Jonny Rosch and Friends at The Triad Theater (Tuesday, September 15th)

Tuesday, September 15th

8:30: PM … ish

The Triad Theater
(Also known as Stage 72)

158 West 72nd Street
(72nd Street between Broadway and Columbus – upstairs)

presents

Jonny Rosch and Friends

featuring

Mick Gaffney – Guitar
(Paul Simon, Marc Anthony, Billy Joel, Sam and Dave, Lesley Gore, Tommy James, The Mamas and the Papas, The Drifters, Ben E. King, Chubby Checker, Maxine Brown, Gary U.S Bonds, Chuck Mangione, Billy Preston, The Coasters, Little Anthony and the Imperials, the Teenagers, Jay and the Americans, Trini Lopez, Rita Moreno, Eartha Kit, Robert Goulet, Jim Nabors, Bobby Vinton, John Davidson, Frankie Laine, Danny Thomas, Paul Lynde, Nipsey Russell, Les Paul, George Benson, Rick Derringer, Kevin Eubanks from the Jay Leno show. Paul Shaffer. (Okay, Paul Lynde and Jim Nabors should have been enough but … my idol –
the late great Julius “Nipsey” Russell – I’ve often said, “It’s Nipsey’s world, we just live in it!)

Tony Garnier – Bass
(Bob Dylan’s bass player/musical director and Dylan’s longest running sideman 1989 to present, Tom Waits, Paul Simon, Saturday Night Live Band, Loudon Wainwright III, Marc Ribot and Eric Andersen, Asleep At The Wheel, The Lounge Lizards, Robert Gordon, Marshall Crenshaw, Manhattan Transfer, Brian Setzer, David Johansen/Buster Poindexter, too many more to list, etc …)

Joe Bonadio – Drums
(Sting, Marc Cohn, Avril Lavigne, Rosanne Cash, Chris Botti,  Spin Doctors ,
Chuck Mangione, Richard Shindell, Shawn, Colvin, Susan Tedeschi ,  Boz Scaggs ,
Grover Washington, Jr. , Pat Martino, Bob Moses, Duncan Shiek, Vanessa Carlton,
Martin Sexton,  Michael Franks ,  Roger Glover ,  The Stylistics ,  Sloan Wainwright , and many more)

and some very special guests

No Cover Charge !

STILL

Come one out folks and support live music.
I am trying to make it as easy and painless* as possible
as are the owners of the Triad

*Well, excluding my playing and singing**

** caterwauling

The Triad Theater
(Also known as Stage 72)

158 West 72nd Street
(72nd Street between Broadway and Columbus)

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Jonny Rosch and Friends

also known as:

‘Breaking Bad … The Musical”.

On the subject of musicians and money –
here are some quotes (and unquotes)

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
– Duke Ellington

The wise musicians are coincidentally those lucky few that can get paid,
even a little, for what they’ve mastered.”
– jonny rosch

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Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
– Louis Armstrong

“ … or when their car or instrument gets repossessed.”
– jonny rosch

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“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.”
– Eminem

“ …. but not all that tough when you have Eminem money.
We play in bars and clubs and still don’t even have M&M money.”
– jonny rosch

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“Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.”
– Nat Wolff

“ … oh yeah, but you left this one out.
Jazz don’t pay.”
– jonny rosch

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“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”
– Billy Joel

“Unfortunately, their bank accounts are usually the direct cause of their own permanently quiet hearts.”
– jonny rosch

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“You gotta remember: we’re musicians… we’re just crazy people who can’t get along sometimes. I’ve definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It’s part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it – we’re lucky we don’t eat each other in this industry!”
– Corey Taylor

“You gotta remember: we’re musicians… we’re just crazy people who can’t get along sometimes. I’ve definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It’s part of being a musician.
Dude, you gonna eat the rest of that?”
– jonny rosch

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“It’s not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it’s what they’re born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose,
then life flows much more easily.”
– Jack Canfield

“ … and even easier with a C-note at the end of the gig
– and I ain’t talkin’ the musical C-note.”
– jonny rosch

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“When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas.
I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.”
– Maya Angelou

“ … but still a lot richer than me! At least you and I will eventually wind up in the same place together Maya so … I got that goin’ for me .. which is nice.”
– jonny rosch

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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
– Billy Joel

“That and a $5 tip, which by the way,
still won’t get you to and from the gig on the subway.”
– jonny rosch

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“I don’t have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.”
– Elton John

“ Well good for you Sir Elton. I don’t have to compete in the charts either … because I can’t. I can however still ‘just be myself as a musician’ and play the Alyssa Goldstein Bat Mitzvah … with the musicians that I really love. Well, some of them
– and you know who you are.”
– jonny rosch

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“I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.”
– Joe Cocker

“I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, work hard, and learn how to smile when you ask,
“Would you like fries with that?”
– jonny rosch

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“I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.”
– Brian Eno

“understand their territory”
“do your best work”
and I repeat … , “Would you like fries with that?”
– jonny rosch

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“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message,
and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
– Roy Ayers

That’s right Mr. Ayers.
Musicians by night, bike messengers by day.
– jonny rosch

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“What the world is saying to us human beings is, ‘Don’t stick to the old ways,
learn to think anew.’ And that’s what musicians do every day.”
– Daniel Barenboim

“That’s right Daniel, Don’t stick to the old ways of having a job with a steady paycheck and a pension and a 401K retirement fund. Learn to think anew … like the Cro-Magnon or the Neanderthals or the Australopithecine or the drummer.”
– jonny rosch

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“I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the ’70s for research. They’re the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they’ve seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.”
– Kate Hudson

“Yeah Kate, and 9 out of 10 times it’s a balled up pair of lace panties stuffed up in the glove compartment of the Prius and they just happen to belong to the chick singer in your ex-husbands’ band. By the way, if you need more help with your
‘ex-wives of musicians of the ’70s research’ you can text me at (917) 555-2195.”
– jonny rosch

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“But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.”
– Yo-Yo Ma

“Hey Yo-Yo Ma! You know what else will bring musicians together? The ‘intact tradition’ of a $50 gig and the possibility of a free sandwich
and a drink ticket for all band members”.
– Yo-Yo Me

This gig is dedicated to the Welsh’s from Australia
(including the extended members – even those way down in La Cumbracita, Argentina who could not be in the house)

We will have in the house

Freddie Vegas
Olga Maron Olson
and my boy
Sancho Panza

The Triad Theater
(Also known as Stage 72)

158 West 72nd Street
(72nd Street between Broadway and Columbus – upstairs )