Rock and Roll Christmas Show!

Well, after taking a bit of a break to expand my family by one, The Vendettas are returning to the stage December 4th at the Sachem Library! This will be our biggest show yet with many special guests sharing the stage.

The Program will include Rock and Roll Christmas classics from Elvis, Chuck Berry and The Brian Setzer Orchestra, along with many hit songs from our Rockabilly repertoire.

Start off the holiday season with off The Vendettas' 8 Piece Rock and Roll Christmas Band!

Jay

The Vendettas

photo by Theodore W. Lee

Our Last Hamptons Show of the Summer Season!

Saturday August 6th

CB's Bar and Grill

214 West Montauk Highway

Hampton Bays, New York

Come to Hampton Bays this Saturday to hear your Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll Favorites, Elvis to the Reverend Horton Heat. From the East End's own Rockabilly band, The Vendettas!

If you can't make that show (or one is just not enough) come to Phil's Sports Bar in Wading River, New York for an early show! August 7th at 5:30.

Vendettas Return to Rocky Point

The Vendettas will be bringing their Roots Rock and Roll and Rockabilly sound back to Fatty Beltbuckles in Rocky Point this Friday, September 11th at 10:00PM The place has great BBQ and is one of the best places locally that one can go to hear live music. Please support all of the bands that play there, but if you can only come to see one band, well, it should be us.

As we enter the beginning of Fall of 2009 we come up on a year that the Vendettas have been playing as a trio. Although it was a bit of a job to loose Lenny's rhythm guitar (he switched to drums) and Jerry's piano, the band was able to make the adjustment within a few shows. Lenny and Chin did outstanding jobs, changing their rolls, taking up the slack and generally keeping their sense of humor during the transition. In a way it makes total sense as many of the bands that we hold in such high regard and try like hell to emulate were trios too. You can't argue with success, have been playing more, learning the songs that the audience has been requesting and finding Rockabilly fans!

Checking out the hits on our website shows that we have people looking at the site and reading the blog from all over the country and all over the world: Ireland, France, South America and so on.

Sign up for our mailing list on our main page, book us, talk to us. Let us know if you have ideas about venues, songs, or other bands we should know about.

Jaybone

The Vendettas Sell Out!

Our Next Show:  The Chowder Pot

104 3rd St
Greenport, NY 11944-1610

(631) 477-1345

We are celebrating our first sold out show!  Our performance at the Roger's Beach Pavillion was completely sold out of all 130 tickets two weeks before the show date. We were happy to be a part of the Summer concert series sponsored by the Westhampton Free Library and owe a big "Thank You" to Nola Thacker and Leslie Millrod who brought us on board. 

We were also fortunate to have Adam Tese join us for the beach show. We met him at the Elvis Tribute Show last Winter, he is a fine Rock and Roll sax player and a hell of a nice guy. Hopefully we will see him on some of our shows in the future. Speaking of the future, our next show is a new venue for us: The Chowder Pot in Greenport, NY.  I hear the food i

s great and we will find out for sure this

 Saturday, July 18th at 7:00 PM.

Above, left to right: Andrew from The Rebel Dead, Adam Tese with us at the sold out beach show and Pat from 2U

Private Party and Guest Stars

OK "star" is such a subjective term, but we did get to play with some other fine musicians at a private Fourth of July party held by a local brewer.  We had Pat Rotolo, the "Adam Clayton Guy" from the excellent tribute band 2U, and we had Andrew Bollerman the ferocious Long Island Punk band, The Rebel Dead, sitting in on drums, such as they are. Lenny's truncated drum set can be disorienting to other drummers, but Andrew persevered.

     As I have said before, we love playing private parties, we get a crowd that is into the music, that gets what we are doing, and will dance. "How do I get The Vendettas to play my private engagement?" you might ask.  Drop us a line right here, we'll play at you freaking house!

 

Getting Ready for Summer!

 Well it has been a while since we have posted. We did finally go into the studio (Suffolk Recording in

 Patchouge, NY) and were really lucky to

wrangle Void as our engineer and producer. Unfortunately for us, Void got picked up as engineer for the Ryan Star tour so we didn't get to finish our

 mixes. We did however do enough to start working the clubs with a new recording.

 What we have so far sounds great and Chin will be posting some of the new stuff on our main page. We picked tunes that were a much more accessible the casual fan, rather than appealing to the hardcore Rockabilly fan like our last disc. If all works out, we will combine the two sessions to make one full length disc, which we will then make copies of and put in the basement to avoid a lawsuit. 

  We have  a few shows coming up, but as always, let us know if there is a venue in your town you want us to play. Don't forget we love a house party!

Our Next Show
Saturday, November 22nd
The Artful Dodger, Westhampton Beach NY

Blame it on the economy, or political angst or just the fact that we may be impossible to get along with, but for whichever reason, Joe has decided to take his leave of us. Joe played with The Vendettas for over a year. He is a good guy, a good drummer and we wish him all the best. I think he left because we always stood in front of him when we got our picture taken. I could see how, over time, that might get on one's nerves.

We have continued on, following in the footsteps of some of our heros:The Stray Cats, Reverend Horton Heat, The Paladins, and all the other rock and roll trios. I left out Johnny Burnett because there were technically a quartet. Lenny is back at his old post as our drummer, but he will break out a guitar now and then.



We had a great show at Eastender's Coffee House in Riverhead. We had a special guest sit in with us. My old bandmate from the Hackensack Men, "Teenage" John Englehardt. We haven't played together since... well my wedding in September, but before that it was years. Really.

We are putting together our third semi-annual Christmas Rock and Roll Show. Eastender's in Riverhead will be hosting the show this year. Look forward to all your Christmassy rock and roll favorites. When I say "all" I of course mean some. Plus we'll do secular crap that you love.