Re: Manny's Car Wash space // Buddy Fox was some character....
Richard Skelly
having spent 2/3 of his career in New York City, trying to build a blues and
roots music scene at the Lone Star Cafe and then Manny's Car Wash -- and
being very organized and savvy and detail-oriented about the whole
process -- can anyone rightly BLAME Buddy Fox for moving clear across the
country to Hawaii?
I was in NYC tonight for the first night of my night course
downtown, and the cabbie told me the Europeans and Japanese are still
looking for good roots and blues music in NYC.....sadly, it can't easily be
found right now....
Richard Skelly
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----- Original Message ----- >
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:12:50 EDT
> From: BuddyF...@aol.com
> Subject: Re: Buddy Fox - (was something else)
>
> The whole story is this....The contractor who was building the place,
> Paul
> Petrovic, had a gopher named Manny, a Jamican gentleman, working for him.
> One day the sign, a lighted slot board, arrived and Paul applied it to
> the
> front of the building, hooked up the electric, and used the letters that
> came
> with the sigh, to put up "LIVE MUSIC BAR OPENING SOON". Well shortly
> therafter, Brad Winters the owner and I arrived, and it was decided that
> not willing
> to ruffle the neighbor's feathers took down that wording. Hapenstance, at
> that moment Manny was washing Paul's van in front of the place, so the
> suggestion to put up "MANNY'S CAR WASH" was agreed upon. Several weeks
> later, when our
> liquor license was ok'd and we were going to open the next day and we
> needed
> a name, I said since the name had been there already, let's just keep it,
> and so we didi. Only saw Manny once since we opened, when he came by one
> night
> several weeks later.
>
> The name of the chicken chain that opened in Manny's location was
> Popeye's.
> Took the landlord 15 months to rent the space, whcih I predicted could
> only
> be leased to a corporate entity at the rent that they wanted. Popeye's
> lasted
> about 4 years. Space is empty today, or was when I was in NYC in June.
> Popeye's was wrong for the upper eastside.
>
> As for MANNY'S WORLD FAMOUS BLUES JAM, called that from the first Sunday
> we
> were opened, the jam masters were, as far as I can recall:
> Stan Bronstein(Elephants Memory,The John Lennon Band)
> Chris Carter. Chris was co-hosted by Kenny Neal for about 10 months while
> Kenny was in NYC doing a broadway show
> Popa Chubby...Ted did this for 2 1/2 years
> Bill Perry
> Todd Wolfe
> Bg Ed Sullivan
> The list of sit-ins is end less from Joe Sample to Sheryl Crowe
>
> Buddy
>
>
> Buddy Fox
> Haiku, Maui, HI
> 96708
> Land:808-573-5612
> Cell:808-250-3759
>
>
>
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