We still have a stack of 45s, a foot and a half tall black column of them, sitting next to our stereo. Most of them are Peggi’s and one with her friend, Chris Firth’s name on it, Bobby Darin’s “Nature Boy” is still on the top of the stack. We played it at our 45 party on 4/5 and we played at two in the morning last night when our friends, Pete and Shelley, were getting ready for bed. Both times it skipped after the second chorus but I can’t get the song out of my head.
I know Andy had some sort of falling out with Greg and the Chesterfield Kings are history even though the two live next door to one another but their new book is a smash! Greg is is happy and moving on and he seems to be in good graces with the House of Guitars again. That seems right.
Andy has a new group, the “Empty Hearts.” Steve Van Zandt came up with the name and they (Clem Burke from Blondie, Elliot Easton from the Cars and Wally Palmer from the Romantics) recorded an album in Rochester. “Ed Stasium produced it and I’m having a hard time getting this song out of my head too but it’s not as good as Nature Boy.
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