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Alan was one of the principal continuity editors for this book – not because he decided to be a book editor in his latest incarnation but because he is an avid reader and is and has been a very special friend of mine. His thorough and precise notes and follow up questions along with his intelligent suggestions helped make this a far better “read” than the 13th re-write I first shared with him.

Alan is known throughout the music world and a fair share of New York’s general population as one of the two founders of New York’s legendary The Bottom Line, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. For almost 30 years The Bottom Line was “the” go to venue for new and established performers – the place many first discovered Bruce Springsteen and K D Lang… where Prince appeared as did Dolly Parton and Billie Joel as well as Aaron Copeland. Where Richard Price read from the galleys of his book, Clockers… where Lou Reed recorded the album Live: Take No Prisoners, and where Harry Chapin held his 2000th concert.

It was where I learned to appreciate Handel’s Messiah through the Bottom Line’s creative version, the Downtown Messiah. Where I watched, with more than a few mixed emotions, one of Soupy Sales’s last performances… saw Ringo Starr light up the stage during a rare late night surprise appearance; where I first discovered how great a guitarist Janis Ian was; and where I rediscovered the Jefferson Airplane and David Johansen, (aka Buster Poindexter).

If you enjoy this mystery– as I hope you will – you can thank Alan.