I did that he looked at this chord
and said, ‘Where’d you learn that?’
I said my former guitar teacher
taught it to me. He said, ‘Who was
that?’ I said his name was Bobby
Domenick. he goes, ‘That was my
uncle, he taught me how to play.
You’re in! Come back every Satur-
day morning.’”
Laub hung around Pizzarelli dur-
ing his high school and college
days, but then drifted apart after
going into business with his father.
When Ed was in his late 40s, he
started playing music again and
reconnected with Pizzarelli.
“I wanted to get a new guitar, so
Bucky took me out to Pennsylva-
nia to a luthier out there he knew
and set me up so I could get a
new custom made seven-string,”
said Laub. “I started playing the
seven-string back in 1968 when
he started teaching me. Bucky
came to my surprise birthday party
when I turned 50. He handed me
a birthday card and said, ‘Here’s
your present.’ I opened it up and
it said, ‘Lessons for life.’ Then he
said to me, ‘Let’s start getting to-
Watch Bucky Pizzarelli and Ed Laub at NJ Hall Of Fame induction
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