MAZARIN STILL NUMBER ONE IN NEW YORK

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Cutting Rooms Susan Hathaway And Steve Walter
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Doug Mazarin

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MAZARIN, New York's favorite band for 30 years once again returned to the famed Cutting Room on West 24th street in New York City. Believe it or not, I have been rocking with them for all three decades. Back in the day, the drinking age was 18, drivers licenses had no photo on them and you were partying in the clubs as young as 14 as long as your license description matched you. I met them when they first played at The Wooden Ships Inn in Glenwood Landing Long Island. Times were so different then. You could drink and drive. Everyone smoked marijuana. I would drive by a cop with a beer in one hand and a joint in the other and they would wave at me. If you ever got pulled over, they would either tell you to drive more carefully or take you home themselves. Everyone knew everyone back then, there was a community. Mazarin was my family. We had more adventures than I can even remember. There was Hot Dog Beach where I fell of the stage while trying to introduce them and had a mouth full of sand. I later passed out and only woke up when the tide came in and I was floating. There was Dingy Dans in the Rockaways where I got stranded because I was getting laid on the beach. Lucky I found Doug Mazarin roaming around and he drove me back to Long Island. I did a strip tease on the stage at the Wooden Ships Inn. Didn't even remember until the next night people kept asking me if I was keeping my clothes on tonight. We had Rum Runners in Oyster Bay where hundreds of girls would line up to talk to Doug And Marc Mazarin. We had our own babysitter at the Wooden Ships Inn who saw more guys than the Mayflower Madam. Times have changed, but one thing remains the same. Mazarin is still the number one band in New York. They are still rocking after all these years. Voted so many times the top band in New York by Good Times Magazine, they still continue to pack any place they play. Last night was no exception. The place was mobbed, packed to the hill. And 30 years later, we are still standing after surviving the 70's and 80's, a little older but still Rockin N Rolling !

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Mazarin Rocks On

MAZARIN "SLAVES TO ROCK AND ROLL"

Gary US Bonds and Steve Walter

MAZARIN-THE SLAVES TO ROCK AND ROLL

On another trip to the Cutting Room, I caught up with my old friends "MAZARIN", the original Slaves To Rock And Roll. Having watched them play since I was 17 at the old Wooden Ships Inn on Long Island, it was great to hear the old songs and to see my friends perform the songs that made them famous. Another surprise was Gary "US" Bonds who jumped up on stage and performed with them to a standing room only crowd. In case you are wondering how I was in a club at 17, then you are too young to know the drinking age used to be 18, and drivers licenses had no pictures and if you fit the description, you were in. GOT IT KIDDIES ?