Starman

A 30-Day Music Memory Series

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In the Winter-Spring of 1995–96, I took a job as a painter for a company that planned and staged fundraisers and fancy events in Las Vegas. I worked late nights after school, and on weekends, we constructed and painted stuff like 18' x 18' canvases for handpainted portraits of The Four Tops and full-scale reproductions of the most famous and historic neon Vegas signs. I worked with Artie, Charles…