Re: Jerry Portnoy

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In a message dated 6/27/03 10:46:21 AM, mbrogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


He had some super back-up, with the guitarist from Fabulous Thunderbirds, first
name Brian


Sure that's not Troy Gonyea? He's the guitarist for the T-birds last I knew and
occasionally  

Troy Gonyea's a thin, young kid with kind of long (well, compared to the rest of
the T-Birds) dark hair. I believe I've heard that he has a band of his own and
plays harp as well.

http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/thefabulousthunderbirds

Hi,
I can attest to Troy's harp playing abilities personally, because his very first band was in mine back in 1995, when he just turned 18 years old. He was a terrific guitarist then (especially with his rhythm playing), and every now and then we would do the role switch like Little Walter and Louis Myers did back in Walter's hit making days. I often told him that if he ever wanted to stop playing guitar and become a harp player exclusively, he'd kick more than a few harp player's butts with his playing.

Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA