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Visit the website of Chris Pitsiokos (click on this name and you’ll get there) and you’ll see an image of a blue sky striped with contrails. The saxophonist is no conspiracy theorist, but he is a roaddog, logging 92 shows in 2024. He’s off to a strong start in 2025, too, with a tour that will bring him to the Little Rose Tavern for a duo gig with eruptive drummer Weasel Walter presented by New Ghosts.
Comments closedToday I’m getting my Muck Rack profile together before I pitch an article to a city/regional magazine. To this online portfolio of my work I added this piece I wrote in 2011 for a city/regional title in Erie, Pennsylvania that is no longer published. It’s a scan of the page because, like the magazine itself, its digital archive also disappeared, maybe during a server migration some years ago or more likely when the publisher was acquired. Capitalists gonna capitalist I guess.
I’m especially fond of this piece, a bittersweet chronicle of a rich time in my life. But that’s not the only attraction it holds for me. It has a happy ending, and not just in the glass. You see, dear reader, the woman I obliquely and, I hope, generously alluded to in the opening graf, married me in 2019.
Cheers!
When Cleveland wants to greet the world, here’s what it says: “Hi. I’m Daniel Peck and welcome to Live at the BOP STOP.”
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It was a simple question that I asked Pat Bianchi: Which is your dominant hand? His answer was more complex than I expected.
“I’m kind of both,” he said. “I write with my left hand. I can write with my right hand, too, so it kind of flips back and forth.”
Ambidexterity is a useful trait for a keyboard player to possess, and because Bianchi’s primary instrument is the Hammond B-3 organ, his feet are also involved.
The lack of a dominant hand is an interesting footnote for sure but it’s also a metaphor for the absence of a dominant aesthetic in Bianchi’s musical choices, something that makes his Friday appearance at BOP STOP an unusually compelling event.
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