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It was a great show
and thanks to all who attended and all our volunteers and to all the performers.
The line up was fantastic:
Opened with Opal Jones (thank you)
...Erma Varnado, singing the anthem (beautiful job)
Blue Steel (great job as always)
back to Erma Varnado and her band (great talented musicians)
then....the house band was made up of:
Bob Luna The Rock Club - Rock for Vets Music Director / Keys - formerly
Dionne Warwick's music
director.
Ronnie Ciago - drummer
Micheal Sims - guitar
Jeff Raigoza - bass
George Pandis - horns
Dan Heffernan - horns
Ken Tussing - horns
(If you are curious who the back up band members are please
google their names, yes all pro musicians)
The house band performed with:
Jessica Garcia - Frisco's carhop and dancers (great job)
Comedian - Charles Sanchezz (funny funny man)
Manny Lagod (from Don Ho, a true professional)
David Elliott (son of Dionne Warwick- wonderful performance)
Then the house rocked with:
El Chicano - lead by Jerry Salas (great talent), including Sal Rodriguez of War,
Ray Carrion, John Avila of Oingo Boingo, Eddie Avila, Don Tai, and Joey Navarro.
Excellent.
The finale act was: Danny Seraphine (original founding member of Chicago) and
CTA who rocked the house again with Ed Roth - Keys (Sophie B Hawkins, Chad
Smith's Bombastic Meatbats), Mark Bonila - guitar (Glen Hughes/Keith Emerson),
Mick Mahan (from Pat Benatar's band). Also Jerry Salas, John Avila and Sal
Rodriguez assisted on a few tunes.
One apology goes to Jeffry Leland Johnson, who was going to close the show,
however we ran out of time. We did however get to play his tune and invited him
for the bow from all who participated.
Jeffry wrote an amazing album and title song called I'm an American and kindly
donated CD's to The Rock Club and Rock for Vets and 100% of proceeds go towards
building this music rehabilitation program here in Long Beach VA. If you want to
support, please just send
me an email to frank@therockclub.net, I will sell
and send you the CD, name your price.
We have Rock for Vets merchandise: T-shirts $18.00, Hoodies $35, Long Sleeve
$25.00, just again send an email and your size and your address.
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