frank was born and raised in new jersey and has changed residence yes new jersey twelve times and jobs twice that many times he was one of his one constant has been music through all of that with songs covered by dick says me a big deal and gary talent yes yes frank has produced his own albums as well as producing sims w evans he's performed his songs from new york to nashville new orleans to england and joining frank are al moleski and katherine walk out on a precaution so when given a moment to get set up here and just remind people that a fun doing this we do it because we love it and we do it because we really really enjoy seeing all the different actually come up here and have a lot of fun if you are so interested and so inclined to help us out a little bit we never refused folks that may want to help us in terms of doing no no thing convenient to marry her because you know she's a poet and alissa poor right back there she hates it when i point out to the audience but she's right you i'm going to give you a choice now my wife and i we wrote a song about a serial killer ok and i used to say that but that was part of my introduction to the people didn't think i was a creep you know but i think i think it's a he's so hard to resist the serial killer the body these things have been every day people love serial killers love song and it's kind of a song you know sometimes you pull them out of the air like you're driving down the road and you see that you see that or you run into people you hear this you hear that why bring that up catherine i had no idea it's a sing along to if you're feeling up to it we also wanted to mention to you do you miss is frank that we  it's a wonderful site and we have the acts out there at least a week in advance if not sooner than that and so yes please watch our website so i'm getting ready for our next app steve hilt time our relationship to nature inner and outer in this cabaret of life on earth molecules become characters and classic songs are adapted to speak of human folly and love for a well hey so poetry did i hear something about poetry well i don't know what i do but sometimes people think it's sort of like poetry you know who knows we'll find out  my guitar is very shy it did not show up tonight i don't know what happened but you've been hearing some great guitar hears you've got that to carry you through some capella songs it seems to me so i brought i brought  i actually had a larger earth but i would have had to drive my truck to get it here and that just didn't seem right for doing climate change so this one fit in my backpack and i were bike and does you know if you look at that ok so so it was so i was at a little brook little book has a little bit elementary as a science day and i showed up and i c i just gave it away that's carbon you guys know all this you know what i it's the molecule of the century it was designated all fishley by me a couple hours ago so i'm a character and these are all these are actually oh so you can see them and then my body gets to be carbon and actually our bodies are mostly cartoons so it's quite appropriate ok we're in it not a he not a she has nothing on us three because wrists you know two you see just a little bit a matter of the never used to matter you thought you knew us we were harmless we were good well he's did what we should we fed the plants we kept the planet nice and warm in a cold cold universe we never did no one no harm it just means you once you build to nothing you can see nothing you can smell nothing you can feel hard to think are really real and that we could steal it's just not fair what they say about us we're real do gooder we carry carbon from the dead back to your garden bed on the wings of oxygen the plants they eat us to make life a new it's true we're a miracle forever in the making ok it's also true a long time ago no there were too many of us doing too much good the planet was way too hot so nature buried a whole lot of our carbon underground earth was cooler life was good until all that carbon underground was found coal oil and natural gas enough down under to last unless they dug me up and burned me up and up and up  went on the wings of oxygen doing good so much good too much good the seasons they grew hotter what once was lost was now a whole lot lot of the oceans look so placid but we were turning them into acid tiny sea shells turning flacid look at up the could not look it up the less carbon stored the more in store to shake civilization to the core we could say more but we're used to we can't talk you didn't hear what we just said you can't see us but we're here bit by bit we're building up to steal those seasons you hold so dear some people still think we are nothing that we could do no harm and so they do nothing while something is doing a whole lot of something to change the world forever people go to movies big mean monsters who want to destroy the world and almost not machines find energy above the ground and leave the carbon underground so that all the seasons can stick around and all the people yet to come will think you clever look at us we work together you can too to save the weather i'm going to sing a song about electric cars later if anyone has a guitar anyway we'll get through it it'll be a sing along so but anyway this one is a song that we've climate adapted a lot of songs are having trouble in this age of climate change need to be adapted to climate