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| Bean |
Posted - November 05 2005 : 3:04:53 PM
Ray will be doing a one off show in NY when he comes in to town to tape the Coanan O'Brien show on Thanksgiving day to showcase hie new "
Thanksgiving Day " E.P. cd.
Monday, 11/28 at The Supper Club, New York (240 W. 47th St) in Theatre
District in Times Square, phone 212-921-1940. 7pm show, tickets through ticketmaster
May be SOLD OUT ALREADY?
Frank Lima aka krankiekat@aol.com
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| Bean |
Posted - April 21 2006 : 02:15:32 AM
Elena..
I think we're going to be in London this Fall for some of the Ray shows...We have 3rd row seats for at least one of the Royal Albert Hall shows in October. October 23rd and 24th and they may add 2 more on the 25th and 26th. We may also go to Liverpool and or some others too. Nothing definite yet.
And speaking of food...I remember Itchins and Mitchells well. Both are still there and open the last time I looked or was there and that was about 4 or 5 years ago...and let us now forget the Valbrook diner on Merrick Rd...Richie and me had some fun times there late at night, and the Concord on the corner of Sunrise and Rockaway although not as much there. Adams diner on Linden blvd though as a younger kid was the place I have memories of.
KinkoBeano
aka El Kabong as pictured below
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| elena |
Posted - April 14 2006 : 04:28:28 AM
I now have internet access from my place, but for the last couple of weeks after coming to London, I was going to an Internet Cafe. Well, I go to Out By The Corner Mailbox, and the mute button wasn't on, and out blasts Auld Lang Syne, and I'm shouting out where's the mute button how do I turn this off!!
Richie, I'm begging you, change the tune. Let Frank be the DJ and the music can change daily! |
| elena |
Posted - April 14 2006 : 04:15:52 AM
I like the images of you Frankink! |
| elena |
Posted - April 14 2006 : 04:14:10 AM
It's around 9:00 am here in London and I am reading your messages about food memories, so now I am remembering the times Joan Monica and I would skip going to Sunday mass and go to Mitchell's on Rockaway Ave. and we would share a plate of their delicious french fries and each have a coke (wow, that would kill me if I had that for breakfast now at age 51!)
Also Itgen's for their chocolate chip ice cream that had BIG chunks of chocolate in it!! |
| Bean |
Posted - April 11 2006 : 01:21:29 AM
Doc...I remember the ice cream parlor but forgot the name. I went their with my parents and maybe Foch and Vince's parents after graduation. I use to go to Adams diner quite a bit too...
Up further on Linden Blvd I remember during the slot car craze in the 60's there was a place called Vics where you could rent track time, and also my favorite harware and toy store A to Z hardware, that was up around 221st st in Cambria Heights or was that called St Albans? My Aunt, Cousin and Grand parents lived on 223rd St. about 5 houses off Linden Blvd.
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| doc |
Posted - April 10 2006 : 09:04:08 AM
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Originally posted by Bean
Wasn't that Adams diner? and Big Top was over across the street from Bradley's lunchonette in the strip mall with the small elmont library before you got to where the seafood store was and elmont park.
Bean, you are correct. Adam's diner in the 70's, open 24 hrs. I would often stop there after gigs in NYC. There was also an Ice Cream Parlor/diner a few doors down, across the street from Alden Music on Linden Blvd. Next to the bicycle shop (which is still there). I recall meeting girls at "roller skating night" at St. John's church and going to the Ice Cream parlor afterwards. Was this Broadways? It had a blue/green store front. Around 1966-67. |
| Bean |
Posted - April 10 2006 : 01:19:01 AM
Oh demon alcohol sad memories I can't recall...
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| Bean |
Posted - April 10 2006 : 01:16:59 AM
some things haven't changed..!
