First Keith Lubow (Patrick’s son) and James Graham and I started rehearsing, then Andrea Baker joined the band, and finally I called my old friend Gary Talley on my cell phone from the Whole Foods parking lot and asked if he wanted to fly out from Nashville to play guitar on the September 6th gig — and he said “yes”! We all managed to stuff ourselves into my trailer (The Blue Flamingo) for our final rehearsals, and “Diddi Mac and The Pies” were born.

Diverging from our usual material, we discovered that The Pies’ true calling was writing soundtracks for spy movies. For the gig, however, we decided to stick with my songs with only a brief taste of Spy Music during the intro.

Gary went back to Nashville after the September 6th gig, and “The Pies” regrouped with guitar player Pete Moyer, a Music Night regular and childhood friend of Patrick’s, for a November 15th gig on the South Pasadena Eclectic Arts Festival stage.