XXV. PRACTICE SESSION
The pounding of Sid Stanley’s bass drum could be heard from two hangars away, while LaRissa set up her computer and note pad on a ratty coffee table that had more coffee stains than wood stain.
The drive to the renovated airplane hangar near West Point, which Berg Rabinowitz rented for the practice sessions, had a calming effect on Shynuh, LaRissa, and Charlie. The Palisades Turnpike was in all its glory – late-October, the charming, tree-lined highway splashed Fall colors through the BMW’s windshield, even at two in the morning.
Estrella was with the band, helping them work through one of their rare covers planned for the upcoming show, Led Zeppelin’s “In My Time of Dying.” No one in the band, except Charlie, knew how appropriate that selection would become. But a
