After only spending two days actually home in Las Vegas in the last month, we back into Maryanne’s Red TT and returned to the Sunset Marquis and Los Angeles for our opening of Rock Prophecies at the IDA Arclight theaters in Hollywood This is first public showing of the film outside of film festivals. We were very lucky, as our film has been chosen by the IDA for the process of getting a possible nomination for the Academy Awards!

The 7:30 PM show was the big launch with after Samsung hosted after party and we were totally sold out. Steve Lukather from Toto, John 5 from Mansion and Zombie , and Orianthi Panagaris the fantastic young female guitar player who landed the coveted gig as Michael Jackson’s new guitar player for the 50 show run of concerts he was about to start in London, all showed up and many other friends and family rocked out to the very cool state of the art sound systems of the Arclight.

Tyler Bryant made a surprised visit at the end of the film and played a great solo number for everyone before we all went over to the very cool after party Samsung had for us.

When I got back to the Sunset Marquis Hotel Pino Pallideno and Ian Mclagan were hanging out. They both are working on the new John Mayer album and have been staying in LA for a while. Pino is the most amazing fretless guitar player, working with such great bands as Jeff Beck, The Who, Paul Jones, and John Mayer. Ian McLagan was in the Face’s with Rod Stewart and now playing with John Mayer.

We had a great time remembering all the trouble they got up to in Hawaii in 1975 when I photographed them. It all ended when Ian was being attacked by the then popular Helen Ready’s husband for destroying Helen’s hotel suit before she could check in, Ian pulled a very big painting off the wall and smashed it over the head of the man, then check out!

The Party ended about 12 Midnight and John Chester and I had a 7AM flight to Providence Rhode Island where the film was screening at 7PM, we made it with 1 hour to spare. Great showing and we hung with friends until the wee hours eating the great seafood from the region.

Off to New York for a week of press and concerts with Tyler Bryant and The Sick Puppies and our big opening of Rock Prophecies on the East Coast. I am sure we will have some really cool stories to report in the next few days

Cheers!

Robert

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