Thank you Rick for this great interview with Jim McCarty, a beautiful feather in your cap. Towards the end of the interview, Jim mentions briefly that he saw Giorgio again with Chris Dreja when they played at Tramps in New York City, a place where Giorgio produced a lot of concerts for three decades ... and I have seen pictures on the internet of Jim and Chris at WOR on September 7th 2011 where they gave a radio interview together with Giorgio. If you could get a footnote from Jim about this reunion - probably the last time he saw Giorgio alive - it would be very interesting to hear if he thought that the ill feelings created by their break-up in the sixties was all water under the bridge, if they had buried the hatchet, etc. I remember that, when this get together did happen, Giorgio told me that Chris and Jim were the ones who had invited him to come to the radio station, and I can tell you that Giorgio was very happy about it. I guess you could say that he felt vindicated. But maybe Jim remembers this from a different point of view ...
Thank you Rick for this great interview with Jim McCarty, a beautiful feather in your cap. Towards the end of the interview, Jim mentions briefly that he saw Giorgio again with Chris Dreja when they played at Tramps in New York City, a place where Giorgio produced a lot of concerts for three decades ... and I have seen pictures on the internet of Jim and Chris at WOR on September 7th 2011 where they gave a radio interview together with Giorgio. If you could get a footnote from Jim about this reunion - probably the last time he saw Giorgio alive - it would be very interesting to hear if he thought that the ill feelings created by their break-up in the sixties was all water under the bridge, if they had buried the hatchet, etc. I remember that, when this get together did happen, Giorgio told me that Chris and Jim were the ones who had invited him to come to the radio station, and I can tell you that Giorgio was very happy about it. I guess you could say that he felt vindicated. But maybe Jim remembers this from a different point of view ...