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- Who is Walk the Dog -
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Gary Shippy- Drums, Vocals
Larry Hardie - Guitars, Vocals
Pam Friedman - Vocals
Ed Melee - Guitars, Vocals
Judy Starger - Tenor Sax, Vocals
Billy Fishkin - Bass, Vocals
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Gary Shippy - Drums, Vocals
Grew up in: Rochester, New York
Goal in life: To swim naked in a cold mountain lake every morning of my old age.
Fave Bands: The Band
Fave Musician: Bob Dylan, Joe Morello
Fave Songs: Irish lullabies
Most memorable music experience(s): having a djembe drum duel and singing a duet with my then 18 year old son on my 50th birthday.
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Larry Hardie - Guitars, Vocals
Grew up in: Queens, New York
Goal in life: live long enough to jam with grandkids.
Fave Bands: Pink Floyd, Little Feat
Fave Guitarists: Jeff Beck, Freddie King, George Benson
Fave Songs: anything by Patsy Cline
Most memorable music experience(s): Fleetwood Mac cancelled minutes before showtime, and the house emptied. The only paying customers to stay were me and two friends. We pulled up folding chairs in front of blues guitarist Freddie King (the opening act). Freddie gave us the most incredible, high-energy, personal show for 90 minutes. When he finished, the roadies and house staff were on their feet in applause.
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Pam Friedman - Vocals
Grew up in: Harrison, New York
Goal in life: To always have an ocean sunrise to wake up to.
Fave Bands: Orpheus; Spirit; CSN & Y, Derek and the Dominoes, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Paolo Conti.
Fave Musician: Pat Metheny; Lyle Mays
Fave Songs: "One For My Baby" by Sinatra
Most memorable music experience(s): Seeing the Beatles at Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, N Y
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Ed Melee - Guitars, Vocals
Grew up: The Hard Way
Goal in life: To keep things simple.
Fave Bands: the dilettantes, logistical nightmares, Big Train, Bottle Rockets, Sir Douglas Quintet, Social Distortion, Dinosaur Jr, Crazy Horse, Led Zep, Beatles, Dash Rip Rock, Buffalo Tom, The Clash, Trash Mavericks, WILCO
Fave Musician: Neil Young, Lucinda Williams, Marc Ribot, Jimmy Page, Hank Williams; Richard Thompson
Fave Songs: “I Want to see the Bright Lights Tonite”
Mostmemorable music experience(s): 1) Hanging out with the B-52’s, post gig, on the boardwalk in Asbury Park. 2) Dylan and Steve Earle at Waterloo, mid 90’s.
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Judy Starger - Tenor Sax, Vocals
Grew up in: Clark, New Jersey
Goal in life: Hitting the high note at the beginning of 'Shotgun'.
Fave Bands: The E Street Band, The Beatles, Taj Mahal's Phantom Blues Band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, Traveling Wilburys.
Fave Sax Players: Lenny Pickett, Clarence Clemons, Stan Getz, Junior Walker
Fave Albums: Koko Taylor's I Got What it Takes, Dion's Bronx and Blue, Bruce Springsteen's The Rising, BBKing's 80
Most memorable music experience(s): Having a private sax lesson with Lenny Pickett (of Tower of Power fame and leader of the SNL band) after discovering he worked out at the same gym in The World Trade Center.
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Billy Fishkin - Bass, Vocals
Grew up in:Spring Valley, NY
Fave bands: Dream Theater, Yes, Elton, Stevie Ray, Porcupine Tree, EW&F, Southside Johnny, Steve Morse Band, Opeth, Alice In Chains, Genesis, Flogging Molly and Elvis C.
Fave bass players: John Myung (Dream Theater), Doug Wimbish (Living Colour), Dave LaRue (Steve Morse Band), Geddy Lee (Rush), Chris Squire (Yes) and Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, et al.).
Fave albums: Capt. Fantastic (Elton), Going For The One (Yes), Seasons End (Marillion), Scenes From A Memory (Dream Theater), Workbook (Bob Mould), Van Halen I , Ghost Reveries (Opeth), In Absentia (Porcupine Tree).
Most memorable music experience(s): Getting to sit and watch Dream Theater rehearse in person for nearly 90 minutes; sitting beside the console as tracks for Dream Theater's Scenes From A Memory were being mixed; being thanked in the cd booklet for Living Colour's Collideoscope.
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