THE IMPROPER'S MUSIC FILLED NYC PARTY

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THE IMPROPER
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GIBSON STUDIOS BASH

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The Shells


Dynasty Electric


Steve Walter With The Improper's Keith Girard


Q104.3's Jonathan Clarke With Steve Walter And The Pasha David Salidor



Keith Girard threw a fabulous party recently at the Gibson Studios on West 54th in Manhattan for his terrific online infotainment -site The Improper. Girard, former editor of Billboard Magazine, has created a true online lifestyle guide filled with news from the theater world, music, restaurants, and fashion. A veteran writer with a gifted eye and ear for upcoming trends and distinctive lifestyles has created a winner for sure. The site’s Front and Center guide is updated several times a day and has drawn raves for its scintillating reportage. Girard had one of the lead stories on the recent Elliot Spitzer outrage, by featuring the first reporting on Ashley Dupree.The space, which was once the storied Hit Factory Studios (where the likes of John Lennon, Paul Simon, Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder, and, Kiss, among others recorded) is a fabulous free flowing series of studios and open spaces which easily accommodated the featured bands (Zigmat, The Shells, Heavy Road, and, Dynasty Electric) as well as a crowd, that included: Aubrey Reuben from Playbill; PR-man David Salidor with his latest addition, singer/songwriter Larry Stevens; the Cutting Room’s Steve Walter, who teased us all with imminent arrival of a new Cutting Room opening very, very soon; Jonathan Clarke from Q104.3; Billy Gaus, from the Songwriter’s Circle; graphic wunderkind Meredith Spector; Anne Marie Principe with her lovely daughter Micaela Rispoli; and, Girard-co-hort Samantha Chang . The superlative food was from Il Punto restaurant and Whole Foods, and the bar was serving a new vodka product on the scene, quite terrific, called Bison. Quite dazzling! The Hit Factory as a proper recording studio closed on April 1, 2005, however, with Gibson now in charge, it features a walk-in guitar room filled with some of their more amazing pieces from their collection. Salidor, Stevens, and Walter at one point found themselves in there commenting on the historic aspects of the room and how then business has radically changed. The Hit Factory at one time was the leading studio in NYC.
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Photos By: James Edstrom

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