, 1992 p.14}

1992.03.05 • “To Do This You Got to Know How” [Published Work] March 5, 1992 / In the Erie-Times Showcase —Concert Preview: Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong  at the Erie Art Museum Annex, 1992.03.06 {RL Archive; Erie Times-News Showcase, March 5, 1992 p.14}

1992.07.05 to 1992.07.09 • Field Theory: Life &Times Lust for Toys Records FNB5958 (CD + CS) 1992 July 5 through 9, 1992 / TRS Audio Studio, Erie, PA  1. Pallbearer  2. Pending Investigation  3. Please Remain Seated  4. China Outlet  5. Life & Times   8:09   6:38   9:41   6:43  11:37 —Also includes two tracks (“Entitled to be Untitled” [7:28] and “Bass Bonita” [7:52])  by a quintet of Butrey, Blaetz, Basil Ronzitti (keyboards), Charles Ventrello (soprano  and tenor sax), and Joe Ruscitto (drums). Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive; CD FNB5958; CD Cover graphic by RL}

1992.07.11 • Field Theory + Trycycle + Boom July 11, 1992, 9:30pm / Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA   Tape, Sd-A / C-90  1... compositions    Field Theory: Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums) Trycycle: Joseph Allen Popp (guitar), Tom Arndt (bass), P.J. Askey (drums) Boom: Dave Waldroop (guitar), Mark Chulik (guitar), Jack Todd (bass), Everett Eighmy (drums) {Erie Times-News Showcase, July 9, 1992 p.3; Gig flyer; RL Archive; Genetics ’r’ Us} The first significant event of the year. My son Aaron appeared at this gig, after I had not seen him for... a decade? Walked up to me just as I was going to walk onstage and start playing. ● The second significant event of the year. I found the most beautiful girl hiding in the bushes... Oh no, I did not! Actually, she was the best friend of guitarist Frank Butrey’s Robin, and Sandra MacGlaughlin arrived at the house early in the evening to help with the pre- and post-gig festivities. When I turned and saw her walking through their front door, I just shook my head and gazed downward and began muttering: “Oh my god... that’s it... I’m through...” [Married March 21, 1993]   1992.10.30 + 10.31 • Field Theory October 30 & 31, 1992, 9:00pm / Alliance Music Workshop, Philadelphia, PA —CD release party for Field Theory: Life & Times   Recording, Sd-A+B, C-90:  1. compositions Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums) {RL Archive, Recording; Be still my heart!}

  1992.11.06 + 11.08 • Field Theory

 Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive, Gig flyer}

1993 : : :

  1993.05.08 • Field Theory

 Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive; The Philadelphia Inquirer May 7 “Weekend” p.30}

  1993.09.05 • Field Theory

{RL Archive, Recording; Lancaster Eagle-Gazette Aug 27 p.5}

  1993.10.09 • Field Theory

 Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive; The Plain Dealer Oct 8 “Friday!” p.35}

1994 : : :

In early 1994 I began working on a kind of trap that I called Baseball and the 10,000 Things. From the on-line index:

BB10K was a personal head-shot that I used to send out in the mails. A state-of-mind document. A test pattern. An attempt to find out whether or not I could order the swirl upstairs into a template that might work for someone else.
It has a chronology, so be aware of the dates. It has a “trajectory,” of which more later. And for my purposes here, it works as an explanation of how I later arrived at my Twenty-Plus Questions, which may appear here, bit by bit, over the next several years.
BB10K proper consisted of four numbered issues spanning 18 pages appearing between February 1994 and February 1995.

  1994.02.01 • Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.1 [Published Work]

—Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.1, by Rick Lopez
 Edition of 1,000 copies, two 8.5x11 unbound sheets, 4pp., ©1994

{RL Archive; Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.1}

  1994.05.01 • Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.2 [Published Work]

—Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.2, by Rick Lopez
 Edition of 1,000 copies, two 8.5x11 unbound sheets, 4pp., ©1994

—Includes “Crazy Quilt #1: Jackie Robinson  Breaks the Color Line” (p.6), reprinted in  Storm Center: A Compendium of Disturbances  (1983-2013), The Vortex, 2026.

{RL Archive; Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.2}

1994.06.17 through 1994.09.04 • Baseball Card Art [Exhibit Essay, Erie Art Museum] June 17 through September 9, 1994 / Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA —Baseball Card Art, An essay in 13 panels, by Rick Lopez / ©1994  To accompany The Artist and the Baseball Card Exhibit  “Large-format baseball cards by 150 artists and illustrators, curated by Murray Tinkelman.”  Pieces by artists from across the country, invited by Tinkelman to do their interpretation of a baseball card. {RL Archive; tinkelmanstudio.com}

—One section of continuous narrative   of Baseball Card Art’s display panels.