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| Bean |
Posted - April 10 2006 : 01:15:28 AM
Wasn't that Adams diner?
and Big Top was over across the street from Bradley's lunchonette in the strip mall with the small elmont library before you got to where the seafood store was and elmont park. |
| richm |
Posted - April 09 2006 : 8:50:47 PM
There used to be a big toy store one block north of that corner. I think it was called Big Top. When I went to the Alden School of Music it was located about a block west, on Linden Blvd., next to the Carvel stand. There was a store front diner across the street on Linden in the sixties called the Broadway or Broadway Sherwood's. A small place with great diner food.
The last time I was in that neighborhood, probably 1992, the Alden School of Music was located a few yards north of the corner on Elmont Rd., on the east side of the street. I wonder how many kids went for lessons there. It was a small place, but it made a big impact on at least one child's life. |
| doc |
Posted - April 08 2006 : 4:48:03 PM
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Originally posted by richm
Doc: You mention the Alden School of Music, where I would not be qualified to teach 'cordeen, but where I took guitar lessons from the great Joe Gennelli. .... I wonder if they are still in business.
Rich,
I stopped by Alden corner for gas last week and looked for Alden Music. It seems they are no longer in business. Check cashing, Ribs, Liquor stores and Carribean restaurants remain.
doc |
| Bean |
Posted - February 08 2006 : 7:39:33 PM
More Ray Davies dates added!
Saturday & Sunday, April 1st & 2nd at the Vic Theatre in Chicago.
Tickets on sale this Saturday.
And at tickets.com:
Monday, March 20th at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. Tickets
(and parking tickets) are on sale now.
http://www.tickets.com/browseother.cgi?minpid=5706797
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| richm |
Posted - February 07 2006 : 11:42:08 PM
Doc: Dan is an Alden School of Music survivor. I don't think he studied the cordeen there. He made have started out on percussion there. We'll have to ask him. Have you ever heard Pete Barbutti do his bit on cordeen? |
| doc |
Posted - February 07 2006 : 5:50:48 PM
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Originally posted by richm
Doc: When were you at Alden School of Music? And are you in touch with any other Alden alumni? Downs was up, over the theatre on Rockaway Avenue, if I am correct.
I guess I was there in the early sixties sometime. I know I was at Downs in '63-64. I also took 'Cordeen lessons at a music store across from the Argo Theater. Yes. you and the Beanster are correct about Downs' location. They also had a music retail store on the street. Back then I did not know any fellow 'cordeeners from Alden. Is Dan an alum? |
| Bean |
Posted - February 07 2006 : 03:35:38 AM
Yes Downs was up over the theatre and the sign was still up there well in to the early & mid 90's. My ex wife was good freinds with Kathy Downs their daughter. Downs lived over by Clear Stream Ave school about 1 block south of Merrick Rd. |
| Bean |
Posted - February 07 2006 : 03:33:23 AM
Ray added a Phily area show Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA for Tuesday March 21st, tickets go on sale February 11th...
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| richm |
Posted - February 06 2006 : 10:51:15 PM
Doc: When were you at Alden School of Music? And are you in touch with any other Alden alumni? Downs was up, over the theatre on Rockaway Avenue, if I am correct. |
| Bean |
Posted - February 05 2006 : 9:09:48 PM
Ray Davies 3 nights at Irving Plaza March 24th thru the 26th..tickets go on sale this Wednesday February 8th thru ticketmaster! |
| doc |
Posted - February 05 2006 : 11:26:54 AM
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Originally posted by richm
Doc: You mention the Alden School of Music, where I would not be qualified to teach 'cordeen, but where I took guitar lessons from the great Joe Gennelli. In late '92 or early '93, while I still lived on Long Island,........ Just about thirty years later I still have that music. Were you an Alden School of Music kid, too?
