The Middle Years: Roger got married. Roger got divorced. And Roger continued to make music. In fact, his songwriting output increased markedly as his personal life went haywire. (You gotta suffer if you want to sing the blues!!!) Though he attempted to put and keep bands together throughout the 1970s, the failure of one project he was particularly keen on — a female fronted pop rock outfit in the mode of the Pretenders — completely soured Roger on the band thing. It was to be his last band until 2001. A relocation to New York City in 1982 spurred a renewed interest in public performance. The scene on MacDougal Street and Bleeker Street was alive and Roger played regularly. He became involved with the Fast Folk Musical Magazine and for several years volunteered his talents doing record album jacket and insert design. He also did a lot of "stuffing and mailing" and rubbed elbows with quite a few people with names any music lover would certainly recognize. Not surprisingly, in such a fertile environment Roger wrote a lot of material, some of which he is still performing today.