Mr. Kennedy,
It was an honor to have created and sent the CD of music to your mother.

It was not my back.......it was my neck, which was injured badly by Dr. Sheldon Delman, a
chiropractor of Mamaroneck N.Y.
The result was the complete loss of my left arm for almost two years.

It sounds to me that you are angry..........angry enough to bring my family into your
whining and complaining and name calling!

No father could be more proud of the accomplishments that my son and two daughters
have made.
My son, a world class concert sound engineer, with an extensive list of accomplishments
to his credit.
My daughter, a Doctor of Philosiphy in Psycology.
My daughter, an executive assistant in a major corporation.

In closing, what is truly sad is that you have carried this anger over all this time.
I would suggest that you exchange these thoughts with your own family.
Really............you sound troubled, and I don't believe for a second it
has anything to do with me. I just happened to be here.

I hope you have a better day.
Take good care Mr. Kennedy.


At 09:10:45 PST on 11-01-07, bScott wrote:

>Good morning,
>
>I have been thinking over these past several months since I last saw you in Cleveland,
Ohio in April of this year,('07).
>
>As I readied myself for your brief performance, I was in eager anticipation for what ever
you would bring to the stage.
>
>I had a special reason for being there, knowing that you went well out of your way to
make a cd for my mother in the hospital as we were helplessly aiding her to stay alive. You
have walked on water in her opinion, or at least made her feel like she could.
>
>Again, I feel that "thank you" is not a sufficent means to let you know just how far your
act of kindness has stretched.
>
>One more thing beforeI sign off.
>
>In listening to your demanor and the tunes you chose to perform when you were in
Cleveland, you portrayed a different
>Kenny Rankin than I have ever seen or heard.
>
>Yes, you are allowed to be human. That's what we all are.
>
>At the same time, were not all of those present their to honor "you" ....your long years of
struggle to share your voice, your loves and your life through
>music?
>
>Within your brief performance, I heard you speak indifferently about your kids
accomplishments, your back pain and the way you were burned through your ordeal with
your back. You used the opportunity to vindicate your anger against your chiropractor by
usine his name in bad advertisement against him.
>
>What was the most amazing act of selfishness was that you complained about having to
make good on your word to someone and to come back to play at a place where you can
hear dishes and waiters make service noise in the background. You even suggested that a
door be put up for that your music wouldn't be bothered. That's what our tickets bought
us that gracious evening of 4-30-07.
>
> All the while, I made excuses for your sour nature. I kept telling the friends I bought
tickets for that you were just having a bad day.
>
>Having had major back surgery and knowing how foul I treated others around me simply
because I couldn't stand the pain that my body and mind was in prior to and after the
event, I understood where you 'might' have been at that time. But then again, I don't really
know you. Perhaps that is real man you have always been behind all of the music. It is a
choice. You get to make it.
>
>This email was not only to thank you for coming back to Cleveland and 'making good' on
your original concert that you cancelled due to your voice problem that night way-way
long ago, (the house was packed and the evening crowd was filled with your long time
fans, some from other states,) but this is a 'heads-up' to
>take a step away from your "performing stage" stuck in your mind.
>
>It is not only what you bring to the fore that will make any experience great. The very
people who have made a deliberate decision to keep you in their lives, their minds and
their memories are the ones responsibile for even allowing your to come close to any of
your musical goals all of these years.
>
>In the future, if you are graced with the privilege of having two people, let alone thirty or
more who are gathered to celebrate your beautiful voice.....come out of your head and
your ego and remember how excited you were to have been given that chance for the very
first time years ago in places like the "Back
>Door" on the UCSD campus where we sat on the floor just to hear you in 1978. I was one
of them.
>
> Do it for you, Kenny Rankin. If you don't, then please step off the stage and sweeten
your attitude with some other venture. Life is too short, buddy.
>
>
>--
>From the heart, Bryan Kennedy
>

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