Although we should be doing Black Box Theater NYC today, we caught the 22Leroy band in the East Village Monday night at Fontana’s Bar with Wes Shippee on keyboard/lead vocals and we just had to share the experience with you. 22Leroy self describes their genre as Rock-Pop-Alternative and we agree adding only very cool and rocking the clean cut.Click here to download the performance.Click here to view at our movie channel Radio Theatre
While our assessment of “clean cut” could be the death of many bands playing bars in the Village, their high energy and high spirited style was surprisingly refreshing. You could actually feel safe letting your seventeen year old daughter see the show; I know this for a fact since my kid came along with me to check them out.
Not to be misleading, I must say the women over 21 did all they could to deflower the group’s innocents with alcohol induced shouts of “ I’ll love you” and “take your shirt for me please”, but they held their composure and simply let the music answer their fans request.
I could write volumes about this really cool band, but I won’t waste the copy and let you see for yourselves. .
BTW, you are going to see a lot more of Wes Shippee here at RetroVision Media in the coming months, as he is part of a documentary we are doing on
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Here are some links you need to find out more on this band and what they are doing around town:
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their indiscretions. Trouble comes when greedy distant relatives and their lawyer arrive to dispossess the family of its home. This description obtained from IMDb.
We have sadly lost another great actor that brought great performances to the silver screen as well as television. We are rerunning Baby Doll, one of the best movies Mr. Malden made. Yeah we know most will argue his role in A Street Car Named Desire, but watch this flick and see if you agree with me.
Here comes Tobar was a very short lived Sci-Fi television program. I have not had a chance to check this one out yet, but everybody tells me it is great. It is about a crime fighting robot named Tobor and it is controlled telepathically by a little boy.
Classic Television: Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she’ll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She’s delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley’s passenger becomes unsettling.
Classic Television: After a man kills a pawnbroker, the devil makes an appearance to convince him to murder again. The man rejects the request at the last moment to atone for his wrongdoing .
If you get your minds out of the gutter for just a moment, you are going to enjoy some of the best cheap thrilling horror of the fifties. In this b-movie classic, a mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.
A half-hour anthology that was largely a vehicle for Stanwyck, who had the lead in most episodes. The series never caught on, but the actress gained TV success four years later as the star of `The Big Valley.’ This episode is entitled The Assassin.Click here to download. Click here to view at the movie channel.
This last episode of My Little Margie today is entitled the Corpus Delicti. Enjoy the program and pass this link along to anyone who loves the retro world.
