Terri Thal FOR THE RECORD
As busy as she is promoting her own book, Terri spent HOURS watching the Gerde's Folk City Doc and HOURS recording a FULL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW for this Substack
🕰 Exactly 63 years to the day that our friend Bobby Dylan began a two-week stint (9/25/61) at Folk City, his FIRST BUSINESS MANAGER appeared on Bob Porco’s FIRST ‘podcast.’
TERRI THAL and I have been friends since my first appearance on the scene in 2010. It began in person at the Folk City at Fifty Anniversary and Reunion Concert on June 7th 2010.
By the way, she was the first and ONLY friend of Mike Porco who PRESSED me to prove that I wasn’t some schmuck from Staten Island pretending to be a bone fide Porco. In 2009, No one knew Mike’s family. No one was expecting any of his grandkids to show up 17 years after his death. No one was expecting ANY PORCO to come out from ANY overturned rock and ever enter their lives ever again.
Yet there I was. I was contacting a shit-load of his friends on Facebook, emails and, subsequently, at their concerts in- person.
Only Lisi Tribble, using feminine instinct, I suppose, was able to confirm my DNA by the shape of my chin. That was enough for her.
Terri, however, pulled me aside as I was checking patrons into the Anniversary concert and asked pertinent questions.
It’s one topic that WAS NOT discussed yesterday at her Rockland County home. We reminisced about several of our other moments together- dinner with Martus, the Grisman/Statman concert, walking with Izzy, Washington Square reunions amongst other memories- but I forgot to make note that she is the ONLY ONE with valid proof and confirmation that my name is NOT Carmine DiPuglise or some such from Philadelphia.
LOOK FOR BOB PORCO’S UNNAMED PODCAST RELEASE IN OCTOBER
In the meantime, you have dozens of hours of ENTERTAINMENT right here on Bob Porco’s Substack.
PART ONE of the 50th Anniversary Concert is HERE
THE FULL ARLO GUTHRIE INTERVIEW is HERE
The outtake of DOMINICK CHIANESE’s story is HERE
The SOUND OUT FOR PETE concert from May 2014 is HERE
JOIN for as little as fi-dollas and watch it ALL annnnnnd get more like…
PART TWO and PART THREE of the 50th Anniversary Concert, more concerts, more B-Roll from interviews that I’ve done and soon the TERRI THAL interview.
Tanks-a-lot!!!!
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The Gerde’s Folk City documentary is called POSITIVELY PORCO.
In case you missed it
https://bobporco86.substack.com/p/documentary-on-mike-porcos-folk-music
TWENTY THREE INTERVIEWEES made it happen.
🎥So many greats went on camera with their memories. The documentary is about two main characters, if you will. That would be MIKE PORCO and the MOTHERSHIP, GERDE’S FOLK CITY.
For reasons that you’ll learn in the movie, TWO other main figures were spoken about.
The two OTHER main characters on everyone’s lips were Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs.
Please help spread Mike Porco’s story to music lovers far and wide🌎🌎🌎
PS- Terri mentioned ME in her book on page 100 saying that she was angry at herself for not cramming herself into my movie. I reserve the right to release a new version of the movie after I cram her into the Gerde’s Folk City Doc myself. NOTE to DYLAN, SIMON, COLLINS, et al- ask me to cram your memories of Folk City and MIKE PORCO into the FOLK CITY DOC.