• Before disbanding in August of 1994, Field Theory had also opened for Suzanne Vega at Pal Joey’s,
  and Airto & Flora Purim and Richie Cole ensembles at the Erie Arts Festival, among others. Dates unknown...

  1994.08.06 • Field Theory

 Frank Butrey (guitar), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

• From mid-1991 until August of 1994 I only played my drums, or even thought about them at all, during the two brief periods per year
  that Frank Butrey would book Field Theory gigs. I was listening to music so intently at this point that I had absolutely no desire to play.
  I’m still not sure I understand what was going on there. This deep listening, which had me returning to deal with the “free jazz” and
  creative improvised musics that were born of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago (Braxton,
  Threadgill, Lewis...), and by Sam Rivers and friends in the loft-jazz era in New York City—among others everywhere—was a revelatory
  development for me, since my bigger, better, and more mature ears were now hearing so clearly that my interest was soon to evolve into
  one of the most magnificent obsessions ever: my life as the “Mad Discographer,” which would begin with my posting of the neverending
  work-in-progress, The Sam Rivers Sessionography, in March of 1997.
  
  This session would be my last known gig until I began doing an occasional performance with Dibello/Bodine (Red in May of 1999);
  The Lucille Benefit in May of 2000; and DiBello/Bodine again in March and August of 2001. I was finally drawn back into playing
  for good by Joseph Allen Popp in early 2003.

  1994.09.01 • Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.3 [Published Work]

—Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.3, by Rick Lopez
 Edition of 1,000 copies, two 8.5x11 unbound sheets, 4pp., ©1994

—Includes “[tap-tap-tap:] All Together Now...”  (p.9), and “Around Here It’s Always the Bottom  of the 9th” (p.10), reprinted in  Storm Center: A Compendium of Disturbances  (1983-2013), The Vortex, 2026.

{RL Archive; Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.3}

  1994.12.00 • “Throwing Out the First Pitch” [Published Work]

—“I’ve Done What I Can” (retitle), by Rick Lopez
 In Lip Mechanics, Number Six, Winter 1995, Doug Rieder, Editor.
 “Throwing Out the First Pitch” first appeared in Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol. I no.1, February, 1994, p.2.

1995 : : :

  1995.02.01 • Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.4 [Published Work]

—Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no.4, by Rick Lopez
 Edition of 1,000 copies, three 8.5x11 unbound sheets, 6pp., ©1995

—Includes “I Want a New Drug” (p.13),  ”Help! I've Got Nine Inch Nails in My Head!”  (pp.14-16), and “FRAGS” (p.17), all reprinted in  Storm Center: A Compendium of Disturbances  (1983-2013), The Vortex, 2026.

{RL Archive; Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol.I no. 4}

1996 : : :

  1996.06.00 • A Secretive Solo Performance: Have You Seen this Man?

1997 : : :

1997.03.10 • The Sam Rivers Sessionography [Music Research] March 10, 1997 (online publication date) / A never-ending work in progress. —Online version idle since book project inception in January, 2018. (Book published in October 2022.) —A definitive research document covering the career of tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers.  Session entries for all known official releases and unreleased media (broadcast, audience, etc.),  + all known play dates and interwoven biography. —Photo from 1965.05.21, the Blue Note Contours session. {RL Archive, The Sam Rivers Sessionography; Photograph by Francis Wolff}

1997.08.20 • The Reggie Workman Discography [Music Research] August 20, 1997 (online publication date) / Last update: December 11, 2001, since adandoned. —A research document covering the career of bassist Reginald Workman.  Session entries for all known official releases. {RL Archive, The Reggie Workman Sessionography; Photograph by Susan O’Connor? (I’m not sure somehow...)}

1997.10.31 • The Marilyn Crispell Sessionography [Music Research] October 31, 1997 (online publication date) / A work in progress. —A definitive research document covering the career of pianist Marilyn Crispell.  Session entries for all known official releases and unreleased media (broadcast, audience, etc.),  + all known play dates and interwoven biography. {RL Archive, The Marilyn Crispell Sessionography; Photograph by Lora Denis}

  1997.11.17 • Smith Endowment Speaker Series [Reading]

1998 : : :

• 1998.03.16 to 04.15 - Time Stops Photo and Book Display, Blasco Memorial Library, Erie, PA / Art Becker and Rick Lopez

---

• 1998.03.23 - Reading & Multi-Media presentation, Time Stops / 8:00pm, H.O. Hirt Auditorium, Blasco Memorial Library, Erie, PA
  —This should have been one of the most well-attended performances of my life, given the broad appeal of the subject matter
   and the attendant buzz over the project, but it was actually one of the most disappointing and poorly attended events I’ve
   ever taken part in—the Library publicity department forgot to do any of the things that it had said it would do, and I believe
   about 30 people showed up (thank you!) for the production at this brand new state-of-the-art facility. . . Oh well!

