David Bobo Lavorgna

Bobio

leg·end ('le-jend): noun 1a: a story coming down from the past; especially : one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable b: a body of such stories c: a popular myth of recent origin d: a person or thing that inspires legends

Bobo Lavorgna - "A legend in his own mind..."

Born: Sometime in the last century

Timeline

Favorite Color: Robin's Egg Blue

Favorite Music: Blues, Jazz, Beethoven,

mingus, Zappa, Everclear

Favorite Pastimes: jamming with my kids;

Playing Bass;

freaking out on guitar...when nobody's home;

naps

Favorite Forbidden Food: Popcorn

Favorite Forbidden Smell: Popcorn

Favorite Vegetable: Popcorn

Greatest Challenge: Fatherhood

Second Greatest Challenge: Reality

Third greatest challenge: Functioning in Reality

Greatest Accomplishment: My Children

Greatest Joy: My Children; seeing them born, reading them bedtime stories, tucking them in, playing Jer-Ball, watching them grow (both Up & Taller than me!)...

best Friend: Mo

Most Amazing Event, Ever: Birth of My Children

second Most Amazing event: Making it this far

Third most amazing Event: Making it through TODAY!

Most life-altering event: Getting to know Doris Male Lavorgna over the past six years; the Doris I never got to meet growing up

Hope for the New Year:

Peace, Justice, Forgiveness, understanding,

good gigs, Good Health, Good Grief, Sensible Shoes

Cats: Spot, Roxy & Heff

Canine: Ruby Red

Band-o-graphy

Spring Glen School Band; Tonette and trumpet - 1962-1964

Sleeping Giant Jr. High Band; valve trombone, B-flat Baritone Horn, Sousaphone - 1964-1966

New York Military Academy Band; Sousaphone - 1966-1967

Robert Crotty; Bass - Various dates, 1964 - present

Robert Silverman; Bass - Various dates, 1969 - Present

Wayward Six; Bass - 1967-1970

Anne Marie Menta; Bass - Various dates, 1969-Present

Richard Hodgkins; Bass - Various dates, 1969-1997

Blake Street Gut Band; Bass - 1969-1975

Silver Skull Blues Band - 1973

New Haven Civic Orchestra, Bass - One Guest Performance, 1973

Karen & The Pistons; Bass - 1975-1976

The Stormin' Norman & Suzy Band; Bass - 1976-1977

Tony Mason; bass - various dates, 1977-1983

Tommy Cosmo & Bobo 1977-1983; 1985-Infinity

Tommy Cosmo & The Hot Pickup Band 1980-1985

Tommy & The Tuxedos 1984

David Mills; Bass - Various Dates, 1977-Present

Winchester Special - 1984-1987

Jake & The Family Jewels; Bass - various dates, 1977-1984

Sportin' Life; Bass - Various dates, 1978-1983

The Convertibles; Bass - 1985-1990

The Barrelhouse Boys; Bass - Various Dates, 1987-1999

The 1917 Jazz Band; Bass, various dates, 1978-present

Sammy Rimington; bass - Plainville, CT 1991(?)

Bill's Seafood All-Stars; Bass - Various dates, 1995-Present

Big Easy Rhythm; Bass - Various dates, 2000-Present

Balaban & Cats; Bass - 2001-Present

Michael Capezzone - 1980-Present

The Revue - 2002-Present

All That Jazz - 2002

And the beat goes on...

Disc-o-Graphy

NYMA Concert Band, Everitt D. Ruppert, Capt., U.S. Army Band (Ret.), Conductor, Recorded December 1966, Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY

Blake Street Gut Band, Demo-Recorded December 1969, Kaleidoscope Studios, Hamden, CT. Ted Jensen, Engineer

Peggy & Lucy Heath, Recorded July 1970, New Haven, CT, Jack Straw Studios, New Haven, CT

Homesick John O'Leary's Greatest Hits, Recorded 1976-1977, Perfect Crime Studios, Watertown, MA. Derek Huntington, Engineer & Producer; Ben the Dog, Assoc. Producer & Master of engineering booth flatulence, halitosis & drool

