Re: Crowd Noise at Nets Game

[Vinny Natale <vnatale@map.com>]

The Yankee fans here would vote for Eddie Layton, who has his own CD of
Yankee Stadium music!

Vinny


At 10:32 AM 2/28/99 +0000, Bob George wrote:

>Bring up John Kiley and I shed a few tears.  I truly loved hearing Kiley at
>Fenway and the Garden.  He was the best ballpark/stadium organist in the
>country, bar none.  He is part of the reason why I dislike all this lazer
>introductions junk and all the organ music played during games (they even
>do it at the Fleet).  Kiley used to have, as you say, occasional bleats,
>but I think that's what management told him to do.  Never have I heard any
>such bleats at Fenway, and here's hoping I never do.
>
>Quick sidebar on Kiley:  being a classical musician myself, my brother (an
>organist/classical singer when he's not designing software) and I had the
>privilege of meeting and talking to Kiley in 1982 at the Garden.  Kiley was
>a well schooled organist who knew the classics well...some organists across
>the country (the "great" Nancy Faust, the White Sox organist, for one)
>can't read music!  She plays by ear.  Kiley was a musician's musician, and
>it made me feel even better about him as our organist.
>
>Sorry about the digression, my history tidbit for the day!
>
>Bob G
>