I had the pleasure to be part of the small crowd in New York City that packed the Mercury Lounge last night. Fab (drummer of the Strokes) wrote an album, which he told me (about years ago) and had planned on having a large black woman who sung gosepl sing for him. This all changed when he friended Rodrigo (Los Hermanos), who ended up singing for the band that was rounded out by Binki (post Drew girlfriend of Fab). Binki also happens to be one of the sweetest woman you’ll ever meet which Fab absolutely deserves.

Scared out of his mind (if you knew him this would make a lot more sense) Fab performed in front of friends and family (and a few die hard Stokes fans). Co-Stroke Albert was there with Model de jour, Jim Merlis (owner of Big Hassle), Brett Kilroe (confidant and art director for all Strokes projects), Hugh Surrattt (former RCA Label), Longwave, Ryan Gentiles (mgr of Strokes), etc etc…

They started by playing a 7 minute Portugese song and played the entire record (which I highly recommend you picking up)…

It was dark, so the video is bad but I thought this was a really funny moment, mostly because Hugh use to be my old boss and is standing right next to me, when….well….watch

Final song played during the set “Keep Me In Mind”