Paper Bag #43 ~ the Bag is Back in Town!
this Bag is Recyclable

Because we are old school and still use paper tickets, it is too late to mail tickets if you purchase today. You have 3 options

1 - find a Paper Bag participant and purchase $25 advance tix

2 - Go to Mulcahy's on Monday afternoon and purchase $25 advance tix

3 - pay $30 at the door day of show

Tickets are $30 at the door on the day of the show.

$25 advance tickets are available from any Paper Bag participant

 


artwork by Denise Corazon
- Rick Silecchio - Bruce Sautkulis - Eddie Carucci -
- Don Prager - Jimmy Cummings -
- you are missed -

The Body Bag
It has now been almost 3 years since we had a show. Way back in 2006 at Paper Bag #29 - the Doctor Bag, as sort of a sick joke we added a section to the show called “The Body Bag” wherein we honored four musicians who had died since the previous show. Lou Rawls, Billy Preston, Billy Cowsill and the late great Long Island legend, Edward “Little Buster” Forehand. People winced at first, but it was a tribute. Two years later we split “The Body Bag" into two sections, one in each half, both honoring 3 of our departed brethern. Soon it was split into 3 sections. By Bag #35 the number had grown to 12 departed musicians. It had remained at approximately a dozen people each year since.

2020 ... 2021 ... 2022 ... tick tock ... tick tock. It's been 3 years. Yes, the very thing we joked about has finally come to pass. At our March meeting, the Executive Board was unanimous in determining that "The Body Bag" is indeed so full, that every song in the Paper Bag is in the Body Bag. Yep. There are over 40 songs on the list. Every one honors a musician, from bands we admire, who have passed since we last performed. Some, like Eddie Van Halen, Charlie Watts or Little Richard are well known. Many others are like deep album cuts, you may not know their name, but you recognize the joy they have brought us through their music.

As long as we gots Keef, we good.

This year the Body Bag honors:

Bill Withers, BJ Thomas, Jay Black, Jimmy Cummings (Jim Pin Band), Johnny Nash, Sara Dash (Labelle), Wanda Young (Marvelettes), Bonnie Pointer (Pointer Sisters), Gary Brooker & Alan Cartwright (Procol Harum), Ronnie Spector, Morris Dickerson (War), Hilton Valentine (the Animals), John Prine, Jim Steinman, Ric Ocasek (the Cars), Ian McDonald (Foreigner), Robby Steinhardt (Kansas), Graeme Edge (Moody Blues), Leslie West (Mountain), Neil Peart (Rush), Eddie Van Halen, Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge), Dusty Hill (ZZ Top), Ginger Baker (Cream), Chick Corea, Eddie Carucci (Cutaway), Little Richard Penniman, Lloyd Price, Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones), Don Prager. Mary Wilson (Supremes), Rocco Prestia (Tower of Power), Don Everly (Everly Brothers), Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Tommy DeVito & Joe Long (Four Seasons), Meat Loaf, Mike Nesmith (the Monkees), Bruce Sautkulis, George Frayne (Commander Cody), Robert Hunter, Ron Bushy (Iron Butterfly), Dawn Wells (Gilligan's Island), Robbie Shakespeare (Jamaican bassist), Rick Silecchio (Jim Small Band, Stanton Anderson Band)

 


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