His Grand mother Lucy Lanier started St Marks Baptist Church,.a small church in the small town of Highland Falls New York.. Most of the members where of Rockman's own family.

Rockman enjoyed the singing with other church members and listening to the late

Rev Miles Oliver preach. the oratoring was fasinating to Rockman. the inflection the committment and then the call to the alter. a Sacred  rite of passage. Only for those that where moved the the spirit.

Most Sundays After church Rockman and the entire lot of his cousin would all go down the street with the few cents that they had left to Galu's Bar and grill. where they would come in and buy bags of Bar B Que potato chip and slim jims.

Hungry for substance after a spirit  filled church service.

Those days of childhood will always be precious and remain in his heart.