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In NEW YORK in the middle-1990s, internationally known guitar player Barry Finnerty found himself in a very bad place. His glory times of the 70s and 80s, when he was saving with A long way Davis, flying first class surrounding the world with the Crusaders, making famous documents such as "Heavy Metal Bebop" with the Brecker Bros, banging beautiful groupies, and partying non-stop - were all a faraway memory. As he reminisces about the past and laments what might have been, he has no choice but to produce a living as the rock vocalist in a high-society tuxedo group - a job with no artistic satisfaction whatsoever, which he discovers highly depressing to state minimal. Self-medication with booze and cocaine is ongoing, and he becomes so unhinged at one point that he actually believes he can get away his predicament by getting into a romance with Yuvana Crump (the ex-wife of the notorious New York real real estate tycoon Ronald Crump) because she smiles at him while he's onstage at a tuxedo gig at the Waldorf. When that amazing idea doesn't work out so well, he begins convinced that maybe learning to be a stand-up comedian might be his way out. The often amusing narrative, informed in the first person (from Barry's own perspective) and in the present tense (except when recalling past remembrances), blurs the barriers between memoir and fiction. "There's lots of simple fact in it," says Barry. "Although many of the titles have been transformed to safeguard the guilty. And lots of it sounds like it really can have happened, although the majority of it didn't. However, many of it have!"