Derek Huntington-Demo, recorded 1976 -1977, Perfect Crime Studios, Watertown, MA (One block from Jack-In-The-Box). The street game of "KeyBall" originated during these sessions, invented by Bobo Lavorgna and John Daniels

A Taste of the Phabulous Pheromones, Recorded 1978, Hamden, CT. Fred Rossamundo, Engineer/Producer

Anne Marie Menta, Untried & True, recorded 1999, Pearl Avenue Music. Recorded at Horizon Studios, Vic Steffans, Engineer/Producer

Robert Silverman, various Recordings

Robert Crotty, various Recordings

John McCurry, the infamous North Guilford 'Goat House' tapes

The Revue, Suburban Lawnchair Studios, Guilford, CT

Swingin' Jazz Guitars LIVE at River Run!

Mike Capezzone @ American Melody Studios, Guilford, CT

Stormin' Norman Zamcheck @ In The Night Studios, Ansonia, CT

Naomi Sommers @ American Melody Studios, Guilford, CT

Phil Rosenthal @ American Melody Studios, Guilford, CT

Ryan Lavorgna @ American Melody Studios, Guilford, CT

Ryan Lavorgna @ In The Night Studios, Ansonia, CT

Rick Nafey & Blue Love Monkey @ Sony Music Studios, NYC

Bobo & the Unusuals @ In The Night Studios, Ansonia, CT

Bobo & the Unusuals @ American Melody Studios, Guilford, CT

Tom Callinan @ American Melody Studios, Guilford, CT

Future Recordings:

Balaban & Cats

Robert Silverman

Bobo-Gig-o-graphy

Bobo, self-portrait

Reeve House, University of Hartford, Fall Semester, 1971

Gigs of note:

Playing every Saturday Night at Bill's Seafood with Tom Sharp, Bill Sinclair, Charlie Weyant, Tommy Palinko, and sometimes Scott Black, Noel Kaletsky, Bob Card, Tom Schmutzler, John Russell, Bill Lezzotte, Peter Davis, Ronnie Greb, Joe Marsala, Red Balaban...and the rest of the gang

Hot Steamed Jazz Festival, August 1999 with Muriel Havenstein, Bob Bequillard, Noel Kaletsky

Carnegie Hall, November 6, 1976 with Stormin' Norman & Suzy, opening for Manhattan Transfer

Shubert Theater, 1983 with Winchester Special, opening for Ray Charles (got to ride in the elevator with the Ray-lettes!!!)

Toads Place, dates too numerous to mention, opening for Sam & Dave, Martha Reeves, Ian Mathews, Eddie Money, NRBQ, Good Rats, Beaver Brown, Joe Perry Project, Aztec Two-Step, Jeff Muldauer...yadda yadda

Silver Bullet, Moodus, 1975, opening for Howlin' Wolf and the Wolfpack (Eddie Shaw, Bobby Anderson, Hubert Sumlins)

Wallingford, CT-Cosmo & Bobo opening for Ritchie Havens, c. 1978

Schlepped equipment for The Ramones at Toad's Place

Live on WPKN-FM for Fundzilla 2004 with The Phabulous Pheromones, Stormin' Norman, Robert Crotty, Nick Jacobs

Live on WPKN-FM with Rick Nafey on Railroad Dave's Show

The Great Traditional Jazz Festival, Moodus, CT with Swing'39 (Bill Lezotte and Steve Jones)

Where did the name 'Bobo' come from?

Please note: The following List order was created from a Muddy-stream-of-semi-consciousness; Names, organizations, places mentioned below have all had an effect upon the Bobistic ethic, mostly positive! Ranking is Random; Absence from the list only reflects the failing memory of the author; List updates are directly proportional to the memory flashes experienced by the webmaster; Please do not become hysterical if you do not see your name here; it usually means I just haven't gotten to you yet...if you would like your name to appear on this list, or you feel dizzy or light-headed due to not seeing your name, please contact the webmaster@puddingbench.com

please keep hands and feet inside the ride until it has come to a complete stop

People (and other living entities) in my life:

Family

Roxy & Heff , Spot...and Ruby

Alisha Lavorgna

Christopher Lavorgna

Gary Lavorgna

Julie Lavorgna