Rich, I only just now saw this post. I was a 'cordeen student; starting out at Downs school of music and ending up at Alden. We were told that if you could play the 'cordeen everything else would come easily. I recently considered that untruth as I attempted to sight read the head of Wes Montgomery's 'West Coast Blues' on guitar. |
| richm |
Posted - January 23 2006 : 11:55:58 PM
Doc: You mention the Alden School of Music, where I would not be qualified to teach 'cordeen, but where I took guitar lessons from the great Joe Gennelli. In late '92 or early '93, while I still lived on Long Island, I happened to be in the area and found the store in a slightly different location on Elmont Rd. It was around the corner from its former location on Linden Blvd. It brought back memories, probably because the store was laid out the same way as when I was a kid, with a curved bowling alley bench in the front of the store. I wonder if they are still in business.
Young academics were schooled mainly in guitar, or if less fortunate, 'cordeen, and organized into ensembles for the yearly recital at the Dutch Broadway School. In the late fifties, all the junior or senior guitar band members with electric pickups on their guitars would plug into a spider on the floor, which would feed all their signals into one amplifier. We were living large with our DeArmond equipped Gibsons. I remember an army of us playing a rendition of The Champs' 'Tequila' at one of these affairs. No drums or bass or saxophones....just fifteen or twenty of us on guitar. Fortunately no recordings survive.
Many years later, at a gig at the Plaza Hotel, I ran into a bassist named George Mell, who was playing a nice black Fender Jazz bass. In the course of our conversation it turns out he knew Joe Gennelli, and told me he sold his guitars. Joe had died, and that saddened me. George told me some of Joe's music was in a guitar case and he still had it. I offered to buy it from him, but he said I could have it free if I could meet him a week later. We did meet, in front of the Pierre Hotel , and he gave me the music, all in Joe's hand writing. Another old timer musician was walking by on Fifth Avenue, George introduced me to him and explained that I studied guitar with Joe. The old timer beamed at the memory of Joe, and told me that Joe had played with 'the greats'. Just about thirty years later I still have that music. Were you an Alden School of Music kid, too?
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| Bean |
Posted - January 20 2006 : 03:08:09 AM
I've seen Lucinda Williams at the Planting Fields in Oyster Bay, a great place to see that kind of show, and she ( Lucinda ) is always amazing. One of the best songwriters and performers ranking up their with the Lennon's, Davies, and Neil Youngs. Dylan is in his own catagory all his own. He just boggles my mind when ever I see him live the way he constsntly reinvents himslef,and his music and the fact that he remembers his own lyrics amazes me and at each show he does different songs from his entire career. I can barely remember the words to I'm so glad let al one Desolation Row!
Bean |
| doc |
Posted - January 19 2006 : 9:56:48 PM
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Originally posted by richm
I think I missed something by moving away from Valley Stream in '68....Rich M
Rich,
You didn't miss much. I'm guessing that "the worst that could happen" would have been for you to stay. Perhaps if you choose to stay, you could have taught 'cordeen at Alden music? Hmmmmm..... tough choice.
(' ')
doc |
| doc |
Posted - January 19 2006 : 9:27:30 PM
Rich,
"Greatest Hits of the 20th Century" The usual cast of characters are on most of the cuts;
Bella-banjo, Victor Wooten-bass (I sometimes confuse Victor Wooten with Victor Bailey), Future Man-synth ax, drumatar, and Howard Levy-harmonica, synths,piano.
I retract the Charlie Christian comparison though. On one cut he sounds more like Al Dimeola.
We had tickets for an outdoor concert at the Planting Fields in Oyster Bay this past summer that was rained out. The lineup was Bella Fleck, Stanly Clark and Jean-Luc Ponty. What a disapointment it was when the thunder and rain came!
doc
strummin' on guitar so lo |
| richm |
Posted - January 19 2006 : 09:41:24 AM
Doc: I really appreciate that. Bela Fleck is great, isn't he? Which CD is it, and who is on it? |
| doc |
Posted - January 19 2006 : 07:21:25 AM
Rich,
"Perfect Pitch" and no, I wasn't put up to it.
In defense of the less loved and often annoying banjo, I have been listening closely to a Bella Fleck CD my son gave me. He plays that thing like Charlie Christian or Pat Matheny.
doc
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