We start out this month’s blog by wishing every one of you a Merry Christmas and the happiest of holidays! We had such a great turnout at Chambers in Niles this past Friday, November 30th, it was quite overwhelming. We had a lot of fun ourselves. Thank you for coming out. Also kudos to Tony for coming up to sing with us, too!!
One question we hear all the time is, “How long have all of you been together?” Well, the official answer for this band, the Renditions, is 2 years, come April of 2008. In reality, however, many of us have known each other and played together for quite a long time.
So let’s return to those thrilling days of yesteryear…
Neal and Greg began playing together in 1980 and the b & w shot below is of a band called Yesterday’s Gold (yeah, we were playing oldies even then!) circa 1981. The other 2 fellas are guitarist, Bill Zayas (he wasn’t always in a tree, just for this picture) and drummer, Tim Valiquet.
The color publicity shots below that are of 2 early incarnations of Pursuit, a wedding band featuring not only Greg and Neal, but Jerry as well. Joining us there are drummer, Jon Harrison and 2 different keyboardists, Tim Fenz and, later Avain Hightower. These are pix are from about 1985 and 1987, respectively.
Maybe, in the future, we can get John Radowski, our drummer extraordinaire, to scan a few pictures from this period when he was playing hard rock as Johnny Radd! Gary, our keyboardist, has worked with many bands, including New Colony Six since 1986. Kristi has done many plays and musical theater, etc. Maybe we can convince them to post some pictures on future blogs. Maybe when Jerry and Neal see what Greg has done on this month’s blog, they’ll kill him…
Merry Christmas everyone and see you in December!!
Rock on with Aplomb,
The Renditions
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