So we go to the Coffee Shop on Union Square. Have dinner, dessert...since the weather started getting crappy, we decide to just go back to Bowlmor. We go up to the 5th floor where they have pool...turns out the party had been moved up there after everyone was finished bowling. This party is HUGE...(seems like) hundreds of kids running around...parents...the works.
There's a band playing...I'm watching them...they're really, really fucking good. Too good for something like this. I mean top notch...a horn section, two great vocalists, dance steps, the whole thing...turns out it's freakin' Kool & the Gang! Holy crap! Jungle Boogie was amazing...I was disappointed because they only played the introduction to Hollywood Swinging. And despite Celebration being a nauseatingly overplayed song for the last 25 years, and I wouldn't mind NEVER hearing it again, their live arrangement of it was pretty good. It was the last song of the set, and by the end they had about 30 kids on stage jumpiing up & down like maniacs...good stuff. The kids loved it...I think. I wonder if they had any idea who it was. Turns out the singer from Kool, JT, lives in the same town as the kid's family.
Not only that, but they had Reggie Jackson there signing baseballs! WTF??? I went up and shook hands with him...He wasn't friendly or unfriendly...just sort of there. Big hands. World Series ring. Hall of fucking Fame. Mr. October. Legend. He's in great shape. Jeez...
My brother-in-law told me he heard the whole thing cost about $350,000...I'm speechless. That's more than Beth & I make in 2 years combined!
My brother-in-law mentioned how Arlo Guthrie always talked about Bob Dylan being at his bah mitzvah...that's cool...
Beth said I would have Tom Waits play my bah mitzvah...You know...if I could afford it, I would. With Darondo opening...
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