The City's Backyard
The City's Backyard with Matt Zako. A Podcast For New York City's Backyard or any city's backyard across the world! Covering Arts, Entertainment, music and the community!
Podcasting since 2020 • 338 episodes
The City's Backyard
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The City's Backyard Ep 163 Equipment Manager of The Original Alice Cooper Group roadie RON VOLZ chats about working behind the scenes as they release their 1st new album in over 50 years called The Revenge of Alice Cooper!
The Original Alice Cooper Group is releasing their first album together in 51 years called The Revenge of Alice Cooper! On this episode we check in with equipment manager Ron Volz! Ron was the roadie behind the scenes that set up the stage with...
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The City's Backyard Ep 162 MELISSA NEWMAN, an artist, teacher, singer, writer, and daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward chats about her book HEAD OVER HEELS about one of America's most legendary iconic couples, her parents!!
Melissa Newman is a vocalist, teacher, writer and artist who works primarily in porcelain and stoneware. She has shown work in galleries around the Northeast. After enjoying a lucrative jingle career she continues to perform frequently wi...
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The City's Backyard Ep 161 Comedian JOE PONTILLO talks about COMEDY in NYC and it's backyard in Long Island and along the River in WESTPORT!
Comedian Joe Pontillo and publicist Ken Franklin from LAUGHING GAS COMEDY talk all about the comedy scene in the tri state area along with the backyard of WESTPORT, CT at The Veterans of Foreign Wars along the banks of the Saugatuck River! ...
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The City's Backyard Ep 160 ELIOT LEWIS (Hall&Oates/Average White Band) talks about his tour, his days on LIVE FROM DARYL'S HOUSE playing with Joe Walsh, Tommy Shaw from STYX, Billy Gibbons from ZZtop.... and why he left to pursue his own solo career!
A singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Eliot Lewis has toured the world over as a member of the Daryl Hall & John Oates band, as well as a former member of The Average White Band. Eliot has also been the only musician to appear on ...
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The City's Backyard Ep 159 Local Session Musician RICK TEDESCO talks all about recording tracks on the new ALICE COOPER GROUP album "The Revenge Of Alice Cooper"... plus how he met the original group though Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople and more!
Local session guy music man Rick Tedesco drops by from Brookfield, CT to chat about being asked to play on the new album from THE ALICE COOPER group called The Revenge of Alice Cooper out this July! Rick is a local guitar show owner and musicia...
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