OK, it’s not what you think it is. I dug up a photo from back in 1996, but it has nothing to do with railroading, or even my photography.
Nope, instead it’s a photo of my dad, myself and Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band. You see, back in the late 1990s we owned and operated a rather large restaurant/nightclub up at UConn called Husky Blues. We featured a full dinner menu, 36 beers on tap, live entertainment at least 5 days a week, and had a capacity of nearly 400 people. Some of the other bigger names we’ve hosted at the club were the late Maynard Ferguson (jazz trumpet), Matt “Guitar” Murphy (from The Blues Brothers), Zaak Wylde (Black Label Society & Ozzy Osbourne), Train (no, not what you think – the band – you know the guys who sang “Meet Virginia”), Max Creek, Michael Winslow (Police Academy movies), Jimmie “JJ” Walker (Good Times TV show from the 70’s), Gary Valentine (from King of Queens) and Dr. Dirty John Valby. In addition to the bigger names, we’ve also hosted literally thousands of local bands from around Connecticut and the northeast – the vast majority of which were bands that wrote and performed their own music (we were kind of sticklers about keeping the music we did mostly original, and minimizing on the cover bands).
Anyways, a few times we hosted the Big Man himself during our 6 year stint there (we sold the club in late 2000) – this shot was taken at one of the first times he played the club in 1996 (January 25, 1996 to be exact). Jill’s sister and her husband are going to the Bruce Springsteen concert tonight, which is what prompted me to dig out this 13 year old relic.
