Was Barry Manilow playing the piano?
No, that was after Barry Manilow. They separated in ’71, I think. Anyway because the sound system, failed they called me. I put in something like 35 hundred watts of power, which was a lot for that. I think I had 16 Bose speakers suspended from the ceiling, these birdcages. It was such a low ceiling there was no place you could put anything. This was in the bottom of the Ans… Ansonia Hotel. Which ended up becoming Plato’s Retreat. Oh, that was the same place was it? Yeah. If the walls could talk! Who was DJing then, when you put the sound system in? Bobby Guttadaro: Bobby DJ. In the summer of ’72 out in Fire Island there was five Bobbys working out there. And you had Bobby Bartender, Bobby Doorman, I was Bob Casey, somehow I kept my name. And I gave Bobby the name Bobby DJ, ’cos nobody could say his [last name]. I actually hired, he was working out there in, he came out there on a trial visit in 1971. In the fall of ’71 I heard Bobby playing at a little club on the Upper East Side. It
