When they play 'em as good as they make 'em...

Steve DeRosa · #1 01-31-2018, 09:58 PM

Vinnie Fodera (guitar) and Joey Lauricella (bass) - my former Brooklyn neighbors, and the hands behind those exotic $10K+ instruments that are arguably the D'Angelicos of the electric bass world - tearing it up with their band Blues Ball:

BTW that's a solid hand-carved flame-koa top on Vinnie's guitar - drool city, and don't even ask what your upcharge would be...

Some guys really can do it all...

Song · #2 02-01-2018, 07:52 AM

Some of the flamiest koa I've ever seen.
They definitely have the wood https://fodera.smugmug.com/Topwood-G...pwood-Archive/

Steve DeRosa · #3 02-01-2018, 09:35 AM

FYI Vinnie's always been a wood connoisseur - used to see stuff like this in his shop all the time, when I lived two blocks away; BTW he's the one who really started the whole "alternative wood" movement 35 years ago, when everybody else was "rosewood/maple/walnut, take-it-or-leave-it"...

KevWind · #4 02-01-2018, 10:43 AM

Didn't know your were bald but the sunglasses ,white stash and beard make the look cohesive

Steve DeRosa · #5 02-01-2018, 01:13 PM

'Tain't me, Kev - his name is Jimmy Ceribello, and he's been a fixture on the local music scene since my wife and I were in high school, when his band (FYI Joey was their original bass player) used to play all our church dances. He and his old (literally

) bandmates, reunited under the name Atomik Age Project, were the subject of the nationwide PBS special "Old Days," where they revisited their old Brooklyn roots 50 years later; the soundtrack won several awards, and was a finalist at the 2016 TMC London Music and Film Festival. Along with keyboards and bass he currently fronts a techno-classic-rock (it loses something in the translation - you need to hear them to understand) trio called Peace Train, who are regulars on the local small-club/coffeehouse circuit...

KevWind · #6 02-01-2018, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa

'Tain't me, Kev - his name is Jimmy Ceribello, and he's been a fixture on the local music scene since my wife and I were in high school, when his band (FYI Joey was their original bass player) used to play all our church dances. He and his old (literally

) bandmates, reunited under the name Atomik Age Project, were the subject of the nationwide PBS special "Old Days," where they revisited their old Brooklyn roots 50 years later; the soundtrack won several awards, and was a finalist at the 2016 TMC London Music and Film Festival. Along with keyboards and bass he currently fronts a techno-classic-rock (it loses something in the translation - you need to hear them to understand) trio called Peace Train, who are regulars on the local small-club/coffeehouse circuit...

Interesting I actually figured it wasn't you, just some snowy day cornball humor