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We all were in the
same school more or less, North junior high school
in Newburgh, execpt for Jimmy who was in Sacred
Heart School, all around 14-15 yrs
old.
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Personnel:
Steve Clemente - Lead Guitar
Jimmy Crisci - Rythmn Guitar
Terry Barberi - Bass Guitar
Joe Mack - Drums
Clifford Smith - Vocals
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Influences:
Stones,
Beatles, Animals, Dave Clark 5
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Setlist
Sample:
We allways opened with "Glad All Over" by
the DC5. We did "Please Don't Let Me Be
Missunderstood" by the Animals, "Get Off
Of My Cloud", by the Stones, "You're Gonna
Lose That Girl", by the
Beatles.
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Equipment:
Steve had a great Gibson SG, and a finder
twin 12" amp, Jimmy had a Fender Mustang,
with a Danelectro amp, I had fur coverd
Slingerland drums, yea thats right, fur
covered drums!
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Rehearsal
Space:
My
basement, Steves living room, Terrys
living room, or Cookie, our managers
garage.
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Band
Vehicles:
Mom's car
and taxies,
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Fashion
Statement:
For a
time we wore these cool marroon pull over
shirts with a white turtle neck under it
and we wore tams, sort of like a
baret.
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Best
Gig:
North
High Assembly we opened and closed the
talent show, great being on a real stage
at that age with lights and a full
audiance.
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Gig
from
Hell!:
Playing a
teen club at Stewart Army Subpost, someone
left a window open at the spot we were to
set up and it was raining, we played in a
huge puddle.
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Last
Gig:
Steve
Clementes brother went away to the Navy
and we played the going away
party.
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Comments:
One of the coolest
things we did back then was go to NYC , by bus no
less, with all our equipment and our manager paid
for us to record a single. We got off the bus, took
taxis to Broadway Recording Studios and recorded
two songs, got some air time on WGNY in Newburgh
and got an on air interview from it. A week later,
our manger got a phone call the NYC police saying
they had a dead body with nothing on them but one
of our business cards, we handed them out to
everyone that would take them, I guess it wasn't a
good day for that guy.
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