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Lenny
lives in the great city of Philadelphia with his loving, patient,
saint of a wife of 12 years, Erin. |
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During the 8th grade (Age 13), when Iron Maiden, Kiss and Black Sabbath were dominating a large part of Lenny's record collection, a junior high band director named Chris Hall told Lenny he should check out a guy named Stanley Clarke on some album called School Days. "That will really give you some insight into the bass", he was told. Sure 'nuff that album opened worlds to him. "That sound! That just can't be bass!" Hell yeah, it was! Many years would pass before meeting "the man" himself at the Draft House in Cleveland. Luckily, Lenny's wife had the sense to capture the moment on film. |
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It was all downhill from there, folks. One band after another, playing weddings, juke joints, county fairs, and the like. In 1992 he met up with The Frankie Starr Band at Peabody's Down Under (Glenn Brady and Angelo Merendino on bass and drums, respectively, at the time) and phone numbers were exchanged. Some time later and after a fill-in gig at a club called Annabelle's in Akron, Lenny replaced Jeremy Ilenin as Frankie's steady bassist and spent the next nine years jammin' hard with the Starr-man. |
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In 2002 , Lenny teamed up with long-time friend Johnny (JAM) Markovic in a blues revival called Vibrogroove, a morphing, mutating, musical experience with Adam Abrashoff on the drums. Vibrogroove would play everything, and play it well, adding more musicians to the mix if the gig needed it! Leaping to June 2004, brings Lenny to Philadelphia where he has immersed himself fully in the thriving music scene. You may see Lenny playing with a jazz trio one night, a blues band the next night, or perhaps a rock band or an art-jazz combo. Lenny says, "To be a musician is to play. Plain and simple..." |
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