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Post by jjplatt on Mar 25, 2012 1:02:31 GMT -5
still not getting anyone to let me know if they will join us for this years reunion jam.Everyone talked about it last year and the year before and now no answers,shame on you guys get off your butts and help out these kids in need please.Help me help them and get the word out this Aug the 18 sat we need musicians and old band members to play.don't make me get up there and play my drums all by myself NAKED....lol that will draw a few bucks hey ladies????As my friend Bobbbiez said if I built it they will come so COME ON DOWN please......Tony J any chance you can get one of your old bands together that would be a big help and make all the girls go crazy just crazy over you.....lol let me know thanks God Bless ......NYE
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Post by jjplatt on Mar 28, 2012 17:26:33 GMT -5
Does anyone know the name of the pizza place that use to be on James st near Steuben st back in the 70's nows it's called Geno's tavern???I know this is not the reunion talk but hey I need the answer ASAP so let's get on it out there.....NYE
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Post by sonnydee on Mar 28, 2012 21:44:52 GMT -5
:DAll I remember on that street was "Tony's Spaghetti House"... I may be wrong....
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Post by tonyj on Mar 29, 2012 8:26:22 GMT -5
was it LEO's pizza?
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Post by tonyj on Mar 29, 2012 11:27:42 GMT -5
pretty sure it was Leo's Pizza. MaryAnn Leo was my friend in homeroom and I would meet her and her future husband at her father's pizza joint. Her husband and high school sweetheart is kenny gigiolotti (spl?) the bass player from Jack and the Naturals. See, I still can remember some things.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 29, 2012 12:13:24 GMT -5
Are ya sure it was where Geno's tavern was Tony. I lived on the 1500 block of West back then and drank on James. Geno's was already there in 1972. Geno's is on the corner of Miller St. The Regency Lounge was on the corner of Steuben St. I hung out there for a few years until it became obvious that there were some dangerous dudes hanging there and one could wake up dead with a slip of the lip. Lot's of mob connected people hung there in the early 70's. I drank with some well known personalities of the time in there. To them it was "headquarters," but to me it was just the corner bar. I remember the bartenders, Mook, Kenny, and Bobey Salerno, and remember playing some high dollar card games that went until daylight.
I remember one night when a drunk chick snatched Lyle Bosely's toupee off his head and was playing monkey in the middle with it with another gal. It was wet your pants funny as hell.
I guess one could say "those were the days," lol.
Was Leo's Pizza the same family as our old neighbor Katie Leo? She married Carl Prestigiacomo that I worked at Griffiss with for years. He also ran Presty's Bar on Franklin Square. Katie and Carl lived across the street from us before we moved here to Tennessee. Katie is in her eighties now.
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Post by tonyj on Mar 29, 2012 17:50:26 GMT -5
Clipper, I was in my early teens(`64-`66) when I hung around Leo's pizza. I really don't remember any other pizza joint during that time. I lived on leah and neilson directly across from Johnny Hines.Leo's was on a corner of James, but I don't remember where. I also knew some of the "mustache Petes" in that era. I played many of gigs at bobey's joint in Herkimer. I knew of Presty's bar because as a teenager I would sneak in for a root beer  . Also snuck into the Ritz on bleecker, Birdland, Blue angel and the yates hotel. LMAO. |
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Post by sonnydee on Mar 29, 2012 22:13:36 GMT -5
 yeah right, TJ, what else did you sneak into the yates hotel for!!
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Post by bobbbiez on Mar 30, 2012 1:36:22 GMT -5
yeah right, TJ, what else did you sneak into the yates hotel for!! Yep, I'm all ears too. ;D |
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Post by jjplatt on Apr 2, 2012 1:19:31 GMT -5
I guess I still do not know the name of that pizza place oh well it's not there anymore so what the hell with it....LOL
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Post by jjplatt on Apr 2, 2012 1:23:07 GMT -5
got a few more bands maybe for the jam Papa Joe Rossi and his sons band would like to join us.I told them they are more then welcome to come aboard......NYE Tony J any thoughts about getting your old band members together please let me know soon... Aug 18 at 12 North for sure.......NYE
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Post by sonnydee on Apr 2, 2012 14:46:11 GMT -5
Tony J, contact joe albanese, as I ran into him, and told him about the reunion, and if possible, maybe try to get "Everyday People" together for the jam.... Tommy can probably set things in motion, because joe was a little hesitant, but I am sure you guys can maybe talk him into it.... Hard to fathom that over 40 years has passed, that we were playing together at "Massoud's".... May have to improvise, as "Bill Lewis", is somewhere in texas, and tony martin has passed.....
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Post by jjplatt on Apr 3, 2012 1:02:50 GMT -5
I will have someone fill in any spot you guys need it's not that hard just think about the kids and how hard it is for them not yourself but them...Like Bobbbiez said Jay you build it they will come so COME ON.....lol it was the same way for NYE not played in over 40 years but, pulled it off after two days of good rehearsal YOU CAN DO IT.....lol please.....NYE
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Post by jjplatt on Apr 3, 2012 1:04:12 GMT -5
oh yea please let me know so I can put you guys on the poster for the ads we do.have to see your name up in lights again huh.....lol NYE
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Post by tonyj on Apr 4, 2012 18:24:44 GMT -5
Sonnydee, I know of Joe Albanese, we have never formally met. I wouldn't have any idea of how to contact him. I know he played with Thomas Acee for many years as did Dave Ash and Don Leo. I'm sure if Tommy is going to get his band together he will contact his old keyboard players like Joe or Dave.I never was a part of "Every Day People". Last year I helped out because my friends Jay and Ronnie volunteered me. LOL
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. Also snuck into the Ritz on bleecker, Birdland, Blue angel and the yates hotel. LMAO.
yeah right, TJ, what else did you sneak into the yates hotel for!!