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RE: How long have you lived in NYC?

Posted by Bill Way (A) on August 23, 2016 at 17:39:18

In Reply to: How long have you lived in NYC? posted by Gary on August 23, 2016 at 14:14:09:

I was here in the 70's, and came back in 2000. It has been wonderful. There is no other city that has hundreds of musicians playing gigs every single night (most free) multiple opera, dance, ballet companies, an art scene like nowhere else, and dozens of theater performances every night. There are also 150+ recording studios... that I know of. I got to assist in Steve Addabbo's studio for over five years, and now have dozens of musician friends from those sessions who are playing all over the world. The studio assist gig paid nothing, and was the most rewarding thing I've ever done. (EVERY audiophile should spend time in a good studio.)

With time, many rooms in the city become "home," though some are now gone. Iridium, Blue Note, Dizzy's Coca-Cola, the Met, the Met Museum, MoMA, Whitney, fucking-awful (for now) Geffen Hall, Koch Theater, Tully, Carnegie, BAM (still remembering Barishnikov and Willem Dafoe in the almost-nonsense "The Old Woman"), The Back Fence, Caffe Vivaldi, the Living Room, the Beacon, Apollo, Danny Kaye Playhouse, Joyce Theater, Guggenheim, Vivian Beaumont, Minetta Lane Theater (still enjoy the memory of Penny Lane and Mink Stole in The Mutilated several years ago) all Broadway/off-Broadway/off-off-Broadway/fringe theaters. Multiple theater performances that were just shattering and can never be forgotten: Elizabeth Franz' Linda Loman, Pacino's Shylock, Liv Ullman's Anna Christie (1975 - had to look up that year), Vanessa Redgrave in everything (but especially the ultra-ballsy Driving Miss Daisy with James Earl Jones) Artur Rubinstein at Carnegie (and Louis Lortie and Garrick Ohlsson and Stephen Hough.)

Making friends who are authors, playwrights, composers, singers, chefs, and, yes, critics. Restaurants become home as well: Tout va Bien (it *was* good in the 70's), Maria's Swiss Inn and Mont Blanc (both gone), Yakitori Totto, Soba-Koh, Luxembourg, Boulud's and Bouley's joints, Joe Allen, Sakamai, and the long-missed Aki. I got to work in technology for Siebel, Oracle, and a few scrappy independent consultants, a couple market researchers, and television - ABC network in the 70's *was* exciting. Being in the middle of it all, ***if you pay attention*** is like nothing else.

And it's time for a change. I'm headed to south NJ, somewhere near Barnegat Bay, to get a house and a catboat.

WW
"Put on your high heeled sneakers. Baby, we''re goin'' out tonight.

Edits: 08/23/16

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