1998.03.31 • Time Stops, by Rick Lopez [Published Work] 1st Edition, Perfect-bound paperback, 8.5x8.5, 54pp. / ISBN 0-9646065-1-8, ©1998 March 31, 1998 / Forty Publishing, Erie, PA —Time Stops: a book about baseball  31 Color Photos by Art Becker  Story and Introduction: Rick Lopez  Design: Ed Roskowski   ← Time Stops Cover image

{RL Archive; Excerpts in Storm Center: A Compendium of Disturbances (1983-2013), The Vortex, 2026}

1998.04.04 - Book Signing: 1:00-3:00pm, Little Professor Book Store, Erie, PA / Art Becker and R. Lopez 1998.04.16 - A review by Dave Richards, from the Erie Times-News, April 16, 1999. ← Sports Section front page, review of Time Stops

1998.04.27 • The David S. Ware Sessionography [Music Research] April 27, 1998 (online publication date) / A work in progress. —A definitive research document covering the career of tenor saxophonist David S. Ware.  Session entries for all known official releases and unreleased media (broadcast, audience, etc.),  + all known play dates and interwoven biography. {RL Archive, The David S. Ware Sessionography; Photograph by Photograph by Nuno Martins}

1998.10.16 • The Susie Ibarra Discography [Music Research] October 16, 1998 (online publication date) —Last update: November 14, 2003, since abandoned. —A research document covering the career of drummer Susie Ibarra.  Session entries for all known official releases. {RL Archive; Photograph by Susan O’Connor}

1999 : : :

1999.04.26 • The William Parker Sessionography [Music Research] April 26, 1999 (online publication date) —Last update: April 13, 2023, since then idle and possibly abandoned. —A definitive research document covering the career of bassist William Parker.  Session entries for all known official releases and unreleased media (broadcast, audience, etc.),  + all known play dates and interwoven biography. {RL Archive, The William Parker Sessionography; Photograph by Susan O’Connor}

  1999.05.07 + 05.08 • RED (a rite inspired by the music of Tom Waits)

Chronic Dance performers: Alethea Bodine, Kate McDevitt, John Biggie, Jeremy Rupprecht,
 Mark Wienczkowski, Amy Root, Dawn Rosenberger, Lara Snavely
RED Trio: Rick DiBello (guitars, compositions), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums, trash wall-8)

{RL Archive; Graphics by DiBello & Bodine}

 1999.10.15 • “Dramatic Intrusion” [Published Work]

“Dramatic Intrusion” by Rick Lopez / An essay on researching the Sam Rivers Sessionography —In BIMHUIS 25: Stories of 25 Years at the Bimhuis, ©1999,  214pp., Kevin Whitehead, Editor.  Hundreds of B&W Photos, softcover in wrappers. ←Cover and the transclucent amber dust jacket. {RL Archive; BIMHUIS 25}

2000 : : :

 2000.01.00 to 2001.03.00 • “Lucille: A Reverential Journal of the Care of the Beloved Hag” [Published Work]

January through March, 2000 / Erie, PA —Three issues in the mails (Jan-Feb; Feb-Mar;  and “March and Beyond”), national distribution. My grandmother Lucille suffered a stroke in late December of 1999. No longer able to live alone, my wife Sandra and I took her into our home. The “Reverential Journal” was a newsletter that I’d carry to the post office whenever I could escape the beloved hag’s clutches. It contained several prose pieces detailing our experience, and would become the single most effective way that I had of thanking all of the people who joined the “$12.95 Club,” agreeing to pay for an hour or more of in-home care per month)

{RL Archive; Excerpts in Storm Center: A Compendium of Disturbances (1983-2013), The Vortex, 2026}

   2000.05.01 • Evan Parker’s High Tide [Music Research/CD-ROM]

May, 2000 / BBC Radio, Jazz on 3, London, UK —A CD-ROM multi-media adaptation of the Jazz on 3 program “High Tide”  on BBC Radio 3, which included my Marilyn Crispell Sessionography,  along with concert segments of the Evan Parker Quartet with Marilyn  Crispell (piano), Barry Guy (bass), and Paul Lytton (drums), animation,  interviews, and biographies. The BBC’s digital production of Evan Parker’s High Tide CD-ROM was also released as a special insert with Issue #195 of The WIRE (May, 2000) {RL Archive; WIRE #195; The Marilyn Crispell Sessionography}

