On August 28th, 1990, my friend and coworker Daina told me some new guy was starting work that day. "His name is Carl Cafarelli, and you're gonna love him. He's so funny and he loves music as much as you do," she told me.
Two understatements.
Daina introduced me to Carl, and I said, "Too bad about Stevie Ray, huh?" (Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash the previous evening.)
And Carl said, the very first thing he ever said to me, "That's what he gets for flying LaBamba Airlines."
As he likes to say, "You gotta be quick!"
The very swell 443 Social Club on Burnet Avenue in Syracuse last night held, as Carl put it, "the world's loudest book release party in recent memory" to celebrate his very swell new book, Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With the Ramones. His book is available locally and also directly from Rare Bird Records.
The "loudest" part was provided by Perilous, a band featuring members of "regional superstars, The Trend, Pauline and the Perils, Hurtin' Units, and Screaming Meemies” as well as former and current Flashcube Paul Armstrong's Boston-based band 1.4.5. Earplugs were available but were no match for the sonic (and excellent) assault from both bands.
Carl read a few excerpts from the book and then ended the evening by, no doubt, fulfilling a lifelong dream as he, backed by 1.4.5, sang "Rockaway Beach.”
Song of the Day: (This is where Carl's video would go if I weren't sixty-six years old and knew how to imbed it), The original will have to do:
The book excerpts are fantastic, Dave. And congratulations to Carl on his new book! 🎉🎉🙂
ReplyDeleteThank ya kindly!
Delete