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Conference napalm::heavy_metal

Title:HEAVY_METAL - Talent Round-Up DayDay
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Created:Wed May 04 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1238
Total number of notes:65616

206.0. "Alecstar" by BTOVT::BRONSON () Wed Nov 22 1989 14:49

    
    
             Does anybody remember a bar band called "Alecstar" that
       played in and around the Albany,Syracuse,Glens Falls,Pittsfield
       Mass area?What happened to them?
    
    
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206.1USRCV1::REAUME2 overdrives in my Testarossa!Thu Nov 30 1989 13:469
      Sure, I do. I'm in Syracuse and was very familiar with the band.
    They have been defunct for at least 4-5 years. The last permutation
    with a lot of the original band members was a band called Smartalec.
    The main guitar player also helped form a band called "Zoid" which
    has played this area a lot in years past, but he's no longer with
    them. 
      I have a record album they put out as well as a few cuts on a
    Syracuse music artist collection album. They were a very good
    hard rock band that did quite a few originals.
206.2Where's Al? and those chops-of-death!MARKER::BUCKLEYbeen 10,000 miles, been in 15 statesThu Nov 30 1989 13:487
    Yo JR...
    
    You familiar with any on the Long Island bands?!?
    
    I'm wondering what happened to a Mr. Al Pitrelli...guitar virtuoso
    extraordinaire!  Last I heard He played a stint with Michael Bolan, and
    was writing songs for (the now defunt) Night Ranger. 
206.3FREEBE::REAUMErock & roll outlaw w/6string gunThu Dec 07 1989 14:496
      
      Sorry Buck- It don't ring a bell. I used to live in Manhattan
    in 1981 and saw a lot of city bands and touring acts at the Ritz,
    Palladium, CBGB's, Gildersleeves, and Trax. A few names come
    to mind - The Front , Shrapnel, Rockats, and Eric Martin Band.
    I'm not sure where they were