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Get Me Rodd Keith!!
House of Tudor Critic's Pick

SF Weekly (April 19, 2000)
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Thirty years before Momus created a
media buzz with its 1999
"send-me-lyrics-and-I'll-make-you-a-song"
disc Stars Forever, Rodd Keith had
earned the disheartening title "King of
Send-Us-Your-Poem Songs." For a
musician, arranger, and singer with
any self-esteem, "song sharking" (in
which companies advertising in the
back of magazines preyed on the
starry-eyed hopes of office workers
across the country) was akin to
musical prostitution, but Keith did it
anyway, squandering his talents and
cranking out as many as 40 songs in a day until he died at the ripe age of
37. But his life wasn't wasted; because of him, there is a treasure trove
of water-cooler philosophy and rush-hour dreams, full of poignant
insight into the heart of Everyman, recorded for posterity. In celebration
and investigation of this absurdly American genre, musician Joshua
Pollock (Zircus, Mushroom, Daevid Allen's University of Errors) has
written a quasi-musical titled Get Me Rodd Keith! Along with Keith
classics, an original song (written from lyrics provided by you) will be
performed each night. Get Me Rodd Keith! runs Fridays and Saturdays
at 8 p.m., April 21 through May 27, at the Exit Theater (156 Eddy).
Tickets are $12-14; call 566-2578.
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