RF Trio Redux

One of the multiple story threads in Screen Saver is the genesis of the RF Trio. Joe and Dave and I really wanted to make a living as entertainers and we gave it as good a go as college kids were able in the early 1960s. But circumstances – Vietnam being the biggest – mitigated against that happening. As time and our lives wandered forward we would upon occasion get together and try to sing again. It was usually pretty sad. Luckily we had lots of beer and good humor to cover the fact that the songs just weren't there anymore. One in awhile, though, there would be the exception, or nearly so. This is one of them.

The video sequence is from images captured on the trip to Paris – originally it had been for three, but it had become for two by the time we went – that Betsy and I went on in 2006. That was the trip in which I realized that the tree on Avenue Rapp, the street which was the home of the residents of the quilt, was a giant fig. The images in the video are from le Musee d'Orsay and l'Orangerie.