The Bonnie Williams Band

Changes produced changes and I ended up wanting something different, for a change. So, travelling to Philadelphia, Pa. after a call from Bonnie Williams, with whom I had worked, writing and arranging songs, and then jamming them out with Bill Reinhardt (Night Magic Band) previously when living in Lancaster... I at least had some idea of what we were going to play. I took the train to Philadelphia. I was sick for a week or two, from the airborne germs in the coach.  I also thought it could have been from the deli across the street, where I ate when I first got there. The doctor said a shot was necessary to get rid of it. That was also back in the days before I started taking vitamins...

This time out Bonnie and I auditioned some players and rehearsed a few weeks,  with a couple of  excellent musicians, I must say. Rich played Drums. Wes, the bass player recorded the CELLAR gig on a little mono cassette tape recorder, over on his side of the stage, near a vocal monitor,  Thanks to you, Wes track 5... "Live" We played at an underground(in the cellar) niteclub, downtown Philly... It was called somethin' like THE CELLAR , and it was supposed to be a fairly popular place. Attendance was sparse, our one and only gig. We hadn't worked out any thing but the songs. The pacing was slow for our set, every song was a climax for us, but a show was never planned, and I think we wanted the songs and performance to carry it all... Something was amiss, the musicians complained and we tried to go and jam with another singer, a guy who wrote words and rapped if you will. We weren't into that then. I don't know if Bonnie knew or cared if we did it. We did go to see Genesis, at JFK stadium, I think it held 125,000 people. It appeared full that night.