SHARE BUTTON
INSIDE MUSIC
by Rosemary Conte
Believe It Or Not
Shoot-‘em-up: Carlo Rossi,
known as a “colorful character,”
owned the Satellite Lounge in
Cooktown, NJ from the 1960s
through the ‘90s. When the
band Foghat ignored Rossi’s repeated order to turn down the
volume, local lore has it that he
“emerged from his office enraged and brandishing a handgun which he used to shoot
out the band’s amplifiers.” You
can read more about this incident and others--- like the time
NewJerseyStage.com
Bruce Springsteen played the
club in ‘74 under Rossi’s threat
of “the kiss of death” if he
didn’t, in Weird NJ Magazine,
#45.
2016 - ISSUE 1
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