If you are stuck on a desert island, what would be pumping out of the old coconut radio? Between bites of poi, thoughts of Ginger and Maryann waft in and out of conciousness as the sands of time endlessly shift. The tunes have to be right or you could wind up talking to a blood stained soccer ball! The Score will now share their top albums...

Jeremy Banks-Lead Singer, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Tambourine

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan-Live Alive 
2. Tower of Power-T.O.P.
3. Jimmy Buffett-Live:Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays
4. Little Feat-Let It Roll
5. James Taylor-Greatest Hits Vol. 1
6. Eagles-Hell Freezes Over
7. Green Day-American Idiot
8. Foreigner-Foreigner
9. Boston-Boston
10. Rush-Exit Stage Left

I didn't realize how this page would expand into further musings of music and concerts, but here goes:
These CD's would not be needed if I was able to tune into radiomargaritaville.com on this Salty Piece of Land.
First show: The Police with Bow Wow Wow(I Want Candy) -Apr. 10, 1982 at The Hartford Civic Center:Ghost In The Machine Tour.  The ticket cost $11.50 for seats next to the stage.
Best Show: U2-Nov. 17, 1987, Boston Garden: Joshua Tree Tour
Other Favorites: Yes, Chicago, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Art Garfunkel, Brian Setzer, Candy Dulfer, Night Ranger, Billie Holiday, Bob Seger, Martina McBride, Don Henley, John Mayer, & The Funk Filharmonik
Favorite songs to sing: Authority Song, You May Be Right, Jet Airliner, Can't You See, Optional! ,  Please Come To Boston-Dave Loggins and just about anything by James Taylor.

Matt Aliberti- Bass, Guitar, Mandolin

1. AC/DC- Back in Black
2. The Who- Who's Next
3. Metallica- Ride the Lightning
4. The Rolling Stones- Hot Rocks
5. Judas Priest- Screaming for Vengence
6. Fleetwood Mac- The Dance
7. Pearl Jam- Ten
8. Iron Maiden- Live After Death
9. Kiss- Alive II
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd- Gold and Platinum

First Show- Iron Maiden/ Fastway/ Coney Hatch-1983 Piece of Mind Tour, Poughkeepsie, NY
Really?- Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles and Pia Zadora, Jones Beach- It was cool!
Classic Show- The Who Reunion Tour - 1985, Giants Stadium and again in 2009!

Of course if I don't have an acoustic guitar- the CDs won't stop the insanity.

Favorite songs to play on bass:   All Right Now, Burning For You, The Middle, Pinball Wizard, Jet Airliner, Long Train Running, Elevation, Optional, It Don't Come Easy, Scarlet Begonias, Slide and Too Little Too Late.

Favs on guitar:  Ritalin, Hard to Handle, Surrender, Living After Midnight, White Room, You Shook Me All Night Long, Paranoid, Fire Woman, Dixie Chicken, Hey Jealousy and many various unnamed songs or riffs that my sons like or let me think that they do.

Walter's Influences . . .

My first concert: KISS, New Years Day, 1977, Providence Civic Center ($7.50 a ticket!!)

Favorite songs to play: Stray Cat Strut, The Authority Song, The Middle, Ritalin


Dave Blodgett's Desert Island Collection

U2 Go Home - Live at Slane Castle
Bill Frisell - Blues Dream
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Soul Coughing - Irresistable Bliss
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
King Crimson - Discipline
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Dire Straits - Alchemy
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus

Other influences/Faves - Phish, Peter Gabriel, Queen, AC/DC, The Cult, Steely Dan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, countless others...

Dave Gager - Guitar

1) Grateful Dead - So many roads
2) Bob Dylan - Essential
3) Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
4) Pink Floyd - The Wall
5) Van Morrison - Days Like This
6) Nirvanna - Unplugged in New York
7) B-52's - Cosmic Thing
8) Talking Heads - Brick
9) Eric Clapton - Time Pieces
10) The Band - Greatest Hits

Others: The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Jimmy Buffett, String Cheese Incident, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Tom Petty, Beatles.



Tom Donato-Tenor Saxophone, Background Vocals, Trombone, Tambourine, African Shell Shakey Thing
1) Tower of Power - Tower of Power --This one started the onslaught of funk albums, including Maceo Parker & Candy Dulfer
2) Boston - Boston -- The original and still the best.
3) Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears -- Played this one over & over & over. I still remember my Dad yelling to me in my room to turn it down.
4) Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority -- a.k.a Chicago I. I had to turn the volume down on this one too. I think I was in 7th grade at the time.
5) Brian Setzer Orchestra - Brian Setzer Orchestra -- I remember my kids telling me to turn this one down!

And now, the albums which are not self-titled...

6) Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band -- Swingin' For the Fences - Best big band out there today.
7) Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'N' All -- At a party at my brother's apartment in college, this album kept playing the whole night long. The only time it stopped was for someone to turn the album to the other side.
8) W. A. Mozart - Horn Concertos --Yes, I'm serious.
9) Count Basie - April in Paris -- A classic from the master of the swing bands.
10) Bill Watrous and the Manhattan Wildlife Refuge -- The Tiger of San Pedro - World's greatest trombone player. This album has more scratches from over use than any in the collection.

Concert Report: (all years are approximate)
First Concert - Blood, Sweat & Tears - 1971 at the Bushnell in Hartford.
Best Concert - Bill Watrous (1994) at the Avon Old Farms Hotel. Front row...almost close enough to get hit with the slide.
Honorable mention concerts:
Maceo Parker - (1994) Iron Horse, Northhampton, Mass. -- If the band's enegry could have been bottled...the bottle would break!
Tower of Power - (1993) The Sting - New Britain. -- I chose this show because it was the first of many TOP shows.
Funk Filharmonic - (1996) Jerhico, NY -- Two friends, Tom Bowes and me sitting and chatting between sets. How cool is that?
Candy Dulfer - (1994) Toad's Place, New Haven --Waitng until 3:00AM on my birthday to meet her after the show.
Earth, Wind & Fire (1978) Springfield Civic Center -- They were at their peak! The band didn't sing "September", but they did play it. The entire audience sang it. The band played and listened to us.
Boston Symphony Orchestra - (1979) Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass. My brother sat in and was in the trumpet section for a night. We went out for ice cream with my parents after, just like when he was in the elementary school band.