—Showcase cover art by Shelle Barron for the preview article for the Lucille Benefit, “Master of the 10,000 Things,”
 by John Chacona, Erie Times-News Showcase, May 25, 2000 p.19

  2000.05.28 • For the Benefit of Lucille Abbey

 Blood Pudding Reunion: (6:00pm) Joseph Allen Popp (guitars, vocals), Kevin Cuneo (keyboards, guitars, vocals),
  Tom Arndt (bass, vocals), Rick Lopez (drums)

 Noise Floor: (8:00pm) Rick DiBello (guitars), Dave Blaetz (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

 3bak Beast: (9:00pm) Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive; Erie Times-News Showcase, May 25, 2000 p.19}

2000.09.26 (1) • The Glenn Spearman Sessionography [Music Research] September 26, 2000 (online publication date) / A work in progress —A definitive research document covering the career of tenor saxophonist Glenn Spearman.  Session entries for all known official releases and unreleased media (broadcast, audience, etc.),  + all known play dates and interwoven biography. {RL Archive, The Glenn Spearman Sessionography; Photograph by Michael Wilderman}

2000.09.26 (2) • The Mat Maneri Discography [Music Research] September 26, 2000 (online publication date) —Last update: December 24, 2004, since abandoned. —A research document covering the career of violinist Mat Maneri.  Session entries for all known official releases. {RL Archive; Photograph by Susan O’Connor}

• Do you see what’s going on here? I get carried away. On September 26, 2000, with nine other discographies already underway,
  I start three more. How ridiculous...

2000.09.26 (3) • The Joe Morris Discography [Music Research] September 26, 2000 (online publication date) —Last update: January 30, 2003, since abandoned. —A research document covering the career of guitarist Joe Morris.  Session entries for all known official releases. {RL Archive; Photograph by Susan O’Connor}

2000.12.03 • The Marco Eneidi Sessionography [Music Research] December 3, 2000 (online publication date) / A work in progress —A research document covering the career of alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi.  Session entries for all known official releases and unreleased media (broadcast, audience, etc.),  + all known play dates and interwoven biography. {RL Archive, The Marco Eneidi Sessionography; Photo © Marco Eneidi}

  2000.12.07 • The Smith Visiting Writer Program: A Venting, Bare-All, Truth-Seeking Mission

December 7, 2000, 8:00pm / Studio Theatre, Penn State, The Behrend College, Erie, PA “The Creative Writers Speaker Series Presents... A Venting, Bare-All, Truth-Seeking Mission” —Rick Lopez reads from Lucille, a Reverential Journal of the Care of the Beloved Hag

{Event flyer, RL Archive; DVD Recording; Diana Hume George, feature and interview, Erie Times Showcase, December 7, 2000}

2001 : : :

2001.01.25 • The Henry Threadgill Discography [Music Research] January 25, 2001 (first published online) —Adopted by Swedish music researcher Lars Backström on September 18, 2005 —A research document covering the career of reedman Henry Threadgill.  Session entries for all known official releases. {RL Archive; Photograph by Susan O’Connor; Lars Backström’s Henry Threadgill Discography}

  2001.03.00 • “I’ve Done What I Can” [Published Work]

—I’ve Done What I Can” first appeared in Baseball and the 10,000 Things, Vol. I no.1, February, 1994, p.1.

{RL Archive}

   2001.03.02 • The A.R. Penck LP Discography [Music Research]

March 2, 2001 (first published online) / A never-ending work in progress. —A research document covering the career of German artist and musician A.R. Penck. —Session entries for all known official releases, with copious LP cover art images by Penck  and impenetrable discographic mysteries everywhere. ←   ←   ← The benevolent countenance of A.R. Penck. I arrived here via a William Parker Sessionography entry for the Penck recording Going Through, and after being exposed to his work repeatedly while searching for session details, I found myself so taken by the images that I decided they deserved a home.

 • Some sample images meant to tempt my artist friends into checking out the actual document.

{RL Archive, The A.R. Penck LP Discography}

Not long after tackling the Penck works, I realized that I now had 13 various discographies online. Over a dozen people whose work
I had to keep up with, track down, and flesh out. A handful of these documents had transformed from simple discographies into
all-encompassing documents that covered not only all recorded media, but also every performance of any kind that I could find,
along with interwoven biographical details.

