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Harry Hussey remained the most active musician and prolific writer among us. While in Blue Monday and after, Harry played with a series of bands, starting in the summer of 1980 like Cartoon, Special Children, Hoi Polloi, Vision, Banter, Janet Feld and the Garage Band, Tiffany Park, Big Rocks and Jo Henley. His current band (with drummer Tony Savoie) is Centralia. He produced some of his best work in the late 1980’s and into the 1990’s; including one I admire very much, Norm & Jack. He still composes regularly. Tom May moved to Portland, Maine and continued to play music, mostly by himself. He came down to Norwalk for a last visit in September, 1990. Audrey Ludemann, Alan Freedman and I played with him once more during that time, a marathon session at my house on 5 Fourth Street in East Norwalk. It was the last time we’d see him. The last recording we seem to have from Tom are home tapings and a more formal studio session he did up to March of 1991, with Phil See up in Maine. Kevin Tisdall mixed this in December of that year. Included are several takes and finished versions of the following songs:
http://www.myspace.com/rockinbluesexperience http://www.youtube.com/user/RBEband#p/u/0/rRejAwOrLqY Mike Burns is a realtor in Damascus, MD. He has a teenaged daughter and is still involved in music. Ed Flinn still lives in Norwalk and works for Yale Newhaven Hospital in IT. He’s as reclusive as he always was and remains more connected through the virtual world. Alan Freedman is a marshal for the State of Connecticut. He has two sons and became a grandfather (twice) in 2010. He lives in Norwalk and still plays informally with Audrey and me. Bill Galey lives in Chicago and still plays music. He can be found online in a band called Voodoo Pilot. Lisa Hansen studied flute at Julliard and went on to become an “internationally renowned” flautist and teacher. She lives in New York City. Mike Hector lived in Connecticut for the rest of his life. He died in 2007 of cancer. Dave Hopkins is a house painter. He lives in Newport, RI. Chris Hussey is married with many, many children. He works for Goldman Sachs and still lives in Rowayton, CT. Harry Hussey is married and is “artist in residence” in Melrose, MA, above Boston. He is still very active in writing, recording and performing music as well as a range of other projects. He has a site that covers much of this, http://www.conceptualirregularities.com/ you can see some of his work on http://www.youtube.com/hmbhuss1 Melissa Janicke (now Melissa O’Day) is married with four children and lives in upstate Connecticut. She still plays, but much less than she’d like. Steve Kraemer is an associate professor of astronomy at the Catholic University of America in Maryland. He does work for NASA and still plays blues with various bands, including his own, The Bluesicians. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXRLfraEAkU http://music.napster.com/artist-music/tracks/12484358/?artist_id=12484358 Josh Kramer lives outside Portland, OR, married with one teenage daughter. In June of 1981 he sent me a tape of twenty-two originals written and performed with a local musician, Sam Davis. In the early nineties he visited Norwalk and played all the old songs with Audrey, Alan and me. Mark Lebow plays drums with Tastes Like Chicken http://www.tlikechicken.com/ on the local bar circuit in Fairfield County, CT and had played with Straight Up previously. He’s a land surveyor and lives in Stamford, CT. Here’s his band in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNYU-0P5xOQ Tricia Lowrey now Tricia Lowrey Lippert is an artist and living in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. You can see some of her art on her website http://www.tricialippert.com/4/ Audrey Ludemann (nee Noyes) works in the field of educational consulting and lives in Wilton, CT. She has two grown children. She’s sung opera and sings with the Norwalk Community Chorus and still plays with Alan and me in Noyes & the Boyes. Occasionally Harry Hussey and others sit in. Tom May moved out of Norwalk. First to New Jersey and later to Portland, ME. He suffered from what was probably bipolar disorder. He killed himself in Portland in 1991. His ashes are buried in Norwalk. Jenny O’Neil’s whereabouts are not known. One report has her married in the mid-1980’s and living in St. Lucia. I last saw her in the early 1980’s when she was living in New York City. She had spent time in Spain and was itching to return. Her passion for things Spanish inspired the song, Spanish Dancer. Dave Procter moved to Marietta, Ohio in 1994. He quit drinking and smoking, but died from throat cancer in 2006, just before he turned fifty. His ashes were scattered off Rowayton. Tony Savoie lives in Boston and is a statistician for the Assessing Department of that city. He still plays with Harry Hussey as of 2010. Holly Saxe lives in Hopkinton, MA with her fourteen year old son and works for a software company. Phil See moved to Florida and eventually to Maine. He builds high-performance sailboats and is married with two daughters. Phil did some occasional playing with Tom May, including Tom’s last known recording session in March, 1991. Kevin Tisdall is married and handles IT for a law firm. He lives in Stratford, CT and still plays in local bands. Scott Wyland lives outside Bend, OR. He and his second wife run an eldercare facility. He plays occasionally with his local band, Rising Tide. I live in Darien, right near Rowayton. Some summer Sundays, when the wind is right, I can hear the music coming from Pinkney Park. | |
