Comments on: Why I Am Doing This http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/ Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:16:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Gross http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-622 David Gross Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:39:26 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-622 Did I know you from that time period? Just curious. Your lack of info has me curious Thanks Did I know you from that time period? Just curious. Your lack of info has me curious

Thanks

]]> By: Pua http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-621 Pua Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:34:55 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-621 David went to Browning School. Joey was a neighborhood chum. I was just a PYT that hung with the crowd and played the female roles in some Browning School Plays. Joey was part of a now infamous trip to Acqueduct in the 70s. The oft repeated tale has taken on a life of its own in many ways -- at least I have trouble remembering it quite the way it gets retold. Be that as it may, I am not sure if it was Joey's or another's guidance that made for a big win and drinking until dawn, but 40 odd years later (not quite your million year mark) David is thinking to bring together once more the entire group of reprobates. So that's the story. David went to Browning School. Joey was a neighborhood chum. I was just a PYT that hung with the crowd and played the female roles in some Browning School Plays. Joey was part of a now infamous trip to Acqueduct in the 70s. The oft repeated tale has taken on a life of its own in many ways — at least I have trouble remembering it quite the way it gets retold. Be that as it may, I am not sure if it was Joey’s or another’s guidance that made for a big win and drinking until dawn, but 40 odd years later (not quite your million year mark) David is thinking to bring together once more the entire group of reprobates. So that’s the story.

]]> By: David Gross http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-620 David Gross Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:55:09 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-620 Hi, David Ritchie doesn't sound familiar to me. Where did he go to school. Also, I haven't seen Joey in a million years! Who are you BTW? Thanks Hi,

David Ritchie doesn’t sound familiar to me. Where did he go to school. Also, I haven’t seen Joey in a million years!

Who are you BTW?

Thanks

]]> By: Pua http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-619 Pua Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:44:01 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-619 Ran across your site while trying to research the current whereabouts of David's childhood friend Joey Clapper. A very pleasant diversion indeed. Thank you. Don't know if David Ritchie, was a mutual friend of yours and Joey's; looks like you all grew up in the same part of town and during the same era but thought I would take a chance and say hey. Ran across your site while trying to research the current whereabouts of David’s childhood friend Joey Clapper. A very pleasant diversion indeed. Thank you. Don’t know if David Ritchie, was a mutual friend of yours and Joey’s; looks like you all grew up in the same part of town and during the same era but thought I would take a chance and say hey.

]]> By: David Gross http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-618 David Gross Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:22:57 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-618 Thanks Sherry! Great memories Thanks Sherry! Great memories

]]> By: Sherry Green http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-617 Sherry Green Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:20:18 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-617 I remember I was only four years old when the Beatles come on the Ed Sullivan Show. My parents had been watching that show and I was watching with them. Well.....that one night in 1964 something that I heard, for even a four year old, blew me away. I was just speachless and almost holding my breath in. I loved what I heard. As a teenager I bought my own stereo system with my babysitting money. I bought album after album. Today I am 51 years old and feel that family comes first in my life, but my love for music comes second. I walk two miles a few times a week with music in my ears. I am ever so thankful for such a wonderful thing. It is more beautiful and specail than words can express. I remember I was only four years old when the Beatles come on the Ed Sullivan Show. My parents had been watching that show and I was watching with them. Well…..that one night in 1964 something that I heard, for even a four year old, blew me away. I was just speachless and almost holding my breath in. I loved what I heard. As a teenager I bought my own stereo system with my babysitting money. I bought album after album. Today I am 51 years old and feel that family comes first in my life, but my love for music comes second. I walk two miles a few times a week with music in my ears. I am ever so thankful for such a wonderful thing. It is more beautiful and specail than words can express.

]]> By: David Gross http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-586 David Gross Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:09:02 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-586 Thanks so much Karine! I loved the club. I have so many great memories from there My condolences to you and your family Thanks so much Karine! I loved the club. I have so many great memories from there
My condolences to you and your family

]]> By: Karine Scroggy http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Karine Scroggy Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:02:23 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-585 Hi David, Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed this. I am actually Nick Ungano's daughter and I occasionally like to search the web for stories about my dad. He passed away on October 4, 1995. Things like this help me feel connected. Thank you. Hi David,

Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed this. I am actually Nick Ungano’s daughter and I occasionally like to search the web for stories about my dad. He passed away on October 4, 1995. Things like this help me feel connected. Thank you.

