POPA CHUBBY Legendary NYC Guitarist CD Release Party

Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

Doors open: 7pm
Event begins: 8pm
Event Website: www.duffsgarage.com

Legendary NYC Guitarist POPA CHUBBY celebrates the release his 24th album, 'I FEEL LUCKY' 7/29 7pm at Duff's Garage

Popa Chubby Youtube Performance

Sounds like: Iggy Pop & the Stooges meet Buddy Guy, Motorhead meets Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix Meets Robert Johnson and the Devil meets his match: POPA CHUBBY!

"300 plus pounds of tattooed, fearsome, Stratocaster frying, dirty, lowdown blues guitar" - The Dirty Lowdown

“It’s been 25 years and I’m still standing,” declares TED HOROWITZ aka POPA CHUBBY, and considering the long and rugged road he’s had to travel, that in itself is a miracle. From his beginning in the late ‘70s as a “bad kid with an afro and a brand new Gibson Midnight Special guitar” to his stint as a punk rock sideman for Screaming Mad George and Richard Hell, among others, to signing a deal with Sony and releasing one of the top selling blues albums of 1994 (the phenomenal Booty And The Beast), Popa Chubby has seen it all and lived to tell about it!

POPA CHUBBY's career has always been about moving forward and carving a place for himself in the imposing terrain of the music business, overcoming odds to continue growing and maturing as a creative force. He has built a constantly increasing base of fans across the world, where in many territories he is a star. A native New Yorker, Horowitz's first gigs were in the NYC punk scene as a guitarist for what he reflects was a "crazy Japanese special effects performance artist in a kimono called Screaming Mad George who had a horror-movie inspired show." Right from the start he was immersed in rock ‘n’ roll as theater, and learned from George and others playing CBGB’s at the time that included the Ramones, the Cramps, Richard Hell, whose band, the Voidoids he joined that rock ‘n’ roll should be dangerous. He reflects, "Musicians like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols weren’t just bands. They were a threat to society." The Blues however was the foundation of his playing style. He recalls, "Since I’d grown up on Hendrix, Cream and Led Zeppelin, when I started playing blues in New York clubs I understood that the blues should be dangerous, too. It wasn’t just from playing in punk bands. Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters were dangerous men. They’d cut or shoot you if they thought it was necessary, and Little Walter packed a gun and wouldn’t hesitate to use it. That danger is a real part of the Blues and I keep it alive in my music.” Popa Chubby is his own man for better or worse. He reflects, "I’m living in a wild time, and that is where the inspiration is drawn from within Universal Breakdown Blues. There are my issues, but the picture is much bigger than me and my situation. Everything is breaking down in the world. The lines are being redefined. We all need something.”

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