I had unofficial “interns” all across the US, Canada, and Europe. I really had to take control (of myself) and focus down, so between
early 2003 and late 2004 I would begin to let go of over half of these trails, and I now (in 2025) maintain only the Sessionographies
of Marilyn Crispell, Marco Eneidi, Mary Halvorson, Sam Rivers (several years out-of-date since the book publication in 2022),
Glenn Spearman, and David S. Ware. All of the others have unfortunately been abandoned.

Question: What exactly is this “leisure time” people keep mentioning to me?

   2001.03.09 and 2001.03.10 • the bone floor

 the bone floor: Anima / Carpenter / pRO_dUCT

{RL Archive; Graphics by DiBello & Bodine}

2001.05.07 • The ESL Trio [Concert Production] May 7, 2001, 8:00pm / Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA   Marco Eneidi (alto sax), Jessica Loos (voice), Spirit (drums) —Six months after publishing the Marco Eneidi Discography,  I arrange a stop on his US tour. {RL Archive; Rick Lopez, Producer; John Chacona, Erie Times-News Showcase, May 3, 2001}

  2001.06.19 • Jazz Erie Discussion Group [Lecture]

—A lecture/music demonstration on creative music, free jazz, and improvisation presented to the members of the JazzErie discussion group.
 Music segments included pieces by The AALY Trio, Mat Maneri, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Joe Morris,
 Marilyn Crispell, and others—all prompted by brief intros on these section headings:

“Rick is an excellent teacher. His presentation was illustrated by recorded music, of course, and also with comparisons and supplements drawn
 from psychology, sociology, film art, music history, and physics. No, it wasn’t distant—this is just the way Rick thinks. It’s all related to the
 grand experience of existence.” —Charles Ventrello, Jazz Erie Newsletter

{RL Archive; “JazzErie Discussion Group” column, by Charles Ventrello, Jazz Erie Newsletter, Issue No. 77p.5}

   2001.08.24 and 2001.08.25 • the bone floor, repeat

 the bone floor: Anima / Carpenter / pRO_dUCT

{www.dam-network.com/bonefloor/bonefloor.html; RL Archive}

2002 : : :

Recovering from 18-month’s of Lucille caretaking, along with my going deep into the music research, I am unable to account for any public activities....

2003 : : :

2003: Joseph Allen Popp puts together his dream band...

2003.04.04 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre April 4, 2003, 10:00pm / Bleu Kats 2, Forward Hall, Erie, PA Live at Forward Hall / 2003.04.04 JAPWT-45 #001 (CD-single) 2003   1st Set:  1. Chicken Bath in a Hole (Gray)  2. Sway (Dean Martin)  3. Michelle... death crib 2000  4. Flame (WT)  5. You Can’t Get a Job (WT)  6. Jack the Cat (Popp)  7. Vestibule     5:30   3:36   7:25   7:12   8:43   7:46  10:43

{CD-R; RL Archive; Graphics by The Whiskeyman Art Company}

2003.04.18 • The Jokermen: Celebrate the Songs of Bob Dylan April 18, 2003, 10:00pm / Docksider, Erie, PA   Eric Walker (vocals), John Hyatt (guitar, vocals), Frank Singer (guitar),   Kennedy Thompson (vocals, keyboards, percussion)   David Blaetz (bass), Matty Walker (percussion), Rick Lopez (drums) —THE JOKERMEN was a group of “all-star” regional musicians from northwestern  Pennsylvania and Buffalo, NY. We performed four shows from 2001-2003—all  at the Docksider in Erie, PA. The local press called the shows “unconsciously good.”  Each show was designed as a musical tribute to well-known artists, including  Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, and Dylan (again) [this date, the only  one I played. —RL], respectively. —Matty Walker {RL Archive; moreaboutmatt.wordpress.com/music; Graphics by Matty Walker}

   2003.04.26 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + Shen & Bones

 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre Chamber Group: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 Shen & Bones: Lani Fand-Weissbach, Doug Lodge

  2003.08.08 • RaGaMaLa: A World Music Improv

 Doug Werner (sitar, percussion), Charles Ventrello (flute, saxes), Doug Russell (acoustic bass), Rick Lopez (drums, percussion)

  2003.08.22 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + Professor Small + The Coffin Bangers

 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 Professor Small: Sean von Buseck (vocals), Martin Wolper (keyboard, drum programming, TV helmet)
 The Coffin Bangers: Bob Kellogg (guitar, vocals), Darren ? (bass), unknown (drums)

  2003.09.05 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + BIRTH

• Live at Forward Hall / 2003.09.05
  JAPWT-45 #002 (CD-single) 2003

Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

BIRTH: Josh Smith (tenor sax), Jeremy Bleich (bass), Joe Tomino (drums, perc)