]]> By: David Gross http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-561 David Gross Wed, 25 May 2011 00:36:36 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-561 Great post Beth! I would figure we probably bumped into one another at some point Thanks for your input Great post Beth! I would figure we probably bumped into one another at some point

Thanks for your input

]]> By: Beth http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/2009/10/my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Beth Tue, 24 May 2011 22:03:07 +0000 http://talkinaboutmygeneration.com/blog/?p=59#comment-560 WOWWEE!!! Thank you David, for creating a place to share memories from a magical period of time. I was also very fortunate to have grown up in New York City during the era that these memories are based on! I'm very sure our paths have crossed ...My love of music was the stimulus for involving myself in different aspects of the business despite feeling that I was not musically good enough to perform. Some of my early recollections: from age 9 being taken to Murray the K's rock and roll shows at the Brooklyn Fox, as a little kid watching American Bandstand and the Clay Cole TV show, starting my folk music phase watching Hootenanny on TV, hearing the music of the Beatles and wanting with every fiber of my being to either be a musician or to be around them. I too became an Anglophile with the English Invasion hitting America. Buying 16 Magazine and Tiger Beat (and later, Star, when I went glam) and decorating the walls of my bedroom with my musical idols, coming home from school and watching Where the Action Is and in the evenings Shindig and Hullabaloo. Sometimes sneaking out to go down to Greenwich Village...to Cafe Wha and the Purple Onion. I was a baby--13 or 14 yrs old with black-rimmed made-up eyes and a sweet nature. At 14 heard Jimi Hendrix open for the Monkees in Forest Hills (Queens). Hanging out at places where bands would gather sealed my fate for many years after---I became a groupie (I used the term "band aid" long before the movie "Almost Famous"). From the age of 15 telling people I was 2 or 3 yrs older. Bars/restaurants/clubs like Nobody' s and the Haymarket, Max's Kansas City, Steve Paul's Scene, Ungano's, Action House, My Father's Place (on Long Island)...Did a lot of growing up at the Fillmore East :-) Many wonderful shows in Central Park thanks to the Schaefer Music Festival and also Gaelic Park in the Bronx. Went to many concerts at Madison Square Garden and it's smaller venue, the Felt Forum. Howard Stein's Capitol Theater in Port Chester and later, the Academy of Music. John Scher's Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ. CBGB's and the Bottom Line. Moved to London in 1973 to continue my love affair with the British (and a few musicians there). Periodically returned to NY ---bounced back and forth until 1980 when I decided to settle in Florida for sun and fun. I loved growing up in that time...when the music business was more about the music and less about the business. When musicians occasionally played free concerts because they loved to play and wanted to get their music heard. When so much music of all different genres was of superior quality and had substance over style. I smile and shake my head nostalgically at these wonderful memories and am grateful to have survived it all.... WOWWEE!!! Thank you David, for creating a place to share memories from a magical period of time. I was also very fortunate to have grown up in New York City during the era that these memories are based on! I’m very sure our paths have crossed …My love of music was the stimulus for involving myself in different aspects of the business despite feeling that I was not musically good enough to perform. Some of my early recollections: from age 9 being taken to Murray the K’s rock and roll shows at the Brooklyn Fox, as a little kid watching American Bandstand and the Clay Cole TV show, starting my folk music phase watching Hootenanny on TV, hearing the music of the Beatles and wanting with every fiber of my being to either be a musician or to be around them. I too became an Anglophile with the English Invasion hitting America. Buying 16 Magazine and Tiger Beat (and later, Star, when I went glam) and decorating the walls of my bedroom with my musical idols, coming home from school and watching Where the Action Is and in the evenings Shindig and Hullabaloo. Sometimes sneaking out to go down to Greenwich Village…to Cafe Wha and the Purple Onion. I was a baby–13 or 14 yrs old with black-rimmed made-up eyes and a sweet nature. At 14 heard Jimi Hendrix open for the Monkees in Forest Hills (Queens).

Hanging out at places where bands would gather sealed my fate for many years after—I became a groupie (I used the term “band aid” long before the movie “Almost Famous”). From the age of 15 telling people I was 2 or 3 yrs older. Bars/restaurants/clubs like Nobody’ s and the Haymarket, Max’s Kansas City, Steve Paul’s Scene, Ungano’s, Action House, My Father’s Place (on Long Island)…Did a lot of growing up at the Fillmore East :-) Many wonderful shows in Central Park thanks to the Schaefer Music Festival and also Gaelic Park in the Bronx. Went to many concerts at Madison Square Garden and it’s smaller venue, the Felt Forum. Howard Stein’s Capitol Theater in Port Chester and later, the Academy of Music. John Scher’s Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ. CBGB’s and the Bottom Line.

Moved to London in 1973 to continue my love affair with the British (and a few musicians there). Periodically returned to NY —bounced back and forth until 1980 when I decided to settle in Florida for sun and fun.

I loved growing up in that time…when the music business was more about the music and less about the business. When musicians occasionally played free concerts because they loved to play and wanted to get their music heard. When so much music of all different genres was of superior quality and had substance over style. I smile and shake my head nostalgically at these wonderful memories and am grateful to have survived it all….

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