Reservoir Music Notes - Eugene 'Huge' Geary Bio

     I’m feeling pretty bad today. I just found out that a friend of mine, a guitar player who I wrote a coupla dozen songs with, who I’ve been playing with my whole life and who is definitely one of my musical brothers, is in the hospital, and needs a liver transplant. To complicate matters further, his other organs have started to shut down due to the liver not working, and now he’s also on dialysis. Hopefully, nothing else will go wrong and he’ll get his liver, and get well. His name doesn’t matter, because you probably won’t know it, but it’s Gene Geary. While still in high school, Gene was playing guitar with Wayne County and The Backstreet Boys. After staying out all night and playing at Max's Kansas City and CBGB,  Gene and his brother Michael, who also played bass with Wayne (now Jayne), would return to Brooklyn (sometimes) to attend classes at Madison High School.  Gene’s band, For Shakes Sake, is in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing at the highest altitude ever recorded, which was atop the World Trade Center, in the early 1970’s. They were signed to David Bowie’s Mainman Management before that organization imploded. Gene was also in the first incarnation of my band, The Brooklyn Cowboys, before we moved to Nashville. He’s a hard rock guitarist, but I switched him to acoustic rhythm guitar in the Cowboys, and naturally, he brought his Keith Richard style and mentality to that task, playing his parts like no ordinary rhythm guitarist. He’s one of the best guitar players I know. Even though you probably don’t know him, please keep him in your prayers. He’s in Kingston Hospital.

     In this shell shocked state of mind, this week’s column is not gonna come easy, but I’ll soldier on. Any musicians out there with gigs coming up,  feel free to email me your calendars if you’d like me to mention them in this column. No promises, but if it sounds good, I’ll recommend your gigs to my readers. You can email me at reservoirmusic@gmail.com. Don’t forget to include links to your website and Facebook, My Space, or Reverb Nation pages.

     Live music picks for this week:

Thursday, Sept. 29 – RADIOHEAD finishes up a 2 day stint at Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. If you’re lucky enough to be able to score a ticket, this should be as historic as Roseland itself.

Friday, Sept. 30 – The excellent BEARSVILLE SESSIONS series continues at The Bearsville Theater. Tonight celebrates Motown. Who doesn’t like Motown? Nobody, that’s who!

Saturday, Oct. 1 – There’s a RAMBLE at Levon’s and CRAWDADDY, featuring my favorite local guitar player, Jimmy Eppard rocks The Bearsville Theater.

Sunday, Oct. 2 – THE B-52’S party at UPAC in Kingston and my pal, CHUCK MEAD, of BR 549, concludes his Sunday night series at The Rodeo Bar in Manhattan, at least until the next time he’s in NY.

Monday, Oct. 3 – JACKSON BROWNE pulls into The Palace Theater in Albany for a solo acoustic show. Short on rockin’, but long on great songs. If you’re a fan, you’ll be happy.

     Sorry about the brevity this week. Just not connected to my muse. Thinkin’ about my friend. Y’all have a good week.