{CD-R; Erie Times News Showcase September 4 2003; Graphics by Joseph Allen Popp}

   2003.09.19 + 09.20 • H₃O: a Hectic Collaboration in Three Parts

September 19 & 20, 2003, 8:30pm / Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA   Continuous composition [48:17]   ...water bowls   ...how to float   ...STOP   ...singin’ in the rain   ...GO   ...cool   ...deep   ...slow blue   ...depth   ...flame   ...warning   ...calm    4:13  4:24  4:21  1:05  0:53  4:00  2:34  4:00  5:55  6:20  6:00  4:32 —H3O Graphic: Web source + Rehearsal. Shen & Bones in motion.

Shen & Bones: Lani Fand Weissbach, Alethea Bodine, Elizabeth Spadafore, Doug Lodge Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin),  Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums) {CD-R; DVD; Erie Times News Showcase, September 18 2003, p.3}

  2003.10.05 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + Bicycle Monarchs + BIRTH

 BIRTH: Josh Smith (tenor sax), Jeremy Bleich (bass), Joe Tomino (drums, perc)
 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 Bicycle Monarchs: Josiah Haughwout (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Jason (bass),
  DJ Bobby Jensen (drum programming, harmonica, human beatbox, vocals), possible others...

{RL Archive; Andrew Todd poster}

  2003.12.06 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + The Witching

Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars),  Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)   The Witching: Ruby Beil (vocals, electric fiddle),  Meryl Bursic (guitar, back vocals), Jules Pfeiffer (rhythm guitar),  Eva Revesz (bass), Barb Dybwad (drums, back vocals) {CD-R; RL Archive; Graphics by Joseph Allen Popp}

  2003.12.27 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive}

2004 : : :

   2004.01.24 • The Mylar Sets [79:58] + Torn Curtain

• Live at Erie Art Museum Annex / 2004.01.24
  JAPWT-45 #003 (CD-single) 2004

The Mylar Sets
Shen & Bones Performance Group: Lani Fand Weissbach, Kate McDevitt
Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rick DiBello (guitar-14), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin),
Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 
Torn Curtain: Rick DiBello (guitars, soundtracks), Alethea Bodine (voice, slinking)

Mylar Sets by Karen Dodson’s Windy Vestibule Productions

Still images from the video, Shen & Bones trapped in the Mylar Sets...

  2004.04.03 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre with Shen & Bones Performance Group

1st Set:   1. Shiver Me Timbers... rat on a shingle   2. All the Way Up (Gray)   3. Chicken Bath in a Hole (Gray)   4. Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb)   5. Michelle... death crib 2000   6. We Ain’t Gotta Get Outta This Place (Eric Burdon)   7. Tango of the Roses   8. Jack the Cat (Popp)   9. Flame (WT)  10. Dancin’ in the Rain    2nd Set:  11. Sway (Dean Martin)  12. I Spy the Chutzpah  13. The Benedictines vs. The Snakes (WT)  14. Epididemo! (Gray)  16. Vestibule  15. Float (Gray) 7:00 5:26 4:12 2:58 7:45 6:00 2:15 4:38 5:45 6:37 5:07 7:02 5:32 5:30 7:57 6:05 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin),  Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums), + Special Guests: Rebecca Styn (keyboards-4),  Daniel Byler (accordian-7), Israel Stone (voice-10) Shen & Bones Performance Group: Lani Fand-Weissbach, Alethea Bodine, Doug Lodge,  Kate McDevitt, Charmain Koehler-Lodge, Keegan Boulton  Propmaster: Karen A. Dodson

  2004.06.13 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + J.D. and the Sons of Rhythm

  2004.07.17 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + Ruby Beil Solo + The Witching

July 17, 2004, 10:00pm / Forward Hall, Erie, PA   1. Ain’t Gotta Get Outta This Place (Eric Burdon)   2. All the Way Up (Gray)   3. Sway (Dean Martin)   4. Michelle—Death Crib 2000 (WT)   5. Tidy Creatures   6. Shiver Me Timbers, Rat on a Shingle (Gray)   7. Flame (WT)   8. Jack the Cat (Popp)   9. Epididemo (Gray)  10. Chicken Bath in a Hole (Gray)  11. Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb)  12. The Benedictines vs. The Snakes (WT)   1:15  (incomplete, cuts in)   6:06   5:11  10:30   5:07   4:57   5:16   5:05   4:45   5:28   3:24   5:57  Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin),   Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)     Ruby Beil: “a debut solo performance”  The Witching: Ruby Beil (vocals, electric fiddle), Meryl Bursic (guitar, back vocals),   Jules Pfeiffer (rhythm guitar), Eva Revesz (bass), Barb Dybwad (drums, back vocals) {2CD-R; Graphics by Joseph Allen Popp; RL Archive}

2004.08.28 (1) • The Bamboo Sets August 28, 2004, 8:00pm / Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA  Shen & Bones: Lani Fand Weissbach, Alethea Bodine,   Doug Lodge, Charmain Koehler Lodge  Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars and home-mades),   Rob Gray (voices, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)    Set Design: Karen Dodson’s Windy Vestibule —A Performance by Shen & Bones Performance Group + Joseph Allen Popp’s  Weirdo Theatre, “With A Special Post-show set by WEIRDO THEATRE”

{CD-R; Erie Times News Showcase August 26 2004, p.31; Graphics by Joseph Allen Popp}

—A few days before The Bamboo Sets I had surgery to remove a benign growth on my vocal cords. Since I was not allowed to speak,
 I decided to go to the gig with a set of conversational prompts and responses so I’d be able to communicate with the attendees.
 The binder I brought with me had a photo from the doctor, and little cards that I could point to during my many conversations:

{RL Archive}

  2004.09.04 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre

{RL Archive; DVD; Flyers}

  2004.09.18 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + Telefonics

 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

  2004.10.03 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + JD & Sons

 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 JD & Sons: JD Hopkins (drums), others unknown

2005 : : :

  2005.01.23 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + Torn Curtain + Lost Earth Lock

 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 Lost Earth Lock: Aaron Davis (guitar, effects, voice)
 Torn Curtain: Rick DiBello (guitars, soundtracks), Alethea Bodine (voice, slinking)

   2005.02.25 + 02.26 • The Toy Box Sets

 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)
 Shen & Bones Performance Group: Lani Fand Weissbach, Alethea Bodine, Doug Lodge, Keegan Boulton, Sara Lawrence

 Karen Dodson’s Windy Vestibule Productions / Set Designs
 Sets manufactured and installed by Image Events Worldwide, Inc.
 Sound, Lighting, and Tech by Rick DiBello/DiBello Designs.

{DVD; Arte-fakt Magazine April-May 2005, “Artist Spotlight,” p.30; Meg Longcharic, Erie Times-News March 6, 2005 p.10E; Program, RL Archive}

  2005.03.19 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre

 (Small Tension-Barrier Version:) Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

  2005.03.26 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre

 (Medium Version:) Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

  2005.04.01 to 05.04.03 • Pictures of the Floating World: An Evening of Dance Theater

 un-earth(returning)
 Shen & Bones Performance Group: Alethea Bodine, Keegan Boulton, Sara Lawrence, and Doug Lodge
 Sets by Karen Dodson’s Windy Vestibule Productions
 Joseph Allen Popp (guitar), David Blaetz (acoustic bass), Rick Lopez (percussion)
 
—The program also included:
 When I Say I Love You: Lani Fand-Weissbach and Robert Bingham (duet created by Sondra Fraleigh)
 Burning: Fand-Weissbach and Elizabeth Spadafore (duet created by Lani Fand-Weissbach)
 A General Theory of Love: the company
 Waking Woman/Messy Beauty: Solo created and performed by Fand-Weissbach
 Text by Daria Fand; Costumes by Charmaine Koehler-Lodge; Original soundscore by Joseph Allen Popp;
 Sets designed by Karen Dodson’s Windy Vestibule Productions

  2005.04.08 & 04.09 • Shen & Bones

 Shen & Bones Performance Group: Lani Fand Weissbach, Alethea Bodine, Doug Lodge, Keegan Boulton, Sara Lawrence
 Music by: Joseph Allen Popp (g), Rick Lopez (dr, perc)

2005.04.26 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre + Need New Body April 26, 2004, 9:00pm / Doucette Hall, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA  Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin),   Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)  Need New Body: Jeff Bradbury (voice/multi-instrumentalist), Dale Jimenez (keyboards),   Chris Reggiani (bass), Chris Powell and Jim Reggiani (perc) {RL Archive; Poster by Andrew Todd}

“Best of Erie,” Erie Times-News Showcase May 26, 2005 p.28

2005.05.20 + 05.21 • The Toy Box Sets May 20 & 21, 2005, 8:15pm / CelebrateErie Festival, Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA —The Erie Debut of The Toy Box Sets (See Images at 2005.02.25-26).  Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin),    Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)  Shen & Bones Performance Group: Lani Fand Weissbach, Alethea Bodine, Doug Lodge,    Keegan Boulton, Sara Lawrence  Karen Dodson’s Windy Vestibule Productions / Set Designs  Sound, Lighting and Tech by Rick DiBello/DiBello Designs.  Sets manufactured and installed by Image Events Worldwide, Inc. {Arte-fakt Magazine April-May 2005, “Artist Spotlight,” p.30}    2005.08.19 • Excerpts—Toy Box Sets August 19, 2005, 8:15pm / CelebrateErie Festival, Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA  Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin),    Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)  Shen & Bones Performance Group: Lani Fand Weissbach, Alethea Bodine, Doug Lodge,    Keegan Boulton, Sara Lawrence  Karen Dodson’s Windy Vestibule Productions / Set Designs  Sound, Lighting and Tech by Rick DiBello/DiBello Designs.  Sets manufactured and installed by Image Events Worldwide, Inc. {Celebrate Erie program; event handout; Archive}

  2005.11.11 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

2006 : : :

  2006.04.01 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

2006.10.09 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre October 9, 2006, 6:00pm / The backyard deck, my sister’s house, Erie, PA —RLs niece Emily Zamieroski’s Sweet Sixteen Birthday Party  Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums) ← ← A favorable review of the performance {RL Archive}

  2006.11.11 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

2007 : : :

  2007.01.19 • if/then

if = Ian Smith (guitars), then = Rick Lopez (drums) —This was the debut performance of if/then   No plan, no warning.      Open improvisation,   beginning when they clamor,   ending when we drop. {RL Archive; www.pr.com/press-release/27364}

  2007.05.04 • if/then

 if = Ian Smith (guitars), then = Rick Lopez (drums)

  2007.06.01 • Planetary Alignments, Bird Sightings, Totemic Travels... [Travelogue]

 Rick and Aaron Lopez head to Columbia University’s Miller Theatre in New York City
 for the Sam Rivers Trio reunion concert with Holland and Altschul on May 25th, 2007.

{RL Archive, Storm Center: A Compendium of Disturbances (1983-2013), The Vortex, 2026}

  2007.07.13 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre Orkeztra + Eraserhead

July 13, 2007, 8:00pm / Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA  Screening of Eraserhead, a film by David Lynch    Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin),  Lou Nicolia (electric violin), James Pearson (cello, effects),  Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums) {“Geek Love,” by John Chacona, Erie Times News Showcase July 12, 2007 p.28; Graphics by Joseph Allen Popp}

  2007.08.10 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre Orkeztra + The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

 Screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a film by Robert Wiene (8:00)
  
 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre (9:30): Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Lou Nicolia (electric violin),
  James Pearson (cello, effects), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums, hammer drill)

  2007.10.26 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre Orkeztra

 Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre: Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Lou Nicolia (electric violin),
  James Pearson (cello, effects), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

2008 : : :

2008.06.13 • if/then/what? June 13, 2008, 7:30pm / Erie Gallery Night, Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA  if = Ian Smith (guitars), then = Rick Lopez (drums), what? = Dave Blaetz (bass) {RL Archive}

  2008.06.21 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre Orkeztra

 Joseph Allen Popp (guitars), Rob Gray (vocals, theremin), Lou Nicolia (electric violin),
  James Pearson (cello, effects), Ken Cornelius (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive; Posters by Joseph Allen Popp}

   2008.08.23 • Joseph Allen Popp’s Weirdo Theatre Orkeztra + Shen & Bones

{RL Archive; Poster by Joseph Allen Popp}

  2008.10.10 • if/then

 if = Ian Smith (guitars), then = Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive}

  2008.12.05 • if/then/what?/huh?

 if = Ian Smith (guitars), then = Rick Lopez (drums), what? = Dave Blaetz (bass), huh? = Sheldon Peterson (guitars, percussion)

{RL Archive}

2009 : : :

  2009.04.17 • Sturgis Nikides and the Electric Assassins

 Sturgis Nikides (guitar), Rowdy Bodine (bass), Rick Lopez (drums)

{RL Archive; Feature article by Dave Richards, Erie Times-News Showcase April 16, 2009}

  2009.04.18 • Sturgis Nikides and the Electric Assassins + Burny White & Claude

 Sturgis Nikides and the Electric Assassins: Sturgis Nikides (guitar), Rowdy Bodine (bass), Rick Lopez (drums), + guest Lance Elbaum

{RL Archive, “The Man of Steel,” by Dave Richards, Erie Times-News Showcase April 16, 2009 p.20}

  2009.06.26 • Sturgis Nikides and the Electric Assassins + Burny White & Claude