Lips-O-Facto had a gig at Bethesda fountain back in 1989.  We were hired by the Central Park Conservancy.  This photo features a little boy tipping us.  The band is Richard Bryant playing guitar and singing,  Joel Darelius on bass and vocals, Jim Holibaugh on alto sax, Mark Stoltz on drums and me singing and playing guitar.

Another shot from Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, NYC in 1989.  

This is Lips-O-Facto at the Bottom LIne in 1984.  That's Kit McClure on saxophone. We opened for Taj Mahal.  I think it was during Fleet Week.  There were a bunch of sailors there. I think this photo was taken by Tom Jenkins, a great photographer and occasional drummer with Lips-O-Facto.

I think this is my favorite Lips-O-Facto photo.  I believe it is from Richard Bryant, the guy on the lefts, wedding. Not sure of the photographer, possibly Tom Jenkins.

This is a nametag I made up for the New Music Seminar which was a music business event that used to be held annually in NYC. It was a schmooze fest.  

This is me a gig at Princeton University.  I played there  a couple of times.  My only Ivy League experience.

The Bumper Crop Boys at Sweet Afton in Astoria in November of 2017.  Laura Nesson is conspicuously absent from the photo. I think she got sick and went home. The photo  is by Patrick Merino, ace photographer.

One of my favorite photos of The Bumper Crop Boys from the defunct Astoria Bier and Cheese pandemic shack, circa 2021(?).

I found a bunch of old band business cards.  A Dynamic Duo was gigging around Queens and Manhattan in the early 1970's . See bio for more info.  Next up was Superstructure.  This was a large band with horns and a lead singer operating out of Jamaica, Queens.  I was the only white guy. We played bottle clubs out in Jamaica and other mostly black neighborhoods in Queens.  This was when I found out that black people listen to different music than white people.  The conga drummer, Kerry invited me to his gospel church. It blew my mind. Uncle Ralph's Wherehouse was a rock and roll band featuring the mighty Hammond B3.  It was a bitch to carry around.  I remember one weekend gig at a dude ranch in the Poconos.  We got to ride horses during the day  and rock and roll at night.  Le Nozze di Carlo is a band that does mostly European music, Italian and French and some Latin American and Caribbean stuff. We started in the 1990's, and we still play gigs here and there.  Barebones is defunct. It was a blues duo, harmonica and guitar. We did two critically well received CDs in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Audio clips will soon be added to this site. The Explosions were a club date band. We did weddings and parties of various sorts. I remember one gig during the winter on a boat in New York harbor. Sorry for the long paragraph. Caption mode does not allow paragraphs.

This a rare photo of HipNoHop. We had a steady gig at Lounge 32 in Astoria on Broadway ad 32nd Street.  The owners were nice and let us do our thing which was a lot of looping and improvisation.  I am currently digging for audio of this group. It featured Joel Darelius on bass, Paule Diamond on saxophone, vocals and percussion and Lionel Sanders on drums.