This is a thing I never thought I would do. Hey How was I to Know where I would be and how I would be feeing right now! Just a moment before we get into all that. My Name is Joseph- I live in the Adirondack Mountains - Home of the High Peaks- near Lake Placid. Now Woe is me I moved back to Jackson Heights and I've lost all that beauty My Friends call me Groovey
Getting here has been a longsong-a goodsong- sometime a rocker-
sometimes the blues- sometimes I played a song so sweet it cured all my troubles, it was a symphony- and sometimes its all just confusion.
Music has been the one constant thing in my life that brings the quality experience that every emotion has to offer. The Great Sadness of Life teaches one as much as the Joy and Happiness. The Experience of Sorrow and Loneliness Helps you to know what Peace and Contentment is. The redemption I feel when I have been lifted away by a song can be an epiphany
It all started for ME when I was about 10. I would go into the record store on the street I grew up on in Jackson Heights, Records Spectacular. Everyday I would take the Beatles Albums out of the bin with the divider and put them in front of the Animals albums ! They got so tired of me doin this they gave me a job as a gopher so I would stop ! I stood outside the Plaza Hotel and watched the Girls go crazy. You could hear them screaming outside of Shea stadium. I snuck into the Second Shea Concert by putting the Police Baricade staight up the fence at Shea and Jumping into the bullpen! We chased Paul and John's Limo down the Street from the Saint Regis Hotel to the next red light and spoke with them I must of been 12! Cops let us get away with alot back then!
Link to MY GROOVEY RECORDS STOREI worked in the retail and wholesale Record Business from the age of eleven years of age. Some of the best stores in NYC right up till 1981 when I joined the Airforce. I was spoiled as far as musical riches go, I was entitled to x number of records per week and used the store inventory as my own collection. As much as I loved the music I never valued this "product" as i should have In 1979 I opened my own Record store in Greenich Village with my own collection as inventory, it was called Revenge, and the rest as they say is History.
I Lived in NYC (Jackson Heights) most of my life but have lived all over the world. Holland, Germany, Ireland, Colorado. New Mexico, Florida, visited even more. I have been to visit Scotland more times then any other place. My Mother was born there and my grandmothr Mary Russell lived there her whole life. Scotland is a beautiful country, Keene in the Adirondack Mountains remind me of the Scottish Highlands
Where you are says a little about who you are but where you choose to be says more. I have no idea about WHO i am. Just about how I am. Today I am Pretty Good.
There once was a note pure and easy, playing so free like a breath trickling by. It's all in one note,Just Listen!SLINKY VAGABOND LIVE AT JOHN VARVATOS STORE NYC "PRETTY VACANT"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdb4iDAWHUI
Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth [1 of 4] -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biFtIRzCFjE
Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth [2 of 4] -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gjzL8VNpmQ
Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgFLDzhc2kI
Johnny Thunders - Lonely Planet Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GZy8SnG6X4
The Beatles - Revolution (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imb4tYOk8GE