Thighs Wide Shut

get me a time machine and take me to February 22, 1989, to the 31st Grammy Awards after party at Chasen’s, where I need to get ill with Winona Ryder and Ad-Rock

btw – both of their real last names is Horowitz – Winona Laura Horowitz + Adam Keefe Horovitz.  are they related??? or just the most perfect 1989 coupling ever???

bonus props to Max Perlich (one of the dorks from Can’t Buy Me Love) for being apart of this Horowitz posse 

The Righteous Brothers
Bergen Performing Arts Center
July 11

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We’re down to one Righteous Bro (Best In Peace Bobby Hatfield), but the show must go on!  And one Bro is better than NO Bros!  Bill Medley (the Bro with the deeper voice, and the one you probably know better anywayz) carries the torch, and for the past 2 years, with honorary Bro Bucky Heard.  You’ve heard the word!  Bucky does a fine job walking a mile in Bobby’s lungs, but we came for Bill Medley and the melodies, and Bill’s got a clean bill of awesomness still left in his pipes, and so them melodies remained unchained!!!  NEVER LET THEM BE CHAINED!!!  And I, had, the time of my life!

Setlist – Hold On, I’m Comin’ (Sam & Dave cover) / Just Once in My Life / Little Latin Lupe Lu / (You’re My) Soul and Inspiration / Rock and Roll Heaven (Climax cover) / Crying (Roy Orbison cover) / Young Blood (The Coasters cover) / Unchained Melody / Koko Joe / Ebb Tide / My Babe / Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel cover) / (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life (with daughter McKenna Medley) / California Dreamin’ (The Mamas & the Papas cover) / This Will Be the Last Time / You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ 

Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits
City Winery
June 28

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SEVENTY-EIGHT MINUTES OF SIXTIES FUN, FUNNY AND FURY!!!!!!!!!

Setlist – I’m Into Something Good / Wonderful World (Sam Cooke cover) / Love Potion No. 9 (The Clovers cover) / Ring of Fire (Merle Kilgore cover) / Dandy (The Kinks cover) / A Must to Avoid / Daydream Believer (John Stewart cover) / Sea Cruise (Huey “Piano” Smith cover) / All My Loving (The Beatles cover) / Just a Little Bit Better / Silhouettes (The Rays cover) / Listen People / Travellin’ Light (Cliff Richard & The Shadows cover) / No Milk Today / The End of the World (Skeeter Davis cover) / I’m Telling You Now (Freddie & The Dreamers cover) / Ferry Cross the Mersey (Gerry & The Pacemakers cover) / Do Wah Diddy Diddy (The Exciters cover) / Jumpin’ Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones cover) / Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat / Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter / I’m Henry the Eighth I Am / There’s a Kind of Hush (New Vaudeville Band cover)

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Chromeo
Webster Hall
May 20

The Lordz of Funk reigned supreme last night at Webster Hall (which reopened recently, but looked no different), by making everyone’s footwork get mad fancy.  If anyone can bring peace to the Middle East it would be Chromeo, a Montreal duo consisting of a Jew and a Lebanese guy.  Lay down your guns and your hate and freak the funk out, yo!

Setlist – Chromeo Intro / Fancy Footwork / Juice / Hot Mess / Come Alive / Bonafied Lovin’ / Bad Decision / Night by Night / My Girl Is Calling Me (a Liar) / Needy Girl / Old 45’s / Must’ve Been / Slumming It / Don’t Turn the Lights On / Over Your Shoulder / Don’t Sleep / Count Me Out / Jealous (I Ain’t With It)

Encore – Momma’s Boy / One Track Mind / 100%

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