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.....The band belted out "Thompkin Square Uprising" and lots of other catchy, heartfelt rockin' tunes. Next time I swear I am wearing my dancing shoes, cuz this music made you want to jump up and honky-tonk boogie...... ........In closing, nice space, tasty cold drinks, good sounding room, rockin' tunes, tight band...what could be more fun? ....Moogy’s stamp is all over early Rundgren material...... .....After hearing him play last Sunday, I think I can pick out Moogy’s parts on “The Ikon” and "Freak Parade."... ......Moogy is a really good keyboard player and songwriter, and I was glad I caught the show.... ........ The Mojos were guitar (Don Celenza), bass (Even Steven), keys (Moogy playing an Ensoniq electric keyboard and handling lead vocals), drums (Mike Lauren), tambourine (a way attractive young woman whose name I don’t recall), and occasional excellent contributions from a violin/flute player, whose name I also forget.  As I walked in, at some point after the first set had already begun, Moogy was giving a brief discourse on the evils of Mayor “Adolf” Giuliani, and his attempts at turning New York into a police state (curfews, stop-and-frisk policies, NYPD cops and their bathroom broom-handle assaults, NYPD cops shooting an unarmed suspect 19 times…). The band then launched into a song that I think was called “The Tompkin (sp?) Rebellion.” You know I gotta love artists who can give a creative finger to fascist authority figures and package it in an entertaining way (can you say “Rundgren”? I knew that you could…), so I ate up the whole bit. Just as I was thinking that the song had a “Twist and Shout” kind of chord progression, the band segued into a few bars of the Isley Bros (and Beatles) classic. Rockin’ fun.  “Welcome to the USA” was another musical bird-flip to the Man (particularly the Man in Blue), referring to the warm welcome extended to our immigrant brethren who are escaping their politically oppressed teeming shores for the legendary freedoms of the USA. These freedoms include “the freedom to be beaten like Rodney King,” according to Moogy. This number had an inviting ska beat, and sported a number of excellent instrumental solos.  Other songs served up included “Coney Island,” a fun boogie number in which the band meandered into Little Feat’s “Dixie Chicken” for a while; the Buzzy Linhart/Moogy Klingman hit for Bette Midler, “(You gotta have) Friends,” delivered in a slight reggae fashion; and, of course, the final song of the evening – “Dust in the Wind,” from TR’s “Something/Anything?”