change so i perform this service  is your figure is your figure less than greek is your jet stream getting weak wicked when i when we change you week don't change your ways for me ways that take care of me step climate found that's why i need a good heart ok so we're all kind of attached to this haven't taken actions we're still attached to these things it's kind of a problem kind of hook behind our dr and so this one is about our situation as individuals and it's really messed up and somebody should have done something about a long time ago they did not earth in the line of fire here so what will i do what will i do what will i do about what i'm doing doing doing to the earth i don't mean to i don't mean to i don't mean to be so  i don't see it i don't see it then we'll see it is pollution i don't feel i don't feel as i sit behind the wheel i don't feel the fear i should feel but why should i fear what is it most a chemical ghost  atmosphere and how can those tons and tons and tons of tons of carbon float in there i know i know i know i should know i know i should know better than the do and do and do what is already too much but i want my life i want my life i want my life to stay the same i cannot change i cannot change i can't change the way i change you less torture is a journey it seems than from science to mind from mind to heart from callous to  play jazz in a nightclub that his son own in ann arbor michigan and i went to high school with his nephew so that's my connection to your partner and but there's a your partner foundation in new york and when i wrote these modified lyrics to if i only had a brain i sent them to him and he was he said oh yeah we could uses figure out how to use it politically or something so i don't know if i'll sing this maybe i will listen to the warnings let me tell you first today is the thirtieth year to the day since james hansen testified in front of congress the famous the gertrude the the famous climate scientist james hansen testified in one thousand nine hundred eight it was ninety five degrees there was a drought all over all over the country i was working at a botanical garden trying to keep the plants from dying yellowstone was burning like crazy it was a crazy year and james hansen testified in front of congress that said we've got a problem that was thirty years ago today i just read that so where  oh i can't tell you why the cities are near the shore no one will remember what was there before if they all flood well thank you thank you for that assists i was fantastic  i think that brings us to our sing along oh john denver country roads i've messed with those lyrics too but he's not around he was an environmentalist i think and he i'm not sure he wrote this song he kind of co wrote it or something but it came out on one thousand nine hundred seventy and we all know what happened one nine hundred seventy it was the first earth day got a sharp yes almost fifty years ago and here we are so i think we have to dedicate more than a day per year that would help i believe we have someone in the audience tonight with electric car a friend of my game yeah he has one i don't but that's the next hour i'm getting there thank you so much  written up in the princeton alumni magazine recently for his heroic efforts in world war two but anyway we're having a party two to five tomorrow in here in town woods comments just saw snowden and we're just going to hang out w we've got our last act of the evening as that goes pop that goes pop echoes of the gypsy caravan the carnival and the high seas while their lyrics tell engaging stories replete with humor social consciousness and satire said in a post apocalyptic dream world there are often revolving themes of folklore  revolution so we've got their set of moment here for a zap goes pop you are going to love it they've been here at least once or twice before already and as a reminder for cafe improv we are here at the for saturday of every month along people that maybe have not even played before an audience before and it gives them their first exposure where we've got folks like spokane who've been singing all over and just very very well established artists so all of that here at cafe improv is your best this next one we're about to do is an original called change and i'm going to wait for jeff over here to get it's two  ah for time we would bring back one of the songs we played last time and it seemed like everyone really liked our one time frieda which was about my separation from my piano the last three months it was terrible and you know i'm but if i did don't you need like an antenna or something right so i went over and i was playing the music and i was trying to come up with a way to cope how my going to make an antenna so i reached into the piano and i pulled  candle stick to keep in there and he collected all the music oh that's interesting that's interesting well you know and then i put the antenna in a coke bottle see ok and i know you got like a little satellite dish there yeah so then like i wanted to get real cool sounds so i went and i was looking for differences or you know in the refrigerator and but in the freezer i found where i keep my r c a plug  around and also the picture clicks in and you know you got it and then you just turn the channel on and there it is and there it is and if your buddies and i sleep in all the way he doesn't even know what's going on he's having a day during