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Here's a bunch bands from upstate NY:
Buxx--The only one I know the whereabouts of (kind of) is Al DeGrange, I know he stopped playing and started a home security company that he recently sold for a nice profit. He's still friends with Bruce Evans from...
Alpha Centori. Andy Knoll the keyboard player now plays with Lou Graham, and Steve the guitarist plays with a local Utica area cover band called The Bomb. Bruce plays with a band called Decades out of Grand Rapids.
Acts from the Binghampton area--let's see, Mike is a CPA in that area still, Donny Wilkins stil plays a solo one man thing in the area, Bill Davis has played with a bunch of different bands, most notably Foghat, Matt Barnes writes songs for country artsists and plays with Jan Brown, and Jeff Howel still plays the Ithaca area with various bands snd does some studio work. They do a reunion every once in a while.
Triffid, Alan Payette is teaching guitar in the Schenectady area, original drummer Joey Bell went on to sing with Anthrax, no idea about any of the others.
Talas--Billy Sheehan of course has gone on to various solo projects and David Lee Roth, and Mr. Big. Phil Naro was at one point singing with Coney Hatch and is still working in Canada. No idea on the others.
Todd Hobin still does shows around central NY every now and then.
805--Porter does a duo thing in central NY and Albany with another guy (google Dave Porter 805 and you'll ind their web site.) His best friend is a really good friend of mine, so I still get lots of info about them. Briggs does session work in LA and has written some books on drumming. Creamo has been in and out of a ton of projects, and at one point was working as a chef if I recall.
Alecstar--wow those guys got old. I saw a few of them in another band that they started a couple years ago, they should jsut forget about it.
NY Flyer--????
The Works--George Rossi went on to be one of the house musicians at Pay O'Briens, he fled NOLA before Katrina and is still in the central NY area. Ed Hamell does a solo thing as Hamell on Trial--he's hysterical! He's got about half a dozen CD's out on Righteous Babe--Ani DeFranco's label and tours with Ani a lot. He was critically injured ina car wreck about six years ago. No idea where Mike and Jay are.
Blotto--Cheese passed away ten years or so ago due to a heart problem. Broadway works on LI in social work. Sarge was a columnist for Metroland for years, not sure what he's up to now. Lee Harvey became a lawyer specializing in environmental law. Bowtie is an accountant. Their longtime crew: Rikk is in Nashville, happily married, managing a couple country acts and still tour managing now and then. Dale is down here in Florida but that's all I'm supposed to tell anyone (long story but nothing bad). Bruce passed away in 1984 from a heart defect.
I can't think of any others, but if you can name them I can probably tell you where at least one of them are.
Anne
Buxx--The only one I know the whereabouts of (kind of) is Al DeGrange, I know he stopped playing and started a home security company that he recently sold for a nice profit. He's still friends with Bruce Evans from...
Alpha Centori. Andy Knoll the keyboard player now plays with Lou Graham, and Steve the guitarist plays with a local Utica area cover band called The Bomb. Bruce plays with a band called Decades out of Grand Rapids.
Acts from the Binghampton area--let's see, Mike is a CPA in that area still, Donny Wilkins stil plays a solo one man thing in the area, Bill Davis has played with a bunch of different bands, most notably Foghat, Matt Barnes writes songs for country artsists and plays with Jan Brown, and Jeff Howel still plays the Ithaca area with various bands snd does some studio work. They do a reunion every once in a while.
Triffid, Alan Payette is teaching guitar in the Schenectady area, original drummer Joey Bell went on to sing with Anthrax, no idea about any of the others.
Talas--Billy Sheehan of course has gone on to various solo projects and David Lee Roth, and Mr. Big. Phil Naro was at one point singing with Coney Hatch and is still working in Canada. No idea on the others.
Todd Hobin still does shows around central NY every now and then.
805--Porter does a duo thing in central NY and Albany with another guy (google Dave Porter 805 and you'll ind their web site.) His best friend is a really good friend of mine, so I still get lots of info about them. Briggs does session work in LA and has written some books on drumming. Creamo has been in and out of a ton of projects, and at one point was working as a chef if I recall.
Alecstar--wow those guys got old. I saw a few of them in another band that they started a couple years ago, they should jsut forget about it.
NY Flyer--????
The Works--George Rossi went on to be one of the house musicians at Pay O'Briens, he fled NOLA before Katrina and is still in the central NY area. Ed Hamell does a solo thing as Hamell on Trial--he's hysterical! He's got about half a dozen CD's out on Righteous Babe--Ani DeFranco's label and tours with Ani a lot. He was critically injured ina car wreck about six years ago. No idea where Mike and Jay are.
Blotto--Cheese passed away ten years or so ago due to a heart problem. Broadway works on LI in social work. Sarge was a columnist for Metroland for years, not sure what he's up to now. Lee Harvey became a lawyer specializing in environmental law. Bowtie is an accountant. Their longtime crew: Rikk is in Nashville, happily married, managing a couple country acts and still tour managing now and then. Dale is down here in Florida but that's all I'm supposed to tell anyone (long story but nothing bad). Bruce passed away in 1984 from a heart defect.
I can't think of any others, but if you can name them I can probably tell you where at least one of them are.
Anne
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My girlfriends and I used to stalk him all over the tri-state area
