{"id":535,"date":"2011-06-24T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2016-12-04T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T12:26:53","slug":"remembering-the-bottom-line-june-22-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Bottom Line – June 22, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering the Bottom Line – Wintergarden – June 22, 2011<\/p>\n

Originally scheduled for Rockefeller Park (at 7), so that’s where I went mucho early (and expected to have little access to musicians for signing).\u00a0 By 5:30, with no apparent preparatory activity, I ask around and the parks staff tell me it’s been relocated to Wintergarden (the weather was threatening).\u00a0 So I figure I will lose my positioning edge, but was so wrong, as I got front row and could stretch my legs.<\/p>\n

John Leventhal masterminded the house band (Mojo Mancini) of which I got Shawn Pelton and Brian Mitchell (without any “stokes”).\u00a0 The narrator\/host for the evening was Pete Fornatale (what, him again?) and he brought on a cavalcade of performers – musicians mostly but also a few storytellers – to re-live the glory days of the beloved departed Bottom Line.\u00a0 An extremely Greenwich Village-centric affair, including the topics of the tunes.\u00a0 Singers (and thus my sketching opportunities) were limited to one or two songs, so I had to work fast!\u00a0 Even still, I got only about half of ’em at most.\u00a0 The grand finale (everyone on stage together now) was “Downtown”, which Fornatale informed us that despite having been recorded by a limey, was indeed written about Times Square by Tony Hatch.\u00a0 Gloriously, access easy to all performers for signing, although Roseanne Cash had split by the time the concert ended.\u00a0 Great vibe and still another spectacular only-in-New York event.<\/p>\n

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John Leventhal<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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Brian Mitchell<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shawn Pelton<\/p><\/div>\n

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Suzzy Roche<\/p><\/div>\n

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Martin Rivas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Willie Nile<\/p><\/div>\n

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Loudon Wainwright III<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rosanne Cash<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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