Camping trip, 1972 Partying with friends, 1974 Buddy's in the middle wearing the dashiki His brother's wearing the denim shirt to his right and his first wife is seated at his right knee Looking for trouble in '77 ;-) Buddy and his son, New York City, 1980 Placing a rose on John Lennon's Dakota home (read about this memorable day here) Buddy superimposed with his grandfather Nanc, Sandy, Tom, Stevie, Kelly, Anne & Buddy NYC, June 2001 NYC, June 2001 Buddy & Tom NYC, June 2001 Stevie, Tom, Kelly & Buddy NYC, June 2001 Stevie, Tom, Anne, Buddy, Nanc & Sandy NYC, June 2001 Jim (Sandy's hubby), Sandy, Stevie, Kelly, Tom, Nanc & Buddy NYC, June 2001 Tom, Stevie, Kelly, Buddy, Anne, Jim & Nanc NYC, June 2001 Buddy & Stevie amusing themselves with the Statue of Liberty ... tsk! NYC, June 2001 Kelly, Tom, Nanc, Stevie, Anne, Buddy & Sandy At the end of a long day, NYC, June 2001 Buddy & Dawna on the ferry NYC, Dec. 2001 Buddy & Dawna on the ferry NYC, Dec. 2001 Buddy in Starbucks, NYC, Dec. 2001 Tom, Kelly, Buddy & Naz NYC, Dec. 2001 Buddy & Naz NYC, Dec. 2001 Buddy on the ferry, NYC, Dec. 2001 Buddy and Dawna getting hitched *sniff* It's a long story, but they met on the newsgroup, awww Steeplechase Pier, New York, June 8, 2003 Tom, Dawna, Buddy, Jolie, Liz, and Michael New York, Oct. 2004 Dawna, Tom, Jolie, Buddy, and Liz New York, Oct. 2004 Tom, Jolie, and Buddy New York, Oct. 2004 Favorite Music: - 50's Rock 'n' Roll - (also see Backdraft's Golden Oldies and Maple Rock 'N' Roll for the Canadian perspective, includes a great collection of Real Audio files) - Classic Rock - Acappella!!! - Rockapella - The Nylons - Reunion - All Doo Wop, and particularly acapella by the original artists - Folk - R & B (not that crap they call R & B today - which I prefer to call "moanin' bitch music", but REAL R & B) - Motown - An occassional Classical piece - The only "bad" thing that The Beatles ever did was to break up. But, I guess all beautiful things die eventually. - Kenny Rankin - Flo & Eddie - Simon & Garfunkel (also see Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel) - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (also see here, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young) - Janis Joplin - Phil Ochs - B.B. King - And ALL the Blues Favorite 70s Cereal: - Cheerios Favorite Attire: - ALWAYS wear jeans and T-Shirts (unless I'm out on a date-then it matters who & where). Favorite Quotes: - "One man with courage is the majority." - "Shit Happens." - "Sometimes bad things happen to good people." - "There, but for the grace of God, go I." - "I been down so long ... looks like up to me." - "Never say NEVER, 'cause ya never know." - "And in the end: the love you take, is equal to the love that you make." Lennon's death: Where were you? (from a newsgroup posting written before the wonderful picture above was found) Re: Lennon's death: Where were you? Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 I was on my way to work. I was standing on the elevated subway platform with a portable radio. The announcement said that John was shot but that was all they knew. When I got to work the respiratory therapist (I think it was a resp. person) came by and said John Lennon's dead. I said no he's just shot. And the resp. person said no they just heard on the radio it's official: John Lennon was dead. It was like the wind was knocked out of me. I called my (then) wife and told her that I wasn't coming home in the morning. She said what are you going to do? I told her that I was going to the Dakota. She said "I'll get the kids ready and meet you at the train station. We'll go together." (Bless her heart.) Well, we went to the Dakota apartments along with about 1,000 other people. We put flowers in the front gate. My son was 21 months old and knew something big was going on by the way his father looked and acted. I picked him up and carried him up to the front gate with a rose that he could put in the gate also. (There were barricades and a line of people waiting to adorn the front gate with flowers and cards.) So as I brought him up, and he put the rose through the gates so it was placed firmly, all of these cameras started to click behind us. It must have been a great shot: a crying man holding a small boy who was putting a flower in the gate to honor and remember John Lennon. I was never able to find anyone who has a copy of that photo. And my son has been looking for it since. But since I first told him about that he wears it as a badge of honor because he was there the day that John Lennon died. And he (as well as I) go to Strawberry Fields to commemorate John Lennon's birth on Oct. 9, and his life on the day of his death on Dec. 8, every year. I'll be there on Friday night. Hope the weather's good again (it almost always is). As we again get together to celebrate John's life and his gift of music to us, we'll sing all the old songs around a drum set, several electric guitars, and an electric bass, and the old hippies (and the young ones who weren't there) will sing and revisit a better time of life, and warmer feelings. It's like we're all friends. We see each other every year. These are the people who had actually been there at the concerts where they played. It's funny how you can look forward so much to such a sad day. Buddy from Brooklyn R.I.P. George Harrison (after another visit to Strawberry Fields) Date: Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001 There were about 500 people there singing Beatles songs in harmony under a nicely clouded sky in the midst of the blue moon, in 60 degree weather. It was a beautiful night and I spoke with many people and was included in a radio interview. I hung with my son Nicky and spoke with Dawna several times during the evening. Dawna said that George was probably up in heaven with John singing and playing. I said No, George was a Bhuddist (I was mistaken - he was a hindu) and he believed in reincarnation so he's already come back after saying "hey" to John. The interviewer from Q104 asked me what the music of George Harrison and the Beatles meant to me I answered "It was a constant, it was the soundtrack of our lives. Whatever we did for the first time, and not everything was something good, but whatever we did for the first time we remember because George's, and the Beatles', music was playing in the background. It gave a flavor and feel to the times and our experiences. It was classic and will be played forever. My 23 year old son is right over there in that crowd singing. And my daughter told me once that she and a girlfriend were listening to the radio and a lot of Beatles songs were played. And they sung along, and realized that they knew All the words to All the songs. They looked at each other and said "Well, they MUST have been good: we know all the words." They were ingrained in them. The music of the Beatles together and seperately will be around forever. We protested to it, and grew up with their music. And then when we became the supposedly grown up and mature people that we are today, if indeed we are grown up and mature, the music was there still. It will never die. The reporter said that he'd been there since noon (it was now 9:30pm) and that he'd interviewed about 15 people and some were better than others. I said: I understand. He said "but yours was quite eloquent I expect we'll be using at least a part of it because you said that so well and with so much feeling". I said thank you. He told me there was no particular airtime but that there will be a special on George over the weekend so keep listenin'. I'll try to tape it if I hear it. And I couldn't find any way to work uvula into the conversation. Wish you guys coulda been there with me for a genuine trip back into the '60s, but some of you will next week. It will probably be a week where Strawberry Fields STAYS filled. Other Selected Postings - Some Thoughts from Brooklyn (posted 9/12/2001) - Who We Are Personal Links: Buddy's Homepage Visit us all at alt.culture.us.1970s Website designed and maintained by Tiny Dancer (tinyd@bell.net) Graphics courtesy of