Lee Cronbach

                                      While I had just left Frosty’s band, and was wondering how on Earth I was ever going to survive, I happened across a flyer advertising an afternoon classical piano recital at the Dunster House at Harvard University,  Wanting to hear a good classical pianist, I went there and was blown away by the expert playing of Laurence Berman.  He was giving a recital of “Short Viennese Masterpieces, 1786 to 1923” The pieces ran the gamut from Schubert “Impromptus”   to “Five Piano Pieces” by Schoenberg, with some filling by Mozart and Brahms, and all were played with power, precision, and energy.  After the concert I went up to Mr. Berman and asked him the question that obsessed me – how could he make a living playing music, especially solo piano pieces.   “Oh, you can’...

BROKE! - Broke Down in the Basement /   Broke Up on the Hill                                  Broke - Down in the Basement  - Me and Mickey couldn't find a place to live at first, because the organ was so huge it way took up way too much room in any apartment or house.  When I say ‘too much’ I am talking physically not aesthetically - I mean over half of the whole apartment space, the size of a concert grand piano.     So much room that one close friend suggested that the only way we could all fit would be if Mickey and I slept on the floor underneath the Hammond!   So ,  we sold the Hammond, but still didn't have enough money for any place, until at last we discovered this very cheap basement three-room flat.            ...

                                             Michael Gullage   CH.4A -   MEETING MICHAEL GULLAGE  Once it was clear that Pavlov's Dogs was going to be the house band for a while at the Other Side, the reigning queens of the club had a discussion about which band member they would like to enjoy.  Everyone wanted Frosty, but only Joey P. had the nerve to try and pursue him, since everyone knew that he was straight .  Joey was the classic young blonde fem:  rich, curly blonde hair, thick pink lips, a muscular body but with a thin layer of fat keeping it smooth and soft.  All in all, the most lushly feminine of the group while at the same time soft-spoken and demure -   not like the screaming queens which some were.  Joey was the only one with the chance of getting a straight guy to pay a brief visit to the ‘other...

                    FROSTY 2: FROM THE DUKE TO PURPLE JUMPSUIT   3a) The Other Side - Opening the Ears of Boston's Gay Crowd                         One week Frosty felt that the band was getting slack, with all these note-for-note covers we were playing.   So he decided that for one week, we would practice at least 2 hours a day individually, 2 hours full band practice, no grass, alcohol, or any other intoxicant, and half an hour of physical exercise running, jogging, pushups and pullups - whatever was our favorite.                  So, when we hit the Other Side for the start of next week's gig, we were ready!  By a lucky chance one of the more famous queens had a gay we...