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Welcome to the A&M Corner Rogues Gallery! This Gallery will be in alphabetical order, by last name. Hopefully. At the risk of turning this portion of A&M Corner into an online version of America's Most Wanted, we present you with this page to help put faces to the names you see daily at A&M Corner! If you would like to be shamelessly featured here, just e-mail us from our Contact page. Satisfaction guaranteed, or your money back. (Just remember...A&M Corner is worth every penny you've paid for it!)
Seen here striking that classic pose from The Lonely Bull, it's our good friend Bill Bernardi, in what he claims is one of his natural poses. :-) (After his day job with the U.S. Postal Service, he deserves his fine brews! That may be why we've dubbed him "Captain Bacardi!") Check out his "work room" setup--keyboards, trombone, computer, neat jazz-related wall decor (gotta love that Blue Note label)...
...and as we see here, Bill shows us the correct way to play music by ear!
Pictured here is our resident theater expert, Mike Blakesely. Mike owns the historic Roxy Theater in Forsyth, Montana, and is our inside source for upcoming movie releases. In the A&M world, he's a big fan of Brasil '66, and has a standing invitation to any A&M Corner regular who ventures out to the beautiful Rockies. Mike's picture here in the Rosebud County Courthouse, doing a little volunteer work. And you can read more about the Roxy and Mike in a November 1999 article in the Billings Gazette by clicking here. And...
 | | ...on June 3, 2000, Mike and Lynn, pictured above, tied the knot, got hitched, did the nuptial thing, etc. Congratulations from A&M Corner! |
Pictured above at Knoxville's Worlds Fair Park are Paul Rodgers of the A&M band Free, country star Corey Stevens, and our own A&M Corner staffer, resident numerologist and autograph hound James Brent (aka "LP Jim"), sporting a homemade tie-dye. In daylight hours, "JB" works as an attorney in real estate law, which he says fits his numerical tendencies.
 | | And here is LP Jim again, with Mike Love (Beach Boys) signing Jim's Best Of CD. Be sure to visit LP Jim's Album/Autograph Emporium, where Jim is displaying selected items from his collection, including famous autographs and record labels and sleeves! |
 | | Jim is pictured here with two from his autograph collection: a Jimmie Rodgers LP, and Artie Butler's Have You Seen Miss Jones? (Photo by Floyd Kenaston, who has his own Rogues entry below...) |
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It's nice to hear from other A&M Corner visitors who browse through our site without stopping by the Forum for a chat. One visitor is Paul Chamberlain in the UK, pictured above with a well-known trumpet player around these parts. Paul fills us in: "When Herb was on a world tour in 1996 promoting his Second Wind release with
Jeff Lorber, his UK venue was London's Jazz Café, and had 2 dates.
Herb mentioned on stage that this was his first UK visit for more than 20
years and wondered if by having 2 dates ( Wednesday & Sunday ), he would
suffering from over exposure!! I am extremely thankful for this oportunity to meet Herb and Lani and It is a moment I will treasure forever. Unfortunately, I forgot to get a photo of
Lani while I was there. This photo is of Herb, my wife Denise and myself taken in the VIP Lounge above the Jazz Café after the Sunday performance and Herb & I were chatting about the Sale of A&M records and also his interest in artwork and sculpture. "
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Is that a Chevette in the background?? Flanking the familiar Bowtie emblem in the foreground are two rather interesting gentlemen. The red haired one on the left, Danny Elfman, has composed a few dozen movie scores and was formerly the leader of a neat little band called Oingo Boingo. On the right is none other than equally famous A&M Corner buddy Bill Gowdy. Note the resemblance to an actual photo of Oingo Boingo (below) when they were Nothing To Fear. (Even the license plate says "Boingo." Dig?) Bill says the picture is several years old, but take it from me, he's still pretty much the same today, a little older, a little wiser, and trading biceps for the family life in sunny San Diego, CA. He's also proud of his own Corner on the web known as Mr. Bill's IRS Corner, which does for the former A&M subsidiary label IRS Records that we do here at A&M Corner. Artist discographies, a separate Forum, and plenty of in-depth info abound. Don't leave without checking in for a visit!
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Steve Bartek (l.) and Danny Elfman of the (sadly) now-defunct Oingo Boingo, Danny's day job when he wasn't loitering around parking lots flexing muscles with future A&M Corner visitors...in front of Chevettes!
A "parting shot" from Mr. Bill at his old (and now defunct) GTE Mainstreet digs, where among other things, he'd spent hours visiting the A&M Corner Forum, editing wedding videos, and created his own IRS Corner...and those weren't even his day job!
Living virtually within walking distance of A&M Corner in Canton, Michigan (behind literally hundreds of construction barrels, new subdivisions sprouting up like weeds, and developers building on any empty scrap of real estate), Rim Kasputis is also a musician, like many of our other regulars. Rim plays in the area with his band (promo photo at right), and has been known to hang out with other well-known trumpet players, as shown at left.
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Cross-country traveler and A&M admirer Floyd Kenaston is captured here on film with fellow A&M Corner buddy Jim Brent. Floyd hails from Medford, OR, and caught up with Jim in Tennessee (shown here in Chattanooga, just up the street from Chad's Records).
From the Far East is A&M Corner visitor Jean Carlo Marchio, who is one of our biggest fans of Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66/'77/'etc., and has lately been finding many unique compilations to share with us. Jean Carlo is pictured here on Christmas Eve, just prior to the Gino Vannelli concert in Tokyo, Japan.
When he's not busy pursuing a career in the radio business, Harry Neyhart hangs out at A&M Corner, and is our unofficial librarian of past posts and our (ever troublesome) archives. (Wish I had a memory like his!) Harry is pictured here on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, in front of a certain well-known trumpet player's star, secretly measuring the stone to see if it would fit in the trunk of the sub-compact rental car parked at the curb... ;-) (Harry reports it didn't fit, by the way...)
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