Jerry Cali and Danny Holmes perform original tunes at Jerry's Acoustic Jam to Benefit the Syracuse Recuse Mission in this revived 8mm footage from December 1997. Jerry and Central New York musicians met every Monday night for almost five years at Mike and Ilene Layow's Roasters Corner Cafe in Fayetteville, NY and collected money for the less fortunate. Produced for March 2009 "Clips with Jerry Cali" by Kit Parker Cali
Dylan-thanks for subscribing and for watching. I transposed all the Roasters video to digital and we don't have any video of you (although we did audio tapes too so we probably have your performances recorded somewhere) but I remember seeing you perform. I also remember almost 40 years ago going to watch Jerry perform his first solo acoustic. Everybody starts out shaky its how you work at it and who you help along the way that counts. Watch for more Roasters video and stay in touch.
caliclips 3 years ago
We can all thank our lucky stars Jerry never releases any of my old stuff..I was horrible back then. Of course, I'm only just approaching being terrible nowadays, so I can only gather that Jerry had some sort of influence on my marked improvement !
In retrospect, though, Roasters was a great place, and I think it very brave of them to allow young noisemakers like me to come in and make people cover their ears and flee in horror...
Anyways, Jerry, thanks, 'cos this is a real treat !
DylanNotBob 3 years ago