The concert started off with a great Sauvignon blanc, and some cheese... Nah Ephman was at City Winery for Robyn Hitchcock.  But let's first say if you've never seen a concert at City Winery you should, it's one of New York's finest venues... on so many different levels.

Was this the best concert Ephman's ever seen?  No.  Was it the worst?  Far from it.  What made this show so enjoyable though (aside from the bottle of wine), was that Robyn Hitchcock is not perfect.  Unlike the last few times where he was spot on.  It was nice to see him miss chords, start songs on the wrong key, and forget words.

So why is that so great?  Well put it this way... it felt like Robyn was in your basement just fooling around.  Who knows if he was purposely fouling out.  But whatever the imperfections were great.  Made you feel like you were there to see something special happening.

Robyn was backed by a great singer, and if you watch the video below you'll notice him.  His name is Sean Nelson.  So glad Ephman was introduced to his voice.  WOW, what a perfect match to harmonize with Robyn.  And you totally know that the next album he buys will be Sean's band Harvey Danger.

Also on stage was the emancipated Patty Smith guitar player Lenny Kaye.  Lenny was great.  Not only is he a good guitar player, but he's also a fine producer in his own right.  He's worked with Allen Ginsberg to Soul Asylum. He didn't say a word, but had a nice smile on his face the whole time.  Really looked like he was out there having some fun!  Sorry Lenny ran out of battery to catch you on video :(

But if you ever get a chance to see Robyn play you will laugh your arse off.  He's so funny.  Funny in a whacked out took too much acid way.  He's so great at interacting with the audience, way better then most of his peers.  Ephman guesses he said he like a song he just played a bit too loud, and he heard.  Robyn then said "that was a good song to love".  You can just tell he loves the audience, and plays for them totally.

Ok so if you're a regular follower of this blog you'll know that basically Ephman goes to the concert for the show, and rarely takes set lists.  Names to songs are just labels man, meant to help the man put you down.  So the gist is that Robyn played a Bob Dylan song, a Jimi Hendrix tune, a Doors song, and then a bunch of his and some other peoples.  Ok that's the set list from what can be remembered, even though it was last evening.

If you're around NYC in the next few days, he'll be playing The Music of The Who at Carnegie Hall.  Ironcially a Michael Dorf production. ;)