marktruly

Yes, Mike is blind as you've already determined. I took keyboard lessons from him some years back. He ran a recording studio out of his Manhattan apartment and was in hot demand among New York songwriters. He used voice-assisted software to control his computer and was amazingly dexterous for a blind person running a complex computer program. One day when I arrived for my lesson Mike was finishing up a demo for a couple of songwriters, one of whom was a British guy he introduced as Keith. Later, during our lesson, Mike mentioned that 'Keith has a very valuable piece of publishing'. When I asked what it was, he said that Keith had written 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. I pretty much screamed at Mike 'That was KEITH REID?". As a huge Procol Harum fan I never quite forgave Mike for not being more clear about that. Mike is a tremendous guy but I'm no longer living in NYC and haven't heard anything about him lately. He was completely self-sufficient as you might expect from a keyboardist of his caliber.