Erie Music History Podcast

Host Chip Schell interviews Joe Scutella, tracing his journey from a baseball-playing teen in Erie to a songwriter in Nashville.

This episode segment introduces the Seagrams, later renamed the Female Monkees, an all-girls band from Erie in the 1960s, discussing their origins and band members.

Host Chip Schell interviews Jeff 'Toon' Clare, a drummer who played in numerous Erie bands from the 1960s to 1980s, including The Pulse and Moonlighters.

Chip Schell sits down with Mark Gorzycki for a relaxed, friendly talk about his music path and the bands people still remember him from.

This reprise returns to Ron Segi's Erie story.

Barry King traces a path from a Christmas guitar in Chicago to weekend bass gigs with Willie Mabon, an old Chess recording artist, by age 13.

Chip Schell interviews Bob Nelson, former owner of the Dock Sider bar in Erie, PA, from 1983 to 2006.

Dave Cain returns to Erie memory with a career that spans jazz, classical music, orchestras, and film scoring.

Chip Schell opens with Harry Parker's long local music ties and the bands that have kept his name moving around Erie.

Chip Schell opens by welcoming Scott Campbell, a name that has already come up in earlier episodes and the first guest Chip has had on who once played in a band with him.

Chip Schell talks with Jim Buhman about the eighth-grade dance that nudged him toward guitar.

Chip Schell talks with Tony Stefanelli, a respected guitar teacher, jazz player, bass player, and the chocolate maker behind Romelos.

This reprise edition brings Tom Weber back for a slow, detail-filled walk through Erie music memory.

Art Phillips calls in from Australia, where it is nearly nine thirty at night, to talk with host Chip Schell about a life in music that started in the clubs and venues of Erie, Pennsylvania.

Chip Schell opens a run through Erie music memory with Rick Krasinski.

Chip Schell talks with Pat Ross, the Erie drummer and owner of Let There Be Drums, about a career that reaches from Magnum and Razor to Endless Summer, Encore, and Red Alert.

Boyd Baker traces his path from West 31st Street and Raspberry Records to years of full-time playing in Erie and Florida.

Chip Schell talks with Denny Fabrizi, a 75-year-old Erie musician who says he started accordion at 7, moved to a Vox organ in 10th or 11th grade, and is still playing in Ruby Port and Rewind.

Scott Kuhn says he started keyboards at age 8, studied with John Novello at 13, and kept playing for 60 years while also playing football.

Chip Schell sits down with Dave Richards, who spent about 31 years writing about Erie musicians and bands and also showed up around the scene as Dr.

Chip Schell talks with Paul Gall, an Erie native from West 13th Street in Mill Creek who played bass for Donny Iris and the Cruisers and retired in 2023 after working as a behavioral health therapist in Asheville, North Carolina.

Paul Sontheimer traces an Erie childhood shaped by piano lessons from his mother, who taught at Howard Julian Piano Studios and held recitals at the Erie History Museum rotunda on West Sixth Street.

Chip Schell talks with Dale Meyer, a local drummer who played in country bands, the Thunderbirds, and the Acoustic Dupe Box on cajon.

Chip Schell opens with a 1985 article quote and introduces a longtime Erie punk figure with plenty of history behind him.

Dave Macmillan traces how a Beatles-era obsession led him from Keystone Oaks High School to Edinburgh State College, where Dr.

Chip Schell sits down with Chuck Leone, one of the two keyboardists for the Fabulous Leftovers Orchestra.