Amazing news:

A Van Dyke documentary will be shown on Canadian tv in Toronto on Thursday January 26th at  10:00 PM on TVO ( TV Ontario) . I don't know if this doc has been shown already in America or eleswhere. It's called: "Masterworks", and tonight TVO showed a trailer for it; at one point Van Dyke is in front of a shop, saying "This is the spot where David Crosby asked me to join the Byrds in 1966". Brian is, of course, in the doc too, along with several others. It looks very similar in style to "Dreamer".

Just watched "The Mayor of Sunset Strip" which with extra footage cut from the theatre release comes in at about three and a half hours, and it's great!! Brian makes small cameos throughout, and it's fascinating to see how a super-fan worked his way up, first starting as a gofer for sonny and Cher, then as a record company rep, then as a club owner, then as a DJ for K-ROCK since 1976. Turns out he's helped break a lot of acts over the last 30 years, and specializes in playing demos to help them. A very shy, sensitve and inteligent guy, not obsequious at all, and- amazingly- a babe-magnet!!

Anyways, it's essential viewing (As Gary 'PIG' Gold would say) for any rock fan since 1963, but this is my question: near the beginning of the film there's a song heard in a radio station which is guesting Brian, and it's a fully finished production of a song about Rodney, sung by Brian. Has anyone heard of this before? It's called "Rodney on the Roq" and it's fantastic, and available on the soundtrack album: here's a URL to a sample of the song:

http://www.shoutfactory.com/selection/103/Mayor_Of_The_Sunset_Strip%3A_Original_Soundtrack_To_The_Motion_Picture